@rcollyer I've never had a SO moderator refuse to migrate a question, but I prefer not to migrate unless there is compelling reason or it is an exact duplicate and we would essentially end up posting all the same answers again. Multiple people requesting the migrate constitutes "compelling" but in that case multiple flags on the SO question should do the trick too.
re: the tiling, I know it would be nice if we had a periodic one where you could simply reuse a single tile, but would a full sized one be really that much of a drain on the bandwidth?
I used a blackbar first, but it looked too much "copying" theirs. also a dark bar on the top was a bit overwhelming. i went with a white one instead, so the logo would shine more
@Jin Dark would definitely be too much. The white is good, and now that I understand the origins it makes more sense to me. I guess I was expecting it to be flatter, but for the sake of identity it's good.
There are several employees that hang out here, and some long time/dedicated users that regularly attend these events. I hope SE sponsors some folks to go to the event
Hey @RM ... What do you think about a site duel for a place in the conference? Muskets or sables? The less blood the better. Winner goes to the conference, keeps the loser's rep points and stays alive.
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In popular usage, the Mexican standoff is sometimes used ...
The Raspberry Pi is a credit card sized single-board computer developed in the UK by the Raspberry Pi Foundation with the intention of stimulating the teaching of basic computer science in schools.
The Raspberry Pi has a Broadcom BCM2835 system on a chip (SoC), and 256 megabytes of RAM. It does not include a built-in hard disk or solid-state drive, but uses an SD card for booting and long-term storage.
The Foundation provides Debian and Arch Linux ARM distributions for download. Also planned are tools for supporting Python as the main programming language, with support for BBC BASIC, ...
The plain rectangles for tags in the design strike me as a bit boring. I as wondering about (tag) or [[tag]] or something else. (Maybe even just the rounded ones we currently have...)
@Jin ok, another thing to note is that this is a first pass and quickie solution, so I didn't remove the duplicate overlapping triangle when tiling. Will that be an issue for you?
It aligns perfectly and doesn't show up, but just letting you know that you might find it in Illustrator
@Jin See above for a horizontally repeatable Penrose-like tiling. I can make variations on this or send you a vector version if you like. I didn't pay attention to the contrast and colouring here, I just wanted to get the repeatability right.
Here's my go at creating a seamlessly repeatable background pattern similar to the dart-kite Penrose tiling.
Several people mentioned that it would be nice to have a background based on some sort of Penrose tiling. The problem with Penrose tilings is that they're aperiodic while Jin needs a p...
@RM I asked there. I think it's appropriate for a computer to do such checking. Working by hand seems very horrible. I have been working on it for about 2 hours, so I don't want to spend 2 more hours in re-computing that.
@RM since you have a Mac, too, can you run Mr.W's solution and see if you get what he gets? I get something weird with v.8.0.4 but not v.7, and a comparison would help.
@Rojo yes! Here. I mis-remembered slightly... the explanation uses a heap implementation for which the source is given, and on the last slide there is a comment that these same operations are implemented for NIntegrate`Heap.
That Reduce has been Last modified in 5 means that there haven't been improvements in what it can reduce in 8 years or that it's documented input-output syntax hasn't changed since then?
@RM I wanted to talk to you about the tagged message function, but I see you've already looked at that. Thanks! The other thing was merely curiosity: I want to know what you get using this on the contents of your /reputation page: % ~StringSplit~ "-- " ~StringCount~ "[0]" // Tally // Sort
Well, I just did Interpretation[HoldForm@Solve[x^2 == -1, x, \[DoubleStruckCapitalR]], Style[{Style[404, Red]}, FontSize -> 18]], evaluated it, quite the kernel, and evaluated the output cell...
But actually I still like something like General::404 better :)
I think this question should be closed + deleted... the OP hasn't responded to our comments and he has had the time to come back, read it and ask two more questions.
All of his questions have been of the form "can anyone do this"
Jin I wanted to say I quite like the design. (I am anxious to see what it looks like with Verbeia's tiling.) The vote arrows I don't really care for; I find they fade off into the points too much. I think a 1px stroke on the outside might be good. For reference the five point site logo looks more solid and I like that.
@Jin It's not the curve; I think it would look better with the points clipped, or with a narrow stroke as I said. Perhaps I should make a picture instead of nebulous comments.
@RM I think it's a separate image @Jin was asking for (was it a robot on Sketchy?), but if this mockup could be implemented, that would be great. Very good idea! Jin, how can we see other sites' CAPTCHA pages (without doing anything nasty ;)?
I know that some sites have the "Ask Question" stand out among the other tabs. Could we have ours with a maroon bg with white fg or something that goes well?
I've often wondered how long Bill Murray's character was supposed to be in his time loop before he got out of it. You could count the number of days depicted in the movie, but there are parts that reference that he had spent a much longer time between scenes not shown.
It seems that it could not...
@Rojo I think the decision is to wait until graduation and then announce ourselves to the world. But I haven't taken an active part in the blog preparation so not sure what posts are being worked on or ready at the moment.
@Vlad Re-read your chat message. How many questions are there? Why do you ask so many questions in one line? Also, why do you bother in understanding why other people enjoy helping?