Ten. Million. Questions

#1

Post by MonCalamari » Thu, Aug 20, 2015, 4:26 PM UTC

Ten. Million. Questions
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Re: Ten. Million. Questions

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Post by willstepp » Thu, Aug 20, 2015, 5:56 PM UTC

Amazing. I remember sending Jeff Atwood an email to join the beta in 2008, voting on the name and logo, all that early excitement. Now its a programming institution. The knowledge of the community has gotten me out of more binds than I want to admit. Joel and Jeff deserve so much credit for their vision and execution. And the community of course!

Re: Ten. Million. Questions

#3

Post by GFK_of_xmaspast » Thu, Aug 20, 2015, 6:16 PM UTC

One wonders how many of those got downvoted to hell and closed within 30 minutes of being asked.

Re: Ten. Million. Questions

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Post by vortico » Thu, Aug 20, 2015, 7:59 PM UTC

GFK_of_xmaspast wrote: post #3

One wonders how many of those got downvoted to hell and closed within 30 minutes of being asked.

Apparently over 430,000 questions.

http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=closed%3Ayes

Re: Ten. Million. Questions

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Post by bramgg » Thu, Aug 20, 2015, 10:08 PM UTC

>If a dev found a solution just half of those times, and it saved them just 30 minutes, that's nearly 1.85 billion hours saved.

Those are very generous numbers.

Re: Ten. Million. Questions

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Post by teh_klev » Fri, Aug 21, 2015, 4:25 AM UTC

willstepp wrote: post #2

Amazing. I remember sending Jeff Atwood an email to join the beta in 2008, voting on the name and logo, all that early excitement. Now its a programming institution. The knowledge of the community has gotten me out of more binds than I want to admit. Joel and Jeff deserve so much credit for their vision and execution. And the community of course!

Yep me too. I'm user 419 :)