Does anyone actually have any other serious contenders? The only possible other consideration that I think can of is "Software Development". I think that "Software Engineering" is more in-your-face about expectations.
I don't think anyone reasonably thinks that we should keep Software Licensing questions. Especially since Open Source can answer those now, much better than we can.
Although "I work at Google, is it fair use to implement this function using the same name and arguments that Java does?" in my opinion, should get a "yes" from us.
I come from lands afar, also known as Hardware Recommendations Stack Exchange. Over there, we have a serious problem with first-time Stack Exchange users coming along and asking off-topic questions - to the extent that 50% of incoming questions are closed. We've had a few attempts at solving this...
@ThomasOwens That post provides a great deal of insight into why new users behave the way they do. It also highlights some of Hardware Recommendation's pain points, which are remarkably similar to ours.
I've been saying you need an opt-out wizard for new questioners forever. As an SO veteran, I'd opt-in - I'd probably ask more questions if I felt more confident they wouldn't be seemingly arbitrarily declared off-topic. — Aaron Hall1 min ago
I have found that self-answering questions gets my questions a better average response, but that takes much longer, and I discard half of my material anyways.
To riff on Shog9's answer, what if we didn't look at close votes as the way to stop terrible questions like this? What else could we do?
James presented an interesting proposal on Meta.SE last year: what if we automatically closed any question that got below a net score of -5? Give something lik...
This is an interesting proposal... In particular, it's interesting because the stated goal is not to hide lackluster questions (which has been proposed before, and which is partially supported already), but rather to prevent them from being answered - in other words, it suggests the use of closin...
And with that, I'd better go and get some real work done.
Problem statement
Many new users are unaware of how to formulate a good question, particularly for the technical sites like Stack Overflow, Super User (OK, all of SE). This leads to many new questions being:
Closed
Downvoted
Deleted
In addition, it leads to a fair bit of community work tryin...
3.
Can you use comments in popular programming languages and then reduce brook's law, communication issues between developers?
Is there any higher level, popular programming language like Java or Python where you can add comments to the code, like I guess you can in Visual Basic for application...
@RobertHarvey interesting idea, but an on-topic new question could be downvoted without being close-worthy. I wanted downvoted questions to count towards close votes (lowering the threshold), but not immediately close.
The entire rest of the question is basically just a justification for why the OP asks about the existence of comments in the first place. Oh, there's a side question in there: "if there are other languages which have comments, how much does that impact performance?"
Place questions with X net downvotes on hold automatically?
In the past I have proposed in chat to lower the threshhold for closing negatively scored questions.
This proposal may be the extreme of what I suggest, or perhaps taking it to a logical conclusion.
I think it would be consistent to...
Basically, I suggest this:
Score Close Votes required to Close/Put on Hold
0 5
-1 5
-2 4
-3 4
-4 3
-5 3
-6 2
-7 2
-8 2
-9 2
Shog seemed interested in symmetry, so I also suggest this:
When using a browser, like Firefox, I appreciate that I can easily navigate my tab history with Alt+← (for back) and Alt+→ (for forward.) That makes perfectly good sense to me, and I've used that keyboard shortcut for the longest time.
I frequently do text input in web pages. On some pages (but ...
Sounds like you want Programmers.StackExchange? This isn't really a question about a specific programming problem, algorithm, or coding technique... — Barry6 secs ago