The Whiteboard

1:16 AM

One could argue that Javascript is a terrible thing that has harmed the industry and countless members in it, but since it's the only viable language in the web browser...

Jonathan.Brink

The name AWK is comprised of the first letters of the last names of it's authors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Aho

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_J._Weinberger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Kernighan

What would have been a better name? Has any kind of consensus been made?

Robert Harvey

Ward.

Eh, it's an ill-advised question anyway. A hypothetical about something that already happened, discussed with people who don't care anything about it.

Can we get one more close vote on this question?

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Q: Tool to convert vector diagram into clean visio style diagram

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user55340

1:43 AM

@Jonathan.Brink The names of some of the early unix programs were a bit... fun. Like biff who allegedly was a dog who barked at the mailman. I see the name 'awk' no better / worse than perl, ruby, python, tcl or any number of other tools. What the authors chose to call it is up to them. I'd say its good that they choose a short name.

Duga

3:13 AM

Since your question is broad and not a specific implementation question, it may be better received on programmers.stackexchange.com — Maximillian Laumeister 6 secs ago

Duga

5:43 AM

Does this seem like a better fit for programmers.SE than Stack Overflow? — trichoplax 32 secs ago

deostroll

8:43 AM

what is the significance of roaming profiles on windows application development?

ratchet freak

11:23 AM

@deostroll when you are in a workplace with a central server, then the roaming data will get stored there and your settings get shared automatically when you log in on another computer

user114359

11:53 AM

@deostroll It is entirely too early on a Monday to go into much detail (my memory is fueled by caffeine, need more time) but start here: msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/…

ratchet freak

12:47 PM

heh I found a query showing votes per day on the site: data.stackexchange.com/programmers/query/335866/…

MetaFight

what happened in march 2010??

user114359

Maybe a couple hot questions? Did we have those back then?

Duga

Would this question be off-topic in programmers.stackexchange.com? — bitbonk 7 secs ago

ratchet freak

maybe we got slashdoted?

MetaFight

1:02 PM

when did stackoverflow expand to the stackexchange network?

user114359

I think the other sites in the Big Three were maybe 2009 or 2010?

user114359

Looks like there are a few different ways to answer that question based on how you define "stack exchange network": a product? a public corporation? multiple sites?

user114359

Stack Exchange

Stack Exchange is a network of question and answer websites on topics in varied fields, each site covering a specific topic, where questions, answers, and users are subject to a reputation award process. The sites are modeled after Stack Overflow, a forum for computer programming questions that was the original site in this network. The reputation system allows the sites to be self-moderating. User contributions are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported. == History == In 2008, Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky created Stack Overflow, a question-and-answer Web site...

André

I think google updated it's page rank algorithm at April 2010, maybe SO got a boost at google results

ratchet freak

but March 3rd there's a huge spike

and the jump is in september (when the on topic rules got changed)

enderland

1:19 PM

@durron597 oh fine :)

André

@ratchetfreak you're right, that wouldn't explain a spike like that

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