Questions tagged [technology]
The Technology category includes proposals in subjects like computing, technology, gadgets, and electronics.
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Drones: When will our private beta launch?
Proposal: Drones and Model Aircraft
My understanding is that private beta sites are launched on Tuesdays or Wednesdays during business hours in the USA. Since this has not happened, I wonder when we ...
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War Equipment and Gear
discussion on all war equipment right from bullets, guns, snipers, night visions, missiles, ships, submarine, fighter planes, missions failed or successful, virus and nukes.
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Is experimental and strange drone designs also a topic that will be discussed in this sub?
Hi I am a researcher and currently I have some unusual ideas about drone designs that I wish to try and know more about.
Is this site also going to go towards more experimental/scientific ...
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When does solicitation cross the line?
Proposal: Bitcoin Cash
As our initiative continues to gain commitments, I've been thinking long and hard about how best to attract the "right" commiters. As you probably already know, members with ...
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Chrome/Firefox/Other Browser Extension Community
I would like to propose a extension community, that is for developers, and users of browser extensions.
Would anyone else like this? or should I just leave this type of stuff for stack overflow?
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Microsoft Windows is on-topic on Super User
Proposal: Microsoft Windows
Super User kinda already does this, the second most popular tag is Windows 7, then Windows, and Windows 10 is up there as well.
If you look at the Windows tags, they all ...
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How do we attract 100 SE users rep'd over 200 to move to Beta?
Proposal: Bitcoin Cash
First off, thank you to everyone who contributed to Phase 1. The questions were great and it clearly shows the value that will come once we bring Bitcoin Cash to the Stack ...
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Are military drones on-topic?
Proposal: Drones and Model Aircraft
As a total nobody, I mostly hear about drones in the news in military drone strikes. I thus guess that this site will end up with questions about military drones.
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Could a large number of supporters help offset a <100 number of commiters with >200 rep?
Proposal: Drones and Model Aircraft
Going forward, I'm afraid this proposal is in a difficult spot. As is evident from the general support and self-reported demographics present on the proposal page, ...
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Should questions about legality be on topic?
I anticipate quite a few questions like "Can I fly a drone above roads in Xyzia?" and "What is the legal distinction between a drone and a model aircraft in Canada?"
Should these be on-topic?
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When there should be separate site for certain Linux distribution?
There's AskUbuntu site, but users of other distros have to use Unix & Linux, marking their questions with 'distribution name' tags. How people know when there should be separate site for their ...
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Should questions asking for support for a specific software suite or firmware be on-topic?
Proposal: Drones and Model Aviation
This proposal has a number of example questions that amount to "How to do X in Y software suite?" Some of these might be better suited to the specific product's ...
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What type of campaign message was used, to attract 17 new users within 1 hour?
Proposal: Drones and Model Aviation
I noticed that 17 new users (all with only 51 total points, so all brand new users) followed this proposal within 1 hour:
That is truly exceptional and as ...
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How does the topic of this site differ from Aviation, Electric Engineering and Robotics?
Proposal: Drones and Model Aviation
As per the title, how would this site's content differ from a mixture of:
Aviation (for everything related to flying, aerodynamics, regulations, etc)
Electrical ...
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Is the focus Technical or General?
Proposal: Drones and Model Aviation
I'm assuming that this proposed site would be viewed as a technical resource, and more general questions such as "Which is the best starter model", and "How do I ...
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memes.stackexchange.com
I am proposing memes@stackexchange.com for the sake of discussing and living with memes.
What we do here:
Explaining what memes and internet jokes have behind them.
Asking and answering the context ...
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New site proposal: Modded Minecraft? (off-topic on Arqade)
Having been on Arqade for several years, I know that modded Minecraft (client or server) support is off-topic. There are so many questions related to modded Minecraft, I'd think that it would be ...
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Quantum Computing (and Operations Research) are not Showing up in Accounts Tab
Proposal: Quantum Computing
QC doesn't show up in the site list (Accounts Tab) in my profile:
Elsewhere, on every other site, it shows up correctly:
This bug also affects Operations Research, which ...
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Is there a maximum duration of the commitment phase? [duplicate]
As in the object. Could not find the information with a site search.
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Preparation before submitting a proposal for new site
I have an idea for a new site which I genuinely believe will be very useful to many people.
Since timeline after the submission is very tight, it would be good to prepare ahead of time to ensure best ...
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Sockpuppeting on Ontology?
Proposal: Ontology Blockchain
There's something strange going on with this proposal: the numbers are all wrong. Comparing it to three other proposals with mostly outside traffic: Tezos, iota, and ...
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In what category should I propose Marketing & Advertisement?
I want to add "Marketing & Advertisement" as a proposal.
Problem is, that there are a lot of different use cases and questions for this subject for example:
Questions about Marketing strategies
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Stack site for AWS (Amazon Web Services)?
I have been thinking that AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a massive technology and maybe deserves its own site. I want to start a discussion to see if we should just let AWS be discussed in Stack sites ...
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Would a Developer Relations stackexchange site be allowed?
Developer relations is ill defined, and different between different organisations. There's no playbook, and people come into the role from a wide variety of backgrounds and experience.
There are ...
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Tezos has growing communities in Korea, Japan, and China. How do we help them to participate in our english language stackexchange?
Proposal: Tezos
Tezos community is growing all over the world. Do we know if the various non-english communities are building their own Q&A resources?
We should both make sure that they have a ...
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Would a proposal about designing programming languages be a duplicate and/or off-topic?
I was thinking of a proposal for designing programming languages, but I am not sure whether it is a duplicate of an already existing proposal/beta site/SE site or if it is off-topic for a Q&A ...
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Would a proposal about esoteric programming languages be a duplicate?
When I asked a question about the programming language "Simplefunge" on StackOverflow, it received 15 views and no answers, even when I put a bounty on it.
Then, it struck me that Stack Overflow may ...
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Enter the Void Linux distribution
Void Linux is not a 'just works out of the box' type distro, so what about a Q&A site for users of the Void Linux distro?
From the official website:
Void Linux is a general purpose operating ...
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Why were these questions closed in Defintion?
I have spent four long months building up the Hashgraph proposal. I have been active in their Telegram and Discord channels, tweeted and retweeted about it, posted on their official website, and have ...
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What is the most relevant stack for GNSS (GPS, Glonass, Galileo…) questions?
Is there a stack that encompasses GNSS (e.g. GPS) technologies. I see:
GIS,
Electrical Engineering,
Space Exploration,
Ham Radio,
possibly other...
are related, but it's difficult to imagine ...
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how to increase visibilty of this proposal
Proposal: Tezos
I suggest we ensure that we ensure that during each tezos meetup and tezos training sessions the proposal is advertised to people.
stack exchange is a more effective way to persist ...
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Is there truly no way to get around the “No shopping” rule?
I frequently find myself searching tens of hours for products with certain specifications. In many cases, I have to order and return several products due to insufficient manufacturer information; in ...
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Would a NEW community based on this [current tag] be welcomed?
I'm certain StackOverflow is the only place where Git questions would end up on this network. I would like to propose the creation of a new site: Git.SE, where questions regarding implementing, using ...
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Product Management Q&A Site
I am proposing to start a product management Q&A site.
Any product company is driven by a product management department with product managers. Today, you do have User Experience site which is all ...
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Creating a site about MediaWiki and/or wiki in general
Working with a custom wiki based on MediaWiki, in the last year I had toubles to find the right home or question about it.
Sometime I had to post on StackOverflow, sometime on SuperUser and finally ...
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“Formal Math” - Do you allow sites that don't follow the usual Stack Exchange protocols?
Following discussion with trusted colleagues I am thinking about setting up a site for working on formalized mathematics. To quote John Harrison:
It is generally accepted that in principle it’s ...
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Don't we need the seperate community for Ionic? [duplicate]
Don't we need the separate community for Ionic? Ionic is the biggest Hybrid app development framework. It should have its separate community to discuss the problems in the app development in Ionic ...
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Why are some frameworks marked as duplicates while others are allowed to be thier own site?
Yesterday, I tried to create the "Laravel" site and it got flagged as a duplicate. But yet there are other frameworks such as "Wordpress" & "Drupal" who got their own SE site. So what is the ...
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Monero, Litecoin, other cryptocurrencies… Should be merged with Bitcoin SE
There are many proposals for cryptocurrencies, such as Monero. The point is, theres already a Bitcoin SE. Shouldn’t the other cryptocurrencies be combined?
By the way, there are hundreds and hundreds ...
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The Bone Yard. Question limbo, SE Rule boot camp, or low-quality purgatory. A place where questions go to die?
I propose a SE site that any answer or question is on topic and never closed or put on hold.Unlike other sites the commonality of these question will be that they need work. This will give th OP the ...
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How to help users get the minimal rep points
Proposal: eosio
Getting users with high rep is not that easy.
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Is there a Community about RHEL/CentOS/Fedora? [closed]
There is a Community Ask Ubuntu And Elementary OS. Is there a Community about RHEL/CentOS/Fedora?
In the past I asked question about Fedora/CentOS/RHEL on Unix&Linux Community. But when I read ...
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Do we need our own StackExchange or can we live within StackOverflow as a tag?
Proposal: eosio
I already see questions posted in StackOverflow where there is already an eos tag. Are we duplicating efforts?
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Is it possible to create another language site with English interface [duplicate]
I know that is not allowed to create new languages for interfaces, but can we create another language stackoverflow site with English interface? So, all Q/A in another language, but interface is in ...
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I'd like to propose a site for holology, antique grandfather clocks, and the restoration of these masterpieces [duplicate]
I took a few pictures of a grandfather clock at a bank branch, and I'd like to upload some pictures in hopes someone might recognise it. However, I can't seem to find the appropriate site to ask. Here'...
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Are closely related topics (quantum communication, simulation, cryptography, etc) going to be on-topic here?
Proposal: Quantum Computing
There are many areas of quantum information that are closely related to quantum computing.
A few that come to mind are quantum simulation, quantum communication, quantum ...
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During definition it may make more sense to use votes to get best coverage, rather than over vote on one question
Proposal: Research Computing
What is a good way to get new users to read and understand the SE new proposal voting protocol?
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Would any member from the Scratch Administration Support this site
If we were to create this site would anyone from the Scratch Team such as modorators like Paddle2See be part of this site.
Is that something that we can easily ask them to do or not?
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What happens to votes by users on closed questions?
Proposal: Quantum Computing
I was just wondering what happens when a question is closed by a moderator as too broad or a duplicate etc, say the question has a bunch of votes. Are those votes returned ...
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IMO Quantum Computing should be a topic in the existing Computer Science stack exchange site
There are already Computer Science and Theoretical Computer Science sites that should cover Quantum Computing topics. There's no reason to needlessly multiply stack exchange sites.
Proposal: Quantum ...
