If you check my  you will notice that I finally scored over 100 points on the C tag, and that was a couple of hours ago.   I understand that is the only requirement to earn a bronze C tag badge. Am I wrong?   If not, how long do I have to wait to be awarded with the badge?  Thank you.
Do badges get calculated in real time, or do they get calculated by an external service? How long does it take for a badge to be awarded, once its requirements are met?  Does Stack Overflow use any external services to do things, like maintenance, e-mailing or badge calculation?
using variable length argument in scala Is it possible for a physical object to have an irrational length? Is there a difference between SWAP and Cache memory? I installed the indicator-multiload 0.2-0ubuntu1 from the software center. (It's very similar to the gnome panel indicator showing memory and CPU graphs)  When I click on the Unity panel which shows the little memory graph, it says ;  Mem :1.451 GB   Cache: 2.581.  This is also represented in the color graph.  However, when I load the System Monitor, SWAP is at a flat 0.  Is this normal, or could there be a bug in either the System Monitor or Panel Indicator? Name of the book/series based on magicians who tap into computer grid? Simple animation in WinForms Imagine you want to animate some object on a WinForm. You setup a timer to update the state or model, and override the paint event of the Form. But from there, what's the best way to continually repaint the Form for the animation?   Invalidate the Form as soon as you are done drawing? Setup a second timer and invalidate the form on a regular interval? Perhaps there is a common pattern for this thing? Are there any useful .NET classes to help out?   Each time I need to do this I discover a new method with a new drawback. What are the experiences and recommendations from the SO community? How can I restore configuration files? $|p(z)| \leq M$ for $|z| \leq 1$ Show that $|p(z)| \leq M|z|^n$ for $|z| \geq 1$ Can we have a notification when the answer to any of my question got edited? If a user asked a question and got an answer which was not helpful.  After sometime the answerer edits the answer with some good content. How the OP will get to know that?  Is it necessary to add comment check my edited answer?  We can say that the OP should refresh the page to find the helpful answer.  Consider if the OP finds the answer as helpful and accepted that. After sometime if the answerer/anyother user edit the answer to change the content which may not solve the issue.   How will it be notified to OP?  currently we are notifying the OP when there is any comment to the queation or any new answers or any comments with the name of OP with @ to any answer.  This will lead the future visitors to confuse and reduce the quality of post.  Can we have a notification to the original poster when the answer to any of his/her question got edited? if there are 4 different tables and 18 people, how many ways can the people be seated to have at least 4 in each table? For example with 15 people at 3 different tables each seating 5 people, is the number of combinations of seating equal to: $$\binom{15}5\binom{10}5(4!)^3$$ ArcPy importing error after setting path? This questions has been asked before too and I did go through most of the suggestions. Things I have tried so far: setting up correct  path variable environment, installing anaconda 32 bits, python 2.7, or even switching to python 2.7 in cmd while initially using Anaconda 3 , adding Desktop 10.4.pth file with  following path.  C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\Desktop10.4\bin C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\Desktop10.4\ArcPy C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\Desktop10.4\ArcToolBox\Scripts   I also added those paths in environment variable   These suggestions help me to reduce the error. But Now I am getting a different error. Looks like python can find arcpy but missing another package.  Getting this error while trying to import arcpy in python 3.6.   File "C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\Desktop10.4\ArcPy\arcpy\__init__.py", line 22, in &lt;module&gt;     from arcpy.geoprocessing import gp    File "C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\Desktop10.4\ArcPy\arcpy\geoprocessing\__init__.py", line 14, in &lt;module&gt;     from _base import *  ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_base'   Any suggestions? What should a rational person accept as a miracle? So...as what do we close too localized questions now? So we got  which works very well and is very nice and handy. But there is one question left, as what do we close ?  It actually helps , "too localized" was removed because it was misused most of the time:     5(A). "Too Localized" is no longer necessary since the specific   off-topic reasons now address its main use case. (new)      Too Localized was, by far, the most misused close reason in our   surveys, with both Community Managers and Moderators deeming over 50%   of randomly sampled TL closures to not have merited closure (including   on SO).      Today, TL is used helpfully on code dump questions on SO, but the new   OT reasons are where this is now correctly addressed. SO can use   "Large blocks of code with requests for debugging without meaningful   supporting info" as a specific OT reason.   But the new dialog leaves us with only four options:        Programming questions are off-topic on Meta Stack Overflow.   This question does not appear to seek input and discussion from the community. If you have encountered a problem on one of our sites, please describe it in detail.   Changes to the system or to the circumstances affecting the asker have rendered it obsolete. If you encounter a similar problem, please post a new question.   Other (add a comment explaining what is wrong)      Only the "other" reason does very well fit on "too localized" questions now, doe we close it with that? Prove that $\text{rank}(X^TX)=\text{rank}(X)$ Prove, for real $X$, that $\text{rank}(X^TX)=\text{rank}(X)$.  Could anyone please help me with this problem? I've tried to use full-rank factorization and rank-related theorems mentioned in my book but still failed to solve this. I am learning linear algebra by myself and my book has no solutions manual so I find it really hard to get used to solve linear algebra problems.    Many thanks in advance for your help! After closing paint the last used settings went back to default. I want them to be saved. Like the selected Brush-Tool, Color, Line-strength, etc.  Either after every usage or I define one I use most. Maybe through the registry or by start parameters? After offering a bounty to , I realize that I cannot comment on the question because I no longer have the required reputation. Is it possible to change this behavior, so that the bounty owner can comment only on the post with the bounty irrespective of their reputation? While bounty owners are told that they'll lose privileges at the time they place a bounty, it makes sense to allow them to interact with potential answerers/commentators to help solve the problem, or at least provide additional information. Why do shields in Star Trek "wear out"? Why does a bigger sensor lead to a shallower depth of field? Do I cast the result of malloc? In , someone suggested in a  that I should not cast the result of malloc. i.e., I should do this: int *sieve = malloc(sizeof(int) * length);  rather than: int *sieve = (int *) malloc(sizeof(int) * length);  Why would this be the case? Warning: preg_replace(): Unknown modifier How to scp in Python?