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So few people know about stackexchange.com, it's astounding. As far as I can tell, it's virtually unknown outside of the community of mathematicians/programmers, but the site has members who will answer virtually any question you want answered with a high degree of specificity and expertise. It's pretty much what optimistic people twenty years ago envisioned the internet would be used for.
Edit: I forgot that programmers actually use the site much more than mathematicians do.
Actually stack exchange ~~bought it up and~~ expanded the community. Now they have forums for a huge range of topics from tech stuff to philosophy, history, religion, games, and more.
I have to be careful when I'm looking for programming help because it's too easy to see interesting topics on the side bar and then lose 2 hours in a rabbit hole.
I'm new to reddit, but not to other sites who use similar functionality to manage content, like stack exchange. I think the problem is not the karma system, but the way it is used. On Stack Overflow, for example, they encourage you to vote up insightful, well presented, elaborate questions, and for the most part, up-votes take work to achieve.
I think the problem is the mindset for which an upvote is cast on reddit. Instead of only rewarding content based on originality, creativity, the amount of work put into a posting, and elaborateness of the idea presented, upvotes are given for lol-factor, similar opinions, and shock value. This means that unoriginal garbage gets upvotes because it induced at least a smile, while someone writing piece of incredible thought and creativity receives little attention because it's "TLDR". Images are instant gratification, where as reading something takes effort. We are a lazy culture who doesn't want to read. We want to look at an image and get the joke or meaning in 2 seconds and move on. And that is precisely the problem.
The solution to this problem: http://stackexchange.com/
The Q&A remain alive there and are much more likely to be updated with relevant information and supplied with a good answer. And, you can always bump an old question up to the front page and/or alert the asker or answerers that you need more information.
I wouldn't say it's manly for programmers. StackOverflow (the StackExchange for programmers) simply is the largest, but there are many more.
StackOverflow actually has a bias towards heavy users. There are people who give bad answers but demand checkmarks. There was some controversy over it recently and I'm unable to find it but it was like, within the past month.
Also, while you can ask anything on expert sex change, you can't on stackoverflow. That's why they created StackExchange. It even has a similar name to Experts Exchange, and there's a reason for that.
So, let me FTFY:
>Let me show you something: StackExchange
> LOL, if you have to scale vertically, you're already doomed
Stack Overflow running on a single SQL Server instance.
> This is why there's a strong move away from RDBMS in general
Those movers move back to RDBMS, just like they did before when there were "strong moves" away from RDBMS towards object databases, or XML databases.
It means Monero will have its own Stack Exchange site soon, which is wonderful for many reasons. I encourage you to open a Stack Exchange account and start exploring to understand how helpful it is: http://stackexchange.com/sites#traffic
The majority of my work involves Matlab and I rarely use anything outside of three sources: Mathworks Documentation Center, Matlab Central and/or StackExchange. That being said, any Google search with the word Matlab in it should cover all three of these.
The guys that did Stack Overflow opened up their backend and created Stack Exchange so anyone can use it.
They're making the Internet a better place.
In theory 'n00b' questions are typically part of a lack of understanding of the concept as a whole. Sure you ask 'what does SET !LOOP do?' but unless you understand what a loop is, unless you understand how to input variables, etc etc it's not particularly helpful. These kinds of questions don't benefit greatly from a large discussion and back and forth about them. In short 'n00b' questions are typically best answered by lessons, tutorials and walkthroughs. Finally what would be the benefit of not allowing advanced questions? One person's beginner is another person's advanced and as you learn what's advanced to you will change. Communities that are dependant on a constant influx of new low knowledge people to drive content are going to have a hard time growing and maturing.
That being said sites like you are asking for exist. Stackoverflow, for example, is a member of the StackExchange which has all sorts of questions/answers communities for all levels of users and communities.
This is why I love the stackexchange sites. It mixes boards with the ability to up/down vote.
It is NOT a place for discussion, however. Its a place for asking questions and getting the right answer. They are good at throwing out the off-topic and they've done a great job keeping the community great.
<strong>StackExchange</strong>.
In addition to StackOverflow which is popular among software developers, there's a whole bunch of similar sites for all kinds of interests. It can be helpful to find info about all kinds of other stuff.
> Was there ever a long period of time where that wasn't the case?
Yes, and it was awful. I don't understand why people want things to not be so strict, at least as a person that frequently answers questions and started using stackoverflow about 1 week after it launched.
I kinda wish everyone complaining about the 'everything gets closed' bit would go spend 20-30 hours just trying to answer all the random crap that seems to get posted.
So many people don't know how to ask good questions. It is really frustrating from the point of view of someone that actively tries to answer things.
If you are new to Stack Exchange (the most popular technical Q&A site on the internet) ask a question in this thread and I will respond.
Before we can launch our own Stack Exchange site we must graduate "Area51" This involves gathering supporters for the site and creating (not answering) sample questions that could appear on Stack Exchange after launch.
For now we need as many people to follow the proposal as possible. In order to pass the Area51 commitment stage we need a large number of supporters with reputation on Stack Exchange network sites. Please choose a site in your area of expertise and start building reputation right away.
Stack Exchange will be very helpful in increasing our visibility among the technical types that may wish to contribute as developers or users of Augur in the future. However success will require commitment from a large portion of the Augur community. To date only Bitcoin, Ethereum and Monero have had what it takes to graduate Area51 and create a Stack Exchange site. Lets become #4!
If your are willing to help advance this proposal, read the upper right hand corner of the page. For the first step we need at least 60 followers (we will eventually need many more) and 40 example questions with at least 10 votes each.
askubuntu is a great place to find help for Ubuntu specifically. It's part of the stack exchange which has support for many other Linux distributions and coding languages, among other things. Hope this helps, but glad to hear you're working it out.
Until there is no separate emacs site, you can help answering emacs questions here: http://stackexchange.com/filters/19474/emacs-questions
You can read it directly, or via RSS, or you can subscribe for email updates.
Here are only the unanswered questions. Check it out if you know the answer for some of them: http://stackexchange.com/filters/19474/emacs-questions?sort=noanswers
I'm going to disagree with you on this, yes you could possibly fit all the data into that size of database but you're missing the load balancing, regional redundancy, api calls, stats, error logging, caching and a bunch of other architectural design scenarios.
Let's take another company that might not be a good comparison but I think they do a great job at optimization, Stackoverflow.
Since Pokémon Go has 20 million daily active users and serving a ton of API calls to the mobile apps I think the load size are comparable.
http://stackexchange.com/performance
Just caching and database just for Stackoverflow are around 3TB
With apps that perform as fast as Pokémon Go and the user base it's much more then the 20 or 60GB your suggesting
But as for the question on the ability to increase to item or backpack capacity, it would take no/minimal additional storage as most likely it's just a value in a database that already is allocated to store a 4 digit number, they could increase the capacity to 9999 with very minimal changes
Why do you mean StackOverflow doesn't use .NET. Check their system architecture.
JIRA is written in Java too.
Why did you think the info is not accurate?
The most important skill you will have to obtain is the ability to approach something you don't understand and beat your head against it until you get it. The first step is to not allow yourself to get frustrated like this. You are not over your head, this is not too hard for you. The nature of programming is that there is really one and only one way to understand the various concepts involved in it, which is very different from a lot of other disciplines, and this can be hard, and intimidating to wrap your head around, specially at first.
BUT... The Internet is an amazing place, and everything you could possibly need to know has already been asked, probably hundreds of times already. Which is why places like http://stackexchange.com/ and the various programming subreddits right here will be essential for you.
>How many gigs a day?
300-400GB/day across all indexes, depending on the day.
>How are your indices split, how many shards and replicas?
"number_of_replicas":"1","number_of_shards":"8"
> Do you do alerting straight from logstash or is it purely bosun today?
Bosun queries logstash and alerts off of that. Having one source of alerts is a much cleaner way to set these things up.
>How important is disk io for log data in elasticsearch?
It needs to be able to keep up with the data you are throwing at it. Each node in the cluster is 3x4 R0's and Elasticsearch load balences across those
>Did you evaluate Linux vs Windows for running elasticsearch?
Nope, Linux is the platform that is supported better, so that's were we run it.
>I know you guys love redis and since you use both Linux and Windows servers, have you taken a look at the redis fork Microsoft themselves maintain?
Our devs use the MS fork locally, but antirez has said he will not support it, and we arn't tied to an OS. We use what OS is supported by the application.
>Any openings for a remote worker? :-)
Not right now, but you can keep an eye on http://stackexchange.com/work-here for openings :)
Unfortunately not right now in Denver, but keep your eye on http://stackexchange.com/work-here we will be opening a Denver Data center and Shane will probably start begging for some help there pretty soon.
I actually think reddit is intended to be a news aggregator site and is thus poorly suited for answering specific questions (but great for stories in /r/AskReddit). I prefer to use stack exchange for asking questions about a specific topic- usually android or english language usage. Quora might be cool too, though I haven't spent much time there.
This is because a news story becomes uninteresting once everyone knows about it, and once it is gone it is virtually impossible to find (unless you know exactly what you are looking for), while a question stays relevant (or it can be edited by anyone to make it relevant again). The sites I mentioned also have tags, which make it easier to find questions I can answer, and (most importantly), people can edit each others' posts This (and automatic mod promotion) is the thing missing from reddit. Users also gain mod powers as they accumulate karma, which I think is a great feature that could ruin the large subreddits if it was implemented there. (there was a bestof post about this not too long ago)
TL;DR reddit was not made for Q&A, it was made to be a news aggregator. The comment/self-post system is a feature that was hacked in after the site became active.
Well, that's my rant. If you want my opinion, I agree with /u/newthinker- people are generally slow to migrate, they usually stay in the place with the most users, because those users are more likely to be able to answer the actual question.
The Stack Exchange family is pretty good for me - I'm a developer so I spend a lot of time on StackOverflow. For you, ServerFault might be a good match.
This was posted literally a day ago, and is current the second link in the subreddit (under this post).
http://www.reddit.com/r/iPhoneDev/comments/lxm98/how_to_start_for_a_skilled_programmer/
You won't make it very far if you don't take advantage of existing resources like prior reddit posts and questions on StackOverflow and StackExchange (http://stackexchange.com/search?q=getting+started+iphone).
If you want a more personalized answer, once you get some familiarity (I would suggest the stanford classes, skipping the lectures containing content you won't need), check out this open-source flash card app. With some more googling I'm sure you'll find enough example code that you won't have to write much yourself. If you only have a month and don't need a robust commercial app, unless you feel like dedicating a lot of time, hacking together other people's code is what I'd suggest.
I found the article interesting & informative and I didn't realize that the StackExchange Network was so big. I need to check out some of their other site. Thanks!
What we've noticed over the lasts couple of weeks, months is that ICO's have been highly criticized, and consider more and more untrustworthy. Therefore, while writing the whitepaper, we've decided to write not just as a technical document, but more a financial/business plan, hence sections as ROI Forecasts. If the crowdsale would disappoint, then we can switch to another means of raising capital, where similar questions will be asked and our paper can provide answers.
How much of a certain market you will capture is an uncertainty for each new project. The only thing we can do is communicate as clear as possible which market we are targeting, how that market is evolving, what the costs are, how revenue is going to be obtained and how we plan to distribute that revenue to potential investors. At the end of the day we expect them to do their own research and make up their own mind.
If you are interested in the project and you can find the time, please read section 9.3. ROI Forecasts of our whitepaper. It includes an example on how we calculate the ROI forecast. You are free to use your own figures based on your forecasts. As a side note, the numbers only cover the GitHub platform, our goal is to, over time, integrate with several other platforms, for example StackExchange.
I browse the hot questions on http://stackexchange.com/. Oftentimes the workplace questions/answers are both entertaining and teach me about various workplace exchanges, and when to stick up for oneself at work.
It's going to be used for access to government services, but assuring educational access to information alone would be enough to justify it for me, assuming the price is reasonable - Project Gutenberg, Wikipedia and forums like http://stackexchange.com/ are a big deal
> Most of that is just a healthy developer/user community which is the same for any commercial endeavors look at http://stackexchange.com/ or https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/. But any bug fix patches or imported changes from my point of view would require attribution and a share of the profits.
Good luck with that. Part of the stolen mods being reported now are actually legit modders who worked off other mods (albeit with extensive changes) and are now trying to sell those mods as their own work. It really doesn't give me any confidence.
And I get that these are issues that many commercial industries face, except that modding wasn't commercial. It was free! And maybe you're right that this could create more opportunities, but that also means turning a community that has thrived on non-commercial principles into another same old commercialized environment. For whatever increased potential this may provide, it's really a waste of something unique.
Depending on what distro you've been using, Stack Exchange has some good people that can help and usually you can find the question you have right there. I've used them multiple times and never had the experience you have. I've come across some solutions to problems I've had right here on Reddit, through a few subreddits.
/r/linux
/r/Linux4noobs
StackOverflow is another important StackExchange site as well, given the importance of automation, configuration management, and other facets of IT that involve code.
Funny, I had a very similar idea a few months ago, but never got around implementing it because I am too busy with work :).
Anyway I'd like to help test it.
I also have a question: How are you going to deal with spammers? I mean people who leave as much feedback as possible without actually listening to the songs. I imagine this might become a problem, just as it is already on soundcloud. One idea that I had regarding this was to confirm that feedback was actually useful so that the other guy gets some extra credit. That would be a very similar system to the one used by the http://stackexchange.com/ network and it works really great there.
When I was learning the thing that helped me the most was reading my code out loud like a series of instructions (thats what it is).
If x is true then do y.
While x is true do y.
etc etc
Dont try to simplify things before you understand them. Dont name a variable "x". Name it what it is, "NumberToAdd" or whatever the variable represents.
To echo what /u/TheMapMakerX said, don't start with modding, start with something simple. Coding in essence is breaking down a problem to its simplest elements. If you dont understand what something does, go deeper, even it it leads you down to A + B = C. Then work your way back up. You didn't learn to read and write first, you learned the alphabet, before that you learned what a letter was, before that you learned that the sounds you made had a meaning.
Some resources:
The Java API (everything you can possibly code in java, may help when looking at someone else's code [a tutorial or something along those lines]) - http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/
Stack Exchange (most common help site, TONS of students post here for help, almost always find the answer you're looking for somewhere in here) - http://stackexchange.com/
Just to be clear —
It's not 'my' site nor a private site — check out the stack exchange network for information on all the Q&A sites that are part of it.
The most famous one is StackOverflow, for software engineers. I've been involved in several of the communities for 3 years or so. We just launched this new one for Aviation. Mostly, I'm just trying to convey that the SE sites are
a) high-quality discussion,
b) not a scam or spam network,
c) not something I benefit from financially
Fill the internet with other information about you. Others have mentioned blogging, linkedin, buying domain names. Join reputable sites where you can register in your own name and generate content. One example: http://stackexchange.com. Maybe you can find a topic you can contribute to.
Newest Emacs questions may also be of interest, because questions can have answers which are not completely satsifying, so some help can also come in handy there.
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I don't understand your second sentence, but if your question is technology-related you might wanna try something on http://stackexchange.com (maybe https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/) instead of reddit.
Francoboy talked about stackexchange, inb which stackoverflow is only one part.
Here is all their websites/subjects.
Open source it and put it in your portfolio. If you really want it to be out there, create a demo website.
I'll sound harsh, but be assured it's not by sadism.
You don't seem to have any advantage for you in this matter. You are not a language/framework/library creator or an opinion leader wanting to educate about your tools. What make you think you'll be prefered to anyone who can spin up a online forum creator ?
Unless you want to go full time promoting it, it probably won't go anywhere as a website. All the same if you promote it without thinking long and hard before.
What you did is your take on the forum format.
And that specific take already exists everywhere (Quora/Yahoo/StackExchange/lots of forums...).
Every one could get (I didn't say code) the same kind of things. Even with PHPBB and some plugins could do the trick.
I'm not saying it is not done with more care than PHPBB or stack overflow. There is no judgement of value/merit in my mouth.
But what I can say is that you solved a problem that already have too much existing solutions for your specific one to live, and don't seem to have any advantage over any one.
IF you REALLY want to create a Q&A website on your platform, be sure to take a subject without competition and who need such a website.
And good luck on the SEO war, the moderation battle, and the webmastering. Creating a site and making it live don't need the same skillset.
> they only need to process something like 16 million page views per month
cough 1.6 Billion/month last we ran the numbers Also page views don't include all the other requests we are processing like web sockets. We still only need a handful of servers though.
Thank you. Unfortunately this step is the easy part. The commitment stage which comes next will be much harder. Some people (who do not use Stack Exchange yet) may become annoyed with me as I continually remind people to earn reputation (at least 200 rep on an existing SE site). From past experience finding 100 users with 200 rep (or willing to earn it) is harder than the other commitment stage requirements (200 supporters, etc).
Hopefully those who already use Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow for programming questions, one of the 3 above mentioned crypto SE sites, a foreign language learning site or something else) will support my assertion of the value of this.
Technically we have 1 year to complete the Area51 commitment stage (after the current definition stage is complete). My personal goal is much more aggressive because I want to site to be ready near the time Augur launches.
Thank everyone that already followed the proposal. If you are new to Stack Exchange, please check out a site in an area you are familiar and answer enough questions to earn at least 200 reputation http://stackexchange.com/sites
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I understand that Stack Overflow might not be well know within the 3D artist communities. Stack Overflow can be best understood by reading this: http://stackexchange.com/tour. The main benefit for their system over conventional ones is that the information is very easily indexed and searched by google, making information quicker and easier to access.
StackExchange has sections dedicated to math. Personally I'd prefer a true artificial intelligence, or at least a machine intelligence specializing in solving math problems.
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Incomplete code. Here's the Fixed and extended revision.
// CONFIG: list of custom subreddits var customSubreddits = [ //i.e. [name, url] ["Stack Overflow!", "http://stackoverflow.com/"], ["Stack Exchange", "http://stackexchange.com/"] ];
// CONFIG: set to true to append to existing list. otherwise it replaces existing list. var append = false;
var subredditListBar = document.querySelector("#sr-bar"); var subredditListItems = subredditListBar.children; var subredditListItemTemplate = subredditListItems[0];
var i, customSubredditItem, subredditListItem, subredditSeparatorItem, link, separator;
if (!append) { for (i = subredditListItems.length-1; i >= 0; i--) { subredditListBar.removeChild(subredditListItems[i]); } }
subredditSeparatorItem = document.createElement("span"); subredditSeparatorItem.className = "separator"; subredditSeparatorItem.textContent = "-";
for (i = 0, len = customSubreddits.length; i < len; i++) { customSubredditItem = customSubreddits[i];
subredditListItem = subredditListItemTemplate.cloneNode(true);
link = subredditListItem.firstElementChild;
if (i > 0) { separator = subredditSeparatorItem.cloneNode(true); subredditListItem.insertBefore(separator, link); }
link.textContent = customSubredditItem[0]; link.href = customSubredditItem[1];
subredditListBar.appendChild(subredditListItem); }
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They already got a few open sourced... And I don't think it's a hypocrisy if they don't open source everything, but I guess we just got different opinions here...
Also it isn't like they don't participate on Stack Exchange themselves. If you look through http://stackexchange.com/about/team you can find that quite many of them are contributing, especially the ones in Community and Engineering. Some with low reputations, but also some with very high reputation and tons of contributions.
Hell, two of them even are in the top 50 all time reputations on stackoverflow Marc Gravell (#5) and Nick Craver (#22).
I think it's a bit unfair to talk bad about them just because they didn't open source everything... but in the end everyone is allowed to have his own opinion and standard....
I agree! I actually wrote the back end so it could query any of the StackExchange websites (superuser, serverfault, mathematics, etc). I just need to wire up the front end (and think about how I'll change the copy, as that's mostly written for a technical audience).
Until then, there's always Google Trends :)
The class List<> uses the interface ICollection, IEnumerable and more, not sure there is a difference using either.
I would solve it by adding another table to the database; BlogTags. Have atleast an ID and String (the string you store your tag). If a post with the string does not exist; create it, then add it to the blogpost.
BlogPost need a property like this;
public viritual List<BlogTag> Tags { get; set; }
And maybe a property in BlogTag for reversal;
public viritual List<BlogPost> Posts { get; set; }
>Another thing I would like to add to my blog creator is to suggest user what tags should he use (depending on what he used before).
Fetch what other posts is used with the same tag (from BlogPost.Posts), fetch tags that where used together on other posts as suggestions to user.
>Do you know how is it done on sites like stackoverflow?
StackOverflow Architechture (see mysterious Tag servers); http://stackexchange.com/performance
It's like a building! You need to start building from the ground up! Start with low level assembly language, get seasoned in machine code, then move up to C, then introduce yourself to C++ for the object-oriented programming skills, then try a garbage collected language like C#, then move up to Objective-C, and finally Swift. Good luck! :-) :-)
Seriously though, what I think should also work pretty well would be a well-documented, well used (for the community and looking up already answered questions on Stack Exchange!) language. Swift is fairly new, this is mostly why I recommend something else first.
I'd recommend C# for a Windows user since the IDE is extremely good for being a free package (C# Express Edition) and the language feels clean, yet with modern concepts. But for an OS X user, I'd probably rather recommend Python or something like that, not the least because it's built into OS X. For "serious" work you'd perhaps want a later version of Python than what's supplied with it but it doesn't really matter for a beginner or even intermediate user.
As for the development environment if you do choose to go with Python, PyCharm is pretty great, available for OS X, and free if you use the Community Edition.
This sounds like a technical question for /r/unity3d.
Quick Response: Sounds like you should look into casting shadows through textured planes. Maybe use vector art?
> #####Q4: I have a technical question I'd like to ask game developers. Can I post it here?##### Potentially. If it is something with a black and white answer (ie: compile errors, trouble with a library, etc.) then no. These kinds of posts belong on a programming related subreddit. Something you need to keep in mind is that we cannot read your mind and we do not have intimate knowledge of your project/language/skills/etc. This means you will need to be very specific in your post about what you have tried and what is/is not working for you.
> Before you post, please also make sure that your question is directly related to game development. Many libraries have their own forum, mailing list or IRC channel. If your question is about a general programming or math issue, consider posting to /r/learnprogramming or Stack Exchange.
If you're going to look at an open, vote-worthy system, reddit is the worst of them by far. First, it's not open: Vote fuzzing is a thing. Second, it's not secure at all - I can vote myself from any number of accounts. Their system won't catch it until I start doing it 50x with each post. These are just two glaring examples, but there's more.
BUT an alternative example that is very similar (voting-based) that probably would work really well? The Stack Exchange. StackOverflow, etc. It's almost as if they built that place thinking it'd evolve into a published journal. It requires hard work to even be allowed to vote. It is not easy, and it's almost impossible to fake a good score for a shitty answer.
It's not legal. That's not how copyrights and trademarks work... Even SO's own website clearly defines the usage of their trademarks, of which you are violating.
http://stackexchange.com/legal/trademark-guidance
On that note I've reported your website to them, as suggested in their trademark guidance page, as I have zero respect for developers who blatantly rip off ideas.
I've done it using the official API documentation. I modeled the way mine works after StackExchange login page. I have Wordpress generate a Wordpress user account when a user first authenticates with OpenID/Facebook for my website, tied to the user's email address. After that, whenever a user authenticates with OpenID/Facebook again we get the email address then perform an auto-login with Wordpress (using wp_signon with their email address) for the associated Wordpress user account. The result is seamless integration and the ability to still use the standard Wordpress login if someone doesn't have OpenID/Facebook. You could probably find a plugin that does all of this.
Cool. The site is part of a family of sites. It started with a Q&A site for programming stackoverflow.com . More recently, it's been branching into other areas http://stackexchange.com/sites . For example, They started a Q&A site on statistics about a a year ago: http://stats.stackexchange.com/ . It's grown into a really useful place to find answers to statistical questions (over 7,000 questions). Hopefully the cognitive science and psychology site can achieve a similar level of success.
Yeah, if it were just incoming traffic you could get away with just 1 install, but I think with outgoing you will need to do it that way (one in /bin and one in /opt or /sbin?). Not sure how you are going to do that though. I still think looking into iptables and user permissions might do it (i.e. have one user have permission only to one interface and another user another). This, however, is the type of question you should probably ask over in Stack Exchange. If you do ask there, please link me to the question, I really want to see what people come up with.
Stack exchange may have started as a technical site, but if you look at the list of sites, you'll find such communities as Skeptics, Cooking, Jewish Life and Learning, Fitness and Nutrition, etc. These are not specifically related to technical fields either. This post seems a tad sensational. It's a new community, so it's probably being advertised as such to build the community. Would it be nice to filter out certain communities? Sure, but to say that they're pushing religious propaganda is a stretch.
StackOverflow.com is a programming Q&A forum.
StackExchange.com is a collection of Q&A forums on various subjects.
Christianity.stackexchange.com is about Christianity.
Not to be a buzz kill, but isn't that kind of the goal of the Stack Exchange sites?
I'm still for other viable means of achieving the same thing, and agree it's a good idea on the whole.
It's a question and answer website, does wonders for me (science student). I mostly use it for mathematics and physics related things, but it has forums regarding a lot of other topics too (well, almost everything) It's interesting to see what beautiful explanations strangers can come up with to answer your questions. The website also has a downvote feature which instantly indicates if some answer contains wrong information or is irrelevant to the question.
I use this website almost everyday, not to ask or answer questions, but to read other's already answered questions and i learn a lot of new things from that.
It honestly surprises me why hasn't anyone else mentioned this website yet.... Atleast in my opinion, it has been the greatest resource for learning new stuff.
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Try asking in the /r/NoStupidQuestions subreddit, for one.
For other stuff, maybe try finding the appropriate community on http://stackexchange.com to ask your question. Being able to ask a StackExchange question well is a skill in itself and being able to research there before asking your question is also a great source of information.
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