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by Shog9 12y ago
Haven't looked at Elm. It may be the cat's pajamas. But reading this article, I'm immediately reminded of all the marketing surrounding XAML a few years back. Not particularly enamored with the results there. Poorly-done, abs
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by Shog9 12y ago
As does an awful lot of spam.
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by Shog9 12y ago
The key difference is that on SO we don't make you give us your email address to read an answer. So when you "sign up" for the newsletter, you're explicitly signing up for email (in fact, you can do so without even bot
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by Shog9 12y ago
While your defense of his vitriol is noble, I'm less convinced of his good intentions. Sadly, this isn't the first time I've run across statements like this; they're all too common in support emails sent to us at Stack E
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by Shog9 12y ago
The problem is, it's easy to pull out specific examples that illustrate bad attitudes, mistakes, etc. Stack Overflow gets somewhere between 8 and 9 thousand questions every day - even with only a small % of those being closed, downvote
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by Shog9 12y ago
Way to dump on autistic people, man. You really think they don't have enough problems, you gotta blame them for this too? If you wanna make something better, call out specific behaviors - ideally, punctuated with specific examples -
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by Shog9 12y ago
Yeah, that was the "Too Localized" reason - it was actually aimed more at things like "where's the error in this 500-line code dump?" but... uh, no one understood that. So we got rid of it about a year ago. There is
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by Shog9 13y ago
You're not actually contradicting his statement, you know. A good many of Blackberry's problems trace back to the company's owners.
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by Shog9 13y ago
They reopened it too. That's what you get when you have a collaboratively-managed site: folks working things out, in public. Nobody said democracy was pretty...
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by Shog9 13y ago
We tried a variation on that fairly early on. It led to endless arguments over how subjective something had to be to be branded subjective. See: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/51627/should-we-perm... In
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by Shog9 13y ago
Pretty certain COM was designed with C in mind, maybe C++ as an after-thought. The differences between C++ objects and COM objects are severe enough to make it not really a lot of fun unless you limit yourself to C-like behaviors anyway (
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by Shog9 13y ago
"The VB stuff" is pretty much all you get when you work with MS-Office. Don't know that I'd call COM "elegant", but you could probably do worse for a language-agnostic object system. Funny enough, I never reall
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by Shog9 13y ago
This wasn't an algorithm update. If the folks at Google can figure out how to detect this sort of gaming more reliably, that may end up in a future algorithm update, and no amount of pleading will matter for anyone affected by it - t
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by Shog9 13y ago
The exact cause would be a question for (old, probably retired) members of the Excel team at MS, but bugs like this were fairly common when working with Windows apps that mixed interprocess communication with UI updates. Raymond Chen has a
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by Shog9 13y ago
I feel like you're being unfair to domain squatters here. Yes, they're scum - but at least they're honest scum.
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by Shog9 13y ago
Growing up, a good portion of my summer (and spring, and fall...) was spent helping out in my family's rather large garden. Most of this involved rather tedious, repetitive labor. So to stave off boredom, we made up games to go along w
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by Shog9 13y ago
FWIW, I've merged his accounts now. Probably too late, but... If he ever decides to come back, he'll be able to edit his own posts without review.
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by Shog9 13y ago
Meanwhile the world commerce is moving towards the Internet and Google controls 70% of that. ...so you gotta do what it takes to get ahead, even if that means abusing the system and everyone else who depends on it? That's been the sp
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by Shog9 13y ago
This is probably the best argument in favor of that "break the spirit" strategy then: if you've little-to-no hope of actually putting a dent in the shear volume of abuse by way of penalties, making the existence of penalt
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by Shog9 13y ago
Because, what? You expect Cutts to be on the phone handling calls from irate webmasters instead? If Google sells me ad-space - or a Nexus - and then doesn't respond when I have a problem, that's bad. But if your pages drop in the
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by Shog9 13y ago
Which is where resources like Stack Overflow really shine. I had someone add a link to MSDN to an answer I posted on SO a few years back. That topic didn't exist when I wrote the answer - and the subsystem being documented was already
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by Shog9 13y ago
Ugh, I hate those comments. Reminds me too much of forum cruft. Or that xda-developers video. If you see that crap cropping up, please flag it; they're easy enough to get rid of. As you say, there's a bit of a "man with a h
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by Shog9 13y ago
Bug reports should still end up in Bugzilla. Sorry; that's what it was built for. The goal here is to encourage development questions - folks writing code targeted at HTML5 or Firefox OS. Not that bug reports never draw on problems i
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by Shog9 13y ago
Keep in mind, Stack Overflow gets somewhere north of 8K questions per day. Every day. There's a limit to how much hand-holding anyone's willing to do in the face of that - particularly given how often it simply does not accomplish
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by Shog9 13y ago
Funny you should suggest that... Turns out, there's a site for that: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/site-recommen...
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by Shog9 13y ago
Contact the team: http://stackoverflow.com/contact We'll get you sorted out.
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by Shog9 13y ago
Patience in online discussions is probably the most valuable (and definitely the most unexpected) thing I've gained from spending time on SO. Coming from a more traditional forum, I originally expected questions that had a highly-upvot
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by Shog9 13y ago
Did you ever try passing one of those links to a colleague? They were doing some referrer-checking at one point - if you weren't coming from Google, you didn't get the answer.
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by Shog9 13y ago
This. Folks try this kinda crap all the time; the community and/or mods just delete it. Still sucks that legit users end up being contacted over it though.
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by Shog9 13y ago
We do try to remove unanswered questions after a while, though in the meantime it's important that they're able to be found - after all, someone out there might have an answer. We're stepping up efforts to remove closed una

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