Comments for Year of the Code Monkey http://blog.borngeek.com Because Jonah Bishop Said So Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:36:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on My Gripes With Stack Overflow by Gary http://blog.borngeek.com/2012/02/06/my-gripes-with-stack-overflow/#comment-10618 Gary Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:36:07 +0000 http://blog.borngeek.com/?p=1371#comment-10618 Well said. I came to the same conslusion. Well said. I came to the same conslusion.

]]> Comment on Stack Overflow Hates New Users by Philip Durbin http://blog.borngeek.com/2012/01/04/stack-overflow-hates-new-users/#comment-10584 Philip Durbin Sat, 07 Jan 2012 20:32:33 +0000 http://blog.borngeek.com/?p=1369#comment-10584 For more discussion on this post: Jonah Bishop - Google+ - Anyone here use the StackExchange network? I'd like to get…: https://plus.google.com/115077192943664521829/posts/iWxEBd8aV4P Philip Durbin - Google+ - "Never before has a website given me a worse first…: https://plus.google.com/107770072576338242009/posts/MMjogR5WB17 For more discussion on this post:

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]]> Comment on Stack Overflow Hates New Users by kip http://blog.borngeek.com/2012/01/04/stack-overflow-hates-new-users/#comment-10583 kip Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:37:15 +0000 http://blog.borngeek.com/?p=1369#comment-10583 As someone who has been using the site since the beginning, I can comment on some of these things. The rep required to leave comments anywhere is 50, which is not terribly difficult to obtain. I think it used to be open but they were getting too much spam. You can still ask and answer questions with zero rep. I can identify with you on the problem of answers coming too fast for you to get an answer in. (On Meta Stack Overflow, they call that the "Fastest Gun In The West" problem.) It's one of the main reasons my participation on the site has slowed way down over the last year or two. But since the site's main purpose is to provide answers, it's not *really* a problem. And it's not as difficult as it appears. If you follow a tag that you're knowledgeable about, and try to quickly provide correct answers, you'll get one that sticks every 4-5 tries or so. And just because a question already has answers doesn't mean you can't get upvotes from adding a new answer. If you have something useful to add, you will usually start getting a slow trickle of upvotes. Especially if it is a question that ends up getting found by a bunch of Google searches. As someone who has been using the site since the beginning, I can comment on some of these things. The rep required to leave comments anywhere is 50, which is not terribly difficult to obtain. I think it used to be open but they were getting too much spam. You can still ask and answer questions with zero rep.

I can identify with you on the problem of answers coming too fast for you to get an answer in. (On Meta Stack Overflow, they call that the “Fastest Gun In The West” problem.) It’s one of the main reasons my participation on the site has slowed way down over the last year or two. But since the site’s main purpose is to provide answers, it’s not *really* a problem. And it’s not as difficult as it appears. If you follow a tag that you’re knowledgeable about, and try to quickly provide correct answers, you’ll get one that sticks every 4-5 tries or so.

And just because a question already has answers doesn’t mean you can’t get upvotes from adding a new answer. If you have something useful to add, you will usually start getting a slow trickle of upvotes. Especially if it is a question that ends up getting found by a bunch of Google searches.

]]> Comment on Stack Overflow Hates New Users by Jonah http://blog.borngeek.com/2012/01/04/stack-overflow-hates-new-users/#comment-10581 Jonah Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:42:41 +0000 http://blog.borngeek.com/?p=1369#comment-10581 For those interested, here are a couple of interesting posts that touch on particularly annoying problems: <a href="http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22290/are-demands-on-new-users-continually-increasing" rel="nofollow">Are demands on new users continually increasing?</a> <a href="http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1483/are-power-users-creating-a-vacuum-on-so" rel="nofollow">Are power users creating a vacuum on SO?</a> For those interested, here are a couple of interesting posts that touch on particularly annoying problems:

Are demands on new users continually increasing?
Are power users creating a vacuum on SO?

]]> Comment on Using the nsIFind Interface by Jonah http://blog.borngeek.com/2011/10/03/using-the-nsifind-interface/#comment-10538 Jonah Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:29:25 +0000 http://blog.borngeek.com/?p=1357#comment-10538 That may work, but it seems to me that you're introducing a lot of memory overhead that isn't needed. My workaround simply reads a value which triggers a reflow. Your method is cloning the search range on each hit. Those are objects that the garbage collector now has to deal with, not to mention the overhead in memory allocation. That may work, but it seems to me that you’re introducing a lot of memory overhead that isn’t needed. My workaround simply reads a value which triggers a reflow. Your method is cloning the search range on each hit. Those are objects that the garbage collector now has to deal with, not to mention the overhead in memory allocation.

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