I sometimes get asked by regular people in the actual real world what it is that I do for a living, and here’s my 15 second answer: We built a sort of Wikipedia website for computer programmers to post questions and answers. It’s called Stack| Coding Horror
I won’t try to pretend otherwise, I’ve had some mixed feelings about Stack Overflow for a long time. I think the concept of the place, ask a question, get an answer, is great. No question. How that was handled, tone of moderation, other stuff, maybe it wasn’t all handled as well as it could have […] The post Stack Overflow & AI appeared first on Grant Fritchey.| Grant Fritchey
(Originally published on meta Stack Exchange by Jon Ericson.)| Jon Quixote
Below is a guide I wrote for new employees at Stack Overflow to help them avoid having a bad time moderating the sites. This is an early draft so it might not reflect what Stack Overflow uses internally now. The principles, however, remain relevant for each new organization I have been a part of. --- How to use your new superpowers. When community managers, developers, and other employees need “administrative access” to one of our sites, we give them similar privileges as moderators chose...| Jon Quixote
Every product manager knows this situation: This is such a common pattern, and while it’s perfectly understandable for such a user to request this, it is so terribly wrong to give in to this user’s request. Why is it wrong? The features are unrelated Most of the time, the two features X1 and X2 are … Continue reading Resisting the Urge to Document Everything Everywhere→| Java, SQL and jOOQ.
This is the part 3 of a mini-series looking at what it might take to build the Stack Overflow Tag Engine, if you haven’t read part 1 or part 2, I recommend reading them first.| Performance is a Feature!
I’ve added a Resources and Speaking page to my site, check them out if you want to learn more. There’s also a video available of my NDC London 2014 talk “Performance is a Feature!”.| Performance is a Feature!
I’ve added a Resources and Speaking page to my site, check them out if you want to learn more.| Performance is a Feature!
This post is part of a semi-regular series, you can find the other entries here and here| Performance is a Feature!
StackOverflow, once the favoured destination of developers in search of coding help, is suffering from declining activity, with […]| DEVCLASS
Stack Overflow has published its 2024 developer survey, showing little change in programming language popularity despite calls for […]| DEVCLASS
Enhancing development experiences for millions of developers worldwide, Stack Overflow and Google Cloud partner to introduce generative AI solutions.| Technology Signals