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I noticed that sometimes my code gets highlighted in different colors when rendered.   What is syntax highlighting? How does it work? Why isn't my code being highlighted correctly? How do I report a bug or request a new language? How do I use syntax highlighting? What languages are currently available on Stack Exchange? The message that appears in the reputation tab of a user's profile when they gain or lose reputation due votes disappearing when another user is deleted is simply:     user was removed   This message is confusing and unhelpful. Below are comments that demonstrate this confusion, . I don't have any quotes from the users who could not find it and remained confused.  There is , and . However, the message has not been changed.  I know that in the past the developers have been reluctant to direct users to meta in some situations, such as question bans, because it may cause users to post here appropriately. That does not seem to apply to this case. This is not typically a case of ""; most of us have probably seen the message at some point.  Why is this message vague and unlinked? What negative behaviour does this confusion mitigate?       My first interpretation was that I was the user who was removed!        I just simply wished the explanation on the reputation page was better. Seems like I shouldn't have had to come to the meta section to figure this out.        It must be better to show "User  was removed". For a moment I just thought that I was removed :-(        the information should be better. I lost 10 points yesterday by "user removed" and assumed that I was the one being removed, leaving me wondering why and feeling somewhat embarrassed.         The recalc policy is fine. But the red mark and "user was removed" looks cryptic and unnecessarily negative--especially since the only user name mentioned on a profile is one's own. So the natural impulse is to bind "user" to the account you're looking at. (It was jarring to me and I could tell what it meant, but still this could be clearer.) I agree that orange is better than red and ideally all of these things would have hyperlinks to a help page (or at least a meta post) explaining what the deal is.        +1 (to HostileFork) for the idea of linking to an explanation of 'User was removed'. It just took me 10+ minutes to find this particular thread and read through, when I could have simply clicked through! I would also like a little more info on why user was removed (abuse, friend upvotes, rules, etc) , as that could help educate the community as a whole on what behaviors to report.        I could care less about the rep gain or loss, but when you have a loss it is a scary message without context. I honestly thought for a moment that my account had been inhibited in some way. No, it didn't say "Your account was removed." Still, there is that moment of "what did I do wrong?" which seems silly to cause simply by not posting a few extra words. A clearer "A user who voted on your posts was removed along with reputation changes they caused" would have gone a long way to not cause me to question my participation in the review queues as of late.         My problem is that the message "user has been removed" is not a clickable link like the other messages - so I had to search meta to discover this question to find out what it meant. Steam Install Error on 14.04 Ubuntu 64bit Give an example about limits: $\lim\limits_{x\to0}f(x^{2})$ exists but $\lim\limits_{x\to0}f(x)$ does not. In addition to the .tex and .dvi or .pdf files, TeX/LaTeX/ConTeXt produces and uses lots of other files. What do they do? Which ones are used to create the document and which ones are automatically created by the compiler. What files can I safely delete? Windows Metro apps have wrong icon in search UI Drawing on an image with TikZ What are valid values for the id attribute in HTML? I'm a teacher and I teach at/in school OR at/in a school There are a lot of posts on this topic, but I can't find any answers to my question.  I came across the following two definitions of 'school':        [uncountable] (used without the or a) the process of learning in a   school; the time during your life when you go to a school (British   English)   [uncountable] (used without the or a) the time during the day when   children are working in a school      Source:   I know there are better ways to convey the message, but which sentence would a teacher utter if he was a school teacher teaching students, adults, etc.? What about a janitor, director, and secretary?     I teach at/in school OR I teach at/in a school   The above definitions concern students, and not working individuals like teachers or janitors.  I would appreciate if you also stated whether you're American, Canadian, British, etc. Is there a way to have a 64 bit enum in C++?  Whilst refactoring some code I came across bunch of #defines which would be better as an enum, but being greater than 32 bit causes the compiler to error.  For some reason I thought the following might work:  enum MY_ENUM : unsigned __int64   {       LARGE_VALUE = 0x1000000000000000,   }; I have an Samsung Galaxy S3 Neo.  Bus 002 Device 042: ID 04e8:6860 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd GT-I9100 Phone [Galaxy S II], GT-I9300 Phone [Galaxy S III], GT-P7500 [Galaxy Tab 10.1]   The keyboard &amp; language setting is português.  I today installed Android Device Manager and to test it's functionality I locked the phone with the password: "abcd" (4 letters were required).  After entering the password and confirming with the "OK" button of my keyboard, the phone showed me that the password is wrong. "Senha incorreta".  I reset the password after some tries to "123456" and the phone reloaded the lock screen. Again the password showed up to be wrong. I also tried the alphabetic password: "abcdefg" - same error.  I changed the language of my Google account from German to Portuguese and reset the password to "123456" again and I tried to really reboot my phone and unlock the SIM card again. But anyways I can not get through my lock of the Android Device Manager.  I tried to enter the password 35 times wrong with hope to get a chance to authenticate with my Google Account login.  I also tried to connect the phone with adb but it does not show up in this state with:  adb devices   So what can I do to get access to my phone again? I know that for any nonzero $x,y\in\mathbf{R}$,  $$ax^2+by^2+cxy &gt; 0,$$  where $a,b,c\in\mathbf{R}$. What can I deduce about $a$, $b$, and $c$?    For example, letting $x=1$ and $y=0$, I know that $\boxed{a&gt;0}$. Letting $x=0$ and $y=1$, I know that $\boxed{b&gt;0}$. Letting $x=y=1$, I know that $\boxed{c&gt;-(a+b)}$.  What else can I deduce about $a$, $b$, and $c$? How will I know when it's time to stop looking? (Is that last question even answerable?) Italian keyboard: entering tilde (~) and backtick (`) characters without changing keyboard layout Convergence of cos, sin, tan functions In Radian mode, continually pressing the $\cos$ function of a number causes the result to converge to $x=0.739085133$, a fixed point of $\cos(x)$. Repeating this behavior with the $\sin$ function causes the result to converge to $x=0$, a fixed point of $\sin(x)$.   What happens if this is done using the tan function? It seems that $x=0$ is a repelling fixed point with no convergence in this case.  What would be the best way to explain these results mathematically? How to execute a JavaScript function when I have its name as a string Dirac delta function as a limit of sinc function Centering in tabularx and X columns How can I center the column when using X in tabularx environment like in this example?  \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{@{}lXXXXX@{}}  1 &amp; 2 &amp; 3 &amp; 4 &amp; 5 \\    \end{tabularx} Does a MCMC fulfilling detailed balance yields a stationary distribution? I guess I understand the equation of the detailed balance condition, which states that for transition probability $q$ and stationary distribution $\pi$, a Markov Chain satisfies detailed balance if $$q(x|y)\pi(y)=q(y|x)\pi(x),$$  this makes more sense to me if I restate it as:   $$\frac{q(x|y)}{q(y|x)}= \frac{\pi(x)}{\pi(y)}. $$  Basically, the probability of transition from state $x$ to state $y$ should be proportional to the ratio of their probability densities. IndentationError: unindent does not match any outer indentation level When I compile the Python code below, I get      IndentationError: unindent does not match any outer indentation level     import sys  def Factorial(n): # Return factorial     result = 1     for i in range (1,n):         result = result * i     print "factorial is ",result     return result   Why? Could someone give an example of a ‘very’ discontinuous derivative? I myself can only come up with examples where the derivative is discontinuous at only one point. I am assuming the function is real-valued and defined on a bounded interval.