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What Stack Overflow is Not

discussion faq stackoverflow etiquette asked Apr 7 at 16:50

meta.stackoverflow.com

94 votes

Why does it matter that HTML and CSS are not programming languages?

terminology asked Dec 19 '10 at 22:36

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39 votes

Moderators should be immune to the word filters in titles

feature-request status-declined moderator-tools question-restrictions asked Dec 6 '11 at 17:16

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38 votes

How can I link to an external resource in a community-friendly way?

discussion faq self-promotion asked Jun 6 '11 at 15:08

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34 votes

Users should be able to delete their own marginal questions and answers without risking an IP ban

feature-request deleted-questions deleted-answers ip-ban asked Jun 23 '11 at 14:38

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34 votes

Allow me to marry text to a onebox in chat

feature-request chat onebox asked Jan 25 at 17:38

meta.stackoverflow.com

32 votes

Area 51 proposals that overlap Stack Overflow

discussion area51 asked Jun 3 '10 at 16:27

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30 votes

If “This question was voluntarily removed by its author,” what is the purpose of the text that follows?

discussion feature-request support status-completed asked Sep 15 '11 at 21:40

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30 votes

Are code troubleshooting questions really what we want to encourage?

discussion source-code question-quality learning asked Sep 22 '11 at 19:02

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27 votes

Is the vetting process on Area 51 predisposed to plain-vanilla, populist sites?

discussion area51 site-proposal popularity asked Jun 18 '10 at 1:42

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Top Answers

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Hello world in C with no semi-colons?

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175

What Stack Overflow is Not

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168

How can I tell in an interview if a programmer is passionate about programming?

programmers.stackexchange.com

126

Make a big deal out of == true?

programmers.stackexchange.com

110

What Stack Overflow is Not

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“Half of everything you know will be obsolete in 18-24 months” = ( True, or False? )

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What Stack Overflow is Not

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What Stack Overflow is Not

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Whats the most impressive thing you've seen done with JavaScript?

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How to update Linq to SQL dbml file?

stackoverflow.com

How were some language communities (eg, Ruby and Python) able to prevent fragmentation while others (eg, Lisp or ML) were not?

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What Stack Overflow is Not

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What Stack Overflow is Not

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Usage of Pirated software at a company

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What Stack Overflow is Not

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What Stack Overflow is Not

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Jquery: how to sleep or delay?

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Do job postings exaggerate their requirements?

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What is a 'thunk'?

stackoverflow.com

What do people find difficult about C pointers?

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C# function to find the delta of two numbers

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How much effort should you put into a junior developer?

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Are soft deletes a good idea?

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Is there going to be a process around hellbanning?

meta.stackoverflow.com

What Stack Overflow is Not

meta.stackoverflow.com

An alert to serial minor edits

meta.stackoverflow.com

Is it okay to write answers that compete with moderators' or 10k+ users' answers?

meta.stackoverflow.com

How can I quickly weed out “copy & paste” coders?

programmers.stackexchange.com

Is it getting harder to hire VB.NET developers?

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Classes naming: singular or plural?

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