So if somebody self-vandalizes a post within 5 minutes of posting it, there's nothing we can do but simply delete it, because there's nothing to rollback to.
I'm thinking about writing a book focusing mostly on the strategy of getting rep on Stack Overflow. Here is a sneak preview. I want to see how much demand is out there for this. I think SAMs might be convinced to publish it. The real version will have to be like 200 pages, so I'll have to write ...
> This strategy is a good one. Let's say someone asks a question, "How do I join two tables". Even if someone has already answered, so long as you can make your answer appear marginally different, and so long as they have fewer than 1 vote, you can answer along the same lines and downvote them!
If anyone here remembers a game for the Nintendo 64 by the name of "Buck Bumble" you will remember how awesome the theme song that played at the main menu was. Can anybody tell me who wrote this song? I would really like to know.
If you haven't heard the Buck Bumble Theme yet, you should. Her...
I'm sure I've heard this song before, even though I haven't seen much Final Fantasy gameplay (since I've never owned a console I've never had any of those games).
Where does it come from? (Bonus point for a Youtube link.)
No.
Expletives are not acceptable behavior on meta or any other Stack Overflow site. If you can't effectively communicate what you need to say without resorting to lowest common denominator cursing, then keep it to yourself.
If you use expletives, you will get a warning.
If you continue to use...
@badp In general, yes. However the majority of people don't understand the difference between "your" and "you're", and even more think "ur" is acceptable English. I've seen people use "ur" in academic writing... I of course then proceeded to strangle them.
@agent86 I should've been more careful in the past about personal info here, but I find it relaxed enough here and enjoy the company enough that I unfortunately forget about the google indexing :(
@GraceNote we can get pedantic if you like, I was just echoing a common maxim with respect to security. I can't hide forever, eventually too many people will figure it out. The point I'm trying to make is more "I can't feel free to discuss anything if my discussions are archived and indexed permanently for anyone to see"
Personal opinion is poor writing leads to poor thinking and poor questions and answers. Swearing not so much. Luckily I'm not the only one with the edit stick on the site
Anybody on the internet can censor me if they so wish
So I'm on the first part of the Dark Brotherhood questline, and I have to kill Beitrid in Dawnstar. I've done it before on a previous character, but I can't for the life of me seem to get it to work here.
I'm entering her house, under stealth, no one sees me, and I use my bow to one-shot her in ...
@FallenAngelEyes continuing this somewhat stale conversation, I guess I'm misunderstanding the point of "chat as a social medium" here, the consensus over on meta is "chat is a part of the Q&A portion of the site, deal with the downsides." So I suppose I'll adjust my participation accordingly.
@badp clearly it's my mistake. I should have done more research prior to making an assumption about similar systems I'd used before. While I'm unhappy, I don't believe I've said or done anything in here that, if recorded for posterity, would cause me harm. Nonetheless I'll know better for next time.
Two reasons.
First, the principle of public-by-default has been bedrock for everything we have done, from the start.
We made a mistake with this on Careers, where the CVs were initially private-only, and we had to backpedal and fix that, offering free public CVs to anyone who wants one.
I don'...
some of the other answers kind of hint at this as well, a 'public,' 'archiving,' 'searchable' interface is a specific design goal.
besides, just because you're using IRC it doesn't mean you aren't talking with people who are logging and perhaps publishing the logs live to the internet where they can be indexed
@GraceNote I don't think I have anything to add to this discussion really. I think it's all been said and the arguments hashed out and the design defended. Like I said, I made a bad assumption based on previous encounters with similar features, which I shouldn't have. tl;dr, my bad.
@GraceNote oh, well, I stirred up a discussion about something that I disagreed with but there was already outstanding policy about, and I was a bit too dense to check it first. That's all, really.
@Powerlord y'know, I was expecting the SR3 japanese gameshow spoof to be more interesting that it was, perhaps I've been spoiled by the silly japanese game show stuff on tv.
btw @jaminja The last game has been really crazy. Turns 2 and 3 were an awesome clusterfuck, then I completely messed up 4 and 6 somehow. That sniper was dead in my simulations and I didn't think you could shoot somebody ducking while behind cover. Thank you anyway and grats for your win.
@FallenAngelEyes maybe at some point I'll take a look at that, I've got a decent amount of experience with IRC, proxies, JSON api's and the like. no promises, but it might be an interesting project. I'd have to see where they left it and/or if they're still developing it.
As Andy E's head mentioned, I've started to create an IRC interface for the SO chat. The current state of the code is on Github: http://github.com/ghewgill/soirc
It's all ugly, nascent, fragile code right now but I expect that will improve in time.
I want to by a gaming controller to play games like GTA3 from the App Store. What controller will be most compatible with Mac OS X and games on Macs?
Especially it will be useful to know if you have any experience with setting up either PS3 or Xbox controller for Mac.
My google-fu has likewise failed me, so this might not exist already. However, I have a couple of ideas.
One would be to watch videos of the "Who Knows Where" levels on YouTube. First level, second level, third level.
They're only about 10-15 minutes each, so transcribing them wouldn't take...
Game breaking bugs are, unfortunately, one of the reasons I don't play games as soon as they are released. I don't have the time to play things once, yet alone twice.
If anyone here remembers a game for the Nintendo 64 by the name of "Buck Bumble" you will remember how awesome the theme song that played at the main menu was. Can anybody tell me who wrote this song? I would really like to know.
If you haven't heard the Buck Bumble Theme yet, you should. Her...
I'm sure I've heard this song before, even though I haven't seen much Final Fantasy gameplay (since I've never owned a console I've never had any of those games).
Where does it come from? (Bonus point for a Youtube link.)
No.
Expletives are not acceptable behavior on meta or any other Stack Overflow site. If you can't effectively communicate what you need to say without resorting to lowest common denominator cursing, then keep it to yourself.
If you use expletives, you will get a warning.
If you continue to use...
The Brazilian server of World of Warcraft will start today, someone nows the place to download the patch to Language Portuguese to my old wow client ?
As Andy E's head mentioned, I've started to create an IRC interface for the SO chat. The current state of the code is on Github: http://github.com/ghewgill/soirc
It's all ugly, nascent, fragile code right now but I expect that will improve in time.
I want to by a gaming controller to play games like GTA3 from the App Store. What controller will be most compatible with Mac OS X and games on Macs?
Especially it will be useful to know if you have any experience with setting up either PS3 or Xbox controller for Mac.
My google-fu has likewise failed me, so this might not exist already. However, I have a couple of ideas.
One would be to watch videos of the "Who Knows Where" levels on YouTube. First level, second level, third level.
They're only about 10-15 minutes each, so transcribing them wouldn't take...
