Whither Stack Overflow

Post by cel1ne » Mon, Jun 27, 2016, 10:05 PM UTC

Drdrdrq wrote: post #60

cel1ne wrote: post #59

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It's gotten better, but check my comments from some time ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8329034 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9476547 Generally: bad inheritance, bad separation of concern, unidiomatic java (I think much of it was automatically converted from C++), overcomplicated classes and just so many wtf-moments I had. Example: You want to store state. 1. In standard activities you have this rea…

Thanks for the explanation. I guess I never even looked at the names of these callbacks because I just followed the app lifecycle diagram - yeah, I agree, the names could be much better.

Post by hsmallbone » Tue, Jun 28, 2016, 5:04 AM UTC

majewsky wrote: post #53

hsmallbone wrote: post #30

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I often wish there was a site like SO with a great community around building task-oriented code-first samples to replace shoddy project documentation. Often with SO the accepted answer is too specific, outdated or not descriptive enough but its existence locks out better responses. I would prefer a canonical, up-to-date wiki answer than strict authorship most of the time. I've taken a few stabs at building a solution…

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/303865/warlords-of-d...

Post by mafuy » Tue, Jun 28, 2016, 11:19 PM UTC

Drdrdrq wrote: post #49

alixaxel wrote: post #26

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I once thought of a potential solution where the number of reputation you would gain would be directly derived from the number of tag-experts who saw the question (and did not provide an answer). But maybe this would lead to it's own problems too.

Bounty somewhat alleviates this problem, but only partially... Maybe there should be an option to "tip" good answers, where (part of) the tip would be taken from your own score?