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duplicate of stackoverflow and programmers
Proposal: Code starter
this is a duplicate of duplicate of stackoverflow and orogrammers.
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Name alteration proposal
Proposal: API Finder
I do not think the current proposal 'API Finder' is a good choice. The name and description should more widely encompass API concepts.
I suggest something like the following:
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Shouldn't site notes be more objective?
The proposal Not Programming Related has the following note at the top:
Note that the scope and purpose of this proposal changed DRASTICALLY during the beta. Along with the name. You should still ...
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Pharo is a development environment and is covered by Stack Overflow
Proposal: Pharo
I commend the proposers of this topic for actually starting some example questions. I think this is essential if a site proposal is to have any momentum. Too many people just propose ...
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Why isn't there a general technology stack exchange site?
So I've been trying to ask a question about cellphone towers. Below. This question currently has no home. It's not a programming question (Stack Overflow), it's not related to computing (Super User), ...
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Can OpenGl co exist with Stack Overflow?
Proposal: Open GL
Currently, Stack Overflow handles the brunt of OpenGl / OpenGl ES questions. But is OpenGL a big enough field to have its own site?
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Duplicate of stackoverflow
Proposal: OpenGL
This is a total duplicate of Stack Overflow. I suggest that when anyone wants to make a proposal, look at the existing proposals and betas. And do not make proposals on subjects ...
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BigData is too specific, what about “Data”
Proposal: Big Data
I think Big Data is a too specific domain.
However, there's no place on stackexchange about "data" which would cover:
storage : filesystem, media, storage systems (raid, ...
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Duplicate of Stack over flow or Programmers
Proposal: Interview Questions
Hello,
This is a duplicate of stack over flow or programmers.
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Is this the right place for search engine optimization questions?
Proposal: Information Retrieval and Search Engines
I was searching for a SEO Q&A site under SE, but I couldn't find any. Searching in the proposals gave this one as the first result.
So it's ...
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Duplicate of Super User, Computer Science, and Electrical Engineering
Proposal: Computer Architecture & Organization
Is there really a need for this proposal?
It seems that scope of this proposal is covered by Stack Exchange sites Super User, Computer Science, ...
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Are safe-picking questions included in lockpicking?
Proposal: Lockpicking
This is kind of related to lock-picking - as you are trying to gain access to a locked location.
Would we have to differentiate between keypad locks and a key like mechanism ...
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Second Open Source site isn't any better
Proposal: Free and open source software.
This is the second Open Source proposal (or more; I only found that one). This one doesn't seem any less of a duplicate. All of the currently proposed example ...
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Big Data is not reasonably scoped
Proposal: Big Data is not reasonably scoped
While I like the idea of having a community centered around Big Data I believe this is not a good fit to the StackExchange model in its current state and ...
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A/V Equipment and Home Entertainment [closed]
I want a site where we can ask questions about A/V Equipment. Equipment like DirecTV DVRs and Receivers, Blu-ray Players, TVs, Set top boxes, audio tuners, speakers, amplifiers, stereo equipment, ...
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Not a duplicate of Statistics or Data
Proposal: Big Data is not a duplicate of Data or Statistics
It should be an encompassment of Distributed Systems and more specific proposals such as Hadoop. Issues that affect organizations and ...
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Why are on-topic questions being closed as subjective?
Proposal: Programming Education
This site has great potential, but something seems to be going wrong. In the description, it says "Where/how can I learn" questions are acceptable. Many of the ...
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why not Information technology and Laws?
why don't we purpose a IT and Laws Questions & Answer site for the all computer users, so that the young generation who are made at hacking and IT will aware of IT laws.And also Like SOPA and PIPA ...
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Discussion of carriers, plans, how to find the best deals?
I have a lot of questions about the best way to buy cellphone plans and I'm not sure about the right place to ask them. I must admit it's not really a forum I'll keep coming back to; I'm only really ...
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Is the Dutch community large enough to get this alternative going?
Proposal: Stack Overflow (in Dutch)
Will the SE proposal draw attention from enough Dutch programmers to make discussing in Dutch beneficial over the experts on the international stackoverflow? One ...
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Rationale for other.stackexchange.com
Proposal: Other
It seems rather often, and to the chagrin of many loyal Stack Exchange users and the entire community, that some questions have no place to go. See ...
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Is this proposal geared towards those learning programming, or those studying how others best learn programming?
Proposal: Programming Education
As a site primarily geared towards people who want to know where to find resources to best learn programming, I'm not sure it's a great fit. However, where I think it ...
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Information privacy law & criminal law [closed]
I believe that placing a listening device in your house without your knowledge and permission would be a criminal act. But it is common in the internet world for vaious entities to place things like ...
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This is exact subset of Broadcast and Media technologies
Proposal: FFmpeg
FFMPEG usage as well as programming is quite well accepted as part of Broadcast and Media Technologies
Also, this sites goes beyond software and hardware and one can discuss more ...
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Wordpress and Drupal but not Joomla?
Proposal: Joomla!
Drupal, Wordpress and Joomla are the 3 main CMS systems used for todays website and seeing as the Drupal and Wordpress already have a Stackoverflow site for them, I dont see why ...
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Merge with Libraries & Information Science?
Proposal: E-books and e-book readers
As libraries have to deal with supporting e-readers (especially if they subscribe to Amazon OverDrive), would it make sense for supporters of this group to ...
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Does the term ICT4D cover the scope
Proposal: ICT4D
I am a bit concerned with the D(evelopment) part. Since I would like to be this community be about relevant technology for positive change in general and not necessarily create the ...
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Audience of 'Eucalyptus'?
Proposal: Eucalyptus
Please describe the audience of this proposed site, instead of the content.
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A different Q&A
I would like to create a Q&A style site here that would be a little different. I was wondering if this would be something OK with StackExchange.
This is how I imagine the site to be:
People ...
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How can we get this proposal out of commitment and into beta?
Proposal: Personal Manufacturing
At the moment, there is a relatively strong interest in this proposal (246 of 200 committers in total) however there is still too little interest from established ...
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RE: Possible duplicate of Stack Overflow
My reading of the question "Why has a proposal for Zend Framework been closed?" is that if there's a community demand for the site, then it's okay for a sub-topic to become it's own site.
What's not ...
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Prompting Area 51 proposals
Any suggestions for ways to prompt an Area 51 proposal to existing SE users that appear to have an active interest in the topic based on answers, questions, and comments on existing SE sites?
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Search using tags AND exclude-tags
The search function on StackOverflow is great, really, but I was wondering if this would be at all possible:
Suppose I want to search for some string in all the questions that are tagged [php], but ...
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The gadget site was closed for not enough activity, does a site with a narrower scope really make sense?
Proposal: Flashlights
As in the title really - given that a year ago the gadget beta was closed for too little activity, does this site stand a chance given that it's essentially a subset? Granted, I ...
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Are hot-wiring questions included?
Proposal: Lockpicking
This is kind of related to lock picking, but yet not really to do with the actual key or lock, so should it be included as in scope? My gut reaction is perhaps not, though it ...
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Beware the Telephony Shopping Question
Telephony seems to have a LOT of shopping questions. Jeff Atwood gave a bunch of reasons why these questions are problematic, and I've noticed enough of them in the example questions list that I want ...
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Social network APIs & development
I frequently browse through questions on Stackoverflow, but I noticed that a lot of questions asked are about developing applications, widgets or interfaces for social networks like Facebook and ...
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RTL language support in proposals
Proposals: Stack Overflow (In Arabic), Islam, and Arabic Language & Usage.
As these proposals are for sites in Arabic (Islam is not mainly in Arabic, but the Quran is in Arabic, so will need ...
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How the “Crack my Encryption” site would work
Proposal: Crack my Encryption
The way I envisioned this site to work, was for users to post their code for the encryption as questions (like CodeReview.SE) and for other users to take the code they ...
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Already covered by Server Fault
With the exception of some "shopping" questions, the Telephony Proposal already seems to be quite well covered by Server Fault.
What specifically would be gained by splintering this off into its own ...
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Site proposal for Shell Hackers
Wouldn't Ask Ubuntu and Unix and Linux cover most of the tools
Proposal: Shell Hackers
It feels like we are getting sites for every flavor of everything
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Create my own A.R. engine to use with iOS: AR theory [closed]
Proposal: Augmented Reality
I'm an iOS and Android developer and I want to create my own AR engine. I've been using iOS ARToolkit but it is a mess! Code it is not optimized and I want to do it by my ...
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Perl proposal scope
Proposal: Perl
The tagline for the site reads, "Proposed Q&A site for serious Perl programmers and Linux administrators." What do "Linux administrators" have to do with Perl? I know Perl is ...
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Are developers looking for information in French?
Proposal: Stack Overflow (in French)
I find this proposal interesting but like many people I'm wondering if it's viable or not. I feel like to be viable, we need people looking for information in ...
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Even if it's popular enough, is a Perl-specific site a good fit for SE?
Proposal: Perl
Aside from the fact that its entire scope is already covered by Stack Overflow, I'm curious if a Perl-specific site could ever successfully conform to the format of Stack Exchange ...
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Isn't Moderators proposal too narrow, why not having something like [Managing] Online Communities?
Proposal: Moderators
I think that this proposal should be changed a little bit and renamed to something like "[managing] online communities".
This would cover:
all knowledge-base systems ...
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Does this proposal tie in well with Digital Preservation
Proposal: File Systems
In my opinion, filesystems are tied closely to digital preservation. Preservation of data depends on having a robust filesystem supporting the data through decades of ...
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Why was “Google” closed?
Proposal: Google
Google is a perfectly good idea for a StackExchange site. Ubuntu was given it's own StackExchange site because a large percentage of the questions on Unix & Linux had to do with ...
