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Tinkeringbell

06:42

@starball Yep. I wanted to make the same point in a different place, that NLN flags auto-delete stuff if there's enough users flagging them and mod flags wouldn't, but apparently they do.

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Journeyman Geek

08:21

ohhh boy

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Q: A Gamified Coding Challenge Feature for Stack Overflow? We Want Your Feedback!

I’m Tom, Senior Talent Acquisition Manager at Stack Overflow. I first joined in 2015 when Joel was running the show, spent a few years here, and then boomeranged back in 2021. I primarily support hiring for the Product, Engineering, Design, and Community teams, but lately, I've had the opportun...

Tinkeringbell

@JourneymanGeek and girls

and otherwise unspecified...

Journeyman Geek

Ohhh sapient life... :D

Tinkeringbell

But yay, coding challenges. I wonder how far I can get with my massive knowledge of magik.

Finally, a way to make SO users respect the people that don't have SO rep but years of experience programming ;)

Journeyman Geek

Heh

VLAZ

08:40

@Tinkeringbell May I suggest "magick"?

Tinkeringbell

@VLAZ No, you may not!

It's magik :P

VLAZ

OK, good thing I asked, then.

Tinkeringbell

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magik_(programming_language) < That's my daily job ;)

Journeyman Geek

As long as it ain't witchcraft

Tinkeringbell

Eh, why do you think they asked me to start learning it. It is witchcraft, 9 times out of 10

VLAZ

08:41

@Tinkeringbell "You seem like an accomplished witch, how about you learn some magik?"

Journeyman Geek

"You have an archiology degree, how do you feel about digging up things best left buried, and arcane languages that drive people to madness?" :D

Tinkeringbell

@JourneymanGeek Hey, the archaeology degree did factor into it (but more in a sense of 'you know how measuring things works, and how making maps works ;) ).

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Tinkeringbell

@VLAZ It does require some sacrifices... Went from a very nice IDE back to... shudder... emacs.

And after five/six years of innovation sprints, there still isn't a fully automated build pipeline... :/

Add to that a coworker with the attention span of a goldfish, and I'm ranting about broken unit tests about... once every full moon.

VLAZ

@Tinkeringbell ~~werewolf~~ wheretests

Tinkeringbell

08:50

Yeaaah. I can even write on PRs: Did you run the unit-tests? Don't they need changing, if you change this? and get a 'yeah it works'... and then do my own check-out of the branch, try the tests, and they don't work.

We've been over it so many times, workflow should be: Kill the running session, commit the code, run the compile script just to be sure, start a new session, and then run the unit tests one last time before saying you broke nothing.

But... goldfish attention span.

Journeyman Geek

lol

@Tinkeringbell people who're always firefighting can't build anything better?

Tinkeringbell

@JourneymanGeek Eh, it's not always firefighting, but it's a struggle just not to have something that compiles + runs all the tests upon pushing to git ;)

Journeyman Geek

lol

Tinkeringbell

In my coworker's defence, they're always the one finding GUI bugs I introduced (we don't have a testsuite for automated GUI testing either...)

I hate doing GUI work in Smallworld

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Meta Announcements

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Q: Concluding the Answer Assistant experiment

On Tuesday, April 29, 2025, we ended the Answer Assistant experiment on the Stack Exchange sites where it was running - Raspberry Pi, Arts & Crafts, and User Experience. We greatly appreciate the willingness of those sites (and Web Applications that began the journey with us) to experiment with w...

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Kevin B

15:52

damn, i thought it was about the question assistant

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Petəíŕd the Wizard

17:44

ratelimited on data.SE again...

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V2Blast

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Q: Evolving comments: An experiment to encourage engagement and follow-up questions

TL;DR: Soon we will be launching an experiment on Stack Overflow to enhance the quality and usefulness of comments. Our goal is to make them more suitable for follow-up questions and conversations surrounding specific content, and shifting away from the notion that they are strictly temporary or ...