Yearly Archives: 2010

company February 11, 2010

Podcast #83

In this episode of the Stack Overflow podcast, Joel and Jeff discuss the promise and peril of Email (both social and technical), Google Buzz, and the value of training material. I will be at Webstock 2010 and in New Zealand for the next two weeks. I was excited to learn that the singer Wing is…
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community February 10, 2010

Whatever We’re Doing Together, Apparently It’s Working

We are in the enviable position of getting some very nice emails, as I might have mentioned before. But sometimes we get emails so positive that I feel compelled to share them with the community. Just wanted to commend you on the fantastic site. I have heard a little of the behind-the-scenes so I know…
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community February 9, 2010

Stack Overflow 2010 Moderator Election Results

The Stack Overflow 2010 Moderator Election results are in! We decided to choose two moderators this time, just like last time. The winners are … drumroll please … Congratulations to our newest community elected moderators, Gumbo and Jonathan Sampson (update: Jason Cohen was originally the #2 winner, but withdrew from the race after some post-election…
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company February 7, 2010

Thermal Event at Datacenter

Our hosting provider, PEAK, let us know that they had a cooling compressor fail in the facility. The primary database server was apparently taken offline at 2:53 AM Pacific Time by this thermal event. The backup database server is still online and has the most recent (12 AM) backups restored to it; we’re currently just…
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company February 5, 2010

Podcast #82

In this episode of the Stack Overflow podcast, Joel and Jeff sit down with Mac developer Daniel Jalkut of Red Sweater Software to discuss his experience as a longtime Mac developer and small Mac software business owner, and the possible impact of the iPad. Daniel launched Red Sweater software way back in 1999 (and has…
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community February 4, 2010

Stack Exchange Gets a Blog

A little birdie told me that the formal launch of Stack Exchange, the hosted version of the Stack Overflow platform, is imminent. I noticed the Stack Exchange homepage has been totally redesigned with a snazzy new logo, as well. Looking good! There’s also a brand new Stack Exchange blog, which I am sure will be…
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community February 1, 2010

Stack Overflow 2010 Moderator Election Begins

After a week long nomination period, we now have our Stack Overflow 2010 Moderator candidates. (To be eligible as a candidate, you had to have at least 10 total upvotes in the meta nomination thread. Downvotes were not counted in any way.) There were some suggestions that the Single Transferable Vote system would work better…
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company February 1, 2010

Podcast #81

In this episode of the Stack Overflow podcast, Joel and Jeff discuss the value of Deep Blue, the Five Whys process, and whether programmers should blog. If you work at a fancy company like Fog Creek, you’ll have access to a Latte machine, and you too can create Latte art! Checkers is now a solved…
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community January 29, 2010

Open Source Ad Stats

Just a quick note to let everyone know that the free Vote-Based Open Source Ads on Stack Overflow now feature some basic statistics. Visit the ad summary page, and mouseover the stats link to see a breakdown of how each ad is performing. As always this feature comes courtesy of our most excellent pal, and…
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background January 25, 2010

Six Whys – Or, Never Trust Your Network Switch

Remember Joel Spolsky’s fine article “Five Whys”? Sure you do! It contained this paragraph: Michael spent some time doing a post-mortem, and discovered that the problem was a simple configuration problem on the switch. There are several possible speeds that a switch can use to communicate (10, 100, or 1000 megabits/second). You can either set…
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careers January 22, 2010

Careers Success Stories

Now that Stack Overflow Careers is formally out of beta and fully operational, we’re getting a lot of traction with employers and making some excellent connections between companies who love great programmers, and programmers who love to code. Here are a few recent success stories people have shared with us: I was part of a…
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