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Fair enough from his perspective - didn't like the change, so he left.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: really, really didn't like QA
I can't stand the Q&A format so I don't bother (unless really bored on a quiet day) go there.
I would never give up the opportunity of chucking a hissy fit about it!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Thanks for posting this. Codeproject always seemed more approachable to me then StackOverflow.
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Bahh! What would you know noobie?!
I remember in the good old days there were 47 of us coding in a shoe box on the bottom of the ocean. We used jellyfish and sharks instead of zeros and ones. We once wrote an entire OS in 3 lines of code that could run on any computer running at the time. All without a project specification while our PM's tried to feed us cold poison.
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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Then you were doing it wrong.
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You had a shoe box, in the beautiful open ocean? Lucky bastard! I used to lay awake at night, dreaming of being chained to a shoe box under the ocean. We had to code in a sewer pipe, huddled under a tent made from a used diaper. Jellyfish and sharks, had you? Oh, quite posh you were! I can't imagine the luxury. We had to code with undigested corn and tomato seeds. And you had project managers to feed you? We had poison our own selves by sucking bacteria from the diaper tent.
Oh, I could only dream of such a life as you lived, you lucky, lucky bastard!
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But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'.
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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There may be strange things floating around in the glass, but, for me, it's more than half-full !
I think the article cited is a hatchet-job on SO. I have always, and continue, today, to find SO a very valuable place to find detailed answers, and code. And, it has people posting regularly, like Jon Skeet, Eric Lippert, and others, who I consider .NET/C# guru-of-gurus. imho, SO is much easier to find specific content in than CP; of course CP's vast treasure of articles, tips/tricks, are without equal !
I find, with both sites, that my learning over time who are the posters that teach me the most really pays off. On SO, the posts of people like Hans Passant and Nawfal are always useful, and, on CP, posts from MarcClifton, OriginalGriff, Pete O'Hanlon, Richard Deeming, Richard MacCutchan, and Sascha LeFevre (to name only a few) are regulars whose posts I so often learn from, and/or are challenged by.
Yes, I think SO is intimidating, often, to new users, but, I've never seen anyone on SO get away with the type of frequent (every day) insulting ad hominem bullying of people asking questions that, until a few months ago, happened here. Praise be that one person (with a deep technical mind, and an astral-level CP rep) who did the bullying seems to have gone dormant, for now.
SO has people who are messing around with people's posts to get a higher rep ? Well, what about the four, or five, QA cowboys here who so frequently answer questions on QA with trivial "solutions" that often are off-topic and/or have code that would not even compile ? Note: to my knowledge I am one of the very few (the only ?) regulars on QA who not only votes down these shoddy solutions, but also tells the poster why I am down-voting them (perhaps fortunate they don't know that you can get someone blown away in the country I live for a thousand-us-dollars, or so).
I've always seen CP and SO as being very different (but complementary) cultures; CP "Dionysian," and, SO "Apollonian." I note that I often see CP articles linked-to on SO.
However, I experience myself as having a "psychic" connection to CP, over years, in a way I've never felt with SO. In the moments I pull-back and am able to see (perhaps) the bigger picture, I find myself thinking that CP is the perfect on-line community ... for me ... and, that thought is always surprising because I never imagined I'd come to have this personal sense of connected-ness and comradeship with any on-line site.
As someone who came to software development much later in life than is, perhaps, usual (when I was in my late-thirties, circa 1981), I look back on my thirty+ year involvement in software in awe of the quality of the tools and resources we have today.
I find both CP and SO (and some of the StackOverflow sites) superb resources; I'm very grateful to have access to them.
Jeff Atwood, Marc Gravell, Joel Spolsky, Chris Maunder: if programming were a religion, they would be saints  Anders Hejlsberg, of course, would be an angel.
cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
modified 26-Sep-16 18:54pm.
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Well, first there has to be an incline.
I think they ran out of developers to call idiots for asking that question.
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All I want different on SO is a name and a reason for a down-vote.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. - Liber AL vel Legis 1:40, Aleister Crowley
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I find SO's deletion of duplicate posts keeps saturation down to a minimum, the quality of posts high, with the result that the information is always good and precise.
(And dont forget what you might call 'beginner' knowledge in your field is just rapid primer stuff to people in other fields)
Sorry to say but CP doesnt provide this. Perhaps its indepth stuff is better, I dont know, I have never needed to use it.
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Nish Nishant wrote: can I get back my revoked access to the diamond members' club lounge please?
We're still cleaning up the chicken feathers, the strange stain in the middle of the floor and those hoof prints on the bathroom ceiling. Interestingly no one wants to know what happened in the bathroom.
Grab a scrubbing brush and maybe we can talk about it.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I tried to post a few replies on Stack Overflow in areas that I had solved the poster's question and my replies all got moderated as not being appropriate for the question. Needless to say I gave up - Stack Overflow's moderation team has proven themselves to be a bunch of self-centered morons.
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Nish Nishant wrote: There's also a total absence of status-ego on display here.
Yes, that used to be fun.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Okay, I'm going to stop smoking and hopefully raise some money for the local kid's hospital in the process. If anyone would like to donate, please do so here.[^]
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Surely, the money you will save from not buying cigs should be enough to hit your fund-collecting goal in an year, maybe two years?
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Well, I'll be donating what I save but any extra helps.
And the more I think about, it would be far quicker than that!
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Well done - and good luck! 
It's worth it in the long run: I wouldn't go back to it now.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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How long ago did you stop?
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Last cigarette on October 12th 2004.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Last cigarette on October 12th 2004.
I think that's long enough to be able to safely say that you've stopped!
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 Probably!
Once I'd taken the last nicorette patch off, I didn't miss 'em - except when my mother died - but even then I didn't go there, I'm glad to say.
Get yourself some dried fruit - it gives you something to do with your hands - and try to avoid places where you have a history of smoking while you are stopping. It should be easier now since there are so few places indoors where you can smoke anyway!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Hmmm, the places where I tend to smoke the most would be my house and the pub. Neither are remotely avoidable (especially the pub!)
Having spent the last year losing a massive amount of weight, I'm extremely wary of using food as a substitute but I expect that a few tablet games will help me get through any sofa time.
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Forget all the little tricks. Simply smoke twice as much as usual, overdo it on purpose and build up a real aversion which you can use to get over any temptation to start again.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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