Simple Screen Recorder
SimpleScreenRecorder is a Linux program that I've created to record programs and games. There are programs that can do this, " but I wasn't 100% happy with any of them, so I created my own "
My original goal was to create a program that was just really simple to use, but...
For the past couple months, we’ve had a new team starting up out of our NY office, CHAOS (or if you’re not into that whole brevity thing: Cheerful Helpful Advocates of Stack Exchange). You’ve probably seen them around some of the sites or run into them in one of the chat rooms – but here’s your official introduction:
CHAOS works directly with Joel and me to come up with, and execute on, new ways to promote all of the new SE sites and bring in new users. Looking at the original job posting we put up, you can get a bit of a feel for what they’ll be doing: …
I have a distinct memory of my college CS teacher saying "only your friends can touch your privates". (The context was C++.)
The meaning was pretty clear & I still remember it after >15 years.
Of course, you may have to tone it down some for high school, but the analogy to one's privates could ...
Unfortunately this question depends on the language. I'll give a general discussion but focus on Java.
public is, as you say visible from any code in the program (and in the original java concept that meant visible across the globe com.sun.java.Foo.x can be found on your computer - or could be,...
Amongst the reasons for starting a bounty, one can select:
Reward existing answer
One or more of the answers is exemplary and worthy of an additional bounty.
Why not enable one to reward excellent questions in a similar manner?
When people ask me what mistakes we made in building Stack Overflow, near the top of the list is not acknowledging the need for a meta-discussion site earlier. That is, a place for people to discuss Stack Overflow itself.
I resisted this for the longest time, relegating meta topics to UserVoice, because I didn’t see much value in meta-discussion. But then I finally bowed to community pressure and created meta.stackoverflow.com a little less than a year ago.
Owning our own meta, rather than outsourcing it, has been hugely productive in evolving the engine and the trilogy sites forward. The community was right, and I was so very, very wrong. …
