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community June 15, 2017

Download Stack Overflow’s 2017 Developer Survey Data

Starting today, you can download the raw data from Stack Overflow’s 2017 Developer Survey, which received more than 64,000 responses from developers around the world. (The data file includes the 51,392 responses we considered to be sufficiently complete for publication.) You can download previous years’ results as well, from 2011 to 2016. We’re always excited…
company June 5, 2017

El estado de Stack Overflow en español: Mayo 2017

Llego la hora de compartir unos numeritos con ustedes sobre el sitio. Tenemos una buena discusión sobre otras estadísticas que pueden discutir aquí.  Este aporte es para darles un vistazo a lo que los usuarios han realizado en el mes de mayo. ¡Espero y lo disfruten! Los usuarios que ganaron 3 o más medallas de…
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Manager, Community Management Team - Former
company May 24, 2017

A Dive Into Stack Overflow Jobs Search

About two years ago, a significant event happened at Stack Overflow: a new system, named Providence, was released. Providence would allow us to tell which technologies a visitor is interested in, and measure the “fitness” between a visitor and a job. The release of Providence marked a stepping stone in Stack Overflow’s continuous effort to be…
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Marketing (Former)
company May 23, 2017

Stack Overflow: Helping One Million Developers Exit Vim

This morning, a popular Stack Overflow question hit a major milestone: You’re not alone, jclancy. In the five years since this question was asked, there have been over a million other developers who got stuck in Vim and couldn’t escape without a bit of help. Indeed, the difficulty of quitting the Vim editor is a…
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Data Scientist (former)
company May 22, 2017

How Stack Overflow Flipped the Switch on HTTPS

As of today, Stack Overflow now deploys HTTPS by default on StackOverflow.com — as well as the hundreds of Q&A communities that make up our Stack Exchange network. We now redirect all traffic to https://, and Google links will change over the next few weeks. Sounds simple, right? But getting to this point has taken…
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Growth Marketing Manager - Former
community May 20, 2017

Stack Overflow en Español has Graduated!

It’s been four years since the Spanish site was proposed in Area 51 and we’ve just proven once more that international sites offer much to the users of those communities and to our network as a whole.  I would like to announce that the Stack Overflow en Español community has graduated and will form a part of…
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Manager, Community Management Team - Former
company May 17, 2017

¡Stack Overflow en español se gradúa hoy!

Es con gran emoción y con gran entusiasmo que les anuncio que desde hoy, el 17 de mayo, el sitio de Stack Overflow en español se gradúa y forma parte oficial de la red de Stack Exchange como un sitio hecho y derecho de Stack Overflow. ¡Los felicito por su victoria! El sitio lleva cuatro…
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Manager, Community Management Team - Former
code-for-a-living May 12, 2017

How Stack Overflow Jobs Puts Developers First

I’m Donna Choi, and I’m the Product Designer for the Stack Overflow Jobs team. I’d like to revisit and share with you our standards for developing Jobs. These are living standards—we’re constantly rethinking our approach as we talk to users about what kind of product would help them most. For a little more context: part…
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Community Design Lead
company May 9, 2017

Introducing Stack Overflow Trends

On a typical day, developers ask over 8,000 questions on Stack Overflow about programming problems they run into in their work. Which technologies are they asking about, and how has that changed over time? Today, we’re introducing the Stack Overflow Trends tool to track interest in programming languages and technologies, based on the number of…
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Data Scientist (former)
company May 4, 2017

El estado de Stack Overflow en español: Abril 2017

El mes pasado casi se me acabó el tiempo para compartir nuestros números interesantes del sitio. Este mes decidí no dejar que eso pasará de nuevo así que aquí están algunos datos de interés sobre el mes de abril. ¡Disfruten! Los 5 usuarios con más respuestas aceptadas: Jorgesys – 40 respuestas aceptadas Gustavo García – 36…
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Manager, Community Management Team - Former