The Technology category includes proposals in subjects like computing, technology, gadgets, and electronics.
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How to make that proposal successfull this time?
Proposal: Stack Overflow (in German)
Old proposal: Stack Overflow (in German)
The previous proposal for StackOverflow in German has failed. What can we do to make it successfull this time?
Are there ...
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Unlawful activities
Proposal: Espionage
After reading someone's comment (here) I'm now wondering: what constitutes unlawful/illegal activity regarding espionage?
Also, what would be the best way to handle the issue ...
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Duplicate of IT Security SE?
Proposal: Network Threat Detection
This proposal seems to duplicate functions of existing SE sites and proposals. The description reads:
Proposed Q&A site for Network Engineers, IT security, ...
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Industrial espionage
Proposal: Espionage
You mention cyber-espionage and of course there is political espionage, but will this site cover industrial espionage? Also what other forms of espionage are there?
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What tags should it have? [closed]
Proposal: Software Recommendations
We need to specify some tags, like maybe
Platform
Type of Program
and some more. Any ideas?
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Let's try again for an Espionage proposal
Proposals: Espionage, Espionage [closed]
The Espionage proposal was closed after spending over 2 years in Area51. This is a site I very much would like to see as a part of the network. We didn't ...
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Serious issues around Security Review
Proposal: Security Review
As far as I can tell, this proposal essentially amounts to asking StackExchange citizens to perform a penetration test on live sites.
I can see several serious issues with ...
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Why do we need a site dedicated to computer graphics programming?
Proposal: Computer graphics programming
There are some very good StackExchange sites in which people can ask graphics programming related questions, such as in programming, game development and ...
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Would merger of Augmented Reality with Wearable Computers be profitable?
Proposal: Augmented Reality
Proposal: Wearable Computers
Of course I'm not suggesting these two are duplicate. There is a significant area of Augmented Reality that is not wearable (automotive, ...
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Why would this be separate from EE.StackExchange?
Proposal: Open Source Hardware
I wouldn't mind this site, but it's going to come up sooner or later: What makes this site different from electronics engineering stack exchange.
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Merge Mobile Phones and Dumbphones
Proposal: Mobile Phones
Proposal: Dumbphones
Dumbphones is a subset of Mobile phones proposal, hence they should be merged.
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Is the lambda architecture applied and if so, where? [closed]
Proposal: Big Data
Polyglot persistence (PP) essentially suggests to use the right database or datastore, or combination thereof, for a certain task, depending on data characteristics, workload, etc.
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is managing enormous amounts of (smaller) files counted as Big Data?
Often BigData seems to be focused on managing very big datasets of a specific types, so that the focus is on the analysis on this specific type of data.
In domains like NextGen sequencing, there is, ...
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Does 'big data' also include 'large, complex data'?
Proposal: Big Data
Big Data is partly the problem of large, uniform data sets. For example, matrices with millions of rows. But it is also a problem of non-uniform data, e.g. graph-based data, with ...
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Why do we really need it?
OK, so, after reading some discussion here I think everyone should calm down and think about this proposal with cool head. I've jumped in and was pretty excited about it at first, but now I'm becoming ...
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Closure not properly justified
Proposal: Overclocking
So the proposal was closed as duplicate of Super User. I'm not convinced that decision was on the spot, though.
Super User has at this moment barely 138 questions tagged ...
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Wouldn't this belong on Arqade?
Proposal: Sims
This should be under a tag on Arqade, right? If the Minecraft proposal was closed, this one should be as well.
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Restarting the Augmented Reality Site — We need questions again
Proposal: Augmented Reality
I would like to restart the Augmented Reality site. If you are actively working in this field, or just have a fleeting interest please add a few questions and upvote the ...
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No, really: what part of this isn't already on-topic for Stack Overflow?
Proposal: Laravel
Update - Laravel will not be launched as a separate site at this time
Thanks to everyone who took the time to leave feedback here. The team discussed this extensively, and we all ...
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Is the Subjective Stack Overflow a good fit for Q&A?
Proposal: Subjective stack overlow
Yeah, well, someone has to ask it.
Proposed Q&A site for all those who remember the "good old days" when stack overlow allowed (tolerated) subjective ...
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Does this include underclocking (a.k.a. downclocking), too?
The title of the proposal is specific regarding overclocking, but I believe it should include underclocking (or downclocking), too. My question is thus, what is your opinion on including all clock ...
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Software Platforms
Proposal: Software Recommendations
I've noticed a few proposed questions specify a target platform, which makes sense because what good is software if you can't use it. However, how far does this ...
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How is this different than EE? If not, what is the scope?
Proposal: Electrical Craftsmanship
I admit I haven't been around here as long as some, but long enough to know every proposal is questioned: "How is this proposal different from xyz?" To prevent ...
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This presentation may be helpful for soliciting contributions and followers to Education Technology
Proposal: Education Technology
http://slidespeech.com/s/hdNGcFBUen?autoplay=true
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Data acquisition and measurement as subset of Embedded Design?
Proposal: Data acquisition and measurements.
This would be a welcome subset of questions of Embedded programming and design.
It's pretty far from suggested "Computational Science" which is much more ...
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Do you guys know that this isn't going to work?
IMO, after Shogs constructive post, this is obsolete and could be closed or whatever.
Again, I just happened to stumble upon this and wrote a suboptimally worded warning for the sake of transparency ...
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How to help in promoting the Gamification proposal?
Proposal: Gamification
Please upvote the Gamification community ads on Programmers and User Experience so that it reaches the minimum score threshold necessary for these ads to be displayed on the ...
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Being committed to the Laravel Proposal.. and then being REALLY committed
Proposal: Laravel
Watching this proposal with close interest, I've been surprised to see the commitment score drop below both the commit percentage, and the rep-based score as time goes on. It seems ...
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Interface translation
Proposal: *Stack Overflow (in Russian) *
Hi!
What is a probability that interface of stackexchange sites will be translated somewhere in the future? Currently there are no localized versions. And ...
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How can I get Thingsquare Mist on MSP430 and CC11xx when code size of compiled hello-world is to large? [closed]
Proposal: Contiki
I have downloaded the source code for Thingsquare Mist and tried to compile the examples for EXP430 experimenters board, containing a TI MSP430 and an CC1101 868MHz transceiver. The ...
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This proposal appears to be covered by SuperUser
Proposal: Homebrew Computers
As per the superuser faq:
Super User is for computer enthusiasts and power users. If you have a question about ... computer hardware ...
Does that cover it?
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What's holding you back from adding questions that will define this proposed Heterogeneous Computer Systems?
Proposal: Heterogeneous Computer Systems
We've got 11 users interested since last October, and very little activity in the area of defining this proposal. What specifically is holding you back from ...
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Why does Joomla remove my html code in the JCE editor? [closed]
I actually really want to know. Joomla doesn't allow me to use javascript!
Proposal: Joomla!
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More discussions regarding this proposal taking place on Laravel's forums
Proposal: Laravel
Folks on Laravel's forums are discussing this proposal in good detail. Some for, some against. But is worth joining the conversation and expressing your opinion.
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Is Latex going to be available in this community?
Proposal: Control Systems
Working with control systems involve a lot of Mathematical equations and expressions. In my opinion, it will be very convenient if Latex would be supported in this ...
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All version control sites are duplicates of SO
Proposal*: Git usage, Revision Control, GitHub
This has been brought up several times, yet these proposals keep getting made and not being closed. All of these questions are legal on Stack Overflow. ...
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Please keep Git on Stack Overflow, like the other VCS tools
Proposal: Git usage
As I argue for Github, Git is totally on topic for Stack Overflow, and has more than 25000 questions already.
Isolating it in its own site, with lower traffic and visibility, ...
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Should Control Systems be a tag under a broader engineering SE?
Proposal: Control Systems
Should "Control Systems" be merged into the "Electrical Engineering" SE which is in Beta? Then a tag could be created in that SE to mark questions pertaining to controls?
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Exclude “lower case semantic web”?
Proposal: Semantic Web
There may be various definitions of the Semantic Web. Some may use it for anything "semantic" related to the Web, for example semantic use of HTML, using Microformats, using ...
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Computer Engeneering (Logic Design and Computer Architecture) vs. Electrical Engineering and Software Overflow
Proposal: Computer Architecture
I see that there is Logic Design proposal, which is improperly classified as a field of SW and Electrical Engineering. I argue that Computer Architecture and Logic ...
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VC is already highly on-topic at SO
Proposal: Revision control.
This was tried a couple years ago, and determined then to be on-topic at SO already.
Examples:
git, 25000+
svn, 15000+
version-control, 7000+
mercurial, 5000+
There ...
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This name is confusing
Proposal: Stack Overflow in Spanish
The name is confusing and causes confusion. It implies that "Stack Overflow" is a category and "in Spanish" is a translation modifier, but SOiS and SO are distinct ...
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Laravel has a lot of native/unique functionality irrelevant to the rest of php
I think Laravel needs it's own area because it has so much built in native functionality that is entirely unqiue to Laravel and especially Laravel 4.
Eloquent / Fluent ORM
Artisan Command Console
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Perhaps extend the topic to ALL virtualization software?
Proposal: VMware Virtualization
I think that this should all virtualization, so it can include things like VirtualBox, because it still relates to the core virtualization topic and is very similar in ...
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Merge Retrocomputing and Retro-Gaming
Proposal: Retrocomputing
Proposal: Retro-Gaming and Modding
There's a lot of overlap in audience and topics -- merge?
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Close duplicate questions
Proposal: Retrocomputing
At least 6 questions are mostly about transferring data from/to retro hardware, or connecting modern peripherals to it (and vice versa). They should be folded into one.
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Would this site be specific to non-Earth exploration?
Proposal: Space Exploration
Would questions about building Earth observation satellites and other space issues specific near home be on topic? How about the van Allen belts, the South Atlantic ...
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Don't Upvote Questions with 10 or More, We need upvotes on questions without 10 upvotes
I'm noticing a lot of questions being up-voted that already have the required amount. Scroll down and find a question without the required 10 up-votes.
Proposal: Laravel
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Is “DIY Groups” unique and purposeful enough?
Proposal: DIY Groups (Makerspaces, Hackerspaces, dorkbot, etc)
I understand that this is a community and that it isn't up to just me if a new proposal should go to the commit stage. Further, it's ...
