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Re: Stack Exchange Is Now Stack Overflow

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Post by msandford »

0xffffabcd wrote: post #26
freshyill wrote: post #4

Names don't matter much. As long as they still have a community willing to shame users for asking a question vaguely similar to one that was asked a few years earlier, then it's all good with me.

Either make a post on meta about the problem and provide a solution if you have on how to fix it OR make your own SO with your own rules. I'm really tired of seeing these off topic (whining) comments whenever SO comes up. It's useless and doesn't add anything to the discussion here.

Yeah man, screw the users! They're just like customers, they're always the problem! You know, except for the little problem that without customers (or users) the entity either wouldn't exist, or would die.

Re: Stack Exchange Is Now Stack Overflow

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Post by jfim »

paulmd wrote: post #14
skybrian wrote: post #6

Buried in there is an announcement [1] that they're going to start accepting documentation and particularly examples of API usage, not just Q&A. It seems like a good place to put stuff that isn't a question. [1] http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/303865/warlords-of-d...

That's smart. Programmers do a lot of searching for examples, there was a recent Google study on the topic. [1] One of my personal favorites lately has been bropages [2] - it's a crowdsourced set of usage examples for Unix command-line tools. Instead of wading through fifty pages of obtuse manpages or googling for usage, you just use "bro [command]" and you get some working examples. [1] https://research.google.com/p…

There's also "howdoi," [0] which searches stack overflow. For example:

$ howdoi turn dictionary into json python

>>> json.dumps(your_data, ensure_ascii=False)

[0] https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi

Re: Stack Exchange Is Now Stack Overflow

#34

Post by jobu »

slantyyz wrote: post #28
elmarschraml wrote: post #12

Reading between the lines, it seems to confirm a change in business model. To paraphrase: "Turns out software for running Q&A sites isn't that hot a property, but having access to a large part of all the world's programmers is"

Serious question - do many people here actually use anything other than Stack Overflow, Server Fault and Power User? I occasionally get and click on a Google result for the photography stack exchange, but I've rarely clicked on any results for the other Exchange sites for my non-technical searches.

We recently bought an older home that needs a bit of work, and I've started going to the DIY site to get answers : http://diy.stackexchange.com/

It's a bit sparse for existing Q&A, but so far people have been good about responding to my questions.

Re: Stack Exchange Is Now Stack Overflow

#36

Post by manojlds »

slantyyz wrote: post #28
elmarschraml wrote: post #12

Reading between the lines, it seems to confirm a change in business model. To paraphrase: "Turns out software for running Q&A sites isn't that hot a property, but having access to a large part of all the world's programmers is"

Serious question - do many people here actually use anything other than Stack Overflow, Server Fault and Power User? I occasionally get and click on a Google result for the photography stack exchange, but I've rarely clicked on any results for the other Exchange sites for my non-technical searches.

Skeptics, physics, English and UX have been very interesting and useful for me.

Re: Stack Exchange Is Now Stack Overflow

#37

Post by Floegipoky »

slantyyz wrote: post #28
elmarschraml wrote: post #12

Reading between the lines, it seems to confirm a change in business model. To paraphrase: "Turns out software for running Q&A sites isn't that hot a property, but having access to a large part of all the world's programmers is"

Serious question - do many people here actually use anything other than Stack Overflow, Server Fault and Power User? I occasionally get and click on a Google result for the photography stack exchange, but I've rarely clicked on any results for the other Exchange sites for my non-technical searches.

music.stackexchange.com is really handy if you're into that sort of thing

Re: Stack Exchange Is Now Stack Overflow

#38

Post by wiremine »

RubyPinch wrote: post #9
wiremine wrote: post #3

Was just thinking what it was like to develop before Stack Overflow... and before github... Yikes! Kudos to the team over at SO to continue to iterate the business. I do wish they'd add an "out of date" button to flag questions/answers that are no longer relevant or just plain wrong. I think the amount of cruft they're going to deal with in the next 10 years is going to be HUGE.

stackoverflow is also part-wiki, so depreciating questions isn't as likely as someone coming around and updating the answers

> so depreciating questions isn't as likely as someone coming around and updating the answers

True, but I think it would be helpful for two reasons:

a. Someone looking for an answer might not realize it is out of date.

b. It would help surface questions that do need updating. You statement presupposes someone actually finds the out of date info. A button would help SO bring all those items to a single location.

Re: Stack Exchange Is Now Stack Overflow

#39

Post by claysmithr »

emp_ wrote: post #19

Experts Exchange was the SO before SO and it was so bad, so bad that I can imagine it was one of the reasons SO was built in the first place. When the Exchange name appeared I cringed because it always reminded me of the worst QA UX in history, sitting on IRC was better. Glad it went away.

Not only are they crappy but their URL is Expert Sex Change

Re: Stack Exchange Is Now Stack Overflow

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Post by 3pt14159 »

skybrian wrote: post #6

Buried in there is an announcement [1] that they're going to start accepting documentation and particularly examples of API usage, not just Q&A. It seems like a good place to put stuff that isn't a question. [1] http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/303865/warlords-of-d...

That is awesome. I was getting tired of solving problems in Nim for the first time, but felt that SO was too question-y to place them, so I created my own little thing, which of course gets a little Google traffic, but nobody really interacts with:

http://nim.community/

Just allowing documentation right on SO is way better.

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