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by cruise02 15y ago
I think this would benefit from a killer app a lot more than it would from a trendsetter. A gadget needs to be useful first, stylish second.
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Preserving The Internet... and Everything Else(codinghorror.com)
81 points by cruise02 15y ago|14 comments
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by cruise02 15y ago
The 50 reputation barrier only stops you from commenting. It's a spam prevention measure. Anyone can answer a question (even anonymously) with 1 reputation. Anyone who registers can ask a question.
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by cruise02 15y ago
There is some control over how they're used. In most cases it takes 5 users with at least 3000 reputation to vote to close a question. The close reason that the majority selected is the one that gets displayed. Moderators (and employees
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by cruise02 15y ago
They're not inserted as comments, but as a block of text that's offset from the rest of the post, so I think it's pretty clear that they're auto-inserted. You can search the site for "closed:1" to find questions with different messages tha
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by cruise02 15y ago
I'm not shirking responsibility for putting the responses there. I'm saying that they aren't condescending. The messages are to inform people why their question was closed and to help them improve it.
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by cruise02 15y ago
Provide some links, please.
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by cruise02 15y ago
Comments. What about them? The close message is auto-inserted so we don't have to take the time to comment. Irony, no. My tone here is a response to being called overzealous and condescending. It has nothing to do with my attitude when
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by cruise02 15y ago
After calling us overzealous and condescending do you expect a hug?
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by cruise02 15y ago
> overzealous mods shutting down my questions in the most condescending tone possible. SO moderator here. We just click a link. The pre-defined close reasons are inserted automatically. No one is taking a tone with you.
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by cruise02 15y ago
I don't think you understand the "newbie" problem, as it has nothing to do with reputation and everything to do with real-world knowledge. Until you've proven that you have a little bit of knowledge (and not just arrogantly asserted it) yo
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by cruise02 15y ago
It's spam prevention. Everyone is actively reading questions and answers so spam in those types of posts gets reported immediately and deleted. Comments are unobtrusive (new comments on a post don't bump it back up to the top of the activ
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by cruise02 15y ago
If your answer is accepted with 10 upvotes then being first wasn't the advantage, being right was.
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by cruise02 15y ago
> I can't downvote an answer that is patently absurd. I can't upvote an answer that is right. Apparently that's because I have to prove myself first. Yeah, that's kind of the idea. Why would anyone trust you until you've proven yoursel
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by cruise02 15y ago
If you have thousands of reputation on SO then you should get the 100 point bonus on every site where your accounts are associated. If you don't have it, open a support post on Meta ( http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions ) and we'll try
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by cruise02 15y ago
People rarely upvote crap answers, and all answers are displayed in random order if they have the same score, so being first doesn't really confer any advantage. Quality answers usually float to the top.
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by cruise02 15y ago
Reputation points in niche tags are definitely harder won than in the popular language tags, but (as you've demonstrated) it's easier to climb to the top of a niche tag and establish yourself as an expert. The real-world reputation you gai
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by cruise02 15y ago
Man, tell me about it. I was in the top 10 when I became a mod, now I'm on page 3. btw, this is Bill. :)
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by cruise02 15y ago
You only need 50 reputation to comment anywhere on the site. That's only 5 upvotes on a good answer or 10 upvotes on questions. It's an extremely low bar to get over. Note: You can always comment on your own posts (questions or answers).
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by cruise02 15y ago
Anyone who's working in industry (particularly if you're in any danger of being promoted to project lead) should read Brooks. The others are more language-dependent, but the lessons in MMM and NSB are applicable to everyone in software ind
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by cruise02 15y ago
You're absolutely right. Maybe that should have been "The problem with design patterns ..." That is, it's not a problem with the book itself at all, but a problem with the message in the book being disseminated and often watered down.
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by cruise02 15y ago
I'm the author of that post. SICP is definitely the book that people most often tell me I missed when they read this. I hadn't even cracked it open at the time I wrote the post, so I didn't feel qualified to comment on it. (I've started
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How to Hire a Programmer(codinghorror.com)
250 points by cruise02 15y ago|144 comments
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by cruise02 15y ago
There are already a ton of clones doing this. We keep a list. http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2267/stack-overflow-...
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by cruise02 15y ago
Why speculate on what might happen? I can always bail out and stop contributing if something changes and Stack Overflow stops being a valuable resource for me as a developer.
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by cruise02 15y ago
You said "probably" twice in that sentence, which is a clear sign that you're speculating. There's no indication that they're not satisfied with their current ROI either. I'll be a contributing member of SO until I actually see evidence
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by cruise02 15y ago
I think you're asking the wrong question. Show me how the need for ROI has hurt the current user experience.
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by cruise02 15y ago
What you've constructed here is called a straw-man argument.
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by cruise02 15y ago
Very nice. Thanks for including links to other graph libraries in your README on github. I have a "weekend" project coming up that requires this style of graph, so I'll be sure to try your library out.
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"If competition is using 'lingua obscura' for dev (why) should I be worried?"(programmers.stackexchange.com)
2 points by cruise02 15y ago|0 comments

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