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MetaFight

Dec 12, 2018 13:41

HATS!!!

MetaFight

Dec 12, 2018 13:41

omg hats

MetaFight

May 3, 2018 22:54

It's just what is.

MetaFight

May 3, 2018 22:54

To be clear: this is not the fault of the new-comer or the veteran.

MetaFight

May 3, 2018 22:53

@Pomodorogame yes, that would be better, however it's not sustainable. Eventually, the people who are able to help fix questions will run into enough angry new-comers that they lose the will to contribute.

MetaFight

Apr 17, 2018 21:11

anyway, the office has turned off half of the lights. That's my cue to go home.

MetaFight

Apr 17, 2018 21:10

@SimonForsberg In a few years you could publish a book of all the conversations people have started with her.

MetaFight

Apr 17, 2018 21:10

and the fact that all her posts are quotes signed by other people should be a tip-off... but it very often isn't.

MetaFight

Apr 17, 2018 21:09

@SimonForsberg fair enough :)

MetaFight

Apr 17, 2018 21:09

Same great service. 75% less confusing to newcomers.

MetaFight

Apr 17, 2018 21:08

@SimonForsberg yo. Have you considered renaming Duga to DugaBot or something similar?

MetaFight

Apr 17, 2018 21:07

"Duga is a bot" is quickly becoming one of the most common posts in here.

MetaFight

Apr 16, 2018 19:27

Anyone know what happened to Jimmy Hoffa? He kind of just vanished.

MetaFight

Apr 16, 2018 19:16

She was pretty shy and embarrassed when asking for help, though. So I can understand how her reasonable questions might have been misunderstood.

MetaFight

Apr 16, 2018 19:15

I think they would have been reasonable. I was giving her programming lessons at the time and she had a real knack for it.

MetaFight

Apr 16, 2018 19:12

But, I'm sceptical about this, though. I worry that most askers would fall under the category of "help vampire" and that the volunteer experts would get burnt out quickly.

MetaFight

Apr 16, 2018 19:04

on such a beginners.SE, experts would help people ask their questions. Duplicates would be tolerated (because how can you expected a non-expert to find an expert answer that would require expertise to search for??). Offtopic posts would be kept, but removed from the search index. Essentially, there would be no such thing as a bad question... just a question that should be hidden once it's answered so that it doesn't confuse others :)

MetaFight

Apr 16, 2018 19:03

She was adamant that, if a site like SE couldn't help *everyone* then it was, in a sense, contributing to a larger problem (exclusion, marginalisation, classes).

I spent some time thinking about how SE could help the "unreachable" or, put differently, those who despair as their reach extends beyond their grasp. The only thing I could think of is have the SE network offer its experts incentive to participate in a beginners.stack-exchange (kind of like simple.wikipedia.org)

MetaFight

Apr 16, 2018 18:58

I once had a looong conversation with a friend about StackExchange. I was teller her how great it was that so many people could get together and help each other out for next to no compensation. She told me her experience was different. That every time she tried to ask for help people shoved her away because she didn't know "how to ask" her question.

At the time, I, probably callously, said: "well, these communities can't help everyone. It's probably better that they help *many* by excluding *some* rather than help *nobody* by trying to help *everyone*."

MetaFight

Apr 9, 2018 12:16

I'm sad I missed that one. From the title it sounds interesting :P

MetaFight

Apr 9, 2018 12:16

softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/369063/…

MetaFight

Apr 6, 2018 16:24

wut wat?

MetaFight

Apr 6, 2018 16:24

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Q: Storing photos in the stack pointer

Can any one help me,how to store photos(a vector of photos)in the stack pointer,then pull and store them in the hard disk after finishing all captures(I'm doing this because of time constraints,in c++)

MetaFight

Mar 8, 2018 11:17

I've certainly seen this kind of "lasagna" in the wild, but it's typically due to people bungling how they model their application. Write pointless abstraction layers: get pointless lasanga.

MetaFight

Mar 8, 2018 11:15

I love that comparison :)

MetaFight

Mar 8, 2018 11:15

Basically in my experience IoC containers tend (YMMV) to encourage arbitrarily abstracted procedural lasagne in place of naturally orchestrated OOP code. — Ant P 13 hours ago

MetaFight

Feb 7, 2018 17:32

There's been a big spike in DDD, CQRS, and Event Sourcing questions lately. Is there a new evangelist doing the rounds or is this just coincidence?

MetaFight

Jan 1, 2018 08:50

Ohh, there's also a hat for getting a starred comment within 12 hours of new years UTC.

MetaFight

Jan 1, 2018 08:31

Happy new year!

MetaFight

Dec 29, 2017 10:58

I feel like I've violated a law of nature.

MetaFight

Dec 29, 2017 10:57

I just had to SSH into a container so I could then SSH into the container host so I could then reboot the host.

MetaFight

Dec 24, 2017 20:23

Merry xmas eve everyone!

MetaFight

Dec 23, 2017 00:45

Lately, when I develop projects with others, I find a lot of time is wasted upfront worrying about technologies and architecture when there simply isn't enough data to make an informed decision. It makes me wonder whether I'm in the majority or minority when it comes to these things.

MetaFight

Dec 23, 2017 00:42

I find myself putting most of my focus on maintainability. I try to optimise for things like discoverability, refactorability, and readability so that things like the architecture can change easily as the application grows and what is required of it changes. I have a hard time explaining this to my peers though.

MetaFight

Dec 22, 2017 10:34

@RobertHarvey Did deleting an upvoted answer of yours get you a hat?

MetaFight

Dec 21, 2017 16:43

Thank you. I'm not sure when that star appeared, but I haven't received a hat yet for it :/ Will keep you posted.

MetaFight

Dec 21, 2017 13:59

Is there a secret hat for getting a chat comment starred?

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MetaFight

Dec 20, 2017 18:54

Duga is a bot. It scans SE sites for references to this site and posts them here. Its post had nothing to do with you.

MetaFight

Dec 20, 2017 16:34

Also, what is the deal with corn nuts?

MetaFight

Dec 20, 2017 16:33

What do you mean? Which old posts? Bumped how?

MetaFight

Dec 20, 2017 14:27

ah yes, I should have read the blurb rather than just scanning through it.

MetaFight

Dec 20, 2017 14:26

I always find it so difficult to describe messaging patterns.

MetaFight

Dec 20, 2017 14:26

either way, it's convenient having standard names for these things.

MetaFight

Dec 20, 2017 14:25

Durable Subscriber? That's an odd way of describing it. I would have called it a "Durable Subscription" since it's something the broker provides rather than the consumer.

MetaFight

Dec 20, 2017 14:24

Sweet, that's exactly what I was looking for. I just didn't have the time to browse through that site yesterday.

MetaFight

Dec 20, 2017 14:21

If the network link to the EventStore instance goes down we're kind of screwed.

MetaFight

Dec 20, 2017 14:21

The event publisher is usually a python2 script running on a less than reliable linux machine.

MetaFight

Dec 20, 2017 14:19

@ThomasOwens In our case we're only interested in guaranteeing the message has been pushed to our EventStore instance. Everything downstream of that is a piece of cake.

MetaFight

Dec 20, 2017 12:07

@ThomasOwens Yes, that works. I guess what I was describing was a specific implementation of Guaranteed Delivery. Thanks.

MetaFight

Dec 19, 2017 12:37

quick "name that thing" question for you guys. I'm trying to name the pattern where, in a pub-sub setting the publisher first persists a copy of the message locally so that it can retry indefinitely if the message broker is down.

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