Find out how to get Jon Skeet raging mad from this one amazing SO question
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Damn bias.
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This is it exactly.
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And he wasn't, say, locked in a cupboard for most of the episode?
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I ain't voting to undelete this one. While receiving 41 downvotes is a little unfair (I think -10 would have been about right, maybe with another -10 for the attitude) there's absolutely nothing about it that isn't either fundamentally unclear or a rehash of something that's been beaten to death elsewhere.
The only person who produced an up-vote-able answer needs to learn to avoid spending effort on this sort of thing. It was a waste of his effort.
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Funnily enough, I can still see the thread in one of my tabs where I left it standing. Thanks to signalr, I can even see the number of downvotes.
Amazing. I wonder what would get more hate than that?
"Bad plumbing, pipes leak gas at seams. Pls help." - Hitler
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Right but people volunteered effort to answer it, and those asshole admins deleted those people's contributions without their consent.
Hmm - where else have I seen this sort of behaviour...
Ah - that's right - here back in May/June. And I got lambasted for calling on it.
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I have tried to help people who react like this. Like my 7 year old son. They think you're attacking them or something when you ask for clarification.
I have the same issue with a tester at work. Effectively the role of his team is to perform interface testing of systems being developed for our (government) organisation.
As the Interface standard SME, I review each issue discovered in testing. Unfortunately when they're ambiguous, incomplete or inaccurate my requests for clarification fall on deaf ears, or result in hostility/resentment. Thus my reviews usually begin with me explaining my understanding of the issue, with my analysis based on what I think/assume/guess they meant, and Reviews with our customers are awkward because my office can't get its shit together.
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Hmm - where else have I seen this sort of behaviour...
Ah - that's right - here back in May/June. And I got lambasted for calling on it.
I think the caffeine hasn't kicked in yet. Who lambasted you for what now?
The only thing I can think of was some unTDWTFly heavy handed discodev moderation. Or maybe the local malcontents viewed you as a Quisling?
/confused
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Who lambasted you for what now?
One of the developers, for complaining about the deletion of content on this forum.
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Jerkies.
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This question wins the category for lowest score, non-deleted. I don't think it's going to hold onto that prize for long.
This one wins for lowest score, non-closed.If you want to look at the deleted question category you'll need help from a mod.
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Often stack overflow assholes down vote questions they themselves don't want to answer, never saying anything. When asked in comments you mysteriously get the up votes you need to go back to net zero, also without comments.
But both down voters and up voters get points for participation.
Also, mobile title overruns the downarrow on the reply screen. Queue @blakeyrat second law.
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But both down voters and up voters get points for participation.
Actually, downvoters lose points, but only one per downvote.
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Often stack overflow assholes down vote questions they themselves don't want to answer, never saying anything.
They know better than saying something — if they did, you'd call them assholes.
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I call everybody assholes, that's not a valid argument.
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technically every human on this planet that has ever, will ever, or is currently living was once just a butthole attached to a wad of cells, so you are not entirely inaccurate.
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technically every human on this planet that has ever, will ever, or is currently living was once just a butthole attached to a wad of cells, so you are not entirely inaccurate.
inb4 pedantic response about some extremely rare genetic condition that prevents the development of an anus.
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You almost got an inb4 fail. I was busy looking at the sea cucumber.
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could you name one? because if there was such a genetic condition, and given the development process of the human embryo i'm pretty sure that would cause the preganancy to be non-viable.
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I can't name one nor do I know if such a thing exists, I just assumed one of the dickweeds here would know about it.
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When has a human ever been a sea cucumber?
:scratch_head:
Yay another missing emoji.
doesn't convey the same message.
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wouldn't
‽
work?
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Well, all the toxic hellstew PHP forums trained me to use :scratch_head:. I have no idea what that symbol is or how I'd make it.
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:headscratch: :head_scratch:
Btw mobile has no auto complete for Emojii or mentions, so you better remember those long names. No image selector either.
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Head scratch?
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that's the interobang symbol.
‽
or (on windows)
alt + 8253
or
compose + ! +?
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WTF is a compose key?
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some people are lucky enough to have a physical one on their keyboard, others have it mapped to a keycombo (ctrl + alt is common) other use windows and don't have it at all unless they have the right keyboard, and even then their input language has to be right.
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Okay, I guess I need to restate the question.
WTF is a compose key?
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Many desktop environments for X11 offer you a setting that lets you exchange Caps Lock for a more useful key. Some use it as a third Ctrl key, others as a Compose Key.
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Magic
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it allows you to compose two characters into one.
like composing ? and ! int ‽
or A and E into that super cool looking Ash (Æ) character
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@cartman82 said "nazimins"
Comparing things to the Nazis makes me absolutely führerous!
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Comparing things to the Nazis makes me so führerous!
Germany, 1942. Hitler is being updated on the latest productivity figures.
"Sir, we are mining too many useless ores."
Hitler rubs chin. "So mine less."
[Grammar Nazi busts in] "MINE FEWER"
[Hitler looks up] “Yes?"
(I may have stolen that from someone on this site, forget where I saw it first.)
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Yeah, it's in the nerdy jokes thread.
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it allows you to compose two characters into one.
like composing ? and ! int ‽
Ah, like mathematical composition, or unicode combining diacritics, or perhaps neither of those.
I thought you were talking about a different type of shift key, like Meta/Super/Hyper/Apple or something.
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Ah, like mathematical composition, or unicode combining diacritics, or perhaps neither of those.
Don't think you can just stick two arbitrary letters on top of each other. The "different type of shift key" is actually not too far off the mark, it's just a shift key that takes multiple subsequent keys to figure out what to produce instead of just one.For example, you might press "compose, ', e", and wind up with an accented e. (However, likely just the straight Unicode for the character -- not a combining accent followed in a different code point than e. It's the compose key that does the, uh, composition.)
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I've used n,then ~ to produce the "ñ" character before, but that wasn't exactly a normal machine.
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WTF is a compose key?
Other explanations notwithstanding:
It's an uncommonly used key (usually configurable, mine's AltGr) which the OS takes as a sign that the next (usually) two keys are 'special' and they shouldn't be sent to the window immediately but consumed by the OS and upon hitting the last key in the sequence, a different character is emitted based on those two keys.
For example, for me,
AltGr ? ! results in ‽
AltGr o o results in °
AltGr t m results in ™
AltGr 1 2 results in ½
AltGr t h results in þ
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Don't think you can just stick two arbitrary letters on top of each other.
Obviously. I'm just saying I didn't realize what the local meaning of "compose" was until he explained it.