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Welcome aboard! I founded RC, and still administer it. (Though I get a lot of help from the "bureaucrats" around here.) Check out the village pump and the "Recent Changes" RSS feed. That's how I keep up to speed. If you have any suggestions, mention it on a talk page somewhere (The Pump doesn't get as much traffic as I'd like.), and people will start chiming in. The only time I remember down a suggestion from a user, I turned out to be wrong. So don't be shy. :-) --[[User:Short Circuit|Short Circuit]] 18:55, 30 October 2007 (MDT)

You probably ought to sign comments with <nowiki>--~~~~</nowiki>. That'll come out something like this: --[[User:Short Circuit|Short Circuit]] 20:07, 14 November 2007 (MST)

WITCHCRAFT! --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 22:09, 14 November 2007 (MST)

Where's the note on your page about how you live in the RC power-apartment? Highest concentration of RC members in any domicile, pretty sure.--[[User:Slawmaster|Slawmaster]] 04:43, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi I joined your website. You couldn't be a normal guy who likes football.
--[[User:singheyjude|singheyjude]] 19:42, 23 June 2008 (EST)

== Language implementations ==

Many of the languages only have one implementation (LotusScript for example) or are themselves implementations of another language (ActionScript vs JavaScript). It would be nice for the language template to only optionally link to the category in that case. Or at least not necessarily fill in the implementation category for every language unless a specific implementation is mentioned in an example. --[[User:IanOsgood|IanOsgood]] 21:56, 29 November 2007 (MST)
:I was just setting everything up. I don't know enough about all of the languages to figure out which ones actually have implementations. I figured something may happen like with RCBF and it'd be nice to have the page already made. --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 22:06, 29 November 2007 (MST)

==Operating Systems==
1. Debian's package manager is called dpkg. APT provides an interface to that, and synaptic provides an interface to APT.

2. You should get an account on the RIT Plan 9 system so you can add that to your list.--[[User:Slawmaster|Slawmaster]] 20:27, 28 January 2008 (MST)

==Brainf***==
So you think knowing all the commands makes you skilled? Let' see you implement a quicksort or a bubblesort. Heck...Even swap() that would safely work in an arbitrary position in an array would be interesting. :-D --[[User:Short Circuit|Short Circuit]] 23:02, 7 March 2008 (MST)


==blog==
Would you be interested in a recurring responsibility? I'd like someone to post announcements of new tasks in the Rosetta Code blog, and you're the first person who comes to mind. I'll set up a username and password for you, if you're interested. --[[User:Short Circuit|Short Circuit]] 23:02, 27 March 2008 (MDT)
:I think I can handle that. Let me know if there's any special way you want me to do things. --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 06:14, 28 March 2008 (MDT)

What happened? you're late! :P
:I know. I apologize to my loyal readers. I've been on break for a few weeks and it's difficult to do the posts and spend time with family and friends. Also, while I'm working it's tough. I think the coming blog posts will only showcase more prominent activity (big pushes or discussions), new tasks and languages, and a suggestion for activity. It takes a while to summarize a week and now that I only have my nights and weekends to do my errands, my time is being stretched thin. I will likely be back to the same old posts when classes start up again in March. Please bear with me until then. --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 01:19, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

== [[Language Comparison Table]] ==

Dude! That is an excellent addition to Rosetta Code! Well done! You should link it from the front page or sidebar. (If we had "Code stars", I'd give you one.) --[[User:IanOsgood|IanOsgood]] 16:41, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

== [[Monty Hall simulation]] results ==
Hi, Could you show sample results from running your program please, thanks. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 15:18, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

== [[Data_Munging#Example_Data:_readings.txt]] ==
Could someone help by uploading the data file and leaving just the embedded zip on RC please. Thanks. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 10:17, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
:I'm working on it. Right now the site only allows images to be uploaded (no zips or txts). I'll talk to Short Circuit and see if we can change that. --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 19:50, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
::I've uploaded it and modified the task. --[[User:Short Circuit|Short Circuit]] 22:02, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
My thanks. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 02:42, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

==case problems==
Don't fix the case problems...That needs to be fixed server-side, as people *will* be using various cases when they add examples.

==View spike==
Actually, that view spike might have been from when I posted a link to a recent changes log item to #haskell on Freenode, trying to find out if I should revert it or not. Immediately following the post, people started mentioning that the site was running slow. I checked the server, and it was running an instantaneous load average of 0.46. It made me realize that RC is not in a good position to get Slashdotted again. And it doesn't help that I keep invalidating all the caches every time I add an extension or change a MediaWiki setting. And we're likely to see more of that, as I created [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RedditTag an extension] to allow reddit buttons to be added to pages, and added it to [[Template:Task]]... --[[User:Short Circuit|Short Circuit]] 09:49, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

== Tag stuff ==

I'm beginning to think I shouldn't do any sort of mass-edits. I just make more work for ''you''. I clicked Preview every time, I swear! :-P Still, a complete switchover to the '''lang''' tags would be good, IMO, whether or not we have support for all of the languages in question. Since all of the code between those tags goes through a specific code path I can easily modify, there are a bunch of interesting things I can do. I'm thinking of adding "download this code" and "copy this code to clipboard" buttons, for example, and possibly dumping the code into another database table where I can come up with interesting ways to package and analyze it.--[[User:Short Circuit|Short Circuit]] 17:05, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
:Don't worry about those little mistakes. The "copy this code" button would be cool. Maybe not the "download this code" button. There are a lot of incomplete examples and I think mostly people would just want to copy a line or a method into their editor to change it for what they need rather than download the whole program. Though it might be nice for the project level tasks. Maybe that one could be added explicitly by the person who writes the example.

:You should count the number of times the word "foo" is used in examples. That'd be a fun statistic. --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 17:13, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

==Processor==
I bought a Phenom 9650 several months ago when I built my current desktop. Really glad I did...It's a heck of a lot cheaper than Intel quad-core parts, even if it doesn't perform quite as well. I also turned out lucky in that I will very likely be able to swap it out for a Phenom II part eventually, when I finally feel the urge to upgrade. Oddly enough, though, I haven't yet found a task that truly taxes my CPU. I've got 8GB of RAM, so I've never really hit swap unless I forced the issue. Rather, my biggest performance issues come from Firefox, which does not seem to have been designed with multithreading as a serious possibility; It frequently becomes entirely unresponsive to input for several seconds at a time, and then hurriedly applies whatever input I'd provided, like there's some mutex or resource that even typing into this edit box has to wait on. --[[User:Short Circuit|Short Circuit]] 05:39, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

== [[JUnit]] ==

Thanks for doing the page on JUnit. I'd have done it, except I'm away from my books and stuck in a hotel where the network access is a little crappy (enough that doing web research is not preferred). —[[User:Dkf|Dkf]] 20:31, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

== Loop Structures ==

Ah, I see that page is no longer a task. Thanks for tidying that up. --[[User:Glennj|glennj]] 19:39, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
:A similar change is supposed to be going on in [[Array Initialization]] if you're looking for more fun work. Read the note on top of that page for directions. --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 19:45, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

==Template Question==
==Template Question==
Hello. I noticed a recent addition I made was tagged with the needs-review template. The needs-review template wording is rather strong, i.e. "may be incorrect". I had added my example to the category as needing attention because I had only solved half of the problem (the brute force side), not because my solution was incorrect. Is there a template other than needs-review that might be more apropos? [[User:Russell|Russell]] 22:04, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello. I noticed a recent addition I made was tagged with the needs-review template. The needs-review template wording is rather strong, i.e. "may be incorrect". I had added my example to the category as needing attention because I had only solved half of the problem (the brute force side), not because my solution was incorrect. Is there a template other than needs-review that might be more apropos? [[User:Russell|Russell]] 22:04, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
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I've recently added [[Template:Improve]] which might be relevant. --[[User:Kevin Reid|Kevin Reid]] 00:17, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
I've recently added [[Template:Improve]] which might be relevant. --[[User:Kevin Reid|Kevin Reid]] 00:17, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

== [[Sort_most_popular_programming_languages#Ruby]] ==

re: ''Use sol by lang rather than lang to get rid of "SQL Derivatives" and "Esoteric Languages"''. Interesting to note that the same number of languages is produced: "SVG" and "JSON" now appear instead. --[[User:Glennj|glennj]] 10:46, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
:I had noticed that too, but I don't know enough about the example to figure it out. I just went and investigated on the [[SVG]] page directly and noticed that it uses [[Template:Np language]] rather than the regular language template. So it still ends up in the Sol by cat, but stays out of the Programming Languages cat. Crazy stuff going on here. --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 15:38, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

== 99 bottles ==
I wonder if it might be better to just pull ''all'' implementations for Java/C++/(any lang with >1 implementation) to a separate page, instead of individual implementations. --[[User:Glennj|glennj]] 22:09, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
:It's still nice to have the regular ones side-by-side, but those obviously crazy/silly ones can go to other pages--especially if they're huge like those two that I moved. --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 22:12, 6 August 2009 (UTC)


== [[J/HouseStyle| J house style]], Oct 2009 ==
== [[J/HouseStyle| J house style]], Oct 2009 ==

Revision as of 15:18, 13 October 2009

Template Question

Hello. I noticed a recent addition I made was tagged with the needs-review template. The needs-review template wording is rather strong, i.e. "may be incorrect". I had added my example to the category as needing attention because I had only solved half of the problem (the brute force side), not because my solution was incorrect. Is there a template other than needs-review that might be more apropos? Russell 22:04, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Yeah I noticed that we actually have three similar templates and they're all pretty much as strong as the others:
I think we need to discuss these (I'll make a topic in the Village Pump in a bit). In any case, I don't think we should just be throwing things in "example needs review" categories without a very visible note on the actual example. --Mwn3d 22:52, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

I've recently added Template:Improve which might be relevant. --Kevin Reid 00:17, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

J house style, Oct 2009

Thanks for your help with creating the J house style sandbox. And sorry for the original improper location -- I couldn't work out how to create an appropriate subpage.

--DanBron 15:23, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

So the original page you made can be deleted then? I left it in case what I did was wrong. --Mwn3d 15:27, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
Yep. I would do it myself but I can't find a "delete" link. --DanBron 15:35, 12 October 2009 (UTC)