Re:Stack Overflow Launches
by tialys on Monday September 15, 2008 @08:56AM
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Ugh... I know it's a site for programmers, but would it have broken the budget to hire a designer? I can't tell what anything is at first glance and it all looks jumbled to me.
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Your dislike of the design does not necessarily mean that a designer was not consulted.
Feels like it does mean the designer did not do a good job since I'm sure much of the YC crowd is more or less the core audience for Stack Overflow.
Are you sure about that? I haven't asked a programming question (in public) for a number of years. I am too lazy to sit and wait for someone to tell me how to solve my problem when I could discover the solution on my own.
I assume that most people here are like that. (Otherwise they would be on Reddit instead ;)
You could ask question and answer it yourself.
It's also perfectly fine to ask and answer your own programming question, but pretend you're on Jeopardy: phrase it in the form of a question. </quote> http://stackoverflow.com/faq
If (if) you don't want to share you knowledge for the benefit of fellow programmers then that's another question.
If (if) you don't want to share you knowledge for the benefit of fellow programmers then that's another question.
I share my knowledge for the benefit of fellow programmers at the 10 or so conferences I go to a year, and on my ad-free blog.
True, my comment was a bit quick off the block. I didn't mean to imply that the average HN user and the average web-forum-programmer were anything similar.
Except, perhaps, aesthetically. Maybe I'm wrong here too, but a failed visual design for HN readers is probably a failed design for the average web-forum-programmer, too.
Re:Stack Overflow Launches
by michaelneale on Monday September 15, 2008 @07:26PM
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you mean impatient - not lazy?
No, I meant lazy. Sitting around doing nothing would require a lot of mental effort and work. Thinking about programming would be relaxing and enjoyable.
Re:Stack Overflow Launches
by michaelneale on Monday September 15, 2008 @08:46PM
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That's a good point. I feel the same way, I just assumed everyone else enjoyed sitting around and doing nothing and there was something wrong for me. Glad I am not unusual. I have a lot of non-programming tasks lately, yet I find myself finding a small problem to hack around as "procrastination".
Had exactly the same response.