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Follow-Up 3: New Site Name and Help Center Discussions
Chat Transcript: New Site Name discussion Sep 9, 2016
Previous Discussion: Follow-Up 2: New Site Name and Scope Proposals
Ana stopped by (Shog was not available today), and maple_shaft was around. ...
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Follow-Up 2: New Site Name and Scope Proposals
After a discussion today (July 22nd) with Ana and Shog9, we've made some more progress toward a new site name and scope. You can check out the transcript for the full details, but we talked about the ...
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Follow-Up: New Site Name and Scope Proposals
I've been pondering these proposed changes to the site's name and scope for the past few weeks. This was, you'll recall, instigated by Ana's response to Rachel's proposal for a new name for this site.....
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New Site Name and Scope Proposals
From Ana, a Stack Exchange Community Manager in the previous question about changing the site name:
It took us a good while, but the Community Team has circled up and
here's where we stand on your ...
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Why are implementation and debugging questions off-topic on Software Engineering?
Questions that are asking for debugging ("help me find this error") or implementation ("how do I write...") have tended to be closed and down voted.
Why is this? And where should I ask these ...
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Why was "Why aren't young programmers interested in mainframes?" re-opened?
Every day we get opinionated questions asked here. People seem to think that this is the place to ask them. New users point to the old open questions that have fallen through the cracks of time as ...
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About that "Good Subjective Bad Subjective" blog post and Programmers
In the continuing effort to clean up our image and the historical pathways that people find Programmers.SE (in the spirit of Update "Introducing Programmers" blog to reflect site scope ...
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Update "Introducing Programmers" blog to reflect site scope change
In the Introducing programmers.stackexchange.com blog post, Jeff announces our site with great fanfare. And while I'm all for promoting our site, there are a few problems with that post that I think ...
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On a name for the site and the questions asked
An often reoccurring idea that is mentioned is that maybe, if the site name was changed from "Programmers" to something else (SoftwareEngineering?) then maybe, people would stop asking off topic, too ...
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Ok, I'm confused about what people think Programmers *should be*
With this recent spurt of activity on meta, a number of opinions have come out. A number of these describe some rather radical changes.
(please pardon me if I ascribe rather extreme positions)
On ...
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Are you still confused about what Programmers (now called Software Engineering) is for?
I'm going to try and keep this short, because a lot of it has already been discussed. If you are interested in the history, you can find it here on Programmers Meta, but here's a very brief recap:
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Programmers tag line is misleading. Can we rephrase it? [closed]
I think the Programmers tag line is misleading when mixed with our site name, and that it implies on first glance that the site is about "Programmers [interested in conceptual questions about software ...
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What is the history behind the site scope change from NPR to "conceptual questions about software development"?
How did the topic of this site to change from "Not-Programming-Related" to "conceptual questions about software development"?
I've tried looking through meta questions to find where the change in ...
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Is this site solely for career programmers?
This image from the faq is confusing me:
It's excluding people who know programming but don't have a career in it. Is this correct?
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Is Programmers.SE a discussion board or a Q&A board?
I recently posted this question on programmers.SE and it was suggested that I move part of the question to meta. I was asking if there was a good forum/discussion board I could find online to talk to ...
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Do you think the "programming related movies/documentaries" question should be sanitized?
I asked this question back at the private beta phase after watching Pirates of Silicon Valley and Revolution OS, which I found to be both enjoyable and informative, and I wanted to find more movies ...
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Does "objective" vs. "subjective" confuse the purpose of this site?
I've followed the evolution of this site for a little while now and I must say I am a little confused.
I'm looking for a single place where I can join a community of, what might commonly be called, ...
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What's the difference between Programmers and Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
What's the difference between Programmers and Stack Overflow?