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Re: Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time

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nyargh wrote: post #583
Nition wrote: post #525

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I wonder if there could be something like a Wikipedia for programming. A bit like what the book Design Patterns did in 1994, collecting everyone's useful solutions, but on a much larger scale. Everyone shares the best strategies and algorithms for everything, and updates them when new ones come about, and we finally stop reinventing the wheel for every new project. To some extent that was Stack Overflow, and it's als…

An algolwiki is a great idea, but I just wanted to say I got a good chuckle from this, thanks :) > May I suggest "PASTE": Patterns, Algorithms, Solutions, Techniques, and Examples. "Just copy PASTE", they'll say.

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Re: Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time

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Post by nyargh »

roncesvalles wrote: post #630
nyargh wrote: post #585

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And discord is a terrible tool for knowledge collection imo. Their search is ok, but then I find myself digging through long and disjointed message threads, if replies/threading are even used at all by the participants.

Not to mention, it's not indexed by search engines. It's the "deep web".

Yes, its a treasure hunt every single time when some project has most of their discussions on discord. It's awful imo.

Re: Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time

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Post by baq »

0xfaded wrote: post #225

I once published a method for finding the closest distance between an ellipse and a point on SO: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22959698/distance-from-g... I consider it the most beautiful piece of code I've ever written and perhaps my one minor contribution to human knowledge. It uses a method I invented, is just a few lines, and converges in very few iterations. People used to reach out to me all the time with…

If you ask me your blog post is basically a paper, I’d publish to arxiv.

Re: Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time

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Post by eitland »

PeterStuer wrote: post #598
0xfaded wrote: post #225

I once published a method for finding the closest distance between an ellipse and a point on SO: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22959698/distance-from-g... I consider it the most beautiful piece of code I've ever written and perhaps my one minor contribution to human knowledge. It uses a method I invented, is just a few lines, and converges in very few iterations. People used to reach out to me all the time with…

SO in 2013 was a different world from the SO of the 2020's. In the latter world your post would have been moderator classified as 'duplicate' of some basic textbook copy/pasted method posted by a karma grinding CS student and closed.

My experience as well:

Stack Overflow used to (in practice) be a place to ask questions and get help and also help others.

At some point it became all about some mission and not only was it not as useful anymore but it also became a whole lot less fun.

Re: Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time

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Post by Voklen »

Nition wrote: post #525
keepamovin wrote: post #408

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Clearly we need something in between the fauxpen-access of journals and the wilde west of the blogosphere, probably. Why wouldn't the faded ox publish in a paper? Idk, but I guess we need things similar to those circulars that British royal society members used to send to each other...except not reserved for a club. The web should be a natural at this. But it's either centralized -> monetized -> corrupted, or decentr…

I wonder if there could be something like a Wikipedia for programming. A bit like what the book Design Patterns did in 1994, collecting everyone's useful solutions, but on a much larger scale. Everyone shares the best strategies and algorithms for everything, and updates them when new ones come about, and we finally stop reinventing the wheel for every new project. To some extent that was Stack Overflow, and it's als…

Great idea! https://paste.voklen.com/wiki/Main_Page If people start using it I'll get a proper domain name for it.

Re: Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time

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Post by brabel »

fabianholzer wrote: post #589
brabel wrote: post #577

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Questions are never really deleted , post a link so people with enough reputation may have a look and maybe resurrect it if the question is really good.

Why would anyone with an ounce of self-respect try to beg an stranger with enough internet point to look if their question is worthy of being asked? Do you not realize how the proposal must sound to someone who is not already in the SO in-group?

Hm… as the person was new to SO it’s very possible they don’t understand what a good question looks like and I thought it may be helpful to give feedback on what may have gone wrong… but if you see that as “begging” and you don’t think you need any feedback, you have it all sorted out after all, then yeah it’s a waste of everyone’s time.

Re: Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time

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Post by QuesnayJr »

llbeansandrice wrote: post #258
omneity wrote: post #231

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Thinking from first principles, a large part of the content on stack overflow comes from the practical experience and battle scars worn by developers sharing them with others and cross-curating approaches. Privacy concerns notwithstanding, one could argue having LLMs with us every step of the way - coding agents, debugging, devops tools etc. It will be this shared interlocutor with vast swaths of experiential knowled…

Am I the only one that sees this as a hellscape? No longer interacting with your peers but an LLM instead? The knowledge centralized via telemetry and spying on every user’s every interaction and only available thru a enshitified subscription to a model that’s been trained on this stolen data?

I actively hated interacting with the power users on SO, and I feel nothing about an LLM, so it's a definite improvement in QoL for me.
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