Yearly Archives: 2009

community March 13, 2009

Jeff and Joel at MIX 09: Live Podcast

Joel and I will be at the upcoming MIX 09 conference in Las Vegas next week. More specifically, we’ll be doing the Stack Overflow podcast live from the show! Tuesday, March 17, 2009, at 6:30 PM At the Third Place hang out area The Venetian Las Vegas 4th Floor, Marcelo 4403 You will need to…
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company March 12, 2009

Podcast #45

This is the 45th episode of the StackOverflow podcast, where Joel and Jeff discuss what a program manager does, the value (or lack thereof) of a functional spec and vision statement, building developer community, and planning your development time. Joel and I will be at the upcoming MIX09 conference. We’re also trying to set up…
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community March 9, 2009

The Value of Downvoting, or, How Hacker News Gets It Wrong

Paul Graham’s Hacker News is a great website to find interesting programming links and sane discussion. The site reflects a sort of post-Reddit sensibility; the design of HN was directly intended to address the shortcomings of programming.reddit.com from someone very much on the inside (Reddit was a Paul Graham Y Combinator startup). As such we…
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community March 6, 2009

New 10k Rep Tools Now Available

Those 10,000 reputation tools I promised, lo those many moons ago? They are now live. If you have the requisite reputation, you’ll see a link at the top of every page which leads to the tools area: Congratulations on achieving 10,000 reputation! You’ve earned the right to see (and undelete) deleted posts, and vote to…
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company March 5, 2009

Podcast #44

This is the 44th episode of the StackOverflow podcast, where Joel and Jeff discuss the enduring influence of C, the questionable value of the title “Software Architect”, and the evolution of Java. Joel brings the YouTube video Write it in C to our attention. “Pascal won’t quite cut it, write in C.” Did you know…
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community March 4, 2009

The Great Edit Wars

Alas, Stack Overflow has fallen prey to that dread disease that plagues all wiki systems: The Edit War. We’re not exactly like Wikipedia, because we are a hybrid system, but it’s worth scanning the official Wikipedia definition: Edit warring is the confrontational use of edits to win a content dispute. Administrators often must make a…
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community February 27, 2009

Happy 100,000th Question!

I’ve been remiss in not celebrating an important Stack Overflow milestone. Sometime on Wednesday, February 25th, a user asked.. Our 100,000th Question! I didn’t say it was a good question, mind you. But it was the hundred thousandth question posted to Stack Overflow. So, for reference — and remember our private beta started on 7/31/2008,…
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company February 26, 2009

Podcast #43

This is the 43rd episode of the StackOverflow podcast, where Joel and Jeff discuss dealing with incompetent programmers, whether salaries should be public, dealing with technical debt, and programming for small businesses. Joel is away this week in Florida at the Future of Web Applications conference, where he was a speaker. He mentioned that the…
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community February 21, 2009

New Question / Answer Rate Limits

Stack Overflow is somewhat unique in that we encourage participation of essentially anonymous, random programmers. Our idea is to radically reduce the bar for participation, and take one giant leap of faith: Trusting our users. Well, most of them, anyway. We have the typical hurdles in place to prevent bots from gaming our system: JavaScript…
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company February 20, 2009

Our Backup Strategy – Inexpensive NAS

As part of our new backup strategy, I decided to invest in an inexpensive Network Attached Storage (NAS) unit — the QNAP TS-409U. The TS-409U has the following specs: 1u rack mountable 4 SATA drive bays 500 MHz embedded CPU, 8 MB flash RAM, 512 MB RAM, Linux based Supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6…
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company February 19, 2009

Podcast #42

This is the 42nd episode of the StackOverflow podcast, where Joel and Jeff discuss ethical email, backup strategies, how to learn new programming languages, and dealing with underperforming developers. The Conversations Network, a non-profit organization that graciously underwrites the bandwidth costs of this and many other great podcasts, is looking for a sponsor. Email us…
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