Indicates that a feature request has been implemented, a bug has been fixed, or another type of request has been processed.
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LaTeX math support ?
I'm hoping we can get the same math support that other SE sites (math.SE in particular) are making use of. Does anyone know how to enable this ?
Here's a test to see if the current system works by ...
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7answers
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Is it ok to ask about the correctness of preprints on crank-friendly topics?
See this question in which someone asked for an update on the status of an arxiv preprint on graph isomorphism. It was downvoted, with a comment "Are this kind of discussions on-topic here? I think ...
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1answer
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Answers with low score are no longer shown in gray text
During the beta, answers with low score (score −3 or below if I remember correctly) were shown in gray text, but they are no longer shown in gray.
I guess that this change is unintentional, judging ...
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4answers
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Policy: Questions about topic for research project
This policy is now in effect, with 13 votes in favor and 2 against. In addition, three of the amendments suggested in comments passed as well. The new policy on 'topic of research' questions is as ...
11
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0answers
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Computer Science Stack Exchange
Update:
The Computer Science - Stack Exchange has entered public beta.
The Computer Science proposal is almost there and only needs 12 more commitments. You should commit soon if you are ...
10
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2answers
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Add a link to the community blog
This is a feature request to the Stack Exchange engine.
Currently the top page of the site does not contain a link to the community blog. I think that it should.
I expected that the link labeled ...
10
votes
1answer
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Merge [open-question] to [open-problem]
Please merge [open-question] to [open-problem].
Edit: The tag synonym has been created but we need 4 upvotes for moderators to merge tags according to the current procedure. If you like this ...
9
votes
1answer
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“Your votes are too old to be changed”
Yesterday I've casted my 1st choice vote. Today I was about to cast my 2nd choice vote, but the system doesn't allow me to do so and says "Your votes are too old to be changed".
This is weird. Of ...
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votes
3answers
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Latex math and “show N more comments”
If I click the "show N more comments" link (in any question or answer with more than 5 (?) comments), my Firefox displays the comments without MathJax rendering.
I can easily guess why this happens, ...
7
votes
1answer
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tags: “fourier” vs “fourier-analysis”
We have two tags that seem to mean the same thing. Should we merge them? If yes, what should be the main tag?
fourier
fourier-analysis
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votes
1answer
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Link rel-alternate for blog feed
This is a question asked in a blog comment by David Eppstein.
Is there a reason for not having a “link rel=alternate” pointer to the feed? Yes, there’s a “Subscribe via RSS” link on the page, ...
7
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0answers
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Merge [np-completeness] to [np-hardness]?
Currently 50 questions are tagged as [np-completeness] and 20 questions as [np-hardness]. Among them, 7 questions are tagged as both.
I think that the difference of these two tags is too subtle for ...
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votes
2answers
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Nomination statement is grayed out after re-nomination
According to Lev Reyzin, he nominated himself as a moderator, canceled the nomination, and re-nominated himself (see the comment here). On the election page, his statement is grayed out, and there is ...
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votes
3answers
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Compiler Design and PL Theory questions ?
This question on the main site is stated as being well within the realm of programming language theory. However, it has a -2 score and votes to close. Is it within scope, and in general are we to ...
6
votes
1answer
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Oddities in the election system message
I am not sure if moderators can change the system message calling for voting, but if possible, please consider changing the current message:
Cast your final vote in the Theoretical Computer ...
6
votes
1answer
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Shouldn't the [artificial-intelligence] tag be top level?
It's an arXiv classification. Shouldn't artificial-intelligence be made a synonym of ai.artificial-intelligence?
Update. Note that ai.artificial-intelligence exceeds the 25 character limit for tags, ...
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4answers
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LaTeX support in community blog
Not sure if this should be separate from the other blog-related threads. I started fooling around with the new blog and drafting a post. However, I can't seem to get LaTeX to work... I am not an ...
4
votes
1answer
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Retagging recursion-theory to computability?
It seems worth adding recursion-theory as a synonym for computability.
Is there support for this?
(I don't meet the requirements to vote for this myself.)
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votes
3answers
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Reposted questions [closed]
Update: This policy is now in effect, and the question will be closed. The proposer should update the FAQ accordingly.
This is a policy question. The proposed policy in the question (or ...
4
votes
1answer
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Community promotion ads
This is in relation to this post by Robert Cartaino. We'd like to request a meta post on community promotion ads.
4
votes
1answer
146 views
Make tags cs.fl.formal-languages and formal-language-theory synonyms of fl.formal-languages
Currently the tag formal-language-theory is a synonym for the tag cs.fl.formal-languages, but the tag actually used for questions in formal language theory is fl.formal-languages. Therefore, please ...
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0answers
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Proposal: Rename the tag [dynamic] to [dynamic-algorithms]
I propose to rename the tag dynamic (currently 8 questions) to dynamic-algorithms (currently nonexistent), because the questions with the tag are really about dynamic algorithms, that is, algorithms ...
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0answers
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Deleting answers to clearly off-topic questions after they get closed
Update (May 6, 2011): This policy received 8 upvotes and 4 down votes and is now in effect.
This is a policy question. The proposed policy in the question (or answers) will be adopted in the ...
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0answers
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4
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0answers
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RETAG: distributed-systems -> dc.distributed-comp
Now it should be ok to merge distributed-systems -> dc.distributed-comp.
Edit: This has got so far only 1 supporting vote, and according to our policy, the threshold is 4 votes before the ...
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votes
2answers
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[co.combinatorics] and [dm.discrete-mathematics] tags
I don't know the difference between theses two tags.
Should we combine them or keep both of them? And which one should we keep in the case we decide to combine them?
co.combinatorics is a math tag, ...
3
votes
1answer
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The number of questions tagged as [np-hardness]
The tags page says “np-hardness × 70,” but the list of questions shows only 64.
3
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1answer
144 views
Font size of “Answers” in personal pages
First of all we are happy to see that TCS Stack Exchange is launched!! And again many thanks to Jin for making such a high-quality design, it is awesome!!
I found out that the font size of the titles ...
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2answers
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RETAG: All cs.XYZ.ABC to XYZ.ABC
I think this proposal has enough support here. Since this is the template for requesting RETAGs, I thought I'll just make this thread for all of them.
While we're at it, can we also do ...
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1answer
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RETAG: games <-> puzzles ?
We have one post tagged with games, and 4 tagged with puzzles. Do we need two separate tags for them ?
Proposal: RETAG the one games-tagged post (on international draughts) as puzzles.
I'd create a ...
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votes
5answers
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Replacing the [advice] tag
In the past the [advice] tag has been used for requesting advice (i.e. confused with [advice-request] tag).
Peter suggested replacing [advice] with some other tag. ...
2
votes
1answer
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Problem with mathjax + bmatrix?
I was trying to edit this question to get the rendering of arrays working. For some reason bmatrix is not being rendered correctly, even though I know it works (for example) on tex.SE. Unfortunately, ...
2
votes
1answer
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citation link for questions and answers
I'm sure everybody is familiar with mathoverflow. But do you know that they have for each question and answer a "cite" link that opens up a window with a bibtex citation? I'm using them right now and ...
2
votes
1answer
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Layout bug: tags in text, line spacing
Tags in text cause uneven line spacing. Example (there is too much space below the line with the tag):
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut ...
2
votes
1answer
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Questions with both an interesting tag and an ignored tag are shown strangely in Firefox
When I open the top page in Firefox 3.6.12 or Firefox 4.0 Beta 7 on Windows 7, a question with both an interesting tag and an ignored tag is shown in a strange way; it seems that something is wrong ...
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votes
1answer
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Account association bug
I recently opened an account over at http://programmers.stackexchange.com/. I associated my account there with my account here. I then opened CStheory again, and I got a red banner saying "You've ...
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0answers
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migration problem
When I tried to migrate the following question to CS.SE the question got closed as off-topic, got locked by community, but was not migrated.
So is a relational database just a >1 dimensional ...
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vote
1answer
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View source function independent of user rating, so that can learn from others
Dear All
Many users wish that questions and answers are typeset in
LaTeX. There is some hurdle for users that don't use LaTeX
very often.
Now I observed my self to use the edit function on my old
...
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vote
1answer
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Two minor issues with the look of vote counts and vote icons
I know I am being picky, but I realized two glitches in the vote count. Both are minor, but anyway:
The vote count appears lower than the center of the upvote icon and the downvote icon. This may ...
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vote
1answer
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Lower part of characters is clipped in the “interesting tag” textbox
Jin, thank you for the great work. I like the new design.
I found a (very) minor issue in the “interesting tag” textbox. It is not a usability issue. I am not sure if it is worth fixing, but ...
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vote
0answers
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Can someone migrate [specific question on main]?
Can someone migrate this question to either cs.stackexchange or stackoverflow?
10 or so hours ago I flagged it as off topic because I wasn't allowed
to suggest cs.stackexchange as a migration ...
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vote
0answers
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Retag Request: [queuing-theory] --> [queueing-theory]
I'm proposing a retag as: [queuing-theory] --> [queueing-theory]. You can vote for it here:
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vote
0answers
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Math Mode Breaks When Showing All Comments [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Latex math and “show N more comments”
Math mode works fine -- if slow -- for me until I click on "show more comments"; then, all renderings in this comment ...
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vote
1answer
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Merge game-theory and cs.gt.game-theory to gt.game-theory
Please merge the tags [game-theory] and [cs.gt.game-theory] into a tag [gt.game-theory], which does not currently exist.
Related: ...
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1answer
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RETAG: cs.ds.data-structures to ds.data-structures-algorithms
This is a proposal to
retag cs.ds.data-structures as ds.data-structures-algorithms
rename algorithms as a tag synonym of ds.data-structures-algorithms
Comments ?
as an aside, maybe this should be ...
