[lug] OT: questions/anwer site

Zan Lynx zlynx at acm.org
Thu Oct 16 14:14:49 MDT 2008


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Davide Del Vento wrote:
> Folks,
> we often use this list for questions and answers. I'd like to let you
> know about a great website for this purpose: http://stackoverflow.com/
> 
> Well, it has been developed with M$ tools, so it's evil by default, IMO :-)
> But there is a great idea: questions and answer are NOT threaded, but
> they're arranged according to relevance (which, in turn, is voted by
> the community, wikipedia-style).
> 
> It seems a great tool, let check it when you have a question (and
> possibly leave an answer every now and then).

All should know that StackOverflow, which is a very nice site, is for
programming questions only.  Although some other types of things get on
there, questions about how to configure hardware or particular programs
are usually removed.
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