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background June 23, 2010

Workin On Ur Problemz

If you’ve ever been unfortunate enough to see our “workin on ur problemz” Stack Overflow error page … … let me apologize on behalf of our team. I originally found this image in some random image search and added the lolcat caption myself. I’ve often wondered where this image came from, and what sort of…
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Co-Founder (Former)
background June 14, 2010

New Hires in New York

The New York team has been growing, too! New York, in addition to being the official corporate headquarters and the location of our sales team, has a development team working on two important projects. I’d like to introduce you to those members of the team. Working on Stack Exchange 2.0, we’ve got David Fullerton: and…
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Co-founder & Former Chairman of the Board
background June 9, 2010

Welcome Stack Overflow Valued Associates #00006 and #00007

I’m pleased to announce that Stack Overflow Inc has added two more valued associates to our team: 00006 Marc Gravell, United Kingdom Marc is a long time elected community moderator, C# MVP, and the #2 user on Stack Overflow, as sorted by reputation. Just under some guy I’ve never heard of. 00007 Ben Dumke, Germany…
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Co-Founder (Former)
background May 13, 2010

Our Brick in the Computer History Museum Wall

About a month ago I mentioned we were sponsoring the Computer History Museum by buying a ‘terabyte’ brick. The sponsors wall is part of the museum renovation, scheduled to be complete in October. The more professional approach to showing some of the museum’s 100,000 artifacts and hundreds of hours of video footage — most of…
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Co-Founder (Former)
background May 9, 2010

Joel on This Week in Startups

Joel Spolsky recently appeared on Episode 51 of This Week in Startups (aka TWiST) with Jason Calacanis. Joel’s segment starts at about 23 minutes in. (This is a followup to the Ask Jason segment of This Week in Startups back in February where Joel originally asked about how to approach VC funding in general.) You…
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Co-Founder (Former)
background April 29, 2010

Do Trilogy Sites Need a “Third Place”?

When people ask me what mistakes we made in building Stack Overflow, near the top of the list is not acknowledging the need for a meta-discussion site earlier. That is, a place for people to discuss Stack Overflow itself. I resisted this for the longest time, relegating meta topics to UserVoice, because I didn’t see…
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Co-Founder (Former)
background April 24, 2010

Hanselminutes: The Future of Stack Overflow

The future of Stack Overflow is highly intertwingled with Stack Exchange 2.0. We want to transfer some of the “smart users who will answer anything!” community around Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and Super User to Stack Exchange 2.0. Let’s figure out what sites we as a community want to exist, and make them happen —…
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Co-Founder (Former)
background April 23, 2010

Stack Overflow and DVCS

As of today, Stack Overflow is now officially using a distributed version control system. Specifically, Mercurial, as hosted through Fog Creek’s Kiln service. While we weren’t unhappy with Subversion, we weren’t married to it, and we needed to switch anyway so we can easily share code with the team in NYC. There’s nothing quite as…
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Co-Founder (Former)
background April 19, 2010

Welcome Stack Overflow Valued Associate #00005

As we embark upon the next phase of the Stack Overflow adventure — much of which is documented in Stack Exchange 2.0 — we realized that we desperately, desperately needed someone whose full time job is to engage with the community. Both on a technical level and on a human level. I’m pleased to announce…
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Co-Founder (Former)
background April 13, 2010

OpenID, One Year Later

We made a few key technology bets when we created Stack Overflow: OpenID Markdown ASP.NET MVC I covered Markdown, One Year Later in an earlier post, and now I’d like to turn my attention to the first item in the list: OpenID. After spending nearly two years with OpenID as our decentralized, open login mechanism,…
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Co-Founder (Former)
background March 21, 2010

The Great Reputation Recalc Begins

As previously discussed in Important Reputation Rule Changes, we are now beginning site-wide reputation recalculations on Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and Super User. You may see some changes in your own reputation, along with changes in other users’ reputation. In addition to rebalancing question upvotes as +5 instead of their old value of +10, we…
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Co-Founder (Former)
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