Timeline for Is there a policy for or against providing executables and other self hosted downloads?
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| Apr 16, 2012 at 16:12 | history | edited | Tamara Wijsman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Reflecting vote based on agreement on chat.
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| Apr 16, 2012 at 11:42 | comment | added | slhck | I have no examples here at the moment, but let's say you create a small GUI program that does whatever the heck the OP wanted to do — so it's definitely useful. Regardless of the question being about "solving a task" or being stuck not even knowing where to start. But if that program consists of hundreds of lines of code, then there's no need to explain what they all do. The usefulness in that answer stems from the fact that it solves whatever problem the OP had. Of course, explaining the basic concepts behind the solution is always important, so the OP can see for themselves. | |
| Apr 16, 2012 at 11:19 | comment | added | slhck |
Yeah, but there are situations where there's no learning involved, and it doesn't even have to be, but this is not the major part of the discussion. We're focusing on answers. We all know what "good" answers are and that they explain context apart from just adding a link. This whole "task vs. problem" thing … please just raise your own Meta discussion about it if you want to. I don't see what's constructive about talking about the question's merits here. (In your dir case, of course that should be mentioned. No one objects.)
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| Apr 16, 2012 at 11:12 | comment | added | Tamara Wijsman |
That's where the difference between completing a task and solving a problem comes from, in the former case you're just doing their effort and in the latter case learning is usually involved. There's a difference between solely giving dir /ah and also mentioning that dir /? gives more information about that, in the first case they would ask a new question if they need another filter and in the second they learned how the command was obtained...
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| Apr 16, 2012 at 10:50 | comment | added | slhck | @Tom I really don't necessarily agree with the whole "learning" thing here. We're not talking about the questions here, but the usefulness of answers. In some cases, there's no learning involved. | |
| Apr 16, 2012 at 10:46 | history | edited | slhck | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
I don't necessarily agree with that, sorry
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| Apr 16, 2012 at 10:44 | comment | added | slhck | Care to explain the down vote anyone? | |
| Apr 16, 2012 at 10:22 | history | edited | Tamara Wijsman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 15, 2012 at 20:30 | history | answered | slhck | CC BY-SA 3.0 |