I fly quite often for work. Some of these trips require up to 12 hours flight time. My salary is not on an hourly basis and I do not get overtime for the time spent travelling.
I was recently flying with a colleague on a shorter flight (6 hours) and was reading a novel to pass the time on the f...
I did a lot of thinking the past few days, and I'm wondering [Question 1] if this has been thought of before, and, if so, [Question 2] what is it called so I can learn more about it.
Summary: Essentially I first give some vocabulary to begin talking about tests and what a system is. Then I demo...
lol I start answering Programmers questions and they get migrated to SO. Figures
@RobertHarvey Occasions like this remind me that I still have zero understanding of what's on topic here. I don't know whether you guys are in too deep but I'm obviously not the only one to find it extremely unclear.
@LightnessRacesinOrbit I've long fought the gray areas in our scope.. people like some of the questions under certain topics though so those are held onto like "good subjective" which just means "take a guess, best of luck" and licensing and various others. Really though you want guaranteed on topic: Algorithms that aren't language specific, design at the high level (N-Tier vs distributed small-service, queue vs pub-sub for asynchrony, etc), process that's not technology specific (test when?)
all that programming stuff that every coder has to deal with, no matter what language they're working in. I know shit about C++ but you and I can still have conversations about approaches to coding problems even though we live in vastly different technologies - that stuff
@LightnessRacesinOrbit That question is ultimately a "name that thing" question. It asks for a term so the OP can go do their own research. I'm all for people researching things themselves, but we're not a dictionary.
@LightnessRacesinOrbit It's not categorically off-topic; in fact there's a meta post that makes the claim that Programmers is the perfect place to ask them. But pattern name matching is not something that's even remotely interesting to me. It's like saying "I don't need your expertise; I can find it myself if you just tell me what the name is." You were right when you said "You're using patterns backwards."
And it's a slippery slope; the number of people asking these questions has increased over time.
Many of those questions are only answerable with "There's no well-known pattern name for what you're describing. It's just programming."
Hi Ahmed! There are quite a lot of sites on the stackexchange network (149 at the moment to be exact), and each focuses on a quite specific topic. Stackoverflow (this site) is about code; Programmers is about general questions about computer sciences and software. This type of question, which doesn't have code and is more related to general CS questions, is more suitable for the programmers site... that also means that you'll have more chances of someone answering it. — Augusto24 secs ago
@mauron85: This question is off-topic on SO. If you have problems with writing your app to deal with the dst, show us your code, tell us about the specific issue, and we might be able to help you with that. What you seem to ask here is "How to display this date in a calendar app?" which is an UX issue (and might be on topic at User Experience), and "How to deal with DST in general?" which sounds too generic even for Programmers. — Bergi53 secs ago
@enderland "is there someone that want to enter in a Game Egine Development Group? If there is, I have to advertise that the preferencial communication is from WhatsApp or Google+. If you enter the group, I'll pass all info you need and wont" -- if that's not spam then I don't know what is
@enderland All that's required is solicitation to occur for it to be spam. Sometimes the opposite problem occurs: user posts gibberish, gets flagged as spam even though solicitation is not occurring.
I did a lot of thinking the past few days, and I'm wondering [Question 1] if this has been thought of before, and, if so, [Question 2] what is it called so I can learn more about it.
Summary: Essentially I first give some vocabulary to begin talking about tests and what a system is. Then I demo...
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