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by Night_Thastus 418 days ago
It's very hostile. Sometimes I just want to ask a broader, conceptual question. I don't need someone to produce working code. Just discuss.

Sometimes I can't make a working minimal example because I work with info that can't be placed online and writing something ground up that is similar enough and decoupled from the hundreds of files and hundreds of thousands of lines would take me a week or two and may not end up even working out.

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They decided to not support those kinds of questions—their prerogative I suppose. They do have meta and software design, architecture sites.