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And this question was closed once. That's one of my biggest annoyances of stackoverflow. Some people are too quick to close any question that doesn't meet their strict definition of a question should be.

A key part of that problem is that you can't vote against closure. Only after a question has accrued sufficient votes to close it can you start voting to open it again; it's a ratcheting flip-flop.

But it appears Jeff is oddly against this issue:

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/915/can-we-have-the-...

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/125/how-about-a-vote...

Heavily outvoted by the community, he persists in obduracy.

Interesting. I kept seeing some topics opened, closed, only to be reopened again. I thought the admins couldn't make up their minds.

I'm not sure I like the present system or proposed solution. You'd then have four ways to vote:

    * Vote question up
    * Vote question down
    * Vote to close
    * Vote not to close

Why not simply close based on downvotes? Or remove downvotes and close algorithmically based on "flags", like we have on HN.

The ratcheting flip-flop is the best-case scenario for when a question is popular enough for some people to stick around and keep it open. Most of the time, closure is a death warrant for a question. I've seen some real "diamonds in the rough" closed because of this.

Yes, deletionists. When a promising online community producing a body of work seems to be running into scope creep, it seems a subculture of deletionists will emerge to knock the project back into scope despite any promise that may exist in the prospect of expanding or changing the scope instead of restricting the project. To some degree this makes the project more maintainable, but it also limits the project's chances of running in a more promising direction than originally hoped.

It illustrates nicely how clumsy a lot of languages are for such a simple-to-describe task. Mess with libraries, try to guess what's best to use... After all these years I still like the plainness of BASIC.

There's a website that has a list of tasks and how to do them in many many programming languages. I can't seem to find it; if someone knows which site I am talking about, can they link it here?

http://rosettacode.org/

http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/

While browsing some of the more esoteric entries in that list (OK I meant LOLCODE) I saw a reference to this gem:

The movie Inception "explained" in C - http://github.com/karthick18/inception

I see the cool kids here, Erlang, Scala, etc.. but Google Go is missing, can a kind soul add it? :)

It seems like a lot of the examples are missing the part where you close the file.

MUMPS == ugly.

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