It might also be good to see some 'unexpected' takers
@percusse You get to read TUGboat for a year :-)
@tohecz I don't think we are looking in that sense for representatives, more people to take advantage of the opportunity to make use of TUG membership in whatever way they feel is best
@egreg Okay, that's a bug in edtable and has nothing to do with threeparttable. Even resetting linenumbers of a table within a group does not resume the "correct" linenumber in the text
@percusse CTAN is officially run by TUG, and there're three root mirrors that are synchronized and from which the packages are copied into the other ones
@JosephWright @percusse TUG makes older article available all of them in fact, I sometimes do it even for my current ones. But of course TUG is more than just getting TUGboat
@percusse I would complain (hypothetically speaking) but probably a good number in the comunity with me, given that it is an established project
@FrankMittelbach I've asked it as an example to see the legal tree behind it. Because there are a lot of Institution-like structures but they are all intertwined
@percusse Knuth's code is in the public domain. But still he reserves something to himself, for instance no implementation of the code can be called TeX if it doesn't pass the trip test.
@FrankMittelbach No I think I didn't made myself clear. I just wanted to see if somebody officially involved might want to write who is who and who owns what.
@FrankMittelbach Well, it depends on what you mean by "public domain": people is entitled to do what they want with the code of TeX, so long as they don't call TeX something that doesn't pass the trip test.
@percusse the issue here is that "public domain" means you give up your copyright ownership and Don didn't do this. What he did was "you can do whatever you like with this as long ..." which is what many people think public domain is
so he retained copyright only his license is "like typical public domain more or less"
@FrankMittelbach Giving up copyright is not even possible in some places, of course, hence the Creative Commons people providing a license which is careful about that
@AndrewStacey My (serious) point was that if you are planning to pay for TUG membership yourself, you will pay less doing it via UK-TUG than directly, assuming you are going to renew your UK-TUG membership as well
@JosephWright Right. When I next get a chance to sit down I'll look at the various options. The main point is that supporting TeX (via a TUG or two) is something I now think a Good Thing To Do (far more than, say, supporting Elsevier).
@PauloCereda Probably "Good Morning", or time-zone specific.
@percusse @egreg and here is the famous license of one of the first "free software programs in the world": % This program is copyright (C) 1982 by D. E. Knuth; all rights are reserved. % Copying of this file is authorized only if (1) you are D. E. Knuth, or if % (2) you make absolutely no changes to your copy. (The WEB system provides % for alterations via an auxiliary file; the master file should stay intact.) % See Appendix H of the WEB manual for hints on how to install this program. % And see Appendix A of the TRIP manual for details about how to validate it.
@FrankMittelbach Yes, but somewhere along the line the pdfTeX people must have got permission to make changes in a renamed file, as it's pdftex.web and not pdftex.ch
@JosephWright it was for a long time a change file. anyway Knuth has "all rights reserved" he can issue specials in whatever form .. no need to tread everybody the same
anyway no more license discussions for me here ... ;-)
'night
ah before i forget, I just saw that some question got folded into another one because it was "a duplicate" or so it was claimed... result is rather funny: a comment from egrep under the question about not using \\ and no \\ in the question any longer and two answers from egrep with different focus ... and and ... maybe such folding needs some level of cleanup or perhaps "duplicate" is a somewhat dangerous concept
@FrankMittelbach @JosephWright I said it before and I will say it again: I don't see the concept of merging as something really working.
Btw, @Joseph, the other day, you were claiming that we have less moderators that the other sites of this size. Do you think that we would use more mods?
@tohecz I was just flicking through the stats. TeX-sx is one of the 'top 10' StackExchange sites on a lot of the measures, so it's interesting to see how we compare with some of the other bigger sites.
@JosephWright Well, that's not a good merge, IMO. I'd have simply closed the newest question as duplicate, but the answers dealt specifically with that question, so they should have stayed there.
@tohecz The Android site is also quite a decent size and has three mods to, but all of the other sites I compared us with had more. No need for any more mods here, as I see it: on a workload basis I feel we do OK.
@egreg We do our best!
@tohecz I was more looking at traffic/questions per day
@JosephWright recently, at meta.Travel it was suggested to try to have 100% rate. I think that only someone with large lack of leader qualities can have such an idea.
@tohecz English is almost 100%. I assume that anything without an answer gets closed, on the logic 'no answer means not a valid question'. Might be appropriate for some sites, I guess.
Sorry, I mean, every topic has some difficult questions that people don't know to answer. I know that on travel, the attitude is: If nobody knows the answer, it's too localized.
@tohecz Lurking in Travel.SE I found a question about hiking on volcanoes in Italy; the OP wants to go without guides. Simply crazy: active volcanoes are very dangerous.
@egreg Yeah, but IMHO "Going without guides is too dangerous to consider it" is a valid answer. I mean, other people can have the same idea a want to find the same valid answer -- isn't that the main "wiki" idea of SE?
@egreg As a mod, I can see a case for closing such a question on safety grounds: it's one thing to mess up your TeX code using a bad answer, quite another to risk your life
@PauloCereda Actually I have to go to Torino again. There is a very high bridge jump there. I am still trying to get to the Goldeneye jump and Torino bridge at the same trip but I'm too lazy to plan it.
@tohecz The list of people killed while hiking Etna without a guide is quite long. :( And Stromboli, which seems so innocuous with its 942m, can throw big stones into the air. And on the head of incautious tourists.
@tohecz As I said, I've no idea of the policy on sites with a higher 'answer' rate than us. We seem to be at about 98% steady, and while there are a few questions I might be tempted to vote to close if I were not a mod, I think overall we are about right.
So I did 150 meters once but there is one in China (too far) and in Switzerland Verzasca Dam that you can see in the intro of James Bond movie Golden Eye. So it's called the Golden Eye jump.
@egreg In the past, I practiced archery. A lot of friends laughed at me because I used a bracer. No more laughs since two friends of mine got hurt when trying to play by their own. One of these friends was a girl, and she had a serious breast injury - women have to use chestguards.
@tohecz It's not as exciting as you might think though. Because you don't do anything. The idea that you are falling is not apparent at those height and then you open the chute and it's a slow glide. Still fun a lot but not like this :)
@tohecz Psmith, the TeX bot: I'm deeply sorry, old chap, but the command listcommands does not exist.
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@percusse: try !!/list
!!/list
@PauloCereda Psmith, the TeX bot: I'm able to recognize the following commands: help, list, cricket, ctan, texdef, eightball, choose. You probably noticed that all commands must start with !!/ followed by the command name, didn't you? Splendid!
@tohecz Psmith, the TeX bot: According to my book, cricket displays cricket news, our favourite sport! Wait a minute, is cricket a sport?
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- Chittagong Division 196/4 * v Barisal Division 204/10
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- Gujarat 566/10 v Hyderabad (India) 50/1 *
- Mumbai 297/10 & 6 * v Bengal 201/10
- Punjab 215/10 v Rajasthan 222/10 & 56/1 *
yeah: If I know the answer, the question is trivial -> no upvote. If I don't know the answer, the question is stupid -> no upvote. If I know the answer, my answer is the only possible -> no upvote. If I don't know the answer, the question is stupid and answer as well -> no upvote.
@percusse but I see people thinking this way there. A question is not an opportunity to "share something". I think the people who come there simply don't like the site.
@tohecz Yes and most are aware of it. So as Mathoverflow people put it: It's a disaster but it's useful for driving the trivialities away from Mathoverflow.
of $3x^2/4x^2 $
Is it undefined or $6/8$?
If we apply the Hospital rule we get $6/8$, so I think it is $6/8$.
It would be undefined if it were $3x^2/4x^3$.
@percusse there was a trick shown on meta for posting answers less than 30 characters which I ought to look up. That one needs a five character answer.
@percusse hmm system seems to have got smarter it won't let me do that (I'd already tried) Or do you have to add the comment syntax on edit rather than initial post
@DavidCarlisle But it's gonna be edited, discussed over, criticized for disrespect etc. so the joke will be probably ruined. Still I think it's a perfect answer.
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of $3x^2/4x^2 $
Is it undefined or $6/8$?
If we apply the Hospital rule we get $6/8$, so I think it is $6/8$.
It would be undefined if it were $3x^2/4x^3$.
Because.
