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Earthliŋ
Earthliŋ
2:26 AM
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A: Why do we need a separate site for Vi/Vim?

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"However, I'm willing to give this proposal a shot at private beta."
So it's not getting cancelled quite yet ;)
I didn't understand the last sentence and a half
"I'm going to be looking for questions that can't be asked on other sites. If Vi.SE succeeds, it will be by addressing questions that have nothing to do with programming."
 
Anonymous
3:18 AM
@Earthliŋ I think the point is that they don't want to spin-off a site that can be wholly contained in existing sites
 
Anonymous
They want to see what existing user base has needs that are not currently being met
 
Anonymous
If it's all about programming, why, that could be on Stack Overflow!
 
Anonymous
After all, it has plenty of vi questions already.
 
Anonymous
Because the goal of adding new sites to SE is, in theory, to expand the network to meet the needs of more users, not to fragment the existing sites
 
Anonymous
For example, ELL (English Language Learners) exists because there was a compelling argument made that the existing English Language & Usage site wasn't meeting the needs of non-native speakers―they were falling through the cracks, so to speak
 
Anonymous
3:19 AM
Even though ELL clearly has tons of overlap with ELU
 
Anonymous
The same sort of thing needs to be true for vi[m], I think he's saying, or there's no real reason to have a separate site and it'll get axed
 
Darius Jahandarie
Darius Jahandarie
6:54 AM
@broccoliforest I honestly don't really like this answer of mine, lol.
 
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3 to 5 business days
7:33 AM
@Choko bad wiki! no explanation of what the name means!
I look forward to the monster named Janai Ndakarane
@ssb nothing is as titillating as the sight of removed chat messages, mmm mmm. Gotta have some nice music to set the mood right too.
Sometimes some questions are so basic...
An analogy would be like a user asking about the button on the bottom left corner of Windows OS.
 
 
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Darius Jahandarie
Darius Jahandarie
9:48 PM
@broccoliforest I'm a little confused by your choices of gloss in http://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/21427/3097

I think these are all the interpretations I can think of:

最後に立っていたものが勝者だ。
Subordinate=past stative, matrix=present: "The last person who was standing is the winner."
Subordinate=past or relative past stative, matrix=future: "The last person who was standing will be the winner." (Conveniently, the English can be interpreted as either the past or relative past here.)

最後に立っているものが勝者だ。
Though I'd say the relative past reading of those two sentences in English is somewhat marginal, it'd be more natural to use "is standing" or "stands up" to say effectively the same thing.
 

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