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Thanks for taking it for a spin! I'm working on why this is slow now.

You may remember a carbon copy of this event from a year ago. https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/389922/june-2023-da... Discussion from then https://news.ycombinator.com/item…

If anyone wants their data back in a way they can use it, it's right here https://seqlite.puny.engineering And I'd be remiss if I didn't point out that their trade dress is MIT lic…

Thanks so much, that’s really kind.

Good catch! Fix going up now.

Nice post! Yep, my process is similar. It goes... - decompress (users|posts) - split into batches of 10,000 - xsltproc the batch into sql statements - pipe the batches of statement…

This site is on a Cloudflare R2 bucket because (and only because) they have free egress. While not datacenter sized some of these files are large. Just opening up your credit card …

I mean fine, write an article that overweights recent events to weave a tale of the decline of Stack Exchange...but don't leave out the moderator strike, the data dump fiasco, or t…

https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/05/10/a-message-from-prashan...

PCA/SVD aim for maximizing explained variance, not preserving distance. They tend to "preserve" large distances at the expense of smaller ones, but that's not an explicit goal, nor…

Nothing is dying. Our data dumps are live at https://archive.org/details/stackexchange as they've always been.

Not everyone wants to work at Google. I know I don't.

This is the standard stuff from our company page ( http://stackoverflow.com/jobs/companies/stack-overflow )... 20 days vacation (to start) Flextime No Copay Health Insurance Whatev…

We have offices in NYC, London, and Denver. If I'm remembering correctly, I can count the number of developers who've left the company on one hand. We currently have ~20 engineerin…

I'd also like to point out that...we're a largely remote company. We don't index our salaries to the most expensive time and place to hire developers ever. We don't have to support…

What about the millions of people who've never written anything on Stack Overflow?

Hey, I'm the Jason Punyon drob's gushing about in the post. I wanted to tell you that this is 100% totally realistic, everyone on the Data team at Stack Overflow besides Dave Robin…