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| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Comment | Post #278277 |
"if there is no way to distinguish which answer is correct, then the question is unanswerable". Why can there be only one correct answer? And don't you find it weird to call a question with an upvoted answer "unanswerable"? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278219 |
Might one of the down or close voters be so kind as to give more specific feedback why they disliked this question? The close reason given is a bit ... generic ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278211 |
The "questions that don't seek answers problem" could be alleviated by posting question and answer at the same time, or by indicating in the question that a self-answer is coming up. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278197 |
Since words often mean different things in different contexts, please be sure to clearly convey the context you are asking about: What does SD stand for? Service Design? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278189 |
Can you elaborate why writing a question asking for the information you want to share "can be difficult"? Off hand, I don't see the difficulty. In particular, if the information is relevant to somebody, one should be able to describe the circumstance under which it is useful, should one not? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277306 |
70GB! Good gracious! For context, the [git repository of the linux kernel](https://github.com/torvalds/linux) (30 million lines of code) with 15 years of history (950000 commits) weighs in at about 4 GB (3GB history, 1 GB checkout). Perhaps your development team could slim down its repository further... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277531 |
We should be really explicit that people are expected to **search thoroughly** before asking reference questions lest we become the googling service for those too lazy to google. Just now, we had somebody inquire about how DNS works who hadn't even read the relevant Wikipedia page! (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277962 |
Wikipedia has a more accurate description on [how the Domain Name System works](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System). In particular, that article describes how the client efficiently locates the DNS servers to talk to. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277456 |
What do you mean with "sortability reasons"? Also, Charlie said the *combination* of both columns is unique. That doesn't imply that a single colum is unique. That is, you can't create a primary key on a single column ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277430 |
This answer could be improved by describing just how "overflowing the parser" could give rise to a security vulnerability, and why anybody would parse strings into numbers when (in OP's words) "we're never going to need to perform any mathematical equations on the number". (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277409 |
It seems weird to focus on allocation times when discussing network I/O. If we can wait millions of processor cycles for a network response, we can probably afford a couple hundred cycles to allocate on the heap. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277373 |
If you have seen that page, what is still unclear? It seems to contain all the info you are looking for? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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