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I wonder if there are "superuser rights" that allow hi-rep users to change the accepted answer ? Because, for question about "best pratice" for instance, it's obviously not the one asking the question that will be the best person to choose the right answer...

I noticed that the pronunciation tag is not doing well. This is odd, because I migrated Pronunciation for hexadecimals here from SO yesterday and I thought it was a great fit -- totally programmer-centric and something that has confounded me from time to time in talking to my programming peers...

I believe the current frame of mind is that employer/management questions are general i.e. could be any industry, but couldn't it also be argued that getting advice on these matters from others in the same industry is more worthwhile? Please could allow employment related questions e.g. how to d...

I recently learned, from a comment by an editor, that questions like I'm looking for a reference to the literature on how to do X. ...are frowned upon in SE. The editor provided this and this in support of this claim. I ask myself "why???". How is a request for a reference to the literat...

This question has been closed as being not constructive. The main point is: Does anyone still use flowcharts and if so, under what circumstances? This question is answerable and relevant answers can include pointers to contemporary development methodologies that uses flowcharts. I fail to s...

I love Stack Exchange sites because of the amount of knowledge and people sharing it. One of the best thing is that here you can find real people, sharing your interests and job experience. It's a human site, not a bunch of computer data like you can find on wikis. This is possible imho thanks ...

Right now I can see 41 questions on my home page. Since the questions appearing on my home page are the only one that are really interesting to me (because looking at the complete list of questions or browsing tags is really slow and not so efficient), how can I see more questions like that?

Possible Duplicate: What's the difference between Programmers and Stack Overflow? What is the difference between "Stack Overflow" and "Programmers" on Stack Exchange? I know that on Stack Overflow there much much more people able to answer than here.

To clarify, I'm referring to statistical surveys and questionnaires that are well designed, ask open-ended questions, are relevant to programmers as per the diagram in the FAQ, aren't rants, and generally add value. Specifically, questions more like this one (although that's a mediocre example, ...

It has been suggested in this question that comments should be for the purpose of clarification of a question or answer, and that eventually the clarifications should be editted into the question/answer so that people don't have to look down the comment change to see what was "really" meant. Is t...

Since I've recently noticed, for the first time, that some higher ranking users have the habit of deleting discussion in the form of comments in bulk, under the justification that it falls under the term "extended discussion", I would like to ask - can someone provide me clarification on the term...

A clearly off-topic question: What is the relationship between Chuck Norris and programmers? I wrote an answer making it clear that there is no real significance, as I assumed it could be useful for someone trying to find information in a bizarre circumstance: What is the relationship between Ch...

I noticed there are mit and mit-license, but (as both the tags don't have a description) I am not sure I understand when to use one, and when to use the other one. As I noticed there are gpl and lgpl, I thought that the tag for the MIT license should be mit; when I entered "mit," the autocomplete...

If we do, someone should add it to the wiki for the now-deprecated software-engineering. Options that I see: programming works, but it's too vague. It's also very similar to the name of the site. It also covers a lot of ground and could be put on a lot of questions here. construction exists, b...

How is this possible to have 35 views with 59 answers. Yeah, maybe each person can answer twice. But hey, 35 views, and 35 vote ups? This one's from larger view:

Per a previous discussion here on Meta, I went through all questions tagged process. There were no questions about concurrency or IPC with this tag, so it was irrelevant, but I would recommend something along the lines of concurrency or inter-process-communication for these questions. I used the ...

I certainly thought this question about wrist pain was off-topic, given that the FAQ says nothing about health issues, but my flag was declined. Am I mis-reading the FAQ? Is there any other meta-issue here? While I realize the question may be of interest to programmers, it would also apply to an...

I noticed that a lot of questions related to books and book recommendations are getting downvoted and closed. This question suggests that some people have negative attitude towards such type of questions. Most of the book related questions have common sense in them and I love them. Usually there...

If a question is moved to a beta site, and the beta site does not get promoted to permanently live, will the question get moved back to the live site?

I posted the question: Is it a bad idea for a company to take liberties with the truth in job specs for software developers? A few people have taken this as either a rant or a question that is not constructive to any degree. This issue I raised was based on a past observation I found as a gradua...

Can some one review this question and actually tell me if its particularly bad. Best single tool to generate documentation related to a web application speed I just wanted to know. A tool is one of the basic requirement for any programmer. It doesn't matter what it is but tools make programmer...

We have language tags for large bytecode powered platforms and tags for the platforms themselves. Should we have language family tags for those platforms? For example, JVM languages or CLR/.NET languages?

A question was recently posted on Programmers.SE about Why IDEs don't support Unicode characters in code?. The author wrongly asserts that "no IDE supports" unicode, and the question is written in a way that it has chances to be downvoted (and has already one downvote) and closed. On the other h...

I've seen a number of questions where there are a few useful clarifying questions in the comments, and then a funny comment, and the funny comment has several upvotes. once the comments fold, this is going to bump a useful comment away. Is there anything sensible to do about this?

Not sure if it's due to the background image, but i see the text on few stackexchange sites as a low-quality jpeg, when viewed with citrix terminal client. This is likely due to the usage of bachground image under the text. Please consider using a solid color, if background image is not absolutel...

dilemma in a major career decision on switching technology I am in a dilemma on switching technologies and it is purely related to programming and to be more precise programmers. I am a programmer and i have a confusion about something that is purely related to programming and technology and hen...

I do realize that my iPad is running a totally ancient version of the iOS, but quite ironically I've kept it back at version 3.2.2 of the firmware for the specific purpose of verifying the compatibility of my code with old iOS release. It also wasn't that long ago that I bought it, so I expect ...

I noticed there's no 'edit' option for questions and answers posted at Programmers meta - as opposed to eg Programmers, SO and So meta. Is that intentional? a missing feature? something else? example of 'edit' option as it looks at SO meta:

While searching for a duplicate today, I discovered a new unholy mess of hopeless tags. Among these tags are: money, pricing, billing, fees, cost, sales, paying, selling-software. I'm sure there's more, that's just what I've found so far. The (major) problem with all of this is that it makes i...

I noticed that I recently obtained the "Autobiographer" badge, and three others, and somehow my badge count is still at 8 on the top of the page whereas it correctly displays 12 on my profile. My question may be naive, but why doesn't it show the correct count ? Is it because of some caching an...

I'm just curious as to if there have been changed in topicality recently, after I saw this question had been migrated from here to PM.SE: Should a group of three students working on a big programming project have a leader? There are a few ways to cut this. I organized them in order of my person...

Are MS Server OSs a requirement for DVCS systems (Mercurial or Git) on the windows platform? [closed] Yet, another example of a question being closed as ‘not a real question’. I grant the question actually requires reading to understand. Yet, people shouldn’t be closing questions if they do not...

When I hover over the profile link, a box pops out showing links for "activity, privileges and logout". The first time I hover, the box gets formed for the first time, so it's first a small box and then it loads all the content and it becomes a bigger box. The trouble is that during the 1 second ...

I have watched my reputation changes and understood every one, until today. I answered a question this morning, recieved 39 votes, but no reputation change at all from that question. I thought I understood the reputation system pretty well, including the CommunityWiki exception, and the daily c...

I had asked these two questions Roadmap for switching from a Developer to a Project Manager What can developer do when he bored of his job? but both of them are closed for the same reason. So if I want to ask this kind of question again, where can I ask?

I propose that we redefine what constitutes an off-topic question. Currently, we define a question that does not 100% apply only to software developers as a profession as off-topic. Lately I have seen questions that are of relevance to the community regarding career and job decisions closed as ...

If you look at my programmers profile BlackJack, you can see: flag weight 518.3176 I'm pretty sure that's not supposed to happen..

Every question is about advice: it'd be akin to tagging every question with help or this-is-a-question-i-assure-you. I would speculate the vast majority of questions tagged advice are there because of misuse of the tag box (e.g. typing "career advice" instead of "career-advice"). So can we kill ...

Other sites have been able to get their site name and primary focus blacklisted: English WordPress Drupal This is a request to get ours blacklisted as well. Our entire site could be tagged with programming and/or programmers, and people tend to use it as a tag when they don't have anything ...

This tag is a broken window, and it's causing problems by its continued existence: People see the tag and assume career advice questions are automatically on-topic It's a Venus Fly Trap for Bad questions It's a completely superfluous tag to our other bad career tag, career We've already discu...

What is the purpose of the daily reputation limit? The only one reason I could think of would be someone quickly getting an incredulously high reputation and accessing moderation tools to damage the site/content in some way.

Before starting, take into account that my English is going to be awful XD. I think you are appliying a very restrictive policy when considering if a question is too subjective or not. You must also notice that some stackoverflow moderators redirect some users here when the question is not concr...

Our FAQ says that "algorithm and data structure concepts" questions are on-topic on Programmers. However, we receive "migrate to Stack Overflow" flags on a lot of algorithm-related question. This tells me there's a misunderstanding somewhere. Do we want algorithm questions? What kind of question...

First of all, I realize that this topic has already been discussed ad nauseam, so I apologize in advance if nothing fruitful comes of this. I strongly feel that there is a large disconnect between the community's understanding of the site's purposes and the collective understanding of the modera...

As the newest generation of Stack Exchange sites are launched, one thing I'm envious of is the font style used for coding blocks. Consider the following program here: #include <stdio.h> main() { printf("Hello World"); } Compared to the same program on, say, DBA or Code Review: Whi...