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Should questions about publication be on-topic?
Publishing is a central point of computer science research. I believe Theoretical Computer Science allows questions about the theoretical CS academic community, so questions specifically about publica …
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Scope limits on proof assistants (e.g. Coq)
There are two parts in the question the way I asked it: why the naive attempt doesn't work, and what can make it work.
What can make it work is a generic Coq programming principle. Seen this way, it' …
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Career questions
I don't think this kind of questions belongs here. Where to study or work in computer science is not a question about computer science but about job markets and academic curricula. Furthermore, it's v …
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Are Human Computer Interaction questions welcome here?
HCI is one of computer science's many dendrils into non-mathematical topics. It's on-topic here. Note that Stack Exchange also has a User Experience site, which I guess is to HCI what Stack Overflow i …
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Whats on-topic on CS.SE?
Yeah, we do have a bit of a problem. Computer scientists know very well what computer science is about, but non-computer scientists don't. The definition doesn't lend itself well to bullet points. To …
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Your Thoughts on an "Operating Systems" Proposal
Background: I'm a former computer scientist (not in an OS-related field), current developer working on an in-house OS, and I've been around Stack Exchange quite a bit (including being a moderator of t …
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Your thoughts on a “Programming Language Theory” proposal
Analysis of the questions on the proposal
I went and analyzed the 40 questions with score 10 and above that define the proposal, checking their suitability for Computer Science.
When creating a pro …
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Are questions about programming language design on-topic here?
Sure, programming language design is one of the things computer scientists do. You'll find programming language design questions under tags such as programming-languages, typing, type-checking, type-i …
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Hardware and Software Questions
As you might guess from the name, this site is about computer science. Note the word science. Science does not include engineering or technology. The science underlying computer hardware and software …
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I have an algorithm, but it's pretty poor. Can I ask here how to improve it?
Yes, such a question would be on-topic. It falls under “algorithms”, which is an important concept in computer science. Some major areas of computer science around algorithms are looking for algorithm …
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Topics in Applied Computer Science, are they on topic?
Yes, absolutely. The site is intended to be for students, researchers and practitioners of computer science. Practitioners tend to have applied questions, and students and researchers can have applied …
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What's exactly the difference between Computer Science and Computational Science in SE?
Don't let yourself be fooled by the similarity in names: these are pretty different topics, with different audiences.
Computer science is a broad subject, with a somewhat misleading names because i …
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Code vs pseudo-code
I think as a rule of thumb, if you need to write actual code, the question is a programming question and belongs on Stack Overflow but not here. If pseudocode is good enough and any language of the ri …
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How to make our cs community very different from the cstheory?
Theoretical Computer Science Stack Exchange (“CSTheory.SE”) is for
research-level questions in theoretical computer science
My eyeball evaluation is that about half the questions so far are abou …
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Should questions about CS-related standards be allowed?
I don't think “questions about CS-related standards” is a useful classification. Some questions involving standards are on-topic, others are off-topic. The question you cite is a bad question for othe …