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Activity for Monica Cellio
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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A: Tracking what users are searching in a content management system Every URL served by your web site is recorded in your web server logs. You could brute-force your way through it by grepping for whatever the prefix is for your search URLs (for example, `/search?query=`), but if you're using a tool or package to build and run your web site (the question title refer... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285399 |
You could mention categories as a way of separating related content and, in particular, that Software Dev has one for code reviews. Software Dev isn't currently using other post types (like a blog with articles), so that's probably not something to bring up for promoting this community.
Maybe men... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285398 |
Also, the foundation account is happy to post or share stuff, so please let us know if you do post things on LinkedIn that we can amplify. Thanks! (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285368 |
I wonder if a pre-commit hook can test whether a file is already in the repo. If so, then you could write one to block new additions -- at the cost of some hassle when you actually do want to add a new PDF image to your source. Hmm. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285368 |
@#36377 actually, on further thought, a git commit hook doesn't seem right. Those files shouldn't be in your repo to begin with (that's your goal), so is something auto-adding them to the commit? If you never say `git add unwanted.pdf` then it shouldn't get there, but some git clients (like Tortois... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285368 |
I agree that last option is not great. It's fragile and will bloat .gitignore over time, since the script can never safely *remove* things, only *add* them. Segregated build output is best; git hook to prevent committing unwanted PDFs would be second-best I think. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285366 |
Do you have to build the LaTeX output into the source directory? Or can you segregate it and then ignore the build directory? (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #285222 |
Post edited: fixed title damaged in otherwise-good edit |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281229 |
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— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281229 |
Good catch, thanks. Status-overcome-by-events, I guess. :-) (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #285035 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
| Question | — |
How can we grow this community? Codidact's communities have a lot of great content that is helping people on the Internet. Our communities are small, though, and sustainable communities depend on having lots of active, engaged participants. The folks already here are doing good work; our challenge is to find more people like you ... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284872 |
That's a good point; we should have a way of letting mods know that we've modified base help topics, so they can review and apply changes if they like. We do this so rarely that I never think of it. :-) (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284872 |
In case this helps with findability (or linkability) in the future:
As a moderator you should be able to edit the "how to ask a great question" topic in the help. The cost of editing is that if we update the central copy in the future you won't get the updates (we do not attempt merges), but tha... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284904 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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A: Specify framework / library version in the answer When I first saw this I thought this would be a use case for being able to apply tags to answers (which I've brought up before on Meta, IIRC). But version ranges are a little different, and I don't think you want to necessarily create tags for every version of something just so people can tag answer... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284587 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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A: Are general questions (hopefully resulting in comprehensive, 'canonical' answers) in scope This sounds like useful content to me. I defer to the community on how best to achieve that; I'm here to offer another option from the platform side, in case it's useful. Codidact support articles in addition to questions and answers. An article is a top-level post type that doesn't have childre... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283861 |
Thanks @#53078. If things change in the future please do let us know. And either way, I appreciate your participation here. Your answers have helped me and, I assume, many others. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #283671 |
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— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283667 |
@#53196 I don't think +0/-0 and +3/-3 have the same score. Well, they're not supposed to; I just checked that post and they all say 0.5. **Edit:** I was wrong; according to our help +N/-N is a score of 0.5. I thought the controversy had an impact. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283667 |
[This post on Meta](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/279573) has, at this writing, a +3/-3 sandwiched between two +0/-0s, but they're not in age order either. Hmm. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #283198 |
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— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283198 |
We think this is fixed now. Can you try again? Sorry for the inconvenience. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283001 |
This is a tangent I know, but why `.dup` on the second case (the char[])? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282870 |
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— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279713 |
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— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282870 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282841 | Initial revision | — | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282752 | Initial revision | — | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282673 |
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— | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 3 years ago |