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by Shog9 12y ago
You can approximate this from public data: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/252756/are-high-repu... As noted in the comments there, this tends to be slightly inaccurate, as it ignores changes in reputation
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by Shog9 12y ago
Nice rant. Not sure how this relates to what you're replying to, so I'm not gonna attempt to rebut it... But for future reference, "people are always replaceable" tends to be a euphemism for "we're gonna treat
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by Shog9 12y ago
Every edit "bumps" the post, giving it a bit more visibility. Some folks, upon encountering an unanswered question they also want an answer to, will do some quick copy-editing just to try & get a few more eyeballs on the probl
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by Shog9 12y ago
It's both. The former is inevitable - most people, like the author of this article, spend the bulk of their time up-front: post a lot of answers, enjoy the experience, get tired of it, pull back to only answering the occasional post th
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by Shog9 12y ago
You're both trading slogans and saying nothing. What "things" are bad / improving / getting worse? Access to shelter? Food? Medicine? Where? Even anecdotes are better than this nonsense. Here's one for you: eve
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Except, it generally doesn't mean that either. It means "download the page again and save that - nevermind if what I'm looking at has changed since it was retrieved". Which also breaks the mental model of "save my
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by Shog9 12y ago
Questions that imply you're looking for better ways to spam also tend to fair poorly; can't imagine why. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3905734/how-to-send-100-0... FWIW, legit SEO questions do hav
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by Shog9 12y ago
Not sure what you're asking; we have to publish it or else it ain't exactly a website. Beyond that, not only are there plenty of sites scraping us (the better ones use the API, the worst ones don't throttle and get throttled)
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So, edit it then! Even if you don't have an account, there'll be an "improve this question" link right below the question that'll let anyone submit improvements. They'll be reviewed, and, if approved, will imme
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Good discussion of that here: http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/79435/what-is-stack-... (includes an answer from... a guy behind one of those paywall sites). Worth keeping in mind that, because everything co
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by Shog9 12y ago
Not really. The usual guidelines are "have a portfolio of some sort" - IOW, something you can use to demonstrate what you know instead of just leaning on a sad list of keywords. That can be a nice SO profile, but could also be a
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by Shog9 12y ago
There are multiple definitions for forum. The standard Internet definition is indeed "hang out, post lots of BS, troll newbs" - but the broader definition is simply "a venue for exchanging ideas", and SE certainly fits t
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by Shog9 12y ago
If you can figure out a way to make phone manufacturers and mobile service providers care about any kind of deadline for updates, you'll be doing the world a great service.
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by Shog9 12y ago
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.findsdk.ap... I won't even run the Facebook or LinkedIn apps without locking them down first. Frankly, it's somewhat negligent that this isn't built
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by Shog9 12y ago
That's an interesting interpretation. But now I need an excuse to write, "He had a heart like a text message, phoning in his emotions like a telegraph."
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No, but not for lack of trying. I can imagine trying to solve a problem like this in either; in theory, this is exactly the sort of thing the automation APIs should be good for... In practice, you would get close and then hit a wall because
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by Shog9 12y ago
Ironically, Genius tried to game search results and now almost never shows up in them (for me at least). An (anonymous) search for "shake hands with beef lyrics" turns up azlyrics.com, lyricsfreak.com as #1 and #2, followed by Wik
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by Shog9 12y ago
Wouldn't have to be. You don't have to partner with SO to allow folks to ask questions about your product; they just have to be programming questions. Ideally good ones. Also helps a lot if you answer them. If you want to go furth
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by Shog9 12y ago
It's not as though SO hasn't been the de-facto support site for C# for years; what's one more platform? If Microsoft wants to go where folks are already asking questions on its products and answer them then more power to
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by Shog9 12y ago
Absolutely. Given it's a site for programming questions, I would tend to assume that end-user questions would not do well at all. Perhaps this is why the article mentions using SO for Web Developer support and not end-user support?
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by Shog9 12y ago
To be fair, Quora has made very little effort to compete in SO's area. In a sense, both sites were created to solve entirely different problems, albeit problems that traditionally occur in the same space... - SO is the answer to the qu
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by Shog9 12y ago
I know someone whose Quora account was disabled a while back because he refused to use his "real name". No idea if they still have that policy; my own account is evidence that they don't enforce it across the board (and reall
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by Shog9 12y ago
This is where knowing the full Knuth quote helps... > Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong
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by Shog9 12y ago
The other response you'll see all the time? "Measure it!" Low-level optimization is not a task to be undertaken casually. If you don't know where to look, you can end up just wasting a lot of programmer time for zero rea
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by Shog9 12y ago
I'll respect your wishes by not getting into the history of the term "burger" (but if you wish to delve, you'll find it plenty creepy enough on its own, were you to take it literally). Point is, we tend to seek efficient
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Pork belly is delicious, but generally when folks talk about pork belly they're not talking about bacon. You don't really need to read too much into it. I doubt folks refrain from referring to couscous as "wheat" becau
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Why are you comparing the cost of the water to your house with the cost of beef at the source? You sure as hell aren't paying $1/lb for beef, and remember that the water you're using in your shower has to be transported and t
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by Shog9 12y ago
Yes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broccoflower Google is your friend. FWIW, an awful lot of seed growing involves preventing unwanted crosses, but unless you were saving seeds from your garden you might overlook this
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You can email us (as George said) or you can just punch your email address into the account recovery tool and get an automated email telling you what to click within the space of a few minutes: http://stackoverflow.com/users
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by Shog9 12y ago
Basic accounting should be taught. Heck, teach basic cooking, basic construction, basic plumbing, basic engine repair. Chances are, you're gonna need a basic understanding of all of these eventually... And if nothing else, it's

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