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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...
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.
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.
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…
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 I do wish they'd add an "out of date" button to flag questions/answers that are no longer relevant or just plain wrong.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.
I have to resort to SO a couple of times a month, so before SO (and other such) it was 95% the same as it is now. I probably would have found much more use for it in my first year or so as a programmer, but at least from my own experience, once I had familiarity with my tools and libraries, the kind of problems that require digging on the internet aren't the kind easily put into bite-sized Q&A. Maybe it's different f…
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To this day, mailing lists remain the authoritative sources for technical problems beyond the cursory.
I found mailing lists to be the most annoying, prehistoric and bizarre way of getting help for anything other than dying...
Now, though, if I have a perl question, my first step is just searching my email. After years of aggregating, it's got some solid answers.
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
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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.