Timeline for Is "theoretical" computer science too narrow?
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| Feb 10, 2011 at 20:50 | comment | added | Peter Shor | @Raphael: Sorry. When I read your comment, I missed the word "concepts". | |
| Feb 10, 2011 at 18:43 | comment | added | Raphael | Peter, if the question is for concepts, then no, a small code fragment is not sufficient (in general), even though many programmers may think so. | |
| Feb 10, 2011 at 18:07 | comment | added | Peter Shor | @Raphael: Code fragments are perfectly good answers for programmers. Similarly, if you go to OR talks on optimization, you see these linear programs thrown up with baffling speed and lack of explanation, but that audience seems to understand them quite well. It's a question of what the community understands. | |
| Feb 10, 2011 at 1:39 | comment | added | Suresh Venkat Mod | This often happens on MO as well. I've had questions die because they went off the front page too quickly | |
| Feb 10, 2011 at 1:32 | comment | added | Marcos Villagra | It seems that the Tex.SEhas a lot traffic. Several questions are asked in a short time. For example, the other day I asked a very simple question (tex.stackexchange.com/questions/10464/…), and soon it went down the list and got lost in the sea of questions, with no answers. This is a good example of Tsuyoshi's point 2, and something I would not like to see in this site. | |
| Feb 10, 2011 at 0:17 | comment | added | Tsuyoshi Ito | @Kaveh: I do not have a good answer to your question. Still, I feel that separating the websites makes barrier higher for better or worse. If we can prevent bad effects, I believe that having one unified site makes more opportunity for communication beyond the field boundary. | |
| Feb 9, 2011 at 23:51 | comment | added | Kaveh Mod | Tsuyoshi, if there is not much interaction and people just read question on specific tags why not have separate sites for them? I am missing the point of having one site if it is not really one community but many communities each leaving on their own tag. If most users are going to filter questions and there is not much overlap between the communities why should make them suffer by seeing others question? Anyone interested can go to visit the other sites in place of checking the other tags. I think I am really missing what is the benefit of having a single site with disconnected communities? | |
| Feb 9, 2011 at 22:40 | comment | added | Raphael | Good point about lack of quality answers on StackOverlow. It is similar for Scala. In general, the amount of questions for concepts that are answered by code fragments is frightening. A similar degree of disconnectedness would scare me away from here. | |
| Feb 9, 2011 at 20:48 | history | answered | Tsuyoshi Ito | CC BY-SA 2.5 |