Comments on: Stackoverflow http://thomas.apestaart.org/log/?p=671 Present Perfect Tue, 21 May 2013 03:19:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: jldugger http://thomas.apestaart.org/log/?p=671&cpage=1#comment-36782 jldugger Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:02:36 +0000 http://thomas.apestaart.org/log/2008/08/28/stackoverflow/#comment-36782 It's kind of sad that Jeff calls ACID people "architecture astronauts", even though the problem is rooted squarely in their selection of Microsoft only technology and unwillingness to change. But I can see why he's kept his readership, he writes regularly, writes quasi-intelligent on technical subjects, uses pictures and follows Neilsen's guidelines for writing on the web. But every time I read his blog I just get angry that someone can be so popular and so wrong. The password security article turned out to be misleading, the XML thing was a stupid argument against complexity and letting others do your job right for you, and his post on locking is so terrible it scares me. It seems between him and his audience, he's the less informed. Which could be fine, but he writes with absolute certainty and the comment system is god awful at filtering for truth. Launchpad already offers a free question and answers site, but it's not marketed to people looking to cut and paste code snippets into a working program. So I guess that's half the equation, getting the right people excited about using your software. It’s kind of sad that Jeff calls ACID people “architecture astronauts”, even though the problem is rooted squarely in their selection of Microsoft only technology and unwillingness to change. But I can see why he’s kept his readership, he writes regularly, writes quasi-intelligent on technical subjects, uses pictures and follows Neilsen’s guidelines for writing on the web. But every time I read his blog I just get angry that someone can be so popular and so wrong. The password security article turned out to be misleading, the XML thing was a stupid argument against complexity and letting others do your job right for you, and his post on locking is so terrible it scares me. It seems between him and his audience, he’s the less informed. Which could be fine, but he writes with absolute certainty and the comment system is god awful at filtering for truth.

Launchpad already offers a free question and answers site, but it’s not marketed to people looking to cut and paste code snippets into a working program. So I guess that’s half the equation, getting the right people excited about using your software.

]]> By: Thomas http://thomas.apestaart.org/log/?p=671&cpage=1#comment-36742 Thomas Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:40:23 +0000 http://thomas.apestaart.org/log/2008/08/28/stackoverflow/#comment-36742 @David: the site is called stackoverflow and is still in beta. @David: the site is called stackoverflow and is still in beta.

]]> By: elmarco http://thomas.apestaart.org/log/?p=671&cpage=1#comment-36741 elmarco Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:27:11 +0000 http://thomas.apestaart.org/log/2008/08/28/stackoverflow/#comment-36741 Why the comments are not displayed? Why the comments are not displayed?

]]> By: oliver http://thomas.apestaart.org/log/?p=671&cpage=1#comment-36736 oliver Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:23:43 +0000 http://thomas.apestaart.org/log/2008/08/28/stackoverflow/#comment-36736 From the little bits of description that were published so far, the site looks to be quite interesting. I hope we can gather some community of Gtk and Python people there to answer those lots of Infrequently Asked Questions about PyGtk development (and maybe there will also be some people for those hardcore Linux questions I couldn't find an answer for yet - think "how to get info about opened file descriptors/sockets from a core dump"). What platform the site runs on doesn't really matter, as long as the topics and people are cross-platform :-) From the little bits of description that were published so far, the site looks to be quite interesting. I hope we can gather some community of Gtk and Python people there to answer those lots of Infrequently Asked Questions about PyGtk development (and maybe there will also be some people for those hardcore Linux questions I couldn’t find an answer for yet – think “how to get info about opened file descriptors/sockets from a core dump”).

What platform the site runs on doesn’t really matter, as long as the topics and people are cross-platform :-)

]]> By: David http://thomas.apestaart.org/log/?p=671&cpage=1#comment-36733 David Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:17:23 +0000 http://thomas.apestaart.org/log/2008/08/28/stackoverflow/#comment-36733 > I started using it last weekend What did you start using? I don't understand what web site you are talking about. > I started using it last weekend

What did you start using? I don’t understand what web site you are talking about.

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