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Activity for Monica Cellio‭

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Edit Post #293072 Post edited:
It looks like the question is about one specific case, and the general answer would be "it depends" (based on comments). Since there's a good answer to the specific question, editing the title to match.
10 days ago
Comment Post #292978 @#64656 yes, tag hierarchies exist. There might be some ontological problems building out the hierarchies you want, because we don't support multiple inheritance (a tag cannot have more than one parent). Suppose you have a question about designing a Java API. You'd want to tag it `java` and `api`,...
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about 1 month ago
Comment Post #292978 I wonder about separate categories versus tagging. I can see arguments both ways.
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about 1 month ago
Comment Post #292978 I strongly agree that program design is an important part of programming, especially for beginners but really for everybody because the things we learned when we were beginners might have since been superseded.
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about 1 month ago
Edit Post #292974 Initial revision about 1 month ago
Answer A: Comparing our site scope to Stack Overflow
Some relevant history for consideration (not an answer about specific scope boundaries): When we started to discuss a programming or software community, we were concerned about premature fragmentation. We had a lot of discussion, which we ultimately resolved as a single community open to spin-off...
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about 1 month ago
Edit Post #281121 Post edited:
fixed variable that crept in
about 2 months ago
Edit Post #279915 Post edited:
fixed variable that crept in
about 2 months ago
Edit Post #279928 Post edited:
fixed variable that crept in
about 2 months ago
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3 months ago
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3 months ago
Edit Post #288594 Post edited:
moving the contact link out of the footer (doesn't apply on other networks) and putting it here
3 months ago
Comment Post #292546 It looks like the naming convention is currently, err, "mixed". I hope others will weigh in.
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3 months ago
Edit Post #292546 Initial revision 3 months ago
Answer A: I created a tag, now it need edit.
Is `stream` the right name, or should it be more specific? If you came across that tag in the wild, would it be obvious that it's Java streams? We also have `filestream`, `node:stream`, `QTxtStream`, `vfs-stream`, and the more general `data-streaming`. A moderator can both rename the tag (if tha...
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3 months ago
Comment Post #292151 Or, I suspect, the asker's thinking is: I'm writing my novel, saving "v37" etc isn't really a good way to manage checkpoints, also I want to be able to easily jump back to a good state from before I added that doomed plotline... how would I use source control to make my life easier? In other words...
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5 months ago
Edit Post #292151 Initial revision 5 months ago
Answer A: Where should I ask git questions?
(Speaking personally, not for the team.) People using `git` are usually using it in a software context, and Software Development's scope is intentionally broad, so they definitely fit here. This is where most of them end up. That's fine. Questions about `git` can be on-topic elsewhere too. C...
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5 months ago
Edit Post #290488 Nominated for promotion 5 months ago
Edit Post #292046 Post edited:
fixed formatting problem that interfered with image example
5 months ago
Edit Post #292026 Post edited:
fixed duplicate title...
5 months ago
Edit Post #292026 Post edited:
replace generic slug with our network's policy
5 months ago
Comment Post #282870 That's a good point. It would be better to default to the current category (by adding it to the query shown on the results page), and then if you meant to search the whole community you could just delete that part. We wanted to be able to specify categories by name rather than number, like with p...
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7 months ago
Comment Post #291479 Thanks for this feedback. One related idea we want to pursue (haven't gotten very far yet unfortunately) is to make it easier for people to organically add "similar questions" and "possible duplicates" alongside a question ([Meta discussion](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/284169/284517#answer-284517...
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7 months ago
Comment Post #291434 Err, we do have that now; see my answer. Yeah, I missed it too, oops.
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7 months ago
Edit Post #291458 Initial revision 7 months ago
Answer A: RSS feeds for tags
There are RSS feeds for tags already, linked at the bottom of the tag page. (Yeah, I missed it too; I'll see if we can make that more obvious.) For example, here's the RSS feed for the feature-request tag. screenshot: bottom of tags page with link circled Update 2024-10-02: We've now added th...
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7 months ago
Comment Post #291434 We don't have that now, but since we do have other RSS feeds, I'm trying to find out what it would take to add this one. Thanks for the suggestion.
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7 months ago
Comment Post #290885 That's a subscription for new posts, I think specifically new top-level posts, but it won't tell you about new responses you've received (comments, I think answers, suggested edits).
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9 months ago
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9 months ago
Edit Post #290379 Post edited:
added info from a comment
12 months ago
Comment Post #290379 Oops! Thank you, and I apologize -- we should have tested that scenario.
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12 months ago
Edit Post #290379 Initial revision about 1 year ago
Answer A: Enabling 2FA should include some recovery codes
Setting up 2FA now produces a recovery code (with instructions to save it). If you later sign in using that recovery code, it disables 2FA until you re-enable it, getting a new code in the process. If you were already using 2FA before we added recovery codes, you'll need to disable and re-enable ...
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about 1 year ago
Edit Post #277158 Post edited:
https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/pull/1164
about 1 year ago
Edit Post #288728 Post edited:
about 1 year ago
Edit Post #290281 Initial revision about 1 year ago
Answer A: Allow tagging answers with tools and version numbers
I asked a question on Meta about allowing tags for answers a while back. You might find the discussion there helpful. I'd still like to do something to support these use cases; it's not clear what we should do. If we did the smaller thing of supporting `[tag:name]` syntax in posts, so you'd get ...
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about 1 year ago
Comment Post #289928 Oh, I see -- sorry for misunderstanding! Looks good to me.
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about 1 year ago
Comment Post #289928 Did you mean to add a footnote? I see `[1]` but no referent. Maybe you meant to add something about how to use `git log` to find the right commit?
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about 1 year ago
Comment Post #288660 Thanks for posting what you learned in an answer. I've filed an issue to add tables to the formatting help.
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about 1 year ago
Comment Post #289737 Yikes. Would it be worth sharing what you learned in an answer? Or is it really specific to that particular query?
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about 1 year ago
Comment Post #289737 Would running the query on a new table -- same DDL but with, say, 10 rows copied into it from the real table -- complete? Would analyzing *that* tell you anything? (The answer probably depends on what that query is doing; if it's some complicated aggregation that only works at all if you've got tho...
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about 1 year ago
Edit Post #288728 Initial revision over 1 year ago
Question Should posting on Meta affect reputation?
When we launched this community, we did not yet have the ability to set different reputation grants for different categories. We've had this for a while but we failed to follow up before now, sorry. Do you want us to change posts on Meta to not award rep for upvotes or subtract it for downvotes? ...
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over 1 year ago
Comment Post #285894 Hello! A while back somebody got most of the way to "expand in page" working, ran into some problems, and never got back to it. We still want this, but I think at this point we need to start again and break the work into smaller pieces. We tried to do too much all at once. I'm checking with our d...
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over 1 year ago
Edit Post #278189 Post edited:
We have wiki articles now.
over 1 year ago
Comment Post #285399 Did you write something as a result of this post? With the new attention we're currently getting, I'd like to point people to it if so. (I can of course point people to this post, but if there's something better, let's use that.)
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over 1 year ago
Comment Post #288330 Or we might be able to use (multiple) specific troubleshooting questions to feed into a general troubleshooting article or canonical question or something, and then point all the specific cases to that. Either approach works; we just want to make sure things are findable. Specific questions might h...
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over 1 year ago
Comment Post #288330 If we end up with clusters of highly-related questions -- different symptoms, same root cause, none yet has that kind of great comprehensive answer -- then another option is to create a trouble-shooting topic that tackles those commonalities. Codidact supports articles alongside Q&A and also support...
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over 1 year ago