Yeah, they sure are -- I was reading a book that was published around the time that Microsoft was transitioning from DOS to Windows, I never got to program for DOS but it was interesting to find out what kind of changes programmers had to make to adapt.
also regarding the blogs as Q&A some of the close reasons seem kind of confusing to me when they're applied to blogs, unless they're just not going to apply? e.g: can two blogs on a similar topic be duplicates? Is a purely theoretical blog "unclear what you're asking"? Is an introductory overview post to a complicated technology too broad? At what point is something primarily opinion based?
I stumbled across the software-engineering tag, and there are over 1,700 questions in it. Many of them are grossly off-topic for here, and I doubt that any that are eligible to migrate would make suitable questions on Software Engineers.SE, either.
Can we mass-burninate this tag? 1,700+ is a l...
@ziggystar: you have a high user level, you should know that this kind of question is not a specific coding question suitable for SO. Too broad. It would be rather for softwareengineering.stackexchange.com or cs.stackexchange.com. — Seki47 secs ago
I'm trying to visualize a really huge network (3M nodes and 13M edges) stored in a database. For real-time interactivity, I plan to show only a portion of the graph based on user queries and expand it on demand. For instance, when a user clicks a node, I expand its neighborhood. (This is called "...
I stumbled across the software-engineering tag, and there are over 1,700 questions in it. Many of them are grossly off-topic for here, and I doubt that any that are eligible to migrate would make suitable questions on Software Engineers.SE, either.
Can we mass-burninate this tag? 1,700+ is a l...
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