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Activity for Monica Cellio
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A: Allow filtering search for only Meta (or any other category) You can now add "category:###" to a search, where ### is the number in the URL for the category, to restrict the search to one category. For example, Software Dev Q&A is 38 and Code Review is 44. I've just pushed an update to the search help, where you can find more information about this and oth... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282841 |
I defer to the community's moderators on whether the thread should be deleted (I'm a Codidact admin, not a Software Dev mod). (For some reason I can't edit this in right now, so adding this comment.) (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282841 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Unfair accusation in a comment and consequent loss of *actual* reputation I looked at your answer and those comments, skimmed the Wikipedia page, and I do not see direct copies. OOP is a fundamental topic, widely taught and widely written about. It's not surprising to me that many independent explanations take similar approaches. To some people that probably looks like ... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282807 |
When we make code changes that affect the database (like adding/updating tables), we run DB upgrades as part of the deployment. I assume, but have not personally verified (and wouldn't know what to look for), that this is something that's baked into the code in the public repository somehow, either ... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282752 |
Thanks. We usually do backports by cherry-picking the commit to master (so, merge feature-x to master, then cherry-pick that commit to release-foo). That wouldn't work in this case because feature-A isn't coming to master in its own commit, but we could cherry-pick the last commit on that branch in... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282752 |
Thank you! That explanation is very helpful, and I think you've answered my other question. In the future I might need to merge feature-A, without feature-B, into a previous release's branch, so I was looking for a solution that wouldn't pollute that. I think in that case I'd just merge feature-A ... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282752 |
Correct. I was going to massage that output to match the feature names in the question, but I didn't want to accidentally remove something important. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282752 |
The latest two commits there are on feature-B; the previous two on feature-A; previous ones from master. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282752 |
Not sure what I'm looking at; does this help? (Lots of older stuff from master, as expected.) (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282752 |
$ git log --graph --format="%ad %h [%p] %d"
* Fri Jul 23 10:42:47 2021 -0400 725d9d1c11 [ca99f826dc] (HEAD -> feature/ct-comparisons-VER-75425, origin/feature/ct-comparisons-VER-75425)
* Thu Jul 22 16:27:48 2021 -0400 ca99f826dc [6498847a48]
* Thu Jul 22 11:05:17 2021 -0400 6498847a48 [9b2... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282752 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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What's the correct way to merge a branch and its dependent branch back to master? In `git` I branched feature-A from master. To reduce eventual merge conflicts later, I branched feature-B, which heavily overlaps and depends on A, from feature-A. A build of the feature-B branch shows both sets of changes, as expected. (There have been no further commits on feature-A after this b... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282673 |
This user had created two accounts and asked for a merge. I'm guessing that this post was created by the "other" account, the one that got merged in. (While the post shows a user, the history shows "deleted user" for some entries.) We haven't needed to do a lot of merges and apparently missed a ch... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282673 |
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— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282673 |
That might be the case. We had this problem with a deleted user once before, but I thought we'd fixed the systemic problem and not just that instance. I'll ask the devs to investigate. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282535 |
Re "When will [some new feature] be released? - development-related, on-topic." -- isn't this usually a question that can be answered only by the vendor? (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282536 |
I think the lack of a meaningful error message counts as a bug. While folks on Software Dev might instinctively reach for the console to see what happened, that might not be true on, say, Cooking. We shouldn't make users dig; we just missed a case here. Thanks for the report. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282486 |
It's a pointer. I don't have enough time to write a full answer right now, but [here's a starting point](https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/pointers-c-examples/). (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282129 |
An alternative approach that avoids Discord would be possible when threaded comments are finished. (I've just been testing the current branch; stuff is happening.) Once comments don't all overwhelm the page but instead are off in collapsable (and collapsed, by default) threads, it doesn't matter as... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282129 |
We have a Discord server for our communities, with channel groups for each community. I don't know very much about Discord admin, but if we could figure out a way for people to create new channels under those groups without moderator intervention, then people could take a conversation there if they ... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282119 |
The text is correct; I assume the issue is about it being left-aligned instead of right-aligned (with the radio buttons)? (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281859 |
I realize it's only part of your question, but moderators can create and edit help topics, so if the community wants to work out some better guidance, you can put it in place. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281475 |
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— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281996 |
Post edited: removed wrong part and pointed to the answer with the correct explanation - thanks! |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281996 |
Oh I see. So we could have also made it `>= 20` to get 8PM. I don't know why I didn't do that instead of changing 20 to 19 there. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281996 |
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| Comment | Post #281995 |
It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure this out, so I'm leaving a trail here for others or for future-me. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #281996 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Why is this client code getting the wrong date for a few hours a day? There are two issues here. The first is that this code isn't rolling over at 8PM as expected: if (now.getHours() > 20) { now.setDate(now.getDate() + 1); } This change happens at 9PM as explained in this answer. The second increment is the one that's coming from this code, not... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281995 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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Why is this client code getting the wrong date for a few hours a day? Our web site has a widget that displays some date-based information that we retrieve from some JSON-formatted data (one object per date). We get the current date from the environment, possibly adjust it (see below), look up the right entry in the JSON, and display it. Most of the time this works ri... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281784 |
@Lundin are questions about office suites so different from questions about other applications that tags aren't sufficient? (Question for Power Users meta, presumably.) (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281640 |
@Lundin the "curate" discussion is ongoing, but meanwhile we don't want to block on getting some help for our single-person mod team here. Scope needs to be decided by the community; moderators don't decide that on their own, and maybe we need to have more "case studies" to discuss to refine the op... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281640 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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We'd like to add another moderator -- who? Several months ago we asked for temporary moderators for this community and two people stepped up. One of them later had to step back, leaving Alexei as a sole moderator. Alexei is doing a great job, but we think things run smoothly when there are at least two moderators -- it gives mods someone to... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281565 |
My own experience in online communities is that the snarkier I'm feeling, the more careful I need to be to review what I'm writing to ask myself "how will this be received by someone who's not in my head?". Usually the same goal can be accomplished more effectively with other words; the snark can ma... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281571 |
Regarding close reasons, moderators can customize those -- feel free to raise separately so the community can discuss what y'all want. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281560 |
Thank you for starting this discussion. We really want each community to be free to develop its own norms (within the bounds of network policies of course). It's hard for moderators to do their jobs absent that community consensus, which necessarily isn't ready on day 1. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281508 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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How can I test my front end for accessibility to the blind? I'd like my web front end to be accessible, including to people who use screen readers. I know the basics about labels and alt text for images, but there are some areas where I'm not sure what a screen reader will do and I'd like to find out and catch it if we're doing it badly. I don't want to act... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281506 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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A: Editing tags failed? This is weird: I tried to edit the tags on your post to see if I could reproduce it, and the editor showed the C++ tag there even though the post did not show it. I deleted and re-added it and saved the post and it shows up now. I don't know why that happened. I'll pass it along to the dev team. ... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281486 |
Post edited: trying to fix tags (per bug report on meta) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281475 |
Reproduced in Chrome (well, I started to edit this post to see it, saw it, and cancelled). There are some differences in how rendering is done in preview vs normal view; I'm not sure what the issues are, but this is probably another of those. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281341 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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How can I find git branches where all branch-local commits are from specific people? []()We have a bunch of dead branches in our git repository, and I'd like to clean them up. Ones that were merged (but not deleted at the time) are easy; we can see those in the branch list on Bitbucket. But a lot were abandoned and not deleted, some by people who no longer work here. I want to fin... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281308 |
This question was moved from Q&A to Meta and then reopened here. (Mentioning in case the previous comments are confusing in the new context.) (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281308 | Question reopened | — | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281308 |
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