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All I can say is whoa, gnarly!
http://stackoverflow.com/[^]
The concept is very clever. I wasn't sure what to expect but I really like how it was implemented with tags instead of separate pre-determined areas and the voting and editing system is really well implemented.
Read all about the thinking behind the design here:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/09/15.html[^]
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it."
-Sam Levenson
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Competition for CP?
It's time to send in our trolls!! 
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evilnoodle wrote: Competition for CP?Mad
Why mad? 
Competition is good for everyone, eventually. Chris & Co. should be watching SO, and learning from their mistakes/triumphs - SO has certainly picked up plenty of ideas from existing Q&A sites.
One of CP's long-standing problems is that the forums are great for hashing out a problem, but the answers get lost - internal search sucks, Google doesn't index them properly, and eventually we get tired of answering the same questions again and again. If the SO method avoids some of this, then CP could potentially implement a hybrid system that allows both discussion (hard to beat CP's threaded discussions) and searchable, editable, Q&A.
[Edit: missed the joke icon, sorry. Too much coffee / too little coffee / not just the right amount of coffee... ]
---- You're right.
These facts that you've laid out totally contradict the wild ramblings that I pulled off the back of cornflakes packets .
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 Well I'm sure Chris and co. have been aware of that site coming for a long time, it wasn't exactly a secret, neither were the problems with existing sites that they outlined early on that they were going to solve in their implementation.
I'm kind of surprised that some of the stuff that's been suggested for here for years made it there first after only a few months of development time, perhaps they were reading the CP suggestion forum?
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it."
-Sam Levenson
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John C wrote: I'm kind of surprised that some of the stuff that's been suggested for here for years made it there first after only a few months of development time, perhaps they were reading the CP suggestion forum?
They were...and everyone else's as well.
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evilnoodle wrote: Competition for CP?
Hardly, IMHO.
CP is the best when it comes to articles, and the discussions on programming forums are pretty bad anyway.
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I hear you can get a platinum medal at StackOverflow.com for only 500 posts 
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evilnoodle wrote: It's time to send in our trolls!!
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
"Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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It's a solid site; i love the UI.
I'm a little bit worried that they put the bar too high for obtaining editing capabilities, but we'll see how it plays out...
---- You're right.
These facts that you've laid out totally contradict the wild ramblings that I pulled off the back of cornflakes packets .
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I think the UI sucks. I can't imagine this site being around in a year
Jon
Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface
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YAY! One person that feels the same as me!
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Two.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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Three, although I quite like the UI within a question, just not that front page
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Make that four 
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
"Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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Oakman wrote: I think the UI sucks.
Well, the stated goal is to drive existing programmer Q&A sites like ExpertSexChange / MSDN Forums out of the top Google search results, so i'm comparing it to those UIs (the former being an ad-clogged nightmare, the latter tormented by unstable URLs and painfully bad formatting).
---- You're right.
These facts that you've laid out totally contradict the wild ramblings that I pulled off the back of cornflakes packets .
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Shog9 wrote: Q&A sites like ExpertSexChange
Jeez, and I've always wondered why they charge for membership
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
"Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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Here in Thailand, sex change surgery by a clinic offering every other form of plastic surgery and cosmetic surgery is often offered for US $1650 in a small ad on the front page of the Bangkok Post (English language daily).
Truth-in-Bending-Over Act compliance statement : gender (beginning or ending) is not specified.
best, Bill
"The greater the social and cultural distances between people, the more magical the light that can spring from their contact." Milan Kundera in Testaments Trahis
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Oakman wrote: I think the UI sucks.
I think it's brilliant in the tradition of substance over style that brought us such things as the google search interface.
Oakman wrote: I can't imagine this site being around in a year
Why not?
It's got at least two of the biggest heavyweights in the business behind it, both with a proven track record of success at everything they do, it alleviates all the major problems currently seen on Q&A sites for coders with a few simple but clever ideas, some of which have been suggested for this site *many* times.
If it was a stock I'd be buying big time.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it."
-Sam Levenson
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John C wrote: If it was a stock I'd be buying big time.
Don't suggest it, it will keep the potential price down much longer.
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John C wrote: I think it's brilliant in the tradition of substance over style that brought us such things as the google search interface.
Google is marvelously intuitive but was hardly innovative. The User Exoperience built upon and was simply another version of Yahoo.
John C wrote: If it was a stock I'd be buying big time.
Two Words: Lehman Bros.
Jon
Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface
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Snicker!
Yesterday they said today was tomorrow but today they know better.
- Poul Anderson
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ROFL!!!
I was equally right when i wore my "I don't do Windows" T-shirt.
Constitutionalism: the principle that the authority of government derives from and is limited by a body of fundamental law. Ergo, a government that ignores that law is illegitimate.
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Yesterday they said today was tomorrow but today they know better.
- Poul Anderson
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Am I the only one that thinks it looks and feels and smells not so good? 
The home page opened and I was bored, so I closed the tab.
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