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How does having different StackOverflow, CS, and DSP sites help anyone?

I've been working a lot with computer vision, in particular OpenCV. I used to be able to work with just SO, however I'm increasingly having to search across Stack Overflow, Signal Processing, and ...
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Different sites for different levels of audience

I realized there are MathOverflow and Math.Stackexchange for different levels of audiences, and the users of both sites seem to be happy with that. I feel that with respect to programming questions, ...
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Do the benefits of having SO in multiple languages outweigh the risks involved?

I recently visited area51 for the first time and was disturbed to see proposals for Stack Overflow variants in other languages dominating the site. Turkish Spanish Russian Portuguese I'll admit that ...
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OpenERP StackExchange site in Area51

There is a proposal for an OpenERP StackExchange site currently in Area51. It is currently stuck in the "needs more questions with 10 votes" stage. On StackOverflow there are currently 975 OpenERP ...
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Using Google Translate on output of Stack Overflow instead of proposing language specific Stack Overflow clones?

Stack Overflow (in French) Stack Overflow (in German) Stack Overflow (in Bengali) Stack Overflow (in Hindi) Stack Overflow (in Italian) Stack Overflow (in Portuguese) for Portugal Stack Overflow (in ...
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Migration questions from SO to PSE just to stay temporarily [closed]

There are some questions being migrated to PSE but a more appropriate proposal is on going. What's the point to migrate to PSE and 3 or 4 months after we will migrate them to another site? Maybe the ...
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Stack Overflow, Stack Exchange, Area 51: What's the difference in a nutshell?

Stack Overflow, Stack Exchange, Area 51: What's the difference in a nutshell? I've read the faq's and they all seem to be the same to me - Just Q & A on a variety of topics. What's the difference ...
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Should tag be able to be group together? (large sites only)

It seems that as SO gets bigger, less questions are finding people that can answer them, a question may only stray on the home page for 30 minutes these days, however I don’t like the idea of having ...
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Why is the alignment in accounts page for Area51 different than the rest?

Nothing really important but Area51's account page looks different from the rest of the account pages. Area51 one is aligned in colums while the other SE sites are arranged like row. Here's a couple ...
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Should Questions on Stack Overflow be Closed/Moved if they Better Fit an Area51 Site

With the introduction of Area 51 we are beginning to see a number of sites that have content which overlaps with Stack Overflow in some way; a few that come to mind are Web Applications, Pro ...
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What do you think the Stack Overflow proposal would have looked like?

If we somehow did some weird time warp so that Area51 existed but not Stack Overflow, what do you think the Stack Overflow proposal would have looked like? What would have been some example on and ...
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Would stackoverflow.com survive Area 51?

About a week ago, late one night, I created a proposal. The title was: Strictly Programming Questions, Really (Some of you might note the acronym.) The description was, in essence, the 'anti-...
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What is the area 51 link?

What is the mysterious area 51 link on the right hand menu of the stackoverflow blog for? area 51 image http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/5158/area51l.jpg
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