Frank

@ANeves sure, i agree, it might be too early to reach a conclusion, though. both of my meta questions are still open because there are only like 10 folks on meta and little urgency to resolve the issues (as far as i can tell, based on the questions we're getting)

congrats, new mods! oh, i also see that the chatroom name question has been resolved

ah, i might ask it later if i have some down time. no idea who would want the job around here

heh, ask the question or be a mod? i certainly would not want to be a mod myself :) just want mods to whine at

anyway, no harm in starting it now if someone is up to the task of writing the post

heh, i don't know. seems kind of early to me. prior section of the blog post says "About a week into the public beta, we will seek out members who are deeply engaged in the community's development"

@E_net4 quoting from a blog post in your link "If your meta site does not have a post to nominate Moderators, start one now!" blog.stackexchange.com/2010/07/moderator-pro-tempore

yeah, certainly a relevant link, i just don't want to discourage folks from asking things just 'cause they exist on MSO

@E_net4 It's okay to have a cross-dupe asked here as well, y'know

yup, was about to come by to say the same thing :)

i think we could use more up & down voting (or new arguments) on answers over here meta.portuguese.stackexchange.com/questions/131/… it would be nice to get this scoping question resolved before entering public beta

@E_net4 thanks!

@E_net4 oh, i'd never heard of tunas. i'll check that out

not much of a sports guy myself

oh, that's a shame. seem to be at least a few young fadistas around, fortunately

heh, you mean mentioning those two topics? ;) hey, i like fado, too, as an american

regarding that dialect-tags issue meta.portuguese.stackexchange.com/questions/8 i think the second answer has a point -- portugues-europeu is a natural tag to have and we don't need to dogmatically shoehorn all references to dialects into place names (like using portugal or europa instead). we can just refer to the dialect by whatever name is most common, and synonymize whatever less common names apply (so it could be carioca instead of rio-de-janeiro, etc.)

Ok, I'll do that next time. Thanks, Glen

@Glen_b ah, thanks, i forgot about that symbol. It was just to say "thanks"; the rest of my question was to anyone, so i guess it's just as well i didn't ping him/her. yeah, i'd never have noticed that it was not an "i". the chat has autocomplete for @, so i might have figured it out after a lot of practice :)

ah, guess the closest i can get is recode, which looks painfully awkward (what with its operating on the factor levels/codes instead of the factor's labels)

I read the entirety of the stata manual's chapter 25 (on factor variables) and nowhere saw mention of reassigning levels as can be done with R's levels(x) <- y syntax... does anyone happen to know of a way?

Ok, i see that it is not possible. no big deal.

I have another basic stata question. (please let me know if there is a better place to ask these.) is it necessary to always define yvar before use in a command like lpoly or can it be defined on the fly as in R where I(yvar==1) can often be used (instead of doing yvar1 = yvar==1 and then using yvar1)?

thanks, chi! i think that's just what i was looking for

Does anyone happen to know if Stata has predefined lists? I'm missing R's letters and LETTERS...

ffs! dev-eth0.de/miktex-makepk-pk-font-umvs-could-not-be-created

next question: anyone know how kpfonts could load and yet fail to create "PK font jkpmit8r"?

(that is, problem solved)

ffs, why would they force us to rewrite our preambles?! grr

I suspect it has something to do with Miktex's package manager having decided that amsfonts and amssymb do not exist

Hi. Anyone know why } would be regarded as an "Undefined control sequence"?

Could this site use a "statistics" tag? I see that it has a ton of questions (~400) including the word "random"...

@tapped-out Ok, thanks.

Hello feuding chatbots! I found a "portable" Windows 7 app that seems to require admin privileges to launch. I'm wondering if I'm mistaken and there's another way to start it? It seems that an app isn't very usefully portable if you have to have admin rights on the comps you use. it says it's autohotkey-based: winsize2.sourceforge.net/en

hullo

i don't know this site's homework-tagging rule, but this asker says "i have thought of the following formula", when a picture of a theorem (not a formula) is displayed...and that theorem comes from some notes online https://www.google.com/#q="theorem 2.1 suppose a starts"