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| Comment | Post #277249 |
@Moshi The proposed site https://meta.codidact.com/questions/74991 is about hobbyist single board computers, which unlike microcontroller programming is borderline off-topic on the electronics site. There's a big difference between rolling out your own microcontroller solution or buy a hobbyist kit. ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #277235 |
@Monica Please propose that in an answer so that the community can vote for/against. I'll edit the question when there seems to be a community consensus for/against something. Though I have no idea how many active users there are and how many votes that should be regarded as "consensus". (more) |
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| Comment | Post #277249 |
"Over on Writing, we have a category for Challenges. I don't see why we can't have a similar Code Golf/Programming Challenges category here as well." That's a good idea. We could put code golf as well as code review in special categories. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277249 |
It always felt out of place and it always ended up with questions where the problem could be either software and hardware. This is quite normal in electronics. The problem was that in case you found out that the problem was hardware-related, the question suddenly turned off-topic and had to be closed... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277249 |
"I believe Electrical is purely for hardware questions (someone correct me if I'm wrong)". Yes this is wrong. It has pretty much the same scope as electronics at SE always had. Microcontroller programming etc was always perfectly on-topic. This proposal is based on me being one of the all time top us... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #277249 |
"I don't really see the point of listing specific things as "on topic." " The point would be that people know the purpose of the site in the form of a brief summary. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #277235 |
@James Yes indeed. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #277235 |
@James Yes, mainly all PC helpdesk kind of questions. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #277243 |
The reason I put it there is because it was always off-topic on SO. Other than that, I have no opinion for or against keeping it. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #277235 |
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| Comment | Post #277235 |
I would personally like if we could keep this site (or another in the network) tolerant to subjective but on-topic questions about things like program design, coding style and best practices. These are things that every programmer face, so there should be a place to ask for advice about them, instead... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #277235 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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Site scope - draft proposal EDIT: This discussion thread is mostly obsolete now that a new draft has been posted on the site. Please take further discussion & proposals to this meta post instead: Community feedback: What type of questions can I ask here?. So it would seem that the scope of this site is yet to be defined.... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #277217 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Is it undefined behaviour to just make a pointer point outside boundaries of an array without dereferencing it? Yes, the second line invokes undefined behavior. First of all, according to C17 6.5.2.1 regarding array subscripting, an expression `E1[E2]` is just "syntactic sugar" for `((E1)+(E2)))`. So what applies here is actually the binary + operator. More info regarding why `[]` is actually never used wit... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277152 |
Yeah I read it, it's apparently everything vaguely programming related... I very much doubt there will much in the way of quality posts with such a huge scope. And no attention is given to the usual hot potatoes: homework questions, career advise, tool recommendations etc. Are these on-topic or not? ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #277199 |
I think it would probably be best that once there's enough participation below a certain tag, try to get a group of veteran users together and decide what would be worth importing? (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277152 |
If we make a "super site" because we fear low contribution on specialized sites, it might very well have the opposite effect: scaring away technical specialists, whom are absolutely necessary for a programming site to flourish. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277152 |
But shouldn't at least some things get narrowed down _before_ launching the site? As it sits now, the scope seems incredibly broad and nobody has a clue what's on-topic - everything vaguely programming-related? I'm not sure what this site is for or how to use it. Nor am I particularly interested in c... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277184 |
The issue here is that some purists only consider compiled/interpreted languages to be "programming languages" - they are used to write programs. Whereas SQL for example is only used for the purpose fetch data from a database, HTML is only for describing the layout of a website and so on. A "script" ... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |