This is akin to https://t.co/VaW7IWS8SR versus https://t.co/Zi5lkuyig4 in my mind. Very different audiences and needs. Both 100% valid.

Sure, the signal/noise of that sub-site would be dramatically worse than SO proper, and the reputation scores wouldn't mean much outside the venue. But it'd be fun for the participants, laid back, and *usually* educational for an audience that wants that particular experience.

@snakeyesV1 I did :(

@trionkidnapper it's suuuuper not good

But the Amazon Jack Ryan starring that guy from The Office *was* surprisingly great. Watch that instead!

@vongillern it is odd because ramdisks end up being a bad deal for a number of reasons, I think overhead mostly, plus it cuts into other tasks that could use the RAM

@sentin I love that scene so much, when they come back

@rory_blyth it's a fresh.. a fresh.. mesh.

@wilshipley I have a baseline here: is Dorsey for or against it? If he's for it, then it's probably a bad idea. If he's against it, then it's probably a good idea.

@OH_NOES so one day instead of 2-6 days ;)

you can see here why the SSD revolution was arguably the last big thing to happen in computing

@jwz thatsthejoke.gif

@jwz #notallbillionaires

I'll even go this far: Sales is a vastly greater and more important field to humanity than Programming will *ever* be. And if you can do both? Then you legitimately have the power to change the world.

Take it from @patio11 -- even if you vehemently deny that work in sales.. you still do. Sorry! https://t.co/ibCFlkYLVY

@coreyh this is also quite plausible, to me the future isn't megascale constructions, it's .. small and internal and time-warping ala the movie "Her" https://t.co/bqHWIKeWWV

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Nothing is scarier than your own 10 year old code 😱 https://t.co/QpiBf849bw

@paulg You absolutely must put YT accounts in restricted mode. I run mine this way too.

@vyedin I see you work in marketing

@textfiles it is a rather fetching little hill, but then again I never met a hill I didn't want to die on

@hackenheim @troldann @SwiftOnSecurity 75 hz is just a weird number

@MartinTeeVarga smash that edit button.. even an anon user can do it.. after all.. it's a wiki

@nadermx @3_r1c yes, as long as you are constantly *doing things* as well, I can get behind that ;)

@maria_hex Less than 30% of them are from the US. I'm not sure how much less than 30% at this point, but that stat has been in decline for a decade.

@jasonfitzpatric guy-animatedly-eating-popcorn.gif

@punyweakling ugh

@yburyug @deadprogrammer no worries, you should assume that all my replies to @deadprogrammer are insane. He and I are going to Ukraine in 2019 together, it's gonna be the best feel good buddy movie of the year 4 sure

@yburyug @deadprogrammer no, what you need is morale improvement beatings and public stonings

@yburyug @deadprogrammer I am always very serious

@deadprogrammer empathy is a character flaw

@twang DAMN IT TED

@deadprogrammer sorry I couldn't hear you could you speak up

@deadprogrammer improvement is overrated, I just talk louder instead

@ajclayton @shahedC boy that's just a straight shooter with upper management written all over him

@ftrain this stuff is so hard to use, every time I just made .. nothing remotely resembling what's on the package

@SwiftOnSecurity why 75 Hz tho

@LeaVerou @svgeesus omggg congrats 🎉

Note that for me, this is literally.. Stack Overflow .. blog post incoming

@JeremyIClarke pff no

@jessamyn @craigstuntz @johnFneuhaus @tedpercival @DenaeFord @Wikipedia agreed; wikipedia is a way more fundamental service. not everyone needs to be or should be a programmer, in the same way a world full of auto mechanics isn't really.. good? https://t.co/3ufpEQYLc5

@lumines @snemarch definitely not the case now, for sure, just did it

@jessamyn @craigstuntz @johnFneuhaus @tedpercival @DenaeFord In other words, the largest benefit is info that’s already there. Easier for SO as the scope is so much narrower than “every person, topic, place, and thing that has ever existed or will exist”

@RageousX @flobeauchamp The system design actively works against rational communication

@jessamyn @craigstuntz @johnFneuhaus @tedpercival @DenaeFord Not every Wikipedia reader must be a contributor, ditto for Stack Overflow. In fact if both are working as designed in an ideal world 99.9999% of people would never need to contribute

@tobermatt Oh dear wha’happen?

@snemarch Sort of but you can remove it after you have the app and keys going

@flobeauchamp oh god that's not even a choice, @RageousX told me he regularly throws away reddit accounts and I think he's right.

@shahronak47 @drob @DenaeFord A rebuilt and much more structured /ask page needs to ship.

@shahronak47 @drob @DenaeFord It is silly to be offended by this

@bvanoudtshoorn @DenaeFord @discourse It is currently there in very basic form, new users have a light grey name.

@lordeagle @feartomorrow no, I just thought I would try Black Ops since they finally have a large map multiplayer. I find tiny map multiplayer really boring, like going back in time to Quake 3.

My only beef is that Black Ops visual style is ... kind of eye wateringly hideous. It is future soldiering as imagined by juggalos in a fever haze of bong smoke https://t.co/oOohSkwuhD

@spies_please I'm lovin' it https://t.co/1gEpzVOpj7

@jamespmclachlan still counts!

@ciphertxt whoa whoa whoa there cowboy, that's teenager material

@jasonology @StackExchange I am not a fan of zero-anxiety systems, let me put it that way

@lucas_gonze @jessamyn @tedpercival @DenaeFord it's a hybrid system, for sure, but this element has been there since inception https://t.co/v4Yj0rI2h7 https://t.co/GH0aKwLtOj

@jasonology @StackExchange @Quora @SlantCo well yeah, that's sorta intentional. It's the anxiety of giving a presentation to your peers, the anxiety of showing up to a new job on your first day with lots of other talented people, etc. Imagine what it'd be like if there was zero anxiety, ever?

@jessamyn @tedpercival @DenaeFord That "type of person" is a person (for stack overflow) who is comfortable with light competition aspects (rep scores, answer ranking, downvoting), and also willing to define their contributions in terms of utility to *others*, not just themselves.

@jessamyn @tedpercival @DenaeFord the original reply literally said, remove close votes. So I beg to differ.

@jessamyn @tedpercival @DenaeFord I think it is 100% fine to say "I don't want to compete with anyone, that's not my jam" or "I don't want to define my contributions in terms of utility to others" and choose to work on / with a parallel system that doesn't have this aspect.

@jessamyn @tedpercival @DenaeFord in my experience, systems with "let's collaboratively build utility together" tension like Wikipedia and Stack Overflow are never going to appeal to everyone. Plus SO has the additional tension of being a semi-competitive system with rep scores, etc.

@jessamyn @tedpercival @DenaeFord also, I guess SO should do a better job of educating new visitors that the goal isn't "free unlimited programming tech support" but "let's collaboratively build artifacts that will help future programmers". The latter is more work than the former, and if that's a turn off...

@jessamyn @tedpercival @DenaeFord I am fine with all that, but lowering the bar to "whatever you type in this box will be unconditionally accepted no matter what" .. would essentially destroy what makes Stack Overflow worth visiting (and Wikipedia too for that matter)

@jasonology @DenaeFord @StackExchange interesting; I don't find that to be true. Can you provide some examples? Comments don't generate reputation, so answers left there won't benefit anyone's rep score, either.

@jessamyn @tedpercival @DenaeFord not substantially different from the tensions in Wikipedia's system; the metric is not "can I type stuff in a box" but "what can we build together that will be useful to future developers"

@migueldeicaza That is why we must buy a 370 pack

@stevesi Sinofsky knows what's up

@SpeakingBee these are 100% human entered, my friend. Most spam is these days.

@picrelateditsme you ain't wrong brotha

@ugwigr @Pinboard @ncweaver is it even possible to disagree with no outrage? so BORING

Specific example, but I see this all the time. IP was relatively "normal" https://t.co/xsqaXCRcyI

@CygnusSEO @TheAndrewWyatt @patio11 @Steli I'm so aggro right now I just closed 12 deals

SLAMS FIST THROUGH TABLE, DUNKS NERF BASKETBALL IN CUBICLE SHATTERING WALL

@Pinboard @ncweaver 3D chess! You lose if you complain, you lose if you don't complain.. genius

@TheAndrewWyatt @patio11 @Steli (am I doing the sales right?)

@TheAndrewWyatt @patio11 @Steli WELL FUCK YOU THEN

@patio11 @Steli I have to say the line “Mother effer, you got me to open the email” triggers all my worst stereotypes of salespeople. Is that kind of aggressive language necessary so near the start of the article?

@Reedbeta @ID_AA_Carmack @zlsadesign Bit of duct tape should fix that right up

@ID_AA_Carmack @zlsadesign Wait a minute, how can you prefer VR in a dark room? How can you even SEE the room while wearing a VR headset??

@w0rddriven I don't really forgive per se, I just stop caring and move on to other more pressing problems in my life

@ID_AA_Carmack it looks like kinect style depth cameras are hitting mainstream now, I recently got this $70 one for signing into Windows ala iPhone X/XS and it's *great* https://t.co/z7kpwyi5SW

@textfiles ditto

@Supermathie you might need those SCSI cables one day!! DONT DO IT MAN

@drewtetz https://t.co/xAjtOCnjlw

@Pinboard too soon Maciej

@Pinboard well the *reasons* here are much more clear, so therefore the call to action is also clear. Steve King is absolutely vile by any measure, for example.

@stevesi whoops https://t.co/1AtERcZaea but yeah. Random example $2.99 per item with free shipping to the US from China. That's .. not right. https://t.co/91TSHkO66R

@davidcampey I always get https://t.co/ejlUnjfDtj and https://t.co/7Kh3fSUYJd mixed up cc @Carnage4Life

@Pinboard this is soooo much more effective than "tech workers gotta unionize because reasons!" 👏

@stevesi This is oddly enough IMO a legit complaint on shipping rate oddities. You can buy so many things direct from China via https://t.co/rOhJ7UcAPU and the shipping is *crazily* cheap for an item coming all the way from China.

@MehrdadA Are you(s)?

@danekhollas @jumprite0 a community which bans users a bit too frequently is *far* more sane than one that never bans users. It is so much more dangerous to be on the "we avoid banning people unless we have no other choice" end of the spectrum.

@jb_ertw yes, that is what @discourse is, but the blog post describes much more subtle forms of interaction

@amyhoy aw man I had to use my twitter offline search to even find that tweet! (it's kinda nice when you download all your tweets, twitter gives you a nice little local HTML search page for them)

@mathowie I've seen so few groups that were successful at doing this, but I think that's because this tends to happen on platforms that are barely moderated in the first place, so these platforms have multiple problems from the outset

@amyhoy https://t.co/2TVSBiHNCz

It is amazing to me how many of those can be more or less reduced to "holding a grudge". Grudges are so incredibly toxic. It's like drinking poison and expecting the other whatever-it-is to die.

@rory_blyth @splattne you don't live in the most fantabulously beautiful place in the earth like Stefan. I've seen pictures! 😍

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