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32 questions linked to/from What's the difference between Programmers and Stack Overflow?
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What goes on Software Engineering (previously known as Programmers)? A guide for Stack Overflow
Moderator Note: Programmers changed its name recently to Software Engineering.
This post has been updated to reflect the new scope, but it still refers to Programmers for historical reasons. Wherever ...
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rule for posting Software Engineering vs stackoverflow [duplicate]
This is general question regarding guideline of where to post non-technical questions.
I had non-technical question at
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15653199/free-compiler-ide-for-writing-...
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How to use "Software Engineering" well?
Still feeling not very clear about Stack Overflow and Software Engineering after reading: rule for posting programmers vs stackoverflow, so continue to this post, here goes my questions:
"... Stack ...
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Will runnable stack-snippets ever be a feature for this site?
StackOverflow has had runnable snippets for a number of years. I notice the feature is absent from this site.
It's been noted that having source code in your question is okay here, so will this ...
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The Six Subjective Question Guidelines -- Enforcement Notice
Just a quick note here on meta to let everyone know we will be enforcing these six subjective question guidelines.
Great subjective questions...
inspire answers that explain “why” and “how”.
tend to ...
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Sidebar is FAQ'ed, lets update the FAQ tags
Yes! The sidebar has been FAQed!
Our faq has 18 questions in it while faq-proposed has 40 more. What questions should move there for easier access for people unfamiliar with the workings of meta?
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Update our FAQ to improve the on-topic definition [closed]
There are two proposals here:
The original proposal was to change the FAQ and site scope to more accurately reflect the site's name. It was created because of the votes and responses received on this ...
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Can anyone define how the Programmers stack exchange is different from Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
I have been lurking here for quite some time, and have seen questions that could probably be posted on stack overflow and get similar or even better answers. I am looking for a simple explanation as ...
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Add a question link to the tour
What's the difference between Programmers and Stack Overflow?
This question should be added to the tour of programmers.stackexchange.com IMHO.
Every programmer coming on the site tries to know ...
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Programmers vs Stack Overflow, why does this site exist? [duplicate]
This site really does baffle me. I do not understand what question someone could ask here that he or she could not ask on Stack Overflow.
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How is this site different than StackOverflow [duplicate]
The purpose of this site is presumably to help professional programmers with programming tasks they encounter in the course of their work. Both sites contain code examples, so that doesn't seem to be ...
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how about combining Programmers and Stack Overflow?
I am curious, why not combine this site into Stack Overflow?
Add a meta-tag so it's clear about discussion and it's an open topic for general questions not directly code problem related.
The benefit,...
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What is the difference between Stack Overflow and Programmers? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What's the difference between Programmers and Stack Overflow?
What is the difference between "Stack Overflow" and "Programmers" on Stack Exchange?
I know that on Stack ...
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Can we make the FAQ (tag) more FAQ-y?
Right now we have just 8 faq posts.
That's not terrible, but they are in various states, various formats, and one of them is even closed.
I think it would be great to clean up these posts, decide on a ...
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