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26 questions linked to/from What goes on Software Engineering (previously known as Programmers)? A guide for Stack Overflow
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What's the difference between Programmers and Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
What's the difference between Programmers and Stack Overflow?
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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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Open letter to students with homework problems
It is September once again (today is the 8755th day of September), and once again students are asking their homework problems on Stack Overflow and SoftwareEngineering.SE.
We start seeing questions ...
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Why was my question closed or down voted?
Help! My question was closed (or down voted). Why? And what can I do about it?
Downvoted
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Off topic
What technology to take up next
Recommend a software library, tool, book, research paper,...
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Discuss this ${blog}
Occasionally there are questions asked that seek to explain some soundbite of thing someone said or wrote.
These questions take a few sentences from a larger piece and ask what it means, or disprove ...
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Why is research important?
You've probably seen it somewhere
Sharing your research helps everyone. Tell us what you've tried and why
it didn’t meet your needs. This demonstrates that you’ve taken the time
to try to ...
user40980
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I have a question, but it may not fit best on Software Engineering. Where else can I ask it?
What other Stack Exchange sites are there that may be able to answer my questions about software engineering or software development?
Thomas OwensMod
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Is the rebranding of this site intended to change the acceptability of pure opinion questions?
Virtually every question from this site that I see on the 'hot questions' list strikes me as a pure exercise in eliciting conflicting opinions. They may be expert opinions, or they may not, but they ...
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When is a software licensing question on topic?
I would like to ask a question about software licensing. The help center says:
If you have a question about...
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software licensing
and it is not about...
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legal advice or aid
It seems like ...
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New SE Chat Bot feature for identifying when Programmers is mentioned on Stack Overflow
There are some very creative SE users and contributors to Code Review that have used the Stack API to build an open source SE Chat bot that is currently being used for many things.
https://github.com/...
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Is there any point in this site still existing?
Observing the flurry of downvotes on a recent question, I took a moment to click over to Newest Questions and tally up the negatives.
Of the most recent 50 questions at the time I counted, 25 of them ...
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New Site Name and Help Center: Phase I Complete
Previous Discussion: Follow-Up 3: New Site Name and Help Center Discussions
After approval from Ana, I published the discussed updates to the Help Center's /help/on-topic page and the site's /tour. ...
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How do I recommend posting on another Stack Exchange site?
We have all seen it: a user asks a question on Software Engineering that belongs on a different site. There are many technology sites on Stack Exchange, and sometimes navigating the lot of them to ...
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Why was my question so quickly deleted by a moderator?
I asked a question and it was deleted WITHOUT any polite explanation, by Thomas Owens:
I want to learn Symfony but I think, learning Symfony as a first framework is a TITANIC task for someone who ...
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My question is [on-hold] because its primarily opinion-based. How could it be reworded to fit in this site?
I'm mainly an Stack Overflow user. I'm used to moderate there voting and flagging and I believe that I know their rules quite well.
However, I'm new here and I'm still getting used. One thing that I'...
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