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Re: StackExchange- The Stack Overflow Knowledge Exchange Platform

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Post by ilyak »

torpor wrote: post #34
ankhmoop wrote: post #5

Until I clicked on the link, I was excited, as the comments on monetization lead me think they might be providing a marketplace for me to provide for-fee answers to users. Unfortunately, this is not the case. As it is, I don't bother to use StackOverflow. My questions would be too esoteric for the audience/format, and nearly all of the questions I see are boring, easily answerable with a search of the documentation.…

I find StackOverflow very boring as well .. but I don't need to use it much. I've only visited the few times in interest because I always like to find nice technological discussions, but .. so far .. its been pretty "meh". There haven't been any mind-blowing awesome gems of answers in there that have caught my eye - mostly pretty mundane things, content-wise, and as a programmer looking for an interesting community,…

USENET is for discussions; SO is for questions and answers. Those are orthogonal.

Re: StackExchange- The Stack Overflow Knowledge Exchange Platform

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Post by DrJokepu »

ankhmoop wrote: post #26
thorax wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Keep money per answer out of this. It's amazing what happens when you keep a site like SO working on social norms and avoiding market norms. To understand how powerful this difference can be, this book is an eye-opener (outlined here): http://bookoutlines.pbworks.com/Predictably-Irrational

Keep money per answer out of this. It's amazing what happens when you keep a site like SO working on social norms and avoiding market norms. Other than money, how do you prevent an expert-exodus as expert users are deluged with simpleton questions? Amidst a deluge of bad questions, there's little value to remain active, as your own questions can rarely be answered, and users aren't providing interesting questions. So…

Some experts are not only in for the money - they enjoy helping the novice, the less experienced. They're not only in for answering only the most interesting "gems" - a true expert can give a much better answer to a newbie question than an intermediate developer.

Similarly, (most) university professors don't teach for getting rich or just fort the research - they enjoy overseeing and helping the youngest generations of their particular field.

Re: StackExchange- The Stack Overflow Knowledge Exchange Platform

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Post by DrJokepu »

blasdel wrote: post #28

The segmentation between 'shared' and 'dedicated' hosting is bizarre -- aren't you paying them not to have to care about that? Furthermore, it leads me to think poorly of their software -- did they really manage to fuck up something as embarrassingly parallel as responding to HTTP Requests? Maybe it's just that their MS toolchain is ignorant of the possibility...

There's nothing bizarre with it in my opinion - it's easy to understand, even for non-technical people, who are likely to make the decision at Big Enterprise whether to buy Plan A or Plan B. I don't see how a marketing decision such as this could give any insight into the efficiency and quality of their implementation of HTTP request handling.

Re: StackExchange- The Stack Overflow Knowledge Exchange Platform

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Post by lucraft »

ktharavaad wrote: post #38
hello_moto wrote: post #30

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If it's just need a weekend, why not do it yourself? PS: Don't forget to open source it.

Alright, This will be my project this coming weekend! I'll try to live up to the challenge!

Link?

Re: StackExchange- The Stack Overflow Knowledge Exchange Platform

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Post by torpor »

ilyak wrote: post #41
torpor wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I find StackOverflow very boring as well .. but I don't need to use it much. I've only visited the few times in interest because I always like to find nice technological discussions, but .. so far .. its been pretty "meh". There haven't been any mind-blowing awesome gems of answers in there that have caught my eye - mostly pretty mundane things, content-wise, and as a programmer looking for an interesting community,…

USENET is for discussions; SO is for questions and answers. Those are orthogonal.

>Those are orthogonal.

Nope.

Re: StackExchange- The Stack Overflow Knowledge Exchange Platform

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Post by karanbhangui »

ktharavaad wrote: post #38
hello_moto wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it's just need a weekend, why not do it yourself? PS: Don't forget to open source it.

Alright, This will be my project this coming weekend! I'll try to live up to the challenge!

No need, http://code.google.com/p/cnprog/ already exists.

Re: StackExchange- The Stack Overflow Knowledge Exchange Platform

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Post by karanbhangui »

karanbhangui wrote: post #47
ktharavaad wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Alright, This will be my project this coming weekend! I'll try to live up to the challenge!

No need, http://code.google.com/p/cnprog/ already exists.

http://code.google.com/p/soclone/

Here's another, also in Django.

Re: StackExchange- The Stack Overflow Knowledge Exchange Platform

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Post by ktharavaad »

lucraft wrote: post #45
ktharavaad wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Alright, This will be my project this coming weekend! I'll try to live up to the challenge!

Link?

I'll update here as I make progress:

http://code.google.com/p/hackerexchange/

I'm aware of the chinese solutions done in Django but after looking it over, I think I can do better.

I'll prolly write it in PHP too (gasp) so any n00b can basically rip it off and throw it unto shared hosting! ahh, gotta love opensource =)

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