Quora has topics you follow which appear in your feed. Just like stack overflow tags. Except, questions which require a thorough technical explanation are never answered in Quora.
Quora's rules are much more weird than StackOverflow. Quora is some sort of meta life Q/A site full of elite and bolshies. There are no moderators in Technical sections in Quora. Nobody really expects Good technically sound answers from Quora's closed community of narcissists. Nobody really goes to progamming sections except Gayle - Author of some coding Batshit who tries to promote her books and answers some feminist answers.
I joined Quora in 2010 when people like Adam D'Angelo and Charlie Cheever used to post well thought out answers. Now it has become a shitstorm of Indians trying to outdo each other. Everybody simply abuses the Anonymous posting feature and posts an extemely shitty answer to an equally shitty questions. And you cannot vote questions. You will have to message a mod to delete a question. And then, the mod might do it .. The process is far from transparent.
The Techincal And Programming sections are full of questions like - How do I get into Amazon, Facebook, Google. Every single question is some variation of this. All questions are interview questions.
There are huge technical issues with Quora's Infrastructure which probably has refused to scale. That's why Charlie probably left.
Stackoverflow has an extremely rigid policy aimed to thwart spamming. Many of the policies look to be counter-intuitive at first but after a while, you realize why they made it that way. Whether that's commenting on answers or editing them. Agreed, many complex questions and answers deserves more upvotes than simple ones like - How do I write a switch statement in ruby ? , nevertheless if you are looking for solid technical answers, Stackoverflow is the place to be.
The author posted a question which looked like a newbie HW questions. Should have at least read the documentation. Nope, that's not how SO works.
Read my comment again. I said even though the article is not about ruby, Matz unfailingly starts from 1993. The headings in your article before every question makes it hard to read. The font size of the question is 3x smaller than the answer font size. Top that up with the images in between the answers.
My OS is Centos 6.1(32 bit) and the browser is Mozilla Firefox 10.0.1 .
I am sorry if this sounds aggressive. But very rarely do we get the chance to interview some amazing men. When you do(or even translate), please don't mess up.
Few days ago, a Donald Knuth interview appeared. It was a good read. May be I got carried away.
This interview was not about Ruby. I don't know why Matz always starts his computing/programming journey from 1993 ? Its as if nothing existed before that magical year.
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This is hard to read, at least in firefox. Why the hell can't the author keep the font consistent throughout the article?(interview).
Its ok to print a picture or a two. But 5+ images, why ?
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Quora has topics you follow which appear in your feed. Just like stack overflow tags. Except, questions which require a thorough technical explanation are never answered in Quora. Quora's rules are much more weird than StackOverflow. Quora is some sort of meta life Q/A site full of elite and bolshies. There are no moderators in Technical sections in Quora. Nobody really expects Good technically sound answers from Quora's closed community of narcissists. Nobody really goes to progamming sections except Gayle - Author of some coding Batshit who tries to promote her books and answers some feminist answers.
I joined Quora in 2010 when people like Adam D'Angelo and Charlie Cheever used to post well thought out answers. Now it has become a shitstorm of Indians trying to outdo each other. Everybody simply abuses the Anonymous posting feature and posts an extemely shitty answer to an equally shitty questions. And you cannot vote questions. You will have to message a mod to delete a question. And then, the mod might do it .. The process is far from transparent.
The Techincal And Programming sections are full of questions like - How do I get into Amazon, Facebook, Google. Every single question is some variation of this. All questions are interview questions.
There are huge technical issues with Quora's Infrastructure which probably has refused to scale. That's why Charlie probably left.
Stackoverflow has an extremely rigid policy aimed to thwart spamming. Many of the policies look to be counter-intuitive at first but after a while, you realize why they made it that way. Whether that's commenting on answers or editing them. Agreed, many complex questions and answers deserves more upvotes than simple ones like - How do I write a switch statement in ruby ? , nevertheless if you are looking for solid technical answers, Stackoverflow is the place to be.
The author posted a question which looked like a newbie HW questions. Should have at least read the documentation. Nope, that's not how SO works.