Cap'n Refsmmat

So, I get a choice between several systems: positive rep, negative rep, both, and "Like This". What does everyone prefer?

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We decided to use your mom as inspiration.

And if anyone notices any glaring problems, please do let me know. I'm going to try to squish the obvious bugs, but there will likely be more lurking.

It's definitely possible to allow more negative reputation per day. However, negative reputation has always tended to piss people off, so I set the limit as low as possible (without eliminating it entirely) to prevent overuse. I can't say "five per day, but not more than one per person"; I can only limit total reputation points per day. Do you think the impact of negative reputation is small enough that we should allow more than one point per day?

This attitude is not acceptable on SFN. I don't know what you're implying about lesbians and women in general, but it's certainly not in line with rule 1.c. We do not tolerate misogyny. Enjoy your vacation from SFN.

Yes, and those agents arrived after Stevens was dead, just in time to be shelled with the mortar attack. Doherty and Woods died after their arrival. In other words: yes, help had arrived. But not enough help, and not fast enough for Stevens to be saved. Time elapsed between gunfire being heard at the compound and and Stevens being lost in the fire, presumed dead: twenty minutes. Good luck getting a response team out. An hour later, the CIA response team believes the attack is over with and leaves for their base in an armored vehicle. Only after they arrive at their own compound and take fire are security teams from other countries ordered to move, but it's already too late. It's hard to fault the DoD and CIA for not being sufficiently psychic.

I'm not sure what your point is. Are you suggesting that the administration is wrong, there was actually sufficient time for military forces to arrive, and their denial is a lie? If you're going to reject any government statement which contracts you as a lie, there's no point to this discussion -- it's impossible to change your mind. Because the attack was in fact three attacks spread over seven hours, it seems entirely plausible that officials told reaction forces "never mind, it's over", only to be surprised when an attack started again. Presumably because finding a bunch of agents with relevant expertise, freeing up their calendars, and sending them to a country where they have no jurisdiction, no knowledge of the language, and none of their typical support assets is difficult.

Forces did react. There was not sufficient time or information for them to arrive and be effective. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57539738/u.s-military-poised-for-rescue-in-benghazi/

This is an unsubstantiated rumor. A quick Google search shows that General Ham is still in command, and Panetta says Ham opposed intervention. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57540712/military-response-to-benghazi-attack-questioned/

Clever marketing, but you gave yourself away when you started adding as friends members who haven't visited SFN in years. Please take a look at SFN Rule 7. I've removed your link.

Yes. Here's their calculator information page: http://www.actstudent.org/faq/calculator.html As far as I know the FAFSA is need-based rather than merit-based, so it doesn't require ACT scores -- but it's been four years since I've gone through this process, so don't take my word for it.

zorro, please do not copy and paste large tracts of (largely irrelevant) material from other sites. You can post links and excerpts, but entirely reprinting articles is bad form and generally considered a violation of copyright. Also, the question of the origin of the eye is off-topic. Can we return to the original question?

This sounds like ideas for an IDE as much as ideas for a programming languages. Systems like Visual Studio can already produce lists of available operations on a given object. Eclipse and IntelliJ can pull up method signatures and documentation as you type. You might explore these in more detail to see what is already available.

You talk about an online library of available code and libraries. How is this different from, say, Python's libraries available through PyPI, Go's Dashboard of libraries, Common Lisp's Quicklisp, Ruby's Gems, Chicken Scheme's Eggs, Perl's CPAN, R's CRAN, or any of the other bajillion package distribution systems for different programming languages? In general I'd be interested to see you compare your ideas to what exists and describe why you made the choices you did.

That's not PHP code; it's HTML. method="post" describes how the information in the form will be sent to the server. You can see details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POST_%28HTTP%29 action="" tells the browser where to submit the form contents. When you press the submit button, the browser makes an HTTP request to the link provided in action= containing the form data.

David Levy, please stop being obnoxious to people trying to have a discussion with you. We don't tolerate this behavior here. In any case, a star leaving its own tidal habitable zone is like the Earth escaping the Earth's own gravity. It doesn't make sense.

What is the derivative of [math](x-2)[/math]? Do it in parts. The derivative of x is 1, the derivative of -2 is 0. So the derivative is 1 + 0 = 1.

The formula for the derivative of [math]uv[/math] says to find [math]u'v + v'u[/math]. So the 1s come from taking the derivative of each part -- the derivatives of [math](x+4)[/math] and [math](x-2)[/math] are both 1, yes?

Could you be more specific? What happens in the last step that confuses you? It would indeed be easier at the start to multiply things out, but often times you can't do that -- what if [math]f(x) = x\sin x[/math] or [math]f(x) = x e^x[/math]?

I should point out that "elevated radiation levels" is a very unspecific descriptor; my dorm room has gamma radiation levels three times higher than levels I've measured elsewhere, simply because the building is made of concrete. Background radiation varies by a great deal naturally.

My professor's response was essentially "I don't know what Brian Cox is talking about", incidentally.

alpha2cen, you have been repeatedly warned not to hijack threads with your own speculations. Please review SFN rule 10 if you'd like. Keep your speculations in the appropriate section; otherwise, we will be forced to suspend your account. (Again.)

My quantum mechanics professor requires us to submit a question after every class to prove that we were in attendance. I've submitted Cox's interpretation of the Pauli exclusion principle as mine. I'll let you know if I get an answer.

I don't think there's an easy way to do that through an app, since we've modified the login system to use your account on SFN instead of WordPress accounts. I might be able to give you a separate WordPress account which can post to your blog, if you'd like.