What happens when two amazing Windows developers like Joel Spolsky, the great creator of FagBugz - a Wassabi driven bug tracker for MBAs and Jeff Atwood, a... Umm... Nerd who has a popular blog that is full of crap but did nothing else in his life join forces? Yes, you get Crap Overflow. A social networking wiki blog forum failure full of dorks career programmers who walk around and mumble "Yupp.. I know this one.. Yupp.. Bla blah blah.. Yupp.. Oh yeaaaahh... Another badge is mine!.. I'll go fill my TPS report now... Yeaaahhhh..."
Let me guess. The site is built with ASP.NET and hosted on Windows server. I bet most visitors use Windows Vista + Internet Explorer to browse that piece of shit. By the way, Joel, why didn't you use your awesome Wassabi? It has to be like so better than ASP.NET, like seriously.
There's more. The average user... And an average suggestion by the community for the makers...
What can I say. Great site folks! Please make this great service cost at least $19/month when your public beta is over. Please, really.
CodeSOD: Thank You for Enabling JavaScript!
5 hours ago
5 comments:
Well, certainly it beats *your* Q/A website... oh, sorry, you don't have one? Didn't think so...
Yep... I don't have one and never will. Why the hell would people need Q/A websites when there are API documentations, loads of books, and finally, Google. I just don't like people who are used to getting everything they need served on a platter.
What do you think Google feeds on? Precisely. content. I'm glad stackoverflow is here. It's much better than the crappy "experts exchange" website which not only looks and performs awfull, but charges you to see every answer.
It's very obvious that you don't have serious development experience, because you'd know that not all the answers are in the API documentation. By far.
Like Theodore Roosevelt said:
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
Rolf, that's right. Let Google feed on crap content and Stack Overflow will become Experts Exchange Web 2.0 Edition.
Usenet rules! Really :)
I had a terrible experience on stackoverflow.com
and, after Googling, found out it what I encountered
was not unheard of on stackoverflow.com.
I had a Java question, I formulated it something
like this:
"We've got an application that sends us back a
stacktrace/machine infos when a crash happens.
This is not a sneaky feature: users are aware of
that behavior. To be sure this feature is working,
I needed a way to generate fake crash, so
everytime you enter "crashme" in a JTextField,
the application crashes and I can check if the
stacktraces arrives correctly (and are correctly
"retraced" -- for they're Proguard stacktrace).
I also have a debug mode that can be toggled
on/off by typing "debugon"/"debugoff" in a
JTextField. I was wondering what kind of
hidden --but no easter eggs-- features were
in production software you worked on?"
So I specifically state that users are aware
of this...
What happens?
Someone with mod points changes my post
(gasp) to: "hiden functionality, I'm sneakily
sending back stacktraces, what hiden features
do you post in you software".
WTF?
Serioulsy, WTFF?
This was not my post at all. Before that I had
only helped people if I recall correctly, even got
a "teacher badge" (that will teach me ;)
I re-edit my post, explaining that the mod had
completely ruined my post and asked where
I could complain.
I enter a complain on meta.stackoverflow.com.
Original post gets locked up. Complain gets
locked. My account gets deactivated :-)
Oh yup, meanwhile I got insulted in a post
containing a "shut up" that gets +4 votes and
that fails to adress the facts.
People (not me) have written it was nazi-like
editing happening on stackoverflow.com and
that you had to 'dumb down' your question to
questions mods could understand.
It sure looks like it.
So long live Usenet because on Usenet you cannot engage in revisionist nazi-like editing of questions...
Post a Comment