Quick summary: Grace (and Pops) did a quick once-over of the numbers, exlcuding the deadweight from pre nov.2013. The bottom line is that not enough users are advancing through the ranks, and retention is low.
@syb0rg We may also need to look at the line between factual and "opinion-based" answers. We cannot accept all of the latter, but there may still be some when you're reviewing code. After all, these are peer reviews.
There's still room for improvement with the unanswered list, but the work done since Grace Note's post is really impressive. For the user rep thing, it would always be nicer to see more high-rep users, but the main issue is the lack of retention for lower-rep users.
This is going to be an exaggeration, but the numbers kinda make it look like there are a hundred good reviewers here serving a never-ending stream of drive-by askers.
I have some PHP code where I use Variable functions to call the right function. Something like this:
private function foo($groups, $getter) {
foreach ($groups as $group) {
$value = $group->$getter;
// Do calculations with $value...
}
}
and then the function gets called ...
@Jamal The 10k+ bracket isn't as much of a concern. Yes, you want folks in there but you don't need barrels of them. Focus, as rolfl mentions, on getting new users to stick.
And we've just had two posts from new users within the last few minutes (including the above question).
As for 10K for myself, I have been on a pretty good trend lately. I don't think it was too long ago when I reached 9K. But I also don't want to go overboard with pimping answers.
I've recently been asked to make some emergency changes to a legacy application. It was written in VB.Net. I come from a C# background so am not overly familiar with this language, though there are enough similarities for me to get by. The current code has no separation of concerns (e.g. DAL c...
Here is a refactoring which hopefully does the same thing as the original, assuming the appropriate constants are defined in the owning class:
private void movePosistion(Plant p) {
xpos += Integer.signum(p.getXpos() - xpos) * DELTA_X;
ypos += Integer.signum(p.getYpos() - ypos) * DELTA_Y...
How about we just start actively targeting answerers who are new ... and add a comment like You can get more out of Code Review by visiting the 2nd Monitor chat room
Make it a standard thing to do in the first-post review?
True, but I'm also not sure we should "spam" this room to every new user who posts a good first question or answer. And as rolfl says, it may sound different coming from a mod.
On 2014-04-10, we got some feedback from Stack Exchange Community Managers @GraceNote and @Pops about our beta progress.
One of the concerns that was raised about the health of our community is that we have too many one-time contributors, and need more repeat customers.
So, I'd like to ask:
W...
I have some PHP code where I use Variable functions to call the right function. I need to build a chart array (for example), and the chart array that comes out has a fixed format. But the data that goes into the chart or table comes from varying places in the underlying objects.
An example:
pri...
On 2014-04-10, we got some feedback from Stack Exchange Community Managers @GraceNote and @Pops about our beta progress.
One of the concerns that was raised about the health of our community is that we have too many one-time contributors, and need more repeat customers.
So, I'd like to ask:
W...
Perhaps part of the problem is that the scope of Q&A here tends to be so drastically large.
A user could easily post 3-4 questions about a single file on Stack Overflow, but here, entire projects are apparently an acceptable scope for questions.
The former has, more closely to the SO pattern, posted several concise targeted specific questions (appearing to be mostly from the same project) where the latter has posted a single, very large, very broad question and posted every file from his project in the question.
I mean, yes, I posted two answers to the latter's single question... but I honestly kind of think his question is unacceptably large in scope.
I posted a lot of answer, but I could probably go into even more detail... but it just starts turning into wall of text. If he were forced to parse his different classes into different questions, each part of it can get better detail.
What brings you to Code Review today, and why do you keep coming back?
I will, of course, answer this as a non-moderator (I have to stay active to perform my duties):
Besides the benefit as a CS student, I'm still here because this strongly-committed and encouraging community makes me smile...
I have some PHP code where I use Variable functions to call the right function. I need to build a chart array (for example), and the chart array that comes out has a fixed format. But the data that goes into the chart or table comes from varying places in the underlying objects.
An example:
pri...
Hi Matt, I'm Mat, or rather, Mat's Mug. If you have a moment while our php reviewers take a stab at your post, feel free to explore our meta site and to feel at home and browse the site's questions - you'd be surprised at how many things you could find in someone else's code, even if you're not a professional or whatever. If you enjoy answering StackOverflow questions, you'll enjoy answering CodeReview questions even more! Always feel free to come say hi in The 2nd Monitor, too! — Mat's Mug12 secs ago
My highest rep answer... and if I could upvote it myself, I would... but I saw the question and thought "Surely, there's a way", found the answer, and posted it... and since then, I've been using this feature of Objective-C myself a lot.
If we're talking about custom classes, you can add the following to your superclass's method declaration:
__attribute__((objc_requires_super));
And if you want to ensure that all of your UIViewController subclasses call a method like [super viewDidLoad];, you could subclass UIViewController...
I have some PHP code where I use Variable functions to call the right function. Something like this:
private function foo($groups, $getter) {
foreach ($groups as $group) {
$value = $group->$getter;
// Do calculations with $value...
}
}
and then the function gets called ...
I've recently been asked to make some emergency changes to a legacy application. It was written in VB.Net. I come from a C# background so am not overly familiar with this language, though there are enough similarities for me to get by. The current code has no separation of concerns (e.g. DAL c...
Here is a refactoring which hopefully does the same thing as the original, assuming the appropriate constants are defined in the owning class:
private void movePosistion(Plant p) {
xpos += Integer.signum(p.getXpos() - xpos) * DELTA_X;
ypos += Integer.signum(p.getYpos() - ypos) * DELTA_Y...
On 2014-04-10, we got some feedback from Stack Exchange Community Managers @GraceNote and @Pops about our beta progress.
One of the concerns that was raised about the health of our community is that we have too many one-time contributors, and need more repeat customers.
So, I'd like to ask:
W...
What brings you to Code Review today, and why do you keep coming back?
I will, of course, answer this as a non-moderator (I have to stay active to perform my duties):
Besides the benefit as a CS student, I'm still here because this strongly-committed and encouraging community makes me smile...
If we're talking about custom classes, you can add the following to your superclass's method declaration:
__attribute__((objc_requires_super));
And if you want to ensure that all of your UIViewController subclasses call a method like [super viewDidLoad];, you could subclass UIViewController...
