I hope this stack exchange takes off. I'm an embedded systems major and I'm sure I'll have a lot of questions this fall. Sure could have used this last year.
Hmmm, I'm inspirationless right now. I just added a load of "void PlaceholderForFluff(void){}" calls to my code because the person doing the verification in the morning complained my code is too efficient for a prototype
Heyho, what about a nice, more recognizable icon that doesn't blend in with popular OS colours? How do we arrange for one of those? Special for Browser-Tab-Hogs like me.
@DavidFreitag Yes: if a tag is used on 0 question, there is a very simple method to remove it from all questions. But if you want it to be additionally blacklisted, then only Stack Exchange staff can do that, and they won't do it unless people actually do use the tag.
If I have troubble debugging my code
(i.e. some weeks ago I had trouble debugging a programm that was had an register which was overwritten whenever it was read. Finally figgured out the debuggers watch itself directly accessed the register just blocking my programm) and want to ask a question ab...
Where should we draw the line between questions asking for a recommendations that could end up with hundreds of "correct" answers, and recommendation questions where there really is only one possible answer?
For example, one part of this question asks for an RTOS suggestion for audio DSP applica...
@Asmyldof Hey, don't knock it! Once at work I was stumped on something, so I googled, and I found a post on SE that told me what I needed to know. Cool, I learnt something. Upvote. Whaddyamean I can't vote for my own post?
Looking to hire: Mega Super Awesome embedded engineer for Atmel ARM dual cores to fix all my bugs while I take a small nap. Rate: No more than 2 cookies per hour.
The blog post Seven Essential Meta Questions of Every Beta gets linked to prominently from every beta's meta. However, this blog post is somewhat inaccurate and misdirects new users. In almost every beta, the site design question, for example, gets asked and undergoes a fair bit of discussion eve...
To follow the advice in The 7 Essential Meta Questions of Every Beta, I'd like to discuss the documentation for this site. What should our list of go and no-go question topics contain?
Did anyone get any upholder badge for the first private beta? I feel I fulfilled my commitment. Does the site need to go public to fulfill a commtiment?