@rchern Agreed. My sleep routine is so screwy now that I don't go to bed anymore...I just wake up randomly and realize that time passed since the last thing I remember, heh.
I hear that argument all the time from users upset that I've voted to close their question. I promise I've never at any point voted to close and then screamed "THE POWER!" and punched the air
Usually I close the tab and forget about the question forever
any site with front page questions that are > 3 days old needs to never close anything other than spam. Everything else needs to be edited into a decent format
rather than cross posting, a single question that appears in several
and closure on one site doesn't kill the question, and answers on any site appear on all
then we effectively have a huge Q & A database, with "front pages" being just filters on the database
reputation being awarded on all the sites that the question was valid on, perhaps with more rep on the site that you answered from
then people who really want a Compiler Design "community" can have their own private filter, reputation and ranking setup, whilst questions that are also programming related appear to those who want more general programming questions
@AdamWright From my point of view the reason to have a compiler/language design site was not to filter out programming questions, but to not split the "community" between two sites. Theoretical PLT questions will often receive close votes on SO, while programming related questions will be closed on cstheory. Also the cstheory site wants to be for "research level" questions only, so that excludes a large group of people who were interested in the Area51 proposal right there.
where my SOF rep is worthless when answering a programming question in e.g. game development, my math.se rep is worthless answering a discrete math question on cstheory, and so on
@sepp2k - But that splits it three ways. The pure theory will end up on cstheory, programming on SOF, and "ambiguous" on compilerdesign
The alternative is that perfectly valid cstheory/sof questions will not be posted on those sites, and will lose decent eyeballs
the key point for these sites is community size. people who want tiny walled gardens will just create micro-communities that either turn into tiny cliques, or just die
so we end up with sites like csthoery, which has created a defacto policy of "Research level discrete mathematics questions"
which is basically mathoverflow.net with a suitable arvix tag for "discrete math"
except lots of people who mostly do analysis but might have answered some of these questions no longer see them
@AdamWright It's not like you don't have a point, but I do think that even the pure theory plt questions will be more likely to be answered on a site with a large population of plt people than on cstheory
it'd be like stack overflow, but with a different site for each language class. "Pure functional language overflow". "Mutable state language overflow". "Declarative language overflow"
Would three of those sites have been a good idea? Or just one, with tagging?
I just don't see how the community is aided by taking one area, and shattering it into lots of sub-areas that never talk to each other
Rather than having one community, with flimsy partitions for separation when needed (i.e. tags)
cstheory is currently basically mathoverflow.net for a class of discrete maths. So it should've just been mathoverflow.net with tagging, or have a wider scope
And now some of the compiler design people have setup one of the SOF OS clones to be their new home. Pretty sure it'll fail, but still
I guess I'm just annoyed that I have to check 5 SE sites a day now, rather than 2
Since there is no way to accurately calculate how much relevant one topic is on another site, there is no way you can formulate any such rules that makes all the "right" choices
@AdamWright I completely agreed with that until today. Now I'm not so sure. I don't think the unix site would have done nearly as well on launch as the ubuntu site did, even if they were merged.
The fact is that many ubuntu users are more likely to join an ubuntu-site than a linux-site simply because the ubuntu community's sense of self (of whatever)
I still think it'd be nice if the sites make an effort to keep Ubuntu-specific stuff on Ubuntu and everything else on Unix/Linux, but the odds of that actually happening are about 0
I've read Near-duplicate or “subset” proposals on Area51 and understand the "wait and see" process that @Robert C. is suggesting. I have had some comments on my proposal, Algorithms and Data Structures suggesting that it is a subset of Theoretical Computer Science. If the community at large feels...
@LasseVKarlsen - I accidentally typed chat.stackoverflow.com on my iPad and I found it. I would be a useful beta tester because I'm on an iPad. Hence, a new device neon tested.
Because we like it here? If the room always had different people in it it would imply this room sucks and it takes people an hour or two to notice and leave forever
@LasseVKarlsen - thanks. One is religious oriented, the free one is Jewish music and Uncle Fred is like the magic 8 ball, by mattel, but it tells eyeball jokes. More apps and updates to these on the way.
There should be a "touch.so" , like touch.Facebook.com
@LasseVKarlsen - (positive) reviews and ratings are appreciated.
@Aiden - you can review too. Also, if anyone wants to test my apps, get in touch and send my your UDID So I can add your device to my list of provisioned devices. Testers get promo codes to the final version of the app.
I just got "Learning iOS game programming" by Micheal Daley. And I have an idea.
I'm trying to find an old Bloom County strip that did a great job illustrating factionalism and building borders between people. If I walk a few feet over and spend an hour looking through my old books, I'm sure I'd find it
I'm not sure any were given out yet, since they tend to be in meta answers or blog posts, and I haven't seen either. I would expect they'd at least give it out here, since there's only like 20 of us
@LasseVKarlsen You have to just have to find @Feeds. It's like finding the leprechaun's pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, only if you follow rainbows here you'll be mauled by unicorns.
I wonder if I'm letting pissyness get the better of me: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3902474/no-control-name-in-windows-phone-properties-list/3902604#3902604
@moshe: well, that's actually kinda why I responded the way I did. I don't have any experience with WP7 at all. I just fired up VS and figured out the answer.
No, I said from the beginning that I want to use it with my Mac.
I am not changing any spec.
@Micheal - what language do you use for those USB drivers?
@LasseVKarlsen - also, you didn't hear me out. My spec is: a driver that should allow me to plug a USB device into my windows laptop and my iMac should treat it as if it is plugged in locally. </spec>
I frequently see many questions (and very few times answers) where the code provided is not formatted or indented well. I don't want to sound like a format czar, little bit here or there is perfectly okay, but sometimes it is so out of shape that it becomes distracting and bothersome and I can't ...
