<story><title>New Programming Jargon</title><url>http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/07/new-programming-jargon.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SiVal</author><text>I can&apos;t help noticing how often I&apos;ve&lt;p&gt;-- had a programming question&lt;p&gt;-- googled it&lt;p&gt;-- found the very first (most relevant) link to be to StackOverflow&lt;p&gt;-- jumped to it&lt;p&gt;-- found that some other programmer had also asked the same question&lt;p&gt;-- found that other SO members had given the question and its answers hundreds of bonus points (useful!)&lt;p&gt;-- and found that the SO mod-nazis had shut it down as &quot;Not considered a good, on-topic question&quot;&lt;p&gt;An example might be, what are the differences between git and mercurial, where the answer is not a line of code but may include informed judgments by the people whose judgments I&apos;m most interested in. As a developer, I have to make a lot of decisions, and not all of them are about which characters to type.&lt;p&gt;So I have to live with whatever answers well-informed SO members managed to sneak onto the page before they were chased away and the gate was locked.&lt;p&gt;Does it seem to anyone else as though there might be something wrong when this happens over and over again?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>codinghorror</author><text>+1 for providing an example, but &quot;Git vs. Mercurial&quot; belongs on someone&apos;s blog, or on Wikipedia as a comparison matrix.&lt;p&gt;Now if you have a specific question about some &lt;i&gt;aspect&lt;/i&gt; of Git compared to Mercurial, that can work on SE. But as a broad kitchen sink, catch-all, &quot;compare these two giant things kthx&quot;, you&apos;d end up with Gorilla vs. Shark.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/08/gorilla-vs-shark/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/08/gorilla-vs-shark/&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>New Programming Jargon</title><url>http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/07/new-programming-jargon.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SiVal</author><text>I can&apos;t help noticing how often I&apos;ve&lt;p&gt;-- had a programming question&lt;p&gt;-- googled it&lt;p&gt;-- found the very first (most relevant) link to be to StackOverflow&lt;p&gt;-- jumped to it&lt;p&gt;-- found that some other programmer had also asked the same question&lt;p&gt;-- found that other SO members had given the question and its answers hundreds of bonus points (useful!)&lt;p&gt;-- and found that the SO mod-nazis had shut it down as &quot;Not considered a good, on-topic question&quot;&lt;p&gt;An example might be, what are the differences between git and mercurial, where the answer is not a line of code but may include informed judgments by the people whose judgments I&apos;m most interested in. As a developer, I have to make a lot of decisions, and not all of them are about which characters to type.&lt;p&gt;So I have to live with whatever answers well-informed SO members managed to sneak onto the page before they were chased away and the gate was locked.&lt;p&gt;Does it seem to anyone else as though there might be something wrong when this happens over and over again?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stevvooe</author><text>At risk of being banned forever, yes, this has been my  experience with the site since its inception. Judgement is one quality of a solid developer and SO fails to impart The additive judgement of its participants.</text></comment>