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I did follow the electronics site (it was chiphacker.com previously but then got converted into electronics.stackexchange.com which caters to both electronics a
by rick_2047 16y ago
I did follow the electronics site (it was chiphacker.com previously but then got converted into electronics.stackexchange.com which caters to both electronics and robotics crowd). I find that it is a bad idea. I don't think it will die off but it will remain an hobby electronics site for the rest of the eternity. I don't think good EE people are that much into forming a community over the internet.
I am also against them answering stupid questions like "How do you calculate the resistance using bands on a resistor?". I know I know stackexchange wants to make all the answer available at one place but this is just stupid. Google can find you the answer, wikipedia is already summarizing the general knowledge, the why repeat an answer again and again?
- csytan 16y agoWhen I'm googling for a programming question, I value stackoverflow answers over other blogs and forums. I may find the same information at different sites, but stackoverflow is usually very concise and up to date.
- rick_2047 16y agoI am not against putting up answers to a problem which may arise for even a beginner programmer. But hey, you would call a programmer beginner when he/she would at least know the syntax enough to write a "Hello world" type of program. Below that I would just recommend reading material which are in the top google results anyways.
- robryan 16y agoI guess stackexchange wants to be where people go when they do Google a basic question.