This is a request for the SO chat system to have an XMPP interface.
The whole idea of a chat system is to bring people together, and a key way of doing that is to allow people to access the system using more than one method. Right now there's a web interface, but it's limited to being a web inte...
StackOverflow: you post a detailed answer, which in an objective, clear way explains what the question was asking,,providing links (if applicable) to more information
There's two (at least) conflicting views of Programmers. The first is that of the proposer and a lot of the early committers - that it's somewhere to ask all the questions that aren't allowed on SO.
yeah, enter the zen of just ignoring that even though everything's cw it still matters that you pick an answer because, by the way, we're going to remove the whole category of cw
One of the topics that's come up several times on Meta.StackOverflow is the perception that Programmers.SE is a joke proposal, existing solely to help keep Stack Overflow free of all the "crappy" questions that it gets plagued with every day.
A few of examples of this perception (note: see Edits...
It seems like they're trying to "fix" programmers.se by merging in other less crazy proposals to try and flood it with normal questions, and I'm not sure which group will hate that more, programmers.se or the normal proposals that were sacrificed
Part of me wants there to be a place to discuss the "fluff" both to ensure it doesn't keep coming up on SO but also because I think people want to discuss these things.
@ChrisF That was the main reason I was for it -- time has proven people can't stop themselves from posting those questions, so I'd rather it be on an SE than SO
yes. again, ward's wiki -- it was/is huge. just look at the influence it had on the world through wikipedia picking it up. these kinds of formats need to exist
without some programmer saying to himself, 'i want a loosely-programming based site for idea exchange', wikipedia would not exist
it's that simple... sure it would exist eventually
but, if you can acquire points by not being smart, that's a power vacuum... it's survival of the fittest, ie the growing pains get you somewhere sensible, 'cause you can trust those guys who are at 89k on s.o.
but not if you can get lots of points by answering subjective questions
Exactly. On most sites rep indicates you provided a lot of helpful answers, but on programmers it pretty much just means you've answered a lot, since it's hard to be "wrong" on most of those questions. Similar to how in most chat rooms pinned messages mean it's something important, but here it just means it's some random youtube video Chacha102 likes
lucky you. not so hot on the food actually, i prefer Chinese, but the beer's good... they're the ones who taught the Chinese how to make beer after all
I heard that there is a way to cook a whole fish in a dishwasher - any techniques, tips??
