Conrad Frix

New York, NY

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Age: 38

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Currently working in the financial services industry as a SQL/C# hack.

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feature-request badges badge-progress asked Nov 14 '11 at 16:36

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43 votes

Should actions taken by a user who later becomes a moderator be considered a moderator action?

discussion moderation asked Apr 3 at 1:28

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30 votes

Why are accepted answers immune from Flagging link-only answers as Not an Answer?

discussion declined-flags not-an-answer answer-quality link-only-answers asked Jun 13 '12 at 23:02

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27 votes

Does it make sense that migrated questions doubles your “Network Reputation”?

feature-request status-completed reputation migrated-questions network-profile asked Mar 7 '12 at 22:46

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21 votes

Should I edit posts to pull in the code from jsFiddle?

discussion editing jsfiddle asked Dec 6 '11 at 22:44

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17 votes

Is it acceptable to ask a user a question by editing one of their posts?

discussion suggested-edits faq-proposed asked Sep 6 '11 at 16:22

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16 votes

What's the total rep cap limit on Suggested Edits?

bug status-completed suggested-edits asked Dec 20 '11 at 21:43

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14 votes

How do you avoid being a “blowhard”?

personality asked Sep 14 '10 at 4:33

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13 votes

Why didn't flagging comments affect my Flagging Summary or Flag Weight

support flag-weight flagging-comments asked Jul 27 '11 at 15:11

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13 votes

Cumulative users tooltip counts users incorrectly, cooks the books

bug status-completed reputation-leagues asked Apr 4 '12 at 21:55

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What popular “best practices” are not always best, and why?

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How to deal with the “programming blowhard”?

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Stack Overflow has too many “too localised” new questions

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What's the best way to explain branching (of source code) to a client?

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Why do .NET modules separate module file names from namespaces?

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Opposite of IN operator in SQL

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What syntax element do you love most in a programming language you use frequently?

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agree/disagree button on meta or upvote/downvote effects based on tags

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order by descending date - month, day and year

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Is it possible to create an “Island of Isolation” scenario in .NET?

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Why is Windows registry needed?

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Why did Stack Exchange use C#?

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Please hide “serial upvoting reversed” entries in the public reputation history

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Is there an actual “accept ALL the suggested edits” problem?

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What is the ideal mix of senior to junior developers on a team?

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Where to go for developer support specific to Android Market policies

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Does a famous name on an answer gain more upvotes than a stranger?

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How to resize a button depending on its text

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Why can't I use the as keyword for a struct?

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Selecting COUNT from different criteria on a table

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Day to answer un-answered questions

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Search just code

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How to get a list of highest-voted answers?

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Should we reject additions of a description on a code only answer?

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SQL query for finding records where count > 1

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Is it inappropriate to post decompiled code from the .NET BCL?

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“Abusing” bounties for unlimited profit

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Automatically delete old closed questions, regardless of question score

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I submitted a good question, just not a good fit for stackoverflow, I was told it would be migrated, but it was just removed. Can someone tell me why?

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Why keep the delete button visible

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