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>This is practical, answerable, an actual problem someone has faced (presumably for a programming interview sorry but, "faced at an interview" is far from "act

by batista 14y ago

>This is practical, answerable, an actual problem someone has faced (presumably for a programming interview sorry but, "faced at an interview" is far from "actual problems that you face". Interviews contain all kind of junk, abstact and bs questions...

ximeng 14y ago
This question is not "junk, abstact and bs", it's concrete though terse, and substantial. It is also clearly a problem he's faced. Perhaps the fact that he's not hit this issue while producing a product or experiencing this problem in everyday working life is the concern? Or lack of generality? In any case this is within a reasonable interpretation of the guidelines, and as Jeff points out in this thread, within the spirit of what he intended for the site. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabin%E2%80%93Karp_algorithm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabin%E2%80%93Karp_algorithm shows serious research into a similar problem. It is depressing that useful questions and answers like this are judged on whether they are homework or interview questions, not on the quality of the response. The discussion on meta shows no appreciation of the quality of btilly's contributions to the site. I'm not surprised he's leaving, and I agree StackOverflow will be worse without his answers. What do you think?
- batista 14y ago
  >The discussion on meta shows no appreciation of the quality of btilly's contributions to the site. I'm not surprised he's leaving, and I agree StackOverflow will be worse without his answers. What do you think? It's not about the "quality of the contributions", it's about their appropriateness. If a great chef goes to a Burger King and starts making his own stuff when asked for a burger, he might make very high quality stuff, but that doesn't mean he wont be fired. Same here, there might be "serious research into a similar problem", but that doesn't mean it's appropriate for Stack Overflow. They want more of the "I face this particular problem in my project" type of stuff. Practical things, like, e.g "how can I store a blob into Oracle from Python" or "why does this html5 canvas project get a low framerate".
  - btilly 14y ago
    I love how you use the impersonal "they". Who would that actually be? The actual users of the site? No, they voted it up. The founders of the site? No, Jeff Atwood in this very discussion said that he thought it was on topic. No, the "they" in question seem to be the people who hang out on meta, and who spend a serious fraction of their time agreeing on and enforcing rules against everyone else. Perhaps if "they" stopped to ask whether they should be acting in a way that is not wanted by users, at least one founder, and which drives away contributers, then they might act differently. Seriously, when you're applying a FAQ and come to the opposite conclusion from the people who wrote it, something is wrong.

by batista 14y ago

ximeng 14y ago

This question is not "junk, abstact and bs", it's concrete though terse, and substantial. It is also clearly a problem he's faced. Perhaps the fact that he's not hit this issue while producing a product or experiencing this problem in everyday working life is the concern? Or lack of generality? In any case this is within a reasonable interpretation of the guidelines, and as Jeff points out in this thread, within the spirit of what he intended for the site. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabin%E2%80%93Karp_algorithm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabin%E2%80%93Karp_algorithm shows serious research into a similar problem. It is depressing that useful questions and answers like this are judged on whether they are homework or interview questions, not on the quality of the response. The discussion on meta shows no appreciation of the quality of btilly's contributions to the site. I'm not surprised he's leaving, and I agree StackOverflow will be worse without his answers. What do you think?

batista 14y ago
>The discussion on meta shows no appreciation of the quality of btilly's contributions to the site. I'm not surprised he's leaving, and I agree StackOverflow will be worse without his answers. What do you think? It's not about the "quality of the contributions", it's about their appropriateness. If a great chef goes to a Burger King and starts making his own stuff when asked for a burger, he might make very high quality stuff, but that doesn't mean he wont be fired. Same here, there might be "serious research into a similar problem", but that doesn't mean it's appropriate for Stack Overflow. They want more of the "I face this particular problem in my project" type of stuff. Practical things, like, e.g "how can I store a blob into Oracle from Python" or "why does this html5 canvas project get a low framerate".
- btilly 14y ago
  I love how you use the impersonal "they". Who would that actually be? The actual users of the site? No, they voted it up. The founders of the site? No, Jeff Atwood in this very discussion said that he thought it was on topic. No, the "they" in question seem to be the people who hang out on meta, and who spend a serious fraction of their time agreeing on and enforcing rules against everyone else. Perhaps if "they" stopped to ask whether they should be acting in a way that is not wanted by users, at least one founder, and which drives away contributers, then they might act differently. Seriously, when you're applying a FAQ and come to the opposite conclusion from the people who wrote it, something is wrong.