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I used to spend quite a bit of time on SO and OnStartups. I haven't contributed to any of their sites since the ridiculous deletion of OnStartups due to the op
by anexprogrammer 10y ago
I used to spend quite a bit of time on SO and OnStartups.
I haven't contributed to any of their sites since the ridiculous deletion of OnStartups due to the opinion of one moderator (If I remember correctly, which is vague now). I don't care that I lost half my rep. Some people had put really lengthy, researched, answers and a valuable resource was just rm'd.
There's far too many silos. Sure separate maths from games from Java. You have a tech question, is it webmaster, server fault, super user, or what? Seems like there's a very slim chance of getting it right first time. Sometimes it's the remit of several but none seem to want it. Or get marked as duplicate when it's fundamentally different to the marked duplicate.
Some of the subjective questions have attracted the best, or most useful, answers. Even when they've survived years they still sometimes get deleted.
Stack Exchange isn't worth the effort any more.
- DanielStraight 10y agoWow... you're not kidding about the silos. I haven't used Stack Overflow much lately, so I thought it was still just Stack Overflow and Super User. Instead... Stack Overflow Server Fault Super User Web Applications Webmasters Game Development Tex - LaTeX Unix & Linux Stack Apps Ask Ubuntu Wordpress Development User Experience Theoretical Computer Science Programmers Information Security Database Administrators Code Review Programming Puzzles & Code Golf Drupal Answers SharePoint Software Quality Assurance & Testing Computational Science Mathematica Computer Science Raspberry Pi Network Engineering Open Data Software Recommendations Arduino Joomla Data Science Emacs Vi and Vim Open Source Computer Graphics Hardware Recommendations 3D Printing Retro Computing And I'm sure I missed some. Unbelievable amount of fragmentation. Anyone want to take a crack at explaining the difference between "Computer Science" and "Theoretical Computer Science"?
- mafuy 10y agoI'm remotely involved there and my reply would be that TCS is research level while CS is not. There seems to be significant overlap in the questions, regardless.