The site has a different history than most stack exchange sites. It started out as one thing, then got changed to something else (which is why the site name no longer matches the site's scope)
I would ask a software developer about software development. I'd ask a programmer about programming. Same way as I'd ask a doctor about doctoring and a nurse about nursing. They are different things. — KitFox4 mins ago
I agree with her, and yet, I feel that if it takes 45 minutes to explain the site's true purpose to a bunch of computer people like we have here, then maybe the site has a more intrinsic issue than its name.
At the time that I started using it, there were lots of questions getting closed. Like you look at the site front page, and 90% of the questions on it say [closed]. And lots of people were getting discouraged. And it was all because they didn't understand what the site was for. Rachel is 100% right.
@KitFox Software development and programming. What's the difference between software development and programming? I don't know what the distinction could possibly be.
@KitFox It's called Programmers because it was originally a site for Programmers to get answers from other Programmers about non-programming topics. SE changed that though a while back, so the site is now for conceptual questions about software development, although they never changed the site name
@RegDwighт The Programmers migration path was removed as a result of it being not as popular as another migration path, and the high number of "rejected" migrations. See this MSO question for details :)
@DavidWallace nah, that's crazy. are you saying then that a programmer is ... nah, a programmer has to do -all- the same stuff that you said a SD has to do. SD is just a fancy word for programmer, not fancier -things-.
@Cerberus Nah, Microsoft has been in this boat several times. They are not the patent white-knight you want them to be. They also use patents to troll android and linux.
@Mitch Here, there are jobs advertised as "analyst programmer", or "software developer", or sometimes "software engineer". These terms are used interchangeably. I don't think I've ever seen a job advertised just as "programmer". Typically, programmers end up doing whichever steps nobody else is going to do.
For example, if there's already a BA and a PM on the team, but no testers or tech writers, the "programmer" ends up doing programming, testing and documentation; but not requirements analysis or project management.
@KitFox Well, OK, but if you had a GOOD BA and a GOOD PM, you shouldn't have to. Or maybe there are too many programmers and not enough of the others. Or something. I don't know.
@Cerberus MS makes like $15 from every android phone sale due to bullshit patents. They are definitely a patent troll. They are not going to push for reform. Not no way, not no how.
@JSBձոգչ I have an engineering degree, and yet cannot call myself an engineer because I am not certified. It is a restricted title in my province. And in lots of other places.
Also see ngrams for Due to,_START_ due to,_START_ Due to. Per ngrams info_START_ lets one “identify ngrams at starts and ends of sentences with the START and END tags” — jwpat711 mins ago
@jwpat: Using a capital "D" does the same thing, doesn't it? The results are different for "Due to" and "due to" and the "Due to" and "_START_Due to" parallel each other suspiciously. I would suspect some kind of bug in the NGram viewer software. — Robusto3 mins ago
@Mitch lol no its a game, but I wouldn't have guess that from the beginning of the accepted answer: "First off, no matter the corpse, never eat unless you just made that corpse or you have a method of preservation (tinning, icebox). Rotten corpses cause food poisoning (unless you're a fungus or a ghoul), and it doesn't take very long for a corpse to rot. "
> Like the iPhone 4 and 4S, the Nexus 4 has glass panels front and back, with a center band that holds everything together. But it doesn’t seem fragile. I feel like I could drop the Nexus 4 without it shattering, something I’ve never felt with glass-backed iPhones.
This proves that Fandroids are as dumb as Fapples.
Is that only a matter of code optimization?
Do game developers plan to start small on a new hardware, to have space to evolve while creating a series of that game?
Are computer graphics breakthroughs common enough to happen in a console lifetime?
This room offers incomprehension; but some people find _phones_ fit to mention. Their friends in the chat seldom care about that so they voice their profoundest dissension.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 1. You cannot "feel" whether the glass is going to shatter or not beforehand; 2. glass is inherently weak, so it will shatter for sure if you drop it the wrong way.
@DavidWallace Who cares if these questions could work on SO? You're two years too late for that discussion, right now it's a completely irrelevant argument. — Yannis Rizos6 mins ago
@Cerberus I'm just responding at things I can respond to. if you drop them the wrong way they'll break. If not, not. we could do a test with someone else's phones.
@Mitch What I mean is that all normal phones have screens that easily break when you drop them, and that I don't believe for one second that the Nexus 4's screen will break any ehm later.
@Cerberus You maybe can't feel if glass is strong or not. But you can feel if the phone feels fragile or not. Eg the Galaxy 551 feels fragile. One wrong drop and I worry it would snap in half. Whereas the glass itself on the phones feels (subjectively) like it's very durable. And experience has borne that out; none of my phones have broken despite the odd mishap.
@DavidWallace True enough. But then this room is never on-topic. So if we made separate rooms for all the off-topic topics we'd have nothing to say here.
@Cerberus Have you never picked up an object and thought it felt fragile? More fragile than it ought to? I have. And the iPhone is not one of those things. I feel like I could drop it from my desk to the floor and it'd be fine.
See, if ELU has taught me one thing, then it's that programmers can't even name variables, let alone find simple words to express everyday concepts in a clear manner. And you want these folks to write documentation?
@RegDwighт My colleague just wasted a bunch of time trying to find a variable name by assuming it would be spelled correctly. We have mostly non-native speakers here in Dev, so this is an assumption one cannot make.
@Robusto doesn't have to be pinapples. Remember the native speaker the other day who asked for, I dunno, Jabberwocky and then ten minutes later, without waiting for any answers, edited his question to say "nevermind, I'll go with beeing, it works perfectly".
@Cerberus Maybe. But flimsy construction usually indicates poor quality. It correlates to breakage. So it's not a perfect metric but is a good enough indicator for making phone-purchasing decisions for personal use. If I were, eg, trying to outfit the military with ruggedized mobile devices, I'd probably insist on actually dropping them to see how they fare.
@Cerberus Are you seriously asking me to define "poor quality" in terms of physical construction of an object? What does your common sense tell you? As for evidence, I have seen many things where, eg, the workmanship of the exterior correlated with the quality of the interior. Shitty portable cassette players that broke after a few months of use, while their sturdier counterparts kept playing for years. etc.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 that's how the Underwriters Laboratory works. They take a device, a bunch of devices, and see how high they can drop them from. also, they bake them.
"Occurre" is not a word, nor a "valid misspelling" of "occur". Maybe, it can be a misspelling of "occurred".
Is that only a matter of code optimization?
Do game developers plan to start small on a new hardware, to have space to evolve while creating a series of that game?
Are computer graphics breakthroughs common enough to happen in a console lifetime?
Recipients could work for a mailing program.
The sentence shouldn't end in "on". It should be ".. on which the incident was based."
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