Questions tagged [technology]
The Technology category includes proposals in subjects like computing, technology, gadgets, and electronics.
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Should we allow questions about other parts of the software toolchain?
Proposal: Programming Language Design and Implementation
Compilers are, of course, only one part of the software development toolchain. There are other tools that are language-adjacent, such as ...
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Will questions about building and maintaining a programming language's community or contributors be allowed?
Proposal: Programming Language Design and Implementation
Basically what is says on the tin. On CGCC we have a couple of questions about golfing language design, one of which partially focuses on what'...
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How does "Programming Language Design and Implementation" overlap with existing SE communities?
Proposal: Programming Language Design and Implementation
I've chatted with a few of the users behind this proposal in chat (and internally with other members of the Community Management Team), and ...
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Should we allow questions about the procedure of creating programming languages?
Proposal: Programming Language Design and Implementation
Should we allow questions about how to start when creating languages, how to plan the design process and set up a compiler/interpreter?
Even ...
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What is a programming language?
Proposal: Programming Language Design and Implementation
I saw a question about esolangs, which mentioned that
... Esoteric languages are still programming languages ...
But what are programming ...
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Why are so many example questions downvoted?
Proposal: Programming Language Design and Implementation
I've looked at the example questions of this proposal, and noticed that about a third of them have downvotes. Curiously, a lot of the downvoted ...
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Should we allow questions on literature about programming language design/implementation?
Proposal: Programming Language Design
Currently we've had multiple questions posted asking for recommendations of books, blogs, or other resources relating to our site's topic, including:
What ...
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Should we rename our site to include "and implementation"?
Proposal: Programming Language Design (and Implementation? :p)
Following up on a brief discussion in chat, it seems that people would support including programming language implementation in our site'...
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Should questions about design decisions in existing languages be on-topic?
Proposal: Programming Language Design
Why did language <x> choose to have feature <y>, a closed question as of when this was posted, has spawned a long discussion in its comments about ...
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Should "should" questions be allowed?
Proposal: Programming Language Design
We've currently got a lot of questions formatted as "should I/my language [...]", such as:
Should I have the concept of a "statement" ...
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Strange pattern in voting
Proposal: Programming Language Design
Every question that has received more than 5 votes was submitted over a 2 day period, November 17 and 18.
Very few of the questions submitted in the last 6 weeks ...
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Are questions about reimplementing languages that's made by others, on topic?
Proposal: Programming Language Design
Are questions about reimplementing languages that's made by others, on topic? (Title)
Examples:
Questions about adding new monads/dyads to a golfing language.
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Will another proposal for Stack Overflow in another language be acceptable now?
I am considering creating a new proposal for Stack Overflow in Thai language but, from what I have done the research, this post is the most recent information I can find where it means that the system ...
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A mostly opinion-based site?
Proposal: Programming Language Design
The subject of this proposed site seems to encourage questions that are a bad fit for Stack Exchange. Indeed, most of the (as-of-writing) top-voted sample ...
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Are questions regarding implementation of existing languages on topic?
Proposal: Programming Language Design
In this meta post "Should both language design and language implementation be on-topic?" @curiousdannii said:
Questions about implementing existing ...
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Should both language design and language implementation be on-topic?
Proposal: Programming Language Design
Programming language design and programming language implementation are very different things. While there isn't really a good home on the SE network for language ...
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Should esoteric programming language design be included?
Proposal: Programming Language Design
Title.
Esoteric programming languages (though recreational) are still programming languages that go through the same design process as non-esoteric programming ...
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Will questions about graphical/low code languages be on topic for language design
Proposal: Programming Language Design
Basically title. If people are developing languages like unreal blueprints, scratch, lowcode etc. would these questions be on topic? Specifically if these ...
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Do we want questions that are less technical and more UX-related?
Proposal: Programming Language Design
The vast majority of the high-scoring questions at the moment are about the technical side of programming language design (how do I implement ...). Many of them ...
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Will PLD allow list questions?
Proposal: Programming Language Design
What are common ways to optimise an interpreted language? has been closed, as not constructive.
After some discussion in chat, I think it would probably be best ...
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Are 5 users willing to Follow a proposal for ebikes.stackexchange.com?
There seem to be a lot of ebike-related questions that involve information about not only bicycles, but also electrical engineering, and even mechanical engineering. I'm not much on social marketing ...
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Should financial/investment topics be considered off-topic on the newly proposed Cryptocurrency SE site?
Proposal: Cryptocurrency
I saw "What are the safest investment strategies for "long-term" (4+ yrs) profiting in volatile crypto markets?" appear under example questions.
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Crypto: For cryptocurrency developers, investors and general enthusiasts interested in financial freedom
Proposal: Cryptocurrencies
Might i suggest using the URL
crypto.stackexchange.com
Crypto: For cryptocurrency developers, investors and general enthusiasts interested in financial freedom.
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Scope of the new cryptocurrency SE site [closed]
Proposal: Cryptocurrency
Proposed URL: cryptocurrency.stackexchange.com (this is not final, in fact open for debate)
Open discussion about the scope of the cryptocurrency site.
Idea is to use labels ...
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Cryptocurrency Stack Exchange site
Proposal for creating a new Stack Exchange site dedicated to cryptocurrencies that currently not have their own SE site.
Like Bitcoin Cash (BCH) , Ethereum Classic (ETC) and other cryptocurrencies for ...
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Seed community for a proposal doesn't have other StackExchange accounts (and have never heard of SE before), what to do?
Hello dear Area51 community.
We've faced a difficulty with the proposal. The majority of the initial community of people with whom I created the proposal doesn't have another SE account and had never ...
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Banner still visable on the Solana proposal
Proposal: Solana
The banner saying that the beta is starting July 12th is still visible even thought the beta has started.
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How to deal with existing questions when new site gets approved
Proposal: Spryker
Suppose we manage to get the proposed Spryker Site approved.
How would we collect and steer already existing Spryker related questions to the new site?
There are already some fine ...
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If you are showing a rep of 51 or 151 you may have committed incorrectly. Make sure you link you SO account
Proposal: Solana
Make sure you link your Stack Exchange accounts!
It is very important that you link correctly or your participation will not count!
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Forum about UI Automation
Graphical User Interfaces will never lose their importance since most software is - at some end - supposed to be used by humans. Automating interactions with GUI's is a crucial activity in many modern ...
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Area 51 is no longer allowing individual blockchain, cryptocurrency, or web3 proposals
The web3 space is a fast-growing sector of the technology industry. We continue to hear about new blockchain or cryptocurrency-based technology that could change the way things are done. Before I ...
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History repeats itself (sometimes)
Proposal: Solana
This proposal for Solana was opened almost directly after the other one (proposed by the same user) was closed for widespread voting fraud. Is there any historical precedence for this?...
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Substrate's finalized launch date, name, and URL
Proposal: Substrate
The Substrate site is scheduled to launch into private beta on February 8, 2022.
We want to thank you for your patience in dealing with the delay between the commitment phase ...
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Why has the Substrate proposal been closed?
Proposal: Substrate
We have been waiting patiently for weeks for the Substrate StackExchange site to go live, and it seems now some automatic bot has closed the proposal.
What happened?
Is it our ...
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Will Substrate enter Private Beta simultaneously with the Proofs site? [duplicate]
Proposal: Substrate
We've been told that the Proofs site will enter Private Beta in January 2022. I'm referring to it as "the proofs site" instead of "Proof Assistants" because the ...
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Could we use a Stack Overflow Collective for Proof Assistants?
Proposal: Proof Assistants
Recently, Stack Overflow Collectives are introduced:
https://stackoverflow.com/collectives/
There's a Go Lang Collective, for example, already with 14k users:
https://...
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If you are showing a rep of 51 or 151 the commitment may not be linked to your main SO account
See the discussion here: If you are showing a rep of 51 or 151 you may have committed incorrectly
Proposal: Substrate
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What is "Metaverse"?
Proposal: Metaverse
Wikipedia lists a half-dozen articles under the heading of "metaverse", and none of them seems like a good match for the example questions that have been asked. What is ...
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Is this a duplicate of FPGA and ASIC, with a more limited scope?
Proposal: openchipdesign
Is this a duplicate (or a complete subset of) https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/125912/fpga-and-asic ?
Seems like it to me, but I want to defer to others.
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Why doesn't this belong in electronics Stack Exchange?
Proposal: FPGA and ASIC
This is already covered in Electronics.SE, which currently needs more traffic anyway. There is not enough support in Stack Overflow, nor in Electronics SE combined to even ...
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Go to Electronics.SE! [duplicate]
Proposal: FPGA and ASIC is a small subset already covered on Electrical Engineering
Bring your questions there (or, perhaps, find them already answered)
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New RC Vehicle Stack Exchange Website?
Currently there is a website for "Drones and Model Aircraft", but I think that it would super helpful to have one that is for any remote control (RC) vehicles, if not all, than just for RC ...
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Is there a bug in the "total reputation" tab when committed users are shown?
Is there a bug in the "total reputation" tab?
There is a "5k total rep" vs 56 shown for a username.
Proposal: Elrond
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Why is there no shopware site proposal?
Shopware is the leading e-commerce platform in german speaking countries with a growing Europian user base.
I am not able to find an existing site or proposal for Shopware and I would like to support ...
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When will Private Beta go live for Cardano?
Proposal: Cardano
Based on this question about a site launch which happened at almost exactly this time last year, the private beta of Drones.SE went live two Tuesdays after the proposal reached 100% ...
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Ethical Hacking Exchange
I love ethical hacking and I am thinking about making an ethical hacking site; does this already exist apart from IT. I thought I would ask so that I do not make a mistake and waste time.
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Should we make a dedicated site for Scratch?
The Scratch project just keeps on growing, and it isn't programming, exactly, so Stack Overflow isn't really a good site for this. Should we make a dedicated site for it?
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What topics should the Cardano StackExchange proposal cover?
Proposal: Cardano
Not sure what this proposal should cover. Stake pools, coding with specific Cardano ecosystem components, what else?
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How can we get the word out to commiters with 200+ rep on other stackexchange sites?
Lack of awareness amongst potential commiters with Cardano/Haskell/Plutus/Marlowe/Solidity skills is the current challenge. I have tried generating interest among a few communities, but the numbers ...
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