@FernandoMeyer IRC and this chat each have their own strengths and weaknesses. Some userscripts lessen some of the pain of this not being truly IRC. But I've grown to like the chat. (:
@msarchet I think that prog.se has a lot of questions which are complicated and the answer is often "it depends." That might mean that the answers have to be richer and possibly a little bit more non-deterministic.
Currently, I'm an Emacs user, (I'm used to the commands, and I work in a bunch of different languages day-to-day, one of which is Common Lisp, so it's the natural choice), but a recent-ish talk by Steve Yegge has gotten me thinking that an online editor/IDE (if done well) might provide a lot of b...
@JoelSpolsky yea. I think in itself it a good idea because it gets us programmers thinking about things that don't have the deterministic answers and it gives us somewhere to ask questions that are harder for non-programmers (or technical minded people) to answer
I am pretty sure that once we have different communities other than the original stackoverflow/serverfault model, the questions may start to take slightly different forms, and the way people answer them may change, and new behaviors and community standards may emerge
@JoelSpolsky which is the correct site to ask questions about stackoverflow from a dev perspective? I'm interested in knowing a little more details of how SO uses LINQ to SQL as I've been having problems with it
Speaking of which, it looks like you can chat from a webkit view within iPad twitteriffic. This is better than the lack of iOS editing support in Google Sites.
@george people keep asking things on prog.SE like "how do I do X" where X is some incredibly complicated life skill. Trying to answer literally and directly is missing the point.
Hmm, might be good to point out a couple of links since people are new: If you want to test chat features, hit up the Sandbox room, and if you have chat feedback, there's a room for that too.
@Joel, I was really interested in your "always have a functional spec" article.. do you think SE is old enough to opensource v1.0's spec? I think it would be very educational! :P
@JoelSpolsky do you ever think Microsoft will wake up and stop relying on their hardware partners and just make a competitor to the iPad themselves? They surely don't wait for Logitech to make mice and keyboards for them
Rumor is that Yahoo is shutting down del.icio.us. The founders (and others) are calling for Yahoo to opensource the code instead of mothballing. How practical is that? What's the business case for doing so?
@JoelSpolsky But that's a good thing - and one of those differences with other SE sites you mentioned before. There's not just one right answer, but the value of the site is that you can see the good stuff in one place.
@john I start writing something, look over the internet, find it's been covered really well by others, and then stop writing. I must have 15 or 20 blog posts stacked up due to that. Trying to find fresh ground is really hard.
@vehomzzz if we found someone to organize and run it, we'd hire them and do devdays again. The real trick is getting someone who can organize great speakers.
@RhysGibson Exactly. I love seeing interesting views on the careers of developers and how others work. I've learned a lot of shortcuts/productivity tips here.
@John Not necessarily searching for ideas; but having an idea, and making sure the references check out; once I get to that point I inevitably stumble upon Joel/Jeff/Steve/Uncle Bob/Some other prolific writer who has already made the point and made it well.
@JoelSpolsky what about something like your old blog, but in podcast format, maybe once a month? I'd love to hear a full start a startup series by you, a programmer who has started successful businesses
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