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user20683

Feb 9, 2012 05:58

Also I've got a mother who nearly got a doctorate in English and I have a liberal arts degree. So, I'm a little picky compared to most.

user20683

Feb 9, 2012 05:48

@Karthik "You are a great help in times of need." I realize English probably isn't your first language but your usage is awkward.

Yannis Rizos

Feb 9, 2012 01:11

Structured Tag Cleanup — Call for proposals #1

user2334

Feb 6, 2012 23:03

Jeff Atwood's leaving Stack Exchange

Thomas Owens

Feb 2, 2012 18:29

@WorldEngineer That works sometimes. But not always. I'm thinking when the question applies to all professions, but different categories of people will have different solutions. Solving it in the best manner for someone in software is very different than solving it for the recruiter upstairs or the PM in the office down the hall.

user2334

Feb 1, 2012 21:52

Newer users get it, older users generally don't.

user2334

Feb 1, 2012 21:36

If it was as bad as people make it out to be on Meta P.SE, I have no doubt SE would've shut us down months ago

Jon Purdy

Feb 1, 2012 15:44

Symbolic logic and deductive reasoning? Bread and butter. Numbers? Hard.

Stack Exchange

Jan 31, 2012 21:14

Stack Overflow Blog: The Trouble With Popularity

Posted by Jeff Atwood on January 31st, 2012

Way back in 2008, we had Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman, the founders and co-creators of Reddit, on the Stack Overflow podcast. We chatted about a bunch of stuff, but one of the things they said that always stuck with me was that Reddit always took an explicitly hands-off, no moderation approach to their content from the very beginning.

I found that a bit shocking, since I’ve… never seen that work. Certainly on Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange we are very much pro-moderation — and more so with every passing year. We have literally hundreds of community moderators. We spend …

PersonalNexus

Jan 30, 2012 20:08

@YannisRizos I had already made my mind up a while ago, following people's activities on the site, Meta and chat, my first vote was an easy choice. Also, I hope it will be considerably harder for you to get more helpful flags than me once you are a moderator ;-)

Yannis Rizos

Jan 27, 2012 17:55

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Q: Renaming the site to match it's FAQ or changing the FAQ to match the site name?

I was answering another question, and realized perhaps I should post my answer in a suggestion on Meta Here's the thing: this site is called programmers.stackexchange, while the FAQ states that this site is about "conceptual questions about software development". Since a large number of people ...

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PersonalNexus

Jan 27, 2012 13:39

@user962206 Have you tried to search for this?

user20683

Jan 25, 2012 14:44

@Ubermensch go to a question, find the link button, then paste into chat. it doesn't work with non SE sites

user2334

Jan 23, 2012 20:15

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Q: 2012 Community Moderator Election

The 2012 Community Moderator Election is now underway! Community moderator elections have three phases: Nomination phase Primary phase Election phase Most elections take between two and three weeks, but this depends on how many candidates there are. Please visit the official election page a...

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user20683

Jan 21, 2012 21:28

Is it feasible to do an emulation or at least an ISS of the Apollo Guidance Computer as a semester project?

Zaphod Beeblebrox

Jan 17, 2012 14:56

which one is the expert?

Zaphod Beeblebrox

Jan 13, 2012 04:45

@DanMcGrath The Concrete Jungle (contained in the Atrocity Archives) won a hugo award... Haven't read it yet, but it seems like a great find, here's a little black star for you!

Dan McGrath

Jan 13, 2012 04:39

user20683

Jan 13, 2012 04:04

If you really want obfuscation, make a language that is Perl but written with APL's typeset in the style of M. I promise you, basically no one could figure it out once written.

Yannis Rizos

Dec 27, 2011 11:38

Wow... Too many bad questions in so little time... Bad day

Yannis Rizos

Dec 22, 2011 23:53

@StevenJeuris For what it's worth, my close vote was on the first version of the question and I upvoted the second one... Just contributed the third re open vote (as I do feel the current version is just fine), it needs two more... Don't lose hope yet :)

Rachel

Dec 19, 2011 16:26

Hahahaha nothing like being called because a user can't view a powerpoint, fixing the problem and opening the powerpoint specified, only to find it full of naked women. The poor guy was sooooo embarrassed (he had no idea what was in it, someone emailed it to him)

Yannis Rizos

Dec 15, 2011 14:56

Gopher (protocol)

The Gopher protocol is a TCP/IP application layer protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents over the Internet. Strongly oriented towards a menu-document design, the Gopher protocol was a predecessor of (and later, an alternative to) the World Wide Web. The protocol offers some features not natively supported by the Web and imposes a much stronger hierarchy on information stored on it. Its text menu interface is easy to use, and well-suited to computing environments that rely heavily on remote text-oriented computer terminals, which were still common at the ...

surfasb

Dec 14, 2011 22:51

What in God's name is that thing?? blog.stackoverflow.com/wp-content/uploads/survey-gopher-3.jpg

Anna Lear

Dec 8, 2011 15:23

Ooh, people in chat. Shiny. Morning everybody (or your preferred time of day). :)

Yannis Rizos

Dec 2, 2011 01:38

For all jQuery nerds: jQuery's best friends

Yannis Rizos

Dec 1, 2011 22:18

@wisemonkey electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/verilog

Bedwyr Humphreys

Nov 28, 2011 19:13

Argh! is there a chat for moaning about previous devs from years ago who made schoolboy errors that are now causing bugfix pain? ;)

Anna Lear

Nov 14, 2011 15:55

@SHOUBHIKBOSE Either by 4 "off-topic, belongs on Programmers" votes + 1 more vote to close from community members or a moderator.

user20683

Oct 18, 2011 21:45

@AlanBarber One of my favorite teachers did a thesis on such

Aarthi Devanathan Ψ

Oct 14, 2011 13:50

online.wsj.com/article/…

user20683

Oct 8, 2011 22:30

@OghmaOsiris youtube.com/watch?v=sYdKK9KQQe0

user20683

Sep 25, 2011 01:37

Jeff is a mad man with a box

Piotr Chabros

Sep 14, 2011 23:32

@AnnaLear So if you know something about Cake I would really appreciate the help :)

Stack Exchange

Sep 5, 2011 00:21

Stack Overflow Blog: Expanding User Cards

Posted by Jeff Atwood on September 4th, 2011

As I’ve said many times, the reason any Stack Exchange site works is not because of the magical software bits, but because the people participating are smart, talented, and willing to teach and learn. That’s right, any internet community ultimately succeeds or fails on the strength and quality of its contributors. Shocking, I know!

But while recording podcast #15 with Michael Natkin of cooking.stackexchange.com, I belatedly realized we weren’t making it easy to discover information about the smart people answering all those questions. Sure, we show the basics (reputation, nam …

Programmers

Sep 4, 2011 08:45

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Q: Isn't this a bug?

How is this possible to have 35 views with 59 answers. Yeah, maybe each person can answer twice. But hey, 35 views, and 35 vote ups? This one's from larger view:

bug

Dan McGrath

Sep 1, 2011 04:49

Anyone know of any up and coming tools (such as IDE) companies that might be worth watching?

Pierre 303

Aug 30, 2011 15:04

psychology.about.com/od/personalitydevelopment/a/…

Pierre 303

Aug 30, 2011 15:01

@Incognito: when you are in a group, you must first be very cautious and observe them before taking too much place, or you will be rejected. That's one of the basics of Emotional Intelligence.

Brant

Aug 30, 2011 14:53

Anna Lear

Aug 29, 2011 23:32

@genesis Why wouldn't it be? Would you rather focus on writing your own blog platform and fixing bugs and getting it just right, or would you rather focus on your freelancing business? Knowing when to write your own tools and when to use an existing solution is an important skill. :)

Pavel Shved

Aug 24, 2011 12:14

What gum should I chew if I want to quit chewing gum?

Pavel Shved

Aug 23, 2011 20:30

The pot looks like it comes from an ancient 3D computer game that was short on the number of polygons the engine was capable to display...

Programmers

Aug 17, 2011 04:01

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Q: What are "algorithm concepts"?

Our FAQ says that "algorithm and data structure concepts" questions are on-topic on Programmers. However, we receive "migrate to Stack Overflow" flags on a lot of algorithm-related question. This tells me there's a misunderstanding somewhere. Do we want algorithm questions? What kind of question...

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user2334

Aug 16, 2011 05:47

Stack Overflow Blog: Gorilla vs. Shark

Posted by Jeff Atwood on August 15th, 2011

Who would win in a fight between a Gorilla and a Shark?

OK, maybe you’re thinking that’s a ridiculous question. Perhaps it is. But various forms of this question get asked all the time. Consider this now-ancient Stack Overflow question titled Python v. Perl:

Okay, so I’m finally making the jump into scripting languages and I have decided to focus on either Python or Perl. The problem is: I don’t know which to cut my teeth on.

Most of my programming experience is in C, Java, and C++. There’s no specific task I would be learning Python/Perl for, other that possibly applying it to my dev work to make life easier in general. …

user20683

Aug 12, 2011 04:14

Sometimes Randall just nails it

http://xkcd.com/937/

Pierre 303

Jul 26, 2011 12:26

@MattEllen: P.SE is like a tortured adolescent searching for its identity ;)

Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen

Jul 8, 2011 11:57

I'm not sure you can get what you want. The strict current line was to clean up.

Pierre 303

Jul 2, 2011 09:33

Now if you like people like me, there is another strategy. When I can, I try to discuss with the arrogant about anything but his field of expertise. For example his family or health problems, etc. Sincerely. This "unlock" his defense mechanism.

Pierre 303

Jul 2, 2011 07:36

If you have the entrepreneur mindset, this is an asset to start doing great things.

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