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Activity for Lundin
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Edit | Post #276171 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Software Engineering && Mathematics && Computer Science My thoughts regarding a software engineering site: Overall, the site needs to be relaxed and tolerant. There needs to be a list of what is on topic and what isn't, but it shouldn't be set in stone, least of all initially. We simply can't have a site where people burst in with different opinions of... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276167 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: How do we handle overlap? Migrating questions between sites never worked well in practice. We have a lot of experience about this from SE's various experiments: there was rarely ever a successfully migrated post but countless fiascos. The OP got confused, the users of the target site got annoyed, moderators got pointless busy... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74999 |
Looking at the existing SE engineering site, it's just looks like a place to dump questions that don't fit in anywhere else. Mostly because one specific engineering discipline couldn't raise enough users to form their own site. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74999 |
I'm a dipl. computer engineer and if you ask me what an "engineering site" is about, I wouldn't be able to answer.
The only thing that brings all the diverse engineering disciplines together is structured workflow, scientific methods, critical thinking and other broad terms. Plus a tonne of math. ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #275914 |
Similarly, without knowing much about it, I suspect that "Cloud" is just network communication & security + server administration + database administration. Then you'll have various user interface products on top of these, which might be marketed as Cloud-whatever. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #275914 |
Personally it makes me cringe whenever I see a site which is based on a marketing buzzword instead of the engineering/science term describing what the site is actually about. Including "IoT", "DevOps", "Machine learning" blah blah. You can break these down into the actual technologies used by enginee... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #75033 |
Over at https://forum.codidact.org/t/how-to-treat-debugging-and-easy-to-google-and-very-basic-questions/1122, I proposed that we should make a distinction between professional and beginner/student sites. Is this what you mean with "professional"? Because one certain way to draw a crowd of experts ove... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276139 |
Like when I occasionally did some clean-up at a niche tag, I could do the ground work, then call for backup from the "close vote review chat" by dropping links to questionable posts there. And then suddenly get an army of friendly, competent moderators helping me out, fixing everything in no time. Th... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276139 |
What worked well on SO was that even though sub-communities emerge with their own chat rooms and tag rules, the moderation rules of the site were pretty much unison. So "power users" following a certain set of tags could moderate a lot of other tags too, when domain knowledge isn't needed. This benef... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276140 |
Embedded systems programming is much more closely related to electronics design than it is to PC programming. In fact you can't even work with embedded programming unless you understand basic electronics and know how to use an oscilloscope. I'm all in favour for moving 100% of embedded systems below ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276140 |
Another problem appears on SO when you forget to add the embedded tag, is that you get the clueless hordes of PC programmers replying, causing more harm than good. And then the name of the tag is very bad in itself, pretty much every day it gets people who want to "embed x into y" and then add the ta... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276140 |
Similarly, questions about common serial buses and protocols (SPI, UART, CAN etc) are only borderland related to software. Wheras on electronics.stackexchange, such questions are always on-topic no matter where the problem lies. -> (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276140 |
I've been one of the most active users/user moderators at the "embedded" tag at SO, I'm pretty much the only one moderating it. It's a problematic tag for several reasons, most notably when someone has a problem but they don't know if the problem is in SW or HW. So they don't know if the question is ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |