I recognize that many places need to, or thing so anyway, get money to keep things going. ACM, for example. Still, one of the few things I extremely dislike is for someone to give me a link to an online resource and then find that it has some paywall (or even "free" membership requirement) to access said resource.
@DanielBurkhart Better yet, get the author to join the site.
The author can quote, and explain, without citation, and can also help the site grow.
Can you imagine what it'd be like if Dijkstra had joined Stack Overflow?
I have access behind most paywalls due to being affiliated (as a student) with a university, but that idea is interesting. I'll keep it in mind if I ever come across a article of particular interest.
To be fair, I'll probably never do much of anything, content wise, here. This is not my field and I'm not likely to even pursue it in a hobbyist fashion.
I can still apply my brain to site-related issues, however.
Maybe, as in the comment, explain how it works, as well as an screenshot of the popup, and/or put the contents of the popup in a block quote box, for non-image based browsing.
For reasons of my own, which are invalid outside my skull anyway, I'm not into Micro$oft products anyway. But clueless in re. qc programming nonetheless.
@Pavel That's okay. I already know more than my fair share. If I needed it, however, I'd go learn it. Until I have a use for a new language I'm usually not interested in learning it.
@Mithrandir24601 I know we had discussed this before on hbar, but I thought it would be a good question for this site, as it has not been discussed on any SE main site, before.
@Blue One or two, so far... Most don't really use SE aside from the occasional question about Latex or mathematica, but the ones I've spoken to seem reasonably interested :)
Hi everyone! I'm currently doing the rounds at software developer conferences and trying to spread the word. So hopefully we'll get a bunch of interesting questions from that. :-)
fyi Physics has an intermittent chat AMA which once featured Daniel Sank of google/ Martinis QC lab and Mithrandir24601 at Bristol UK. always looking for new guests, plz contact me if interested physics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7783/…
@GypsySpellweaver behaving irresponsibly often generates a larger revenue stream. I don't see how it is at all relevant to whether any given behaviour is responsible or desirable, though.
I don't know who/what our sponsors are, but since they can "sponsor" the site I'm going to guess they're a for-profit outfit. With all that entails I doubt they're inclined to modify their marketing copy to fit language norms.
