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I do not think they got the joke so tried to come up with one of their own.
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And failed miserably at it.
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor
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Is it just my perception or stackoverflow answers actually have better ranking with google ? Most of the time for a query stackoverflow link shows up before the codeproject link.
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true !
but i think they payed 
can't imagine another Explanation 
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I doubt it..One thing I have noticed is that on SOF, content is highly controlled with less freedom for a new user resulting is less repetition and more organized content.
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So play there game and pay more
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There is a simple solution for that. Search programming answers inside CP side and not Google...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is (V).
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StackOverflow is explicitly set up around answering questions. That means that page titles are usually close to your query string, and the link you want to click on when you're searching for 'how do I do X' probably is the SO one, which I imagine counts in Google's scoring.
CodeProject is about lengthier articles and discussion, which are more useful for reading around a topic rather than answering a particular question. For example a search for .Net TPL gives Code Project above Stack Overflow.
We do have a Q&A here but it's of a lower quality and with less of a historical volume of good answers than SO's.
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That sounds right but I assume more people are searching for questions that actual content through google. Is there some guideline in place at CP to improve the quality of answers ?
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I tend to look to CP for short tutorials or introductions to various subjects. I usually look to SOF for answers to more detailed questions on using some subject. They both have their places and I'm glad they both exist.
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Yea this is what I had in mind myself. when i think of stackoverflow, i immediately think of questions and answers. However, codeproject has other stuff in addition such as newsletters, discussions, many other community stuff. Perhaps CP could look into it's SEO technology...
Fortēs fortūna adjuvat.
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You are comparing the feeding-frenzy of sharks with the orderly migration of Emperor Penguins.
"What Turing gave us for the first time (and without Turing you just couldn't do any of this) is he gave us a way of thinking about and taking seriously and thinking in a disciplined way about phenomena that have, as I like to say, trillions of moving parts.
Until the late 20th century, nobody knew how to take seriously a machine with a trillion moving parts. It's just mind-boggling." Daniel C. Dennett
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I do walk a little funny when it gets cold outside...  
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Code Project excels at articles. I may be thrown into the deepest level of hell for saying this, but I think CP's Q&A is pretty abysmal. The presentation is terrible in my opinion (and it's currently broken so I can't even point to specific things, but layout and unnecessary information (like who and when taking up huge amounts of horizontal bandwidth, and things like "your filters", "tags", and "top experts" taking up more vast amounts of real estate, and I really don't give a rats arse about how many views a question has had...anyways, you get the idea. And with stackoverflow, its presentation (while also not the greatest) at least isn't screaming at me with big bold blocks of orange and hyper-large fonts.
I realize that CP wants its own branding so one has to go with whatever presentation format makes CP unique, but content-wise, stackoverflow also is so much richer and broader in community support. CP is still too much in the Microsoft camp for me to find it useful for non-Microsoft Q&A, and when it comes to Microsoft-related stuff, stackoverflow still is my first choice. That, and yes, the online MSDN documentation and bloggers, especially when it comes to more arcane things in the Microsoft world like F#.
My 2c.
Marc
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 for honest review. Second link for stackoverflow vs codeproject[^] showed this comment
Similar features were under discussion long before the release of SO, as the CP forums had become clogged with off-topic, poorly-asked questions.
Unfortunately, it doesn't offer any equivalent to the close and delete features of SO, so there's no good way to quickly shut down duplicate questions or questions that are missing necessary information. CP would do well to look to SO for improvements.
And this was in 2009 so I wonder why QA section has not been improved on CP ?
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That's not entirely accurate, members of a certain level (Gold in the right category maybe) can edit and delete questions. I think some of it is a philosophical thing though – here at CP we try to leave things open as much as possible, so you inevitably get junk content, whereas SO is more about preserving the cleanliness and quality of its posted material.
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Completely agree, also unlike CP, on SO the gurus & ninjas do keep their Self-esteems/egos on the door. Here if a new member posts a 'stupid' question, they are whipped into oblivion unlike SO
And we all know Google needs the masses for it to do no evil.
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Agreed. Your descriptions match how I use CP and SO as well.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Possibly, but the reason I am here rather than there is the people.
Generally, the people here are more friendly, tolerant, and generally knowledgeable than the bunch of rep obsessed sense-of-humor-failures that inhabit SO. There are exceptions here, of course.
If your answer is misspelled, or contradicts someones opinion (despite being correct) it gets abuse votes or removed... Bunch of onanists, most of 'em!
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for the new word you taught me today. I'm not certain that knowing it has enriched my life though.
I hate to think what list the NSA has put me one for googling it. 
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I knew that bible study they made me do at school would come in handy one day! 
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It's indeed interesting that you can find a paraphrase for wanker in the bible.
Or is it the opposite way around?
<edit>Then again, if I remember the bible correctly there's nothing in it that says that Onan was a wanker for real. Maybe he literally spilled his seeds, as in seeds that grows up to become wheat.
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A search on SO for "onanist" produces zero results. Thus is proved - CP prevails.
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OriginalGriff wrote: someone's opinion
FTFY... 
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