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by DanBC 4746 days ago
To be fair SE have made it clear that they don't want that type of question there, so at least they're consistent.

I'm surprised that HN hasn't spotted the market opportunity for a site like SE but allowing only non-specific discussion style questions.
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dwc 4746 days ago
The better market opportunity would be SE that figured out a way to serve their customer base better. Splintering isn't always the best answer. For instance, the very valid "meta is murder" ideas lead SE to ban meta, and the need for meta led them to create a separate place to discuss meta issues for SE. But...it wasn't the SE community having the meta discussions then. It was a separate community with some overlap. IMO it was a bad move. To be fair, doing it right is an unsolved problem.
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johncoltrane 4745 days ago
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/

is that site.

> Programmers Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for professional programmers interested in conceptual questions about software development.

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