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Given the current user revolt over there regarding recent political shenanigans by the mods (and CEO), I'd be keen to see how their trends track over the next f

Given the current user revolt over there regarding recent political shenanigans by the mods (and CEO), I'd be keen to see how their trends track over the next few years. http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/342903/well-always-endeavor-to-do-whats-right-well-try-to-do-it-better-next-time?noredirect=1&lq=1 http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/342903/well-always-e...

freehunter 10y ago
If there is a "user revolt" over something like that, whether you feel the post was right or wrong, that necessarily implies there is competition to SO and people can move to another community. I am not going to get involved in politics here or question your statement, what I'm asking is this: where would people go? What's the competition to SO? If people decided they didn't like Joel's views on politics, they'd load up another browser tab and type in "www." [what?] ".com". HN isn't going to answer why ActiveRecord is sorting my psql object backwards. Quora isn't going to help me figure out why Lua counts from 1 instead of from 0. Reddit isn't terribly friendly to my questions about Java regex vs PHP regex. If I was offended by Joel and wanted to voice that by leaving the site, where would I turn?
- legostormtroopr 10y ago
  You get to a certain point in your experience where you have fewer questions to ask, and most of the questions I do have are already answered. Its possible to continue to use SO without contributing to it, which is what quite a few people in that thread had said they would do.
  - sah2ed 10y ago
    > You get to a certain point in your experience where you have fewer questions to ask, and most of the questions I do have are already answered. That assertion is correct if you are at the cusp of retirement. For most people, they'll need to re-tool by picking new technologies during their careers to round out their experience. The blunt truth is that, not keeping up with new languages/frameworks/stacks etc will mean that such folks will become very unemployable long before they reach 50 [0] unless they transition into a management role. [0] http://liveblog.co/users/davewiner/2015/05/06/iWouldHaveHiredDougBut.html http://liveblog.co/users/davewiner/2015/05/06/iWouldHaveHire...
- mmjaa 10y ago
  > Quora isn't going to help me figure out why Lua counts from 1 instead of from 0. What is amazing though, is RTFM'ing will .. but who does that these days? RTFM'ing is just 'old' googling, nichtwa? Have we really built programming tools so complex that they require the Internet?
sah2ed 10y ago
I actually didn't know about the user revolt which you speak of, so thank you for at least bringing it up.

freehunter 10y ago

If there is a "user revolt" over something like that, whether you feel the post was right or wrong, that necessarily implies there is competition to SO and people can move to another community. I am not going to get involved in politics here or question your statement, what I'm asking is this: where would people go? What's the competition to SO? If people decided they didn't like Joel's views on politics, they'd load up another browser tab and type in "www." [what?] ".com". HN isn't going to answer why ActiveRecord is sorting my psql object backwards. Quora isn't going to help me figure out why Lua counts from 1 instead of from 0. Reddit isn't terribly friendly to my questions about Java regex vs PHP regex. If I was offended by Joel and wanted to voice that by leaving the site, where would I turn?

legostormtroopr 10y ago
You get to a certain point in your experience where you have fewer questions to ask, and most of the questions I do have are already answered. Its possible to continue to use SO without contributing to it, which is what quite a few people in that thread had said they would do.
- sah2ed 10y ago
  > You get to a certain point in your experience where you have fewer questions to ask, and most of the questions I do have are already answered. That assertion is correct if you are at the cusp of retirement. For most people, they'll need to re-tool by picking new technologies during their careers to round out their experience. The blunt truth is that, not keeping up with new languages/frameworks/stacks etc will mean that such folks will become very unemployable long before they reach 50 [0] unless they transition into a management role. [0] http://liveblog.co/users/davewiner/2015/05/06/iWouldHaveHiredDougBut.html http://liveblog.co/users/davewiner/2015/05/06/iWouldHaveHire...
mmjaa 10y ago
> Quora isn't going to help me figure out why Lua counts from 1 instead of from 0. What is amazing though, is RTFM'ing will .. but who does that these days? RTFM'ing is just 'old' googling, nichtwa? Have we really built programming tools so complex that they require the Internet?

sah2ed 10y ago

I actually didn't know about the user revolt which you speak of, so thank you for at least bringing it up.