Questions tagged [stack-overflow]
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Stackoverflow banners, is it possible?
I wanted to know how StackOverflow banners are generated -like the site moderators' in https://stackoverflow.com/about- and if it's possible to include something like a HTML code in your web/blog/...
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Strange SO rep behaviour documented
Yesterday, I posted a question regarding strange behaviour on the SO Recent Activity - summary page. I deleted it because I thought maybe I really was imaginig it. Today I watched what was going on ...
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Bug in number of answers display
This question recently came up in the sharepoint tag. It looked like this showing the queestion has 2 answers:
SharePoint tag showing question http://alexangas.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/...
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Integrated revision control
How does SO/SF/SU manage the Integrated revision control of the questions and answers? Did they use some open source library, or did they write their own system. Either way, I would really like to ...
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Answer to question cut in the middle in question view, in full in edit view [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Serverfault cut off/truncated on long post?
When trying to view my answer to For home projects, can Mercurial or Git (or other DVCS) provide more advantages over Subversion? ...
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Can I post code on Stack Overflow without asking a question? [closed]
I started to create a post on the regular stackoverflow site regarding creating extensions for a StringBuilder. Basically, the original code I had written was in VB.NET and I needed to port it to C#. ...
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Exclusion/inclusion strategy with ignored/interesting tags [duplicate]
Hello,
I noted something rather annoying (or maybe it's from specs, but I find it deceiving).
I made a question having the tags linux, windows and osx (because the question specifically asks for all ...
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did SO Javascript libs changed domains? [closed]
I've been having a problem using StackOverflow.com recently, i am not able to submit comments or upvote answers.
I am behind a firewall that has an exception for the stackoverflow domain.
I didnt ...
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How will you use Stack Overflow for Google Code Jam [closed]
Today Google announced the 2009 Code Jam.
This year, contestants will compete in
several 2½-hour online rounds,
attacking three to four difficult
algorithmic problems during each
round.
I ...
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Cancel upvote on comments [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Should I be able to cancel my up-vote on a comment?
Is there a way to cancel an upvote on a comment, and if not, why not?
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Search Stackoverflow questions using Google
How can I search in stackoverflow using Google? Is there any keywords for searching in SO using google?
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Running StackOverflow Without ASP.NET Sessions
Would it be possible to run StackOverflow without ASP.NET sessions?
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Setting a StackOverflow community twitter-like service?
Hey,
Why not having a microblogging service for not-that-meaningful questions or updates?
Like, right now I'd like to ask 'wtf python.org is down?'. I have eventually found the answer by searching on ...
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Stackoverflow disappearing answers?
Hi,
I have stumbled across a disappearing answer. According to my user/recent page, user 0scar has posted an answer to this question of mine. It's answer ID 1244114. But when I view the question, I ...
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Why do the Beta Testers all have the lowest scores?
On Stackoverflow, I am wondering why all the members with the "Beta Tester" badge seem to have low karma scores compared to most of the others? It looks like an average of about 200 for them. Does ...
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"Community Wiki" and SO meta-discussion
As of 12:30 EST on November 15th, there were 30,658 registered users of Stack Overflow, of whom 1,458 had at least a 750 reputation and could therefore edit Community Wiki posts.
I suggest that if ...
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What are the s and t parameters in the user cookie used by stackoverflow?
stackoverflow's user cookie seems to have the form
t=<mystery-value>|<last-access-time>&s=<mystery-value>|<login-time>
(the times are sans year, which is a little strange)...
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"Stack-overview" a dashboard for cross site users [duplicate]
I have now signed up to the 4 sites and I am trying to swap between them easily.
In my usual slackness and developer mindframe I was wonding if there were any plans to have an overview for a person ...
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Why my reputation doesn't change, even if I get votes and more than 24 hours have passed?
Hi,
On July 24th I answered a question in stackoverflow, and it got 18 votes, mostly in the two days after.
On July 30th, I wrote another nice question and it got 12 votes, as you can see from my ...
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Encourage users to provide code when relevant [closed]
I think something should be added at the very least to the right side of the "Ask A Question" page of Stackoverflow encouraging users to provide code if at all relevant to their problem. It happens ...
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Implement a single front-end for searching and asking questions on any SO site
Note This isn't about centralizing the sites exactly, as in Jeff's blog post. I'm only suggesting here that the 'ask a question' and 'search' use cases have some access to the other sites.
The ...
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Unanswered Questions on StackOverflow - tag search not working?
On the "Unanswered Questions" page of stackoverflow.com, clicking on one of the tags in the "Unanswered Tags" list doesn't have any affect on the list of questions shown. For example, the top question ...
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[C++] tag blows up other tags
To Repro:
Search for the [c++] tag with another (e.g. "[c++] [php]", though all tags fail when accompanied by c++)
Result:
No results are shown. Likely for [c++][php], but not for [c][c++] which ...
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Is there a wiki behind SO? How is SO question history maintained?
Any insights into how revisions are tracked/displayed on StackOverflow? I'm curious to know if this was hand-rolled or built using other technologies out there.
I think I understand how WMD (and it's ...
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How do I close a question that has not received a suitable answer?
I have a couple of questions that I have asked previously but none of the answers given were the answers that I was looking for (so I have not marked any of them as the correct answer).
How do I ...
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StackOverflow meet-up in London, UK [closed]
Anybody interested in evening meet-up of StackOverflow users in London?
I'm thinking pub, beers and development chatter/discussion - something similar to the old 'Agile Tuesday' meets that used to go ...
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Stackoverflow Score Not Updating [duplicate]
I'm, recently answered a whole bunch of questions on Stackoverflow, but they've not modified my score. Is there any reason would this be happening? I doubt it is a bug, but just wanted to check, ...
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How to list more "Active Questions"?
When I visit stackoverflow.com, "Active" questions are displayed. I get a list of 30 "active" questions followed by
Looking for more? Browse the complete list of questions, or popular tags.
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StackOverflow code stats
I often see posts talking about the size of the database but I've never seen any fun facts about the SO code size. How many lines of code are there? How big is the folder structure?
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Preserve stats page view (votes, newest, views, recent) [closed]
When I click on stats, it always sorts by votes.
But usually it would be interesting to see that data maybe just once in a month.
Would it not be nice to preserve view state to last one or default it ...
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What kind of user is this? [duplicate]
I found https://stackoverflow.com/users/-1/community user at stackoverflow today, but not getting what kind of user is this, is it from StackOverflow or its a fake account which is only made to cast ...
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Is StackOverflow still Using LINQ to SQL as the ORM? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What ORM does Stack Overflow use with their ASP.Net MVC project?
The ADO Entity framework, as we all know, is replacing LINQ to SQL as the default ORM Microsoft recommends.
I ...
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Is Stack Overflow using google search API? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is SO/SF/SU search not good or am I using it wrong?
Is Stack Overflow using google search API? and why or why not?
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Add year to question and answer dates
Seeing as how SO's one year anniversary is coming soon, question and answer dates are going to need to display the year.
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Please add a 'Migrate to Meta.StackOverflow.com' link on SO [closed]
It'd be nice if question owners could flag their own closed questions for migration from the other StackOverflow sites.
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Refresh on the frontpage
I usually keep SO and SF open in separate tabs of my browser and I check them from time to time for new questions I am interested in.
To keep them up to date, I have to refresh the page every time I ...
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Are some questions better served on stackoverflow or serverfault?
Before ServerFault, "as a developer", I'd probably have asked this question on StackOverflow.
Because IIS is still technically part of our developer toolset I think the question would probably be ...
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stackoverflow.mobi [closed]
By using stackowerflow data dump and spending couple of hours I managed to get it up and running.
Not sure if I’ll get DMCA notice but I have emailed team@stack... yesterday to ask permission. No one ...
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