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True. It's the second type of answers that make it worth it.
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Oh my god, a thousand times yes to "Work from home. If you are a dog." I can never see that ad without my brain cursing my humanity!
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They forgot the answer telling them not to do the thing they are trying to do.
"Why are you using Language X to do basic thing? The optimal way is to install a Language Y* environment which will enable you to do basic thing in only 2 lines of code."
*Language Y only available under Yellow Dog 6.1
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Just use JQuery.
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No. Best tool would be Lisp.
With a COBOL backend. And a custom middleware layer written in Forth.
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- "What's the use case?"
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- "That's stupid!"
or
"Oh no, this is all wrong. This unrelated thing A should probably be refactored to B, and unrelated thing C is just completely against my coding religion. Whew, glad we got that out of the way. What? No I can't help you with your actual problem. But I bet you're glad I increased a response count, so fewer people will now check out your question. Toodles!"
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Saw a question today which was a 19k rep member asking, essentially, how to do
select max(column1), max(column2), max(column3) from table
Truly, automated fake internet points are the best way to establish a hierarchy. It worked so well for SO, why not Discourse?
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But how did he get his rep? Hopefully nothing SQL related.
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Used to be post a click-bait question "What is better C# or Java?" 1000 people responds and/or upvotes.
Once mods started shutting those down, the new strategy is post a lot of easy, basic questions. Like the one @trithne quoted. Anyone can respond to those, so there's a lot of traffic, thus upvotes.
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I prefer this older one: (source)
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How do I view that image? I'm using jQuery 1.9.
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Nope. You can only do that with Ember.js. Liek, do yr research dude.
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jQuery basic image plugin
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No. Best tool would be Lisp.
With a COBOL backend. And a custom middleware layer written in Forth.
The insane ideas thread is -- oh, wait, we don't have one of those yet.
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The insane ideas thread is -- oh, wait, we don't have one of those yet.
What? What? An RDBMS is just a bunch of tables, and files are just lists of records - like tables, and COBOL is great for processing files full of records. QED.
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So is Perl, but I wouldn't recommend that either.
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and COBOL is great for processing files full of records. QED.
Fuck that. Just put all the files into a single file and you can use SSDS.
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... you can use SSDS.
Oooooh!! ...Then you'll have "Big Data "
Filed under: No way pal, normal-form FTW
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Have you set up a Gibson to run NodeJS yet?
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I thought this was hilarious: How can I make this mess of Java for-loops faster? The top answer is, erm, weird, and the second answer, with most votes indeed, generates all permutations of the input string, which is of course a rather high number if the string is long.
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I think you forgot to make the link a link.
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Aaah. See, it says if you hold your mouse over the link button: Hyperlink <a>. So I just added that plus an href, and it formatted nicely in the preview window, which made me think it had recognized the link. Well, did it ever. So here's the link: http://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/36300/how-can-i-make-this-mess-of-java-for-loops-faster
Mmm, got it to work in the above post. Should have checked.
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<spoiler> #t #e #s #t #i #n #g </spoiler>
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I love the top comment:
With only 70 questions. That's only about one question for every 1000 Flappy Bird clones on the app store.
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I wonder if they have Discourse tags or Discourse-clone tags?
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It passes the test of **"can someone be an expert in flappy bird clones?"** – Yakk 2 hours ago
Following this reasoning, can we make a Discourse-Fails / Discourse-Bugs / Discourse-Flaws / Discourse-Security-Issues tag(s)?
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I had a question and I googled it and found a similar question on SO and the dumbass had done exactly what you said. "Never mind, I found the solution", without giving the solution.
Embarrassingly, I was that dumbass.
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I once was told a question I had posted was easily google-able too. I was berated for posting a question when a quick google search would've given me exactly what I was looking for. In fact, the person even was so nice as to provide the link to the top search result. And what was that top result? The link to my own goddamn SO question.
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Revive this topic?
Yeah, go on. I'm feeling lucky. Anyway...
I was wondering, if someone were to write a bot that looked for unanswered questions, ran it through a Google search, and picked the top result that wasn't equal to the current question... How much rep could it get?
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Try it and report back.
EDIT: Don't actually do this, you'll probably get banned when they figure out what you're doing.
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I wish I had the time and patience to do it!
However, this Meta article on auto-flagging comments is very interesting.
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Did he use jQuery?
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I see what you did there...
It would be interesting to see what the most popular tags were for these noisy comments. I'm guessing jQuery would be one.
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Just for shits, while I got to StackOverflow as a result of looking something up today, I noticed a little green "1" in the top left. Apparently I have a notification?
So some dude went through and "copy-edited" one of my questions.
Seriously.
He left this comment:
Copy edited (e.g. ref. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Framework and https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pull_off)
And made changes like changing ".net" to ".NET" (note caps) and "WebAPI" to "Web API" (note space). Does this guy work for Microsoft marketing? Who else gives a flying fuck if the MS marketing naming guidelines are followed?
He also lower-cased the class names, even though class names in C# are TitleCase.
Oh and he replaced the numeral "6" with "six". And the link to "Wikitionary" (which apparently is a thing?) says "pull off" shouldn't be spelled as "pull-off", so he removed the dash.
He didn't answer the question, though. Why would he have actually answered the question when there's pedantic dickweedery to do?
What. The. Fuck.
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Why would he have actually answered the question when there's pedantic dickweedery to do?
Sounds like he'd be a perfect fit here
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Oh Jesus, I just noticed this other notification:
You've earned the "Tumbleweed" badge (Asked a question with zero score, no answers, no comments, and low views for a week) for "anonymized question title".
It makes fun of me because the site doesn't work? Who came up with that idea? Jesus.
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He didn't answer the question, though. Why would he have actually answered the question when there's pedantic dickweedery to do?
Maybe he didn't know the answer.
Why did he edit your question then, you ask? Well, because the site encourages you to review other people's questions (as well as answers) in exchange for imaginary internet points.
Stupid gamification, it works.
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Ha, so I just logged in to take a look and got this awesome badge which pretty much sums up my entire StackOverflow experience:
You've earned the "Tumbleweed" badge (Asked a question with zero score, no answers, no comments, and low views for a week.
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it seems like a trend. i've seen that with two of my answers as well (to be fair, the answers where full of typos). both from about two years ago.
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Who else gives a flying fuck if the MS marketing naming guidelines are followed?
Autistic dweeblords.
He also lower-cased the class names, even though class names in C# are TitleCase.
Unless they're the names of the special system classes, (
String
, etc), that would be a change that makes the code in the question wrong. If that's happened, clicking on the history (the link starting “edited …” with the small user-card underneath it) will take you to a page with the option to roll-back the changes.Copy editors shouldn't introduce changes that are errors. If they do, they're idiots.
(I know I can't answer your question. I definitely lack the required expertise.)
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He was probably going for the Archaeologist badge. I've done that before, to an answered question.
And since I was curious, I went to go see if I could answer your tubleweeded question, but it's been deleted.
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Ha, so I just logged in to take a look and got this awesome badge which pretty much sums up my entire StackOverflow experience:
Ha, I did the same thing but got "you've earned enough points to chat". BFD.
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And since I was curious, I went to go see if I could answer your tubleweeded question, but it's been deleted.
Huh. Was there a reason?
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Huh. Was there a reason?
No reason available even with the I-can-see-you tools.
Seems a reasonable question though, with no obvious answers on a quick search (though that's limited by my Google-fu so YMMV) so I've voted to undelete it and copy-edited it a little (mostly to make the numbered list and the computer-defined terms show up more clearly).
I'm guessing it will involve setting up some sort of clipboard handler, but that's stuff which I've only ever dealt with in the most cursory of fashions so I've no better answer than that. I just don't know the Windows APIs all that well.
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> Why would he have actually answered the question when there's pedantic dickweedery to do?
Sounds like he'd be a perfect fit here
No. Here, we're pedantic dickweeds for fun. There, they take it seriously.
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Oh Jesus, I just noticed this other notification:
You've earned the "Tumbleweed" badge (Asked a question with zero score, no answers, no comments, and low views for a week) for "anonymized question title".
It makes fun of me because the site doesn't work? Who came up with that idea? Jesus.
I have one of those too. Since you get some rep for this, I guess it is intended more like: "Aww, we are sory no one could help you, here have some rep instead".
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Since you get some rep for this, I guess it is intended more like: "Aww, we are sory no one could help you, here have some rep instead".
Seems more like a "You appear to be a charity case so we're going to reward you for being a charity case" type of award…