MaplePrimes - comments on Post, Badges updating

MaplePrimes - comments on Post, Badges updating http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/89129-Badges-Updating en-us 2026 Maplesoft, A Division of Waterloo Maple Inc. Maplesoft Document System Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:50:10 GMT Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:50:10 GMT The latest comments added to the Post, Badges updating http://www.mapleprimes.com/images/mapleprimeswhite.jpg MaplePrimes - comments on Post, Badges updating http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/89129-Badges-Updating I sure hope not! http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/89129-Badges-Updating?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:Badges updating:Comments#comment89174 Manual updating would be completely insane.  I know that it is fully automatic (but with a small delay) on the site where a lot of these features were copied from (<a href="http://www.stackoverflow.com">StackOverflow</a>). The latest comments added to the Post, Badges updating 89174 Mon, 07 Jun 2010 05:32:50 Z JacquesC JacquesC Exactly my thought http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/89129-Badges-Updating?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:Badges updating:Comments#comment89176 <a href="http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/89129-Badges-Updating#comment89174">@JacquesC</a>  Exactly my thought. If it's automatic - it is either buggy, or has more than 3 days delay (or both :). Alec The latest comments added to the Post, Badges updating 89176 Mon, 07 Jun 2010 05:46:49 Z Alec Mihailovs Alec Mihailovs Stack Overflow copiers http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/89129-Badges-Updating?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:Badges updating:Comments#comment89178 In general, with Stack Overflow being successful, mostly because of attracting a large community of programmers not concentrating on any specific topic, none of its copiers, concentrating on some specific topics were even close to that success AFAICT. In particular, the mathematics site is quite a disaster - not total, but close to that. Thus far, I got mixed feelings abot this v.2 of Mapleprimes. Most of old discussions got mixed up randomly -  replies are printed higher than the comments they are replying to and so on. I've suggested already to provide a copy of old Mapleprimes from a different URL - something like old.mapleprimes.com. That would make reading old posts much easier. In general, the navigation here seems to be more difficult than it used to be. On the other hand, some people stopping posting on Mapleprimes for a while, seem to be getting back. Glad to see you posting here, Jacques - I was getting quite bored last couple of weeks.  _______________ Alec Mihailovs, PhD Maplesoft Member The latest comments added to the Post, Badges updating 89178 Mon, 07 Jun 2010 06:19:59 Z Alec Mihailovs Alec Mihailovs Calculation of Badges http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/89129-Badges-Updating?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:Badges updating:Comments#comment89197 Badges are granted to users using an application automatically. Definitely not a manual process. However, the application is not currently set to run on an automatic schedule, so I need to manually run the application. I'll be setting the application to run automatically soon, it will run hourly so your badges will appear shortly after you earn them.  ____ William Spaetzel MaplePrimes Administrator Software Developer, Maplesoft  The latest comments added to the Post, Badges updating 89197 Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:31:11 Z Will Will StackOverflow and MathOverflow http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/89129-Badges-Updating?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:Badges updating:Comments#comment89386 Clearly this new version of primes has been highly influenced by StackOverflow.  Unfortunately, to my mind, not enough.  The badges do not show up beside your name, the responses do not influence your reputation, the home page is too cluttered, there kinds of sorting available are not as good, and so on. But I entirely disagree with you regarding MathOverflow.  In fact, I tend to spend most of my 'free' time on MathOverflow [because the people there have a lot to teach me!] and I find StackOverflow entirely boring.  Only once in a while does a vaguely interesting thread come up (like the one from Alan Kay), but by and large it is way too dominated by mainstrream languages.  The level of discussion on MathOverflow is hugely higher, and is exactly the level I am interested in.  I think I got bored with mapleprimes because the level of discussion had degenerated too much.  The latest comments added to the Post, Badges updating 89386 Wed, 09 Jun 2010 22:05:24 Z JacquesC JacquesC MathOverflow http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/89129-Badges-Updating?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:Badges updating:Comments#comment89412 That is certainly not only trivial stuff, just an active topic: "A ring such that all projectives are stably free but not all projectives are free?", http://mathoverflow.net/questions/27424/a-ring-such-that-all-projectives-are-stably-free-but-not-all-projectives-are-free Actually it is about the Grothendieck group, and the answer by Kumar (quite well known in commutative algebra) shows people you rarely can watch at sci.math. BTW: if remember correctly the 'classical' proof for his answer is via algebraic topology "Satz vom Igel" (do not know the English name) and the sphere in R^3, while he his citation is Swan, Annals and *very* deep. The latest comments added to the Post, Badges updating 89412 Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:09:17 Z Axel Vogt Axel Vogt