Questions tagged [technology]
The Technology category includes proposals in subjects like computing, technology, gadgets, and electronics.
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What description should this proposal have?
Proposal: Digital Fabrication
Currently this proposal has the following description:
Proposed Q&A site for people interested in making physical things using computer controlled equipment, ...
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What should we call this proposal?
Proposal: Digital Fabrication
Note: Now we are in Commitment, this questiuon has been superceded by NEW! Vote for the Name of this Proposal. NOW!
Suggesting names
Please answer in the following ...
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Boundary between Stack Overflow Academy and Meta Stack Overflow?
Proposal: Stack Overflow Academy
Where is the boundary between Stack Overflow Academy and Meta Stack Overflow? Isn't the former more or less a subset (and therefore duplicate) of the latter?
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NEW! Vote for the Name of this Proposal. NOW!
Proposal: Maker Professionals
Previously this was Fabrication & Manufacturing, which was concise and on-topic and didn't make distinctions between hobbyist or professional.
The Maker ...
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On proposals soliciting reviews, recommendations, comparisons, etc
Sites soliciting other types of research and advice (beyond our traditional Q&A subjects) were created in a time when the sheer size of our software developer audience allowed us to give sites ...
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Rationale for other.stackexchange.com
Proposal: Other
It seems rather often, and to the chagrin of many loyal Stack Exchange users and the entire community, that some questions have no place to go. See What happened to "What real ...
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Missing international features (revisited)
As for now, three international proposals are blocked and there's going to be a fourth one very soon (SO in Spanish) because international features are not available yet. Since a year2 years has ...
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Apparently this is a duplicate
Proposal: Agile Project Management
Yeah, I suggested an Agile site too. I personally believe it's a big enough topic at least trial. But can understand the reluctance to take a huge chunk away from ...
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Why isn't there a general stack exchange site?
So I've been trying to ask a question about cellphone towers. Below. This question currently has no home. It's not a programming question (Stack Overflow), it's not related to computing (Super User), ...
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The "Stack Overflow in Spanish" Project is Underway!
Proposal: Stack Overflow (in Spanish)
Work is beginning to create a Stack Overflow site in Spanish!
My name is JuanM and I am the community manager who will be responsible for this project. I ...
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Why do we need a separate site for Emacs?
NOTICE:
Since this site is now in beta, it is time to have these conversations with the folks who are actually building this site. Please bring your comments and discussions to this site's 'meta' ...
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Why do we need a separate site for Vi/Vim?
Proposal: Vi and vim
Vim already falls in the scope of at leat SuperUser & StackOverflow; who do we need a separate StackExcange site?
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**Instructions for ALL Private Beta Members**
Thank you for deciding to commit to using Embedded Programming and Design. We are asking you to ask and answer at least 10 questions to fulfill your commitment. Also, please check the meta site of the ...
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Why does SDL Tridion need its own Stack Exchange site?
Proposal: Tridion
There is currently a very active and growing Tridion Community, but not one that really uses the current Stack Overflow site. On the last try only 30 posts come up with a search for ...
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Why limit this to TOR?
Proposal: Tor - online anonymity, privacy, and security
Why not expand this proposal to other anonymizing networks - Freenet, I2P, and others?
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User is using two accounts to commit to the proposal
Proposal: App Stores
A user has submitted twice to the proposal.
It's clearly the same user, or the avatar would be different.
I don't think it is allowed to do that, even though the user doesn't ...
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Any reason not to include Animation?
Proposal: 3D Graphics, Modeling & Applications
Would it make any sense to change the title to "3D Graphics, Modeling and Animation"? Animation happens to be one of the most complex topics in ...
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This proposal will reach Commit more quickly if people only put 10 votes on a question
This proposal would reach the Commit Phase a lot quicker if people evened their votes out so that each question only received 10 votes.
If you've voted on a question with 20 or so votes, you can ...
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Unfair commitment score
Proposal: Stack Overflow (in Portuguese)
Hi,
I don't think that "53/100 committers with 200+ rep on any other site" is fair, we have many people who would like to use any stack Q&A site but ...
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Mathematica proposal has disappeared
The mathematica proposal at 89 commitments has disappeared without warning or trace.
Why has it disappeared? And why without prior warning?
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What went wrong the last time?
Proposal: Gamification
Previous Run: Gamification
What went wrong the last time and what can we do to solve those problems?
Screenshots of the Community team feedback.
Week 1 review
Site closing ...
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Scope of Embedded Programming
Proposal: Embedded Programming and Design
Let's discuss how far "up" or "down" this site should go. Which belong here, which are better left to SO, EE or elsewhere.
IDE, tools, configuring the "...
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Translated Stack Overflow
There are quite a lot of proposals that want to provide a Stack Exchange site in another language. None of these sites seem to have gone very far into the commitment phase and there are a number of ...
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What to expect in the Emacs private beta
NOTICE:
Since this site is now in beta, it is time to have these conversations with the folks who are actually building this site. Please bring your comments and discussions to this site's 'meta' ...
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Could the definition for the SharePoint proposal be broadened?
We would like to move SharePoint Overflow to Stack Exchange via the Area 51 process. This proposal matches our site the best, however it describes a developer-only site. We are only interested in ...
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Will questions about rooting e-readers be apropriate?
Proposal: E-books and E-book Readers
Will this kind of questions be accepted?
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What's wrong with EE?
Proposal: Arduino
What's wrong with the Electrical Engineering site? Arduino is supported there.
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How long does this adaptation will take?
Proposal: Stack Overflow (in Portuguese)
Somebody knows how long will it takes so that those "special characters tag" are created? Wouldn't it be simpler if it was released just as it is, and those ...
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How do we draw the line between E-readers and general purpose tablets?
Proposal: E-books and E-book Readers
I'm going to assume that this site won't be a clearing house for any question on any device that one might read a book on. Questions on reading apps are likely ...
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Did Joel Spolsky just renounce "merging season"?
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Since this site is now in beta, it is time to have these conversations with the folks who are actually building this site. Please bring your comments and discussions to this site's 'meta' ...
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Have you added five questions? Have you used all five of your upvotes on questions with less than 10 votes?
Proposal: Big Data
Why does this proposal have so many followers who haven't voted up questions, and who haven't offered their own questions?
Remember, you can add five example questions, to help ...
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Unable to follow sites that have started private beta
I would like to be able to follow sites that have already started private beta, so that I get a notification in the mail when they are open to the public; as well as it appears in my profile.
Why is ...
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Duplicate of Electronics and Stack Overflow
Proposal: Embedded Programming and Design is a duplicate of Stack Overflow and Electronics.
Why does it need its own site?
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Why yet another trial at an AI project?
A quick search on Area51 shows already two closed AI proposals, one 4 years ago, and one last year. Both were focusing on the technological aspects, and they may have come too early.
In 2015, we can ...
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How can we get this proposal out of commitment and into beta?
Proposal: Personal Manufacturing
At the moment, there is a relatively strong interest in this proposal (246 of 200 committers in total) however there is still too little interest from established ...
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Is ebook content on topic?
Proposal: Ebooks
Is the actual content, the material being read, the story itself, on topic?
In other words, if I have an ebook called "The Yellow Submarine" by Some Author, is discussing that story ...
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How can we make the new proposal better for the reboot?
Proposal: Personal Manufacturing
The original proposal had a number of problems, but mostly the slow progression to commitment and beta left the proposal with too few active supporters.
With the ...
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Great work! You're almost there!
Proposal: Maker Professionals
After a few failed attempts, we finally got enough support to give this subject a serious run. Congratulations! The proposal did a great job of attracting a lot of ...
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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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Why are example questions locked during commitment phase?
When a site is in commitment phase, why are the example questions locked?
I would think refining the scope of the site would be a worthwhile activity, during all phases of the project. As it is now, ...
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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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A different Q&A
I would like to create a Q&A style site here that would be a little different. I was wondering if this would be something OK with StackExchange.
This is how I imagine the site to be:
People ...
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Laying some ground rules for Software Recommendations
Proposal: Software Recommendations
We're going to let this site go ahead, and see what you all can do with it. While we discussed the topic, we had to take some time to identify our chief concerns ...
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Why the "Computer Graphics" proposal is unique
Old Proposal: Computer Graphics
New Proposal: Computer Graphics
While Stack Overflow is a great site, it is meant for specific programming questions. From the official help page:
What topics can I ...
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The Software Recommendations site will be a nightmare to moderate
Proposal: Software Recommendations
One of the main reasons that asking for product recommendations on the SE network is prohibited is because of the possibiilty that it is very easy to spam these ...
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On why having a DevOps q&a website would be useful for many
Proposal: DevOps
Unfortunately there is currently too much (negative) hype attached to the word devops. But there is also increasing interest into this field, as you can see new proposal are being ...
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Many site proposals on project management and software development methods [closed]
Proposal: Kanban
Proposal: Software Development Process
Proposal: Agile Software Development
Proposal: IT Management
Proposal: Project Management
There are many sites which deal with similar/...
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Raspberry Pi shares scope with many sites...is it necessary?
Proposal: Raspberry-Pi Hardware and Software
This site shares its scope with many other sites:
Electrical Engineering:
The hardware, peripheral development, writing drivers, hardware-related ...
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Is really needed to define a site which is the same as StackOverflow but in different language?
Propuestas:
Desarrollo de Software en Español
StackOverflow in Spanish
This proposal is to create a StackEchange site which subject is exactly the same as StackOverflow, but in a different language:...
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How will out of date accepted answers be handled?
Proposal: Software Recommendations
One of the reasons "shop for me"-type questions are generally disallowed on SE sites is outlined well in Q&A is Hard, Let’s Go Shopping!:
..technology moves ...
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