Network Engineering Q&A Site Launched

Hamburg writes "Stack Exchange launched a new site for network engineers. It's in question and answer style, content is tagged for filtering and subscribing to topics. A voting system supports quality of posts, leading to so called reputation scores which determine moderation capabilities of the users. It's now 18 days in beta, at this early stage users decide which way it will go, from quality and kind of contributions up to the future design of the site. People there discuss mainly professional subjects such as the best dual-provider design for the enterprise, when to choose fiber instead of copper cabling, and efficient ways for troubleshooting switching loops."

Re:Stack exchange launch... another subsite

[AmiMoJo]

It's a slashvertizement. Real news for nerds would have mentioned the opening of the D&D questions site, but instead we get some boring corporate network crap because those guys are the ones who can pay to market it.

StackOverflow vs Programmers

[Frankie70]

I really dislike StackOverflow now because very useful questions are discouraged, simply because they are open ended.

The place for open ended question is not SO. [stackexchange.com]

How to choose between SO and Programmers - http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/82988/choosing-between-stack-overflow-and-programmers-stack-exchange [stackoverflow.com]

If it is related to coding, it should be on Stack Overflow.

If it's related to higher level programming concepts or is conceptual (but still related to programming), it should be on Programmers.

Rule of thumb: if you're sitting in front of your IDE, ask it on Stack Overflow. If you're standing in front of a whiteboard, ask it on Programmers.