Just computed the result for the poll: Where should the community post and answer technical questions ? - Stack Overflow 55% - Google Groups 45% - 40 votes
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 5:08 AM, Gopal Patel <patelgo...@gmail.com> wrote: > AFAIK , questions are filtered based on ontopic or offtopic and not if they > are technological or not. so if there is a different category for appengine, > I think most of the related question can be answered there, and they need > not be a technological question. > > On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 1:26 AM, Vivek Puri <v...@vivekpuri.com> wrote: >> >> Most of the ideas and answers(objective and discussion categorization) >> here are great. To give an example, yesterday i needed to know if >> regex is supported in objective c. First search on google lead to this >> - >> >> >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/422138/regular-expressions-in-an-objective-c-cocoa-application >> >> And in 2 mins, i knew what was needed to be known. Any similar answers >> given here by Ikai, Nick or Robert are just lost. This is a big waste >> on part of everyone who is contributing. >> >> Just to add. Few days back i wanted to get to a particular comment on >> the post where Pricing changes were announced, and it took me quite a >> bit of searches and keyword combination that resulted in nothing. >> Eventually i had to email AppEngine team for information. >> >> >> >> On Aug 2, 6:04 pm, Stephen Johnson <onepagewo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > It is done. >> > >> > On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Ikai Lan (Google) <ika...@google.com> >> > wrote: >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > So I saw this in my Google Alerts earlier, and I thought, what the >> > > heck, >> > > people ask development questions on Yahoo Answers? >> > >> > >http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110726102419AAFUzgy >> > >> > > Can someone with a Yahoo account point him here? I realized that I >> > > haven't >> > > logged into Yahoo in years and can't seem to remember my password. >> > >> > > FWIW, I've always though Yahoo Answers was for questions like this: >> > >> > >http://www.funnyyahooquestions.com/sons-birthday-fail/ >> > >> > > (I'm joking, of course. I've been in some pretty idiotic Google >> > > Groups. >> > > It's the people; not the technology.) >> > >> > > -- >> > > Ikai Lan >> > > Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine >> > > plus.ikailan.com | twitter.com/ikai >> > >> > > On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 5:42 AM, Gary Frederick <g...@jsoft.com> wrote: >> > >> > >> I was forced to vote for Groups over Stackoverflow. My real vote is >> > >> both. >> > >> > >> Stackoverflow is ok for a focused question that does not get booted >> > >> Groups are better if you have a question that does not fit into the >> > >> criteria for Stackoverflow >> > >> or you are more having a conversation. >> > >> > >> I do a lot with Google's App Inventor groups. We looked a bit at >> > >> Stackoverflow a while ago and it did not fit. >> > >> we get a lot more less technical types there... >> > >> > >> and I have failed to check my Stackoverflow account in a while. It >> > >> was not >> > >> encouraging to me to see how much karma I would have to build in a >> > >> place >> > >> with limited use to me to add the pages or whatever they call them to >> > >> get >> > >> the App Inventor info there to where it should be to be useful. I >> > >> wanted to >> > >> be able to point back to the Google forums and those messages got >> > >> crushed by >> > >> the SO cops... >> > >> > >> and >> > >> > >> your milage may differ :-) >> > >> > >> Gary >> > >> > >> -- >> > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> > >> Groups >> > >> "Google App Engine" group. >> > >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> > >>https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/r33pUmrjRIkJ. >> > >> > >> To post to this group, send email to >> > >> google-appengine@googlegroups.com. >> > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > >> google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> > >> For more options, visit this group at >> > >>http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. >> > >> > > -- >> > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> > > Groups >> > > "Google App Engine" group. >> > > To post to this group, send email to >> > > google-appengine@googlegroups.com. >> > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> > > For more options, visit this group at >> > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Google App Engine" group. >> To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > -- Johan Euphrosine (proppy) Developer Programs Engineer Google Developer Relations -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. 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