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bio website stackexchange.com/users/…
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I'm a 16 year old from the UK whose learning my way around the programming world. Interested in physics, electronics and IT as well. My aim in life to get somewhere in programming or become an astrophysicist, and live into 2100.

Currently making an iPad app for stackexchange sites, which intenses to be part of the learning process only as I dont have an iPad. But now is getting closer to becoming a complete app, pushing me to save up for an iPad.


Sep
22
awarded  Enthusiast
Sep
22
comment more styling info on stackauth
If I wanted to copy the look and feel of the site I'd need a lot more than the colour of a selected button
Sep
22
comment more styling info on stackauth
It's just that a favicon would really not fit in that well, I guess I could just get the colour manually as it's only a 50x25px ish rectangle that I want to colour in, If my app looks to official you could just remove the API key, blocking the app till I change it, if I was a difficult person.
Sep
21
asked more styling info on stackauth
Sep
20
comment Rather than remove site from /sites set status close, at least temporarily
But stackusers.com isn't continually checking the API is it?
Sep
19
comment Rather than remove site from /sites set status close, at least temporarily
Right i didn't really understand what you just said, but effectively it's easier for sites to miss out a site than it is to get a state variable wrong? As it's easier to miss something out than to return the wrong value. I have not much idea of trnasient and salient mean or about the example you gave hut that's more for kevin I guess.
Sep
19
comment Rather than remove site from /sites set status close, at least temporarily
Errm, I'd thought it was more important to let the user know that a site has been closed. The user thinks WhTF is gadgets? At least if there was site status=closed for a few weeks (or w/e) an app could have banner (etc) saying that gadgets has been closed.
Sep
19
accepted Delay from editing question to seeing the edit in API
Sep
19
comment Delay from editing question to seeing the edit in API
Thought it would be something like this, just found it a bit strange that the API was ahead of the sites and then behind the sites.
Sep
18
asked Delay from editing question to seeing the edit in API
Sep
18
comment How can I see the next page of favorites using the SO API?
if you read the link I gave first you'd see it is 1 to 100 inclusive
Sep
18
revised How can I see the next page of favorites using the SO API?
added 5 characters in body; added 10 characters in body
Sep
18
answered How can I see the next page of favorites using the SO API?
Sep
11
answered Posting questions and answers via API
Sep
10
comment iStack for iPad
sorry, I won't do it again :)
Sep
9
asked iStack for iPad
Sep
5
comment Central Login place
You mean people don't have to login, but surely that means they can only log in from the computer where they created the account? And isn't that ver fragile? With objective-c on iOS it is easy to run javascript on a UIwebView, I've just done and "created" a login page which is the right size. Sure I guess there will be some people with different open ids on different sites, but the majority will use one surely as that's why openID exists
Sep
5
comment StackAuth feature requests
Or rather, like there's /users on normal api sites which list all the users and then theres /users/{id}, on the stackauth there could be sites/{state}
Sep
5
comment StackAuth feature requests
But if you want to remove all the beta sites, then it would be much easier to remove all the sites whose states contain "beta", rather than checking upon each meta whether it's parent site (which as you said could be easier) is in beta and then removing it. Couldn't each normal site have a meta_site (or sub_site) property which is an array, and the array contains what the meta sites currntly do. So in the list of sites you don't get the meta sites at all. The meta sites aren't just linked to the parent, but actaully inside the parent.
Sep
5
comment Central Login place
Sorry when i said password above I meant OpenID, Surely a webpage can created with a the simple login buttons (etc) of stacksite (which can then be styled/moved by javascript etc), and it just returns what the stackAuth/users/{id}/association does.