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Less cynically, Stack Overflow is about specific answers to specific questions. Any question broad enough to be interesting to a site like Hacker News is too br
by thristian 15y ago
Less cynically, Stack Overflow is about specific answers to specific questions. Any question broad enough to be interesting to a site like Hacker News is too broad for Stack Overflow, apparently.
- etfb 15y agoMakes sense, but it's insane. More general answers are more generally useful than specific ones, by definition.
- thristian 15y agoNot always. The only question that the linked StackOverflow page can answer is "What Emacs features did a self-selecting set of StackOverflow users find particularly useful as of early December 2011". While it's quite possible that somebody might someday want that very specific piece of information, I can't blame Joel and Jeff for preferring that particular database-space had been used to record a workaround or explanation for some uncommon error message.