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2:51 AM

Anyone else see 0 questions? :<

3:04 AM

@Deco Don't worry about it

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Q: There are no questions with an active bounty at the moment. :What to do?

Edited. That a strange behaviour: Near this: There are no questions with an active bounty at the moment but in first page. The red indicator stand there is 3 active bounties but the pages response said 0 as title of this: In fact this seem not very harming. So, my next question: Do I need ...

System is being updated, lots of sites show no questions, everything will be back to normal in a few minutes.

3:33 AM

Yeah all seems fine now

i'm in the ELL beta and when I refreshed and saw 0 questions I thought we'd been canned lol

3 hours later…

user20683

6:56 AM

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Q: What exactly should a good C++ developer know?

I am new to C++ and I was wondering, if I want to write code and needed libraries or other similar information: Where exactly should I be looking for this information? What are some good "tools" of the trade in regard to 1.? Is there some conventionally sequence of steps I should follow? What a...

user20683

I'm tempted to link Cormen's Algorithms and say "You should know how to do this entire book in C++"

Nathan C. Tresch

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Q: Is node.js a suitable server platform for financial applications?

Is node/javascript ready to be used for billing code and complex financial transaction code? I'm evaluating platforms, and node is compelling for a number of reasons as I read this spec. I'm concerned that I'm exposing my client to risk, and part of me is saying "Be safe and use python." I w...

javascript node.js financial

That got closed ... BUt

So I went to the node maintainers and asked

No, node isn't a good use case for financial calculations at all

I'm not sure why it was closed, though. I was going to answer it with the reasons why the Node maintainers said not to use it

/me shrugs

Hopefully anyone else who wants to know the answer figures out where to get it, since we decided not to help. :P

user20683

7:13 AM

@NathanC.Tresch That's a toipic to bring up on meta

user20683

*topic

Nathan C. Tresch

I did

user20683

chat and the site in general are slow on weekends

Nathan C. Tresch

I just wanted to spread the word

About the issue

user20683

what issue? the question was vague

Nathan C. Tresch

7:14 AM

There is a rounding error in node/JS that will cause me to lose money

If I use it

THat issue

user20683

so don't use it

Nathan C. Tresch

I wont

No one esle should either

As for vaguery, how would you suggest I ask about any bugs or issues with a server platform that would affect financial transactions?

Because I'm not sure how else I could have asked

... And, there is a glaring one.

user20683

surveying questions like "are there any x" tend to get closed

user20683

not always but much of the time

Nathan C. Tresch

Yes, I understand that questions with potentially huge lists of answers are verboten

7:17 AM

@NathanC.Tresch You need to give us a far more detailed description of what you're building.

Nathan C. Tresch

Why?

All I wanted to know was if there is a problem with node and counting money

user20683

@NathanC.Tresch there is always a problem with floats and counting money

Nathan C. Tresch

I don't care that much, since I can get answers other places, but ... I'd like other people to know

user20683

in basically every language

Nathan C. Tresch

Yes, that's why you use ints

user20683

7:19 AM

blog about it and submit it to Hacker NEws

user20683

*News

Nathan C. Tresch

And divide by 10

user20683

or roll a decimal class/type

Nathan C. Tresch

Oh, so this ISNT the place that's trying to be the one stop Q&A for most issues? I should definately not try to help here? Is that it/

?

@NathanC.Tresch I don't think that's what is being said

Nathan C. Tresch

7:20 AM

Well, he suggested I post it elsewhere :)

user20683

@NathanC.Tresch as far as publicizing the issue yes

Nathan C. Tresch

Oh, I see

Node/JS will cause money loss even with int/10, so the maintainers told me

I don't care that much, I just like for people to not have to look around for things I've researched if they don't have to

:)

@NathanC.Tresch A self answered Q&A on that might work...

Nathan C. Tresch

I was going to answer it mysefl

WHen I saw it was closed

I didn't want to re-ask and answer without seeing what I could do

To make it a better q or whatever

You know? I'm not trying to be a pain

Well, the main problem with your question is that it's vague. You aren't giving us enough parameters to judge answers on.

Nathan C. Tresch

7:24 AM

Well, PHP had an error with its math once and it cost a colleague who's a partner at Jane Street Capital a million dollar

So, I was specifically asking about that kind of issue, without trying to trash PHP

Well, I've build quite a few financial apps in PHP. Then Greece's economy collapsed. Probably not my fault, but you never know ;P

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Nathan C. Tresch

(PHP's muddy types are specifically what caused it)

Hahahah

You get a (*) for that Yannis :P made me laugh

Nathan C. Tresch

YEah that was lol

:)

Can you edit a closed question?

Nathan C. Tresch

7:27 AM

I think that this place is in general more suited to the types of questions I ask

I dunno

@Deco Yes, but @NathanC.Tresch's question is locked. It was migrated from SO, and the closure locked it.

ouch

Nathan C. Tresch

ah

I was going to suggest editing the question taking into account the comments left, and any subsequent information on meta - which may attract reopen votes

then you can post your own answer providing the relevant details, etc.

Nathan C. Tresch

Right, right

I might also do a blog post

7:29 AM

I think I managed to unlock it without breaking anything, it should be editable now.

Nathan C. Tresch

After I find out what the node people's answer means on a more technical level

Hehe

Yeah it looks editable now.. well, I can press the edit button anyway

It seems we don't have enough metrics to obsess about, Jeff now wants to add a "citizenship level"

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Q: Replace accept rate with citizenship level

I see that accept rate has now been removed from display on questions. I think this not a great solution for reasons that waffles explained well. Take it away waffles! On one hand accept rate bothers me a lot, it is a one-dimensional metric that does not really give me enough information about...

feature-request accept-rate

:S

I don't like the term "citizenship level"

The SAP Developers Network uses the phrase "Contribution Rate" or something similar (depends what language you read it in)

user20683

@YannisRizos I appreciate Jeff but I'm wary of more metrics

7:38 AM

reading metas like that are always interesting to me

the comments are often entertaining

Nathan C. Tresch

7:51 AM

I think that contributions to all stackex sites except ELU should give everyone the meaningless "citizenship level" that they've earned by adding all of their rep together

I need to find out specifically if that guy was right, I see an answer on the node mailing list that says 100/10 == $1 wuold be fine

YEah

github.com/iriscouch/bigdecimal.js that's what I need right ther

Okay so node it is

<3

5 hours later…

1:31 PM

we spoke about citizenship three weeks ago...

Jan 7 at 1:52, by Dynamic

Assuming edits is more important than close votes is more important than comments is more important than posts (that's not necessarily true, but that's how I calculated it), here are the most active users since 1/1/2012 with >=3000 rep:

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