Stack Exchange Is Now Stack Overflow
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Stack Exchange Is Now Stack Overflow
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Re: Stack Exchange Is Now Stack Overflow
#2I guess I don't really understand this at least with respect to bothering to change the name. I'd try to draw a parallel to what Google did in becoming Alphabet but that doesn't seem to be a congruent situation.
The organization of the company around developers as core users makes sense. Not sure if a name change is supposed to do much for the average developer in caring about their product offerings more or less.
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#3Was just thinking what it was like to develop before Stack Overflow... and before github... Yikes!
Kudos to the team over at SO to continue to iterate the business.
I do wish they'd add an "out of date" button to flag questions/answers that are no longer relevant or just plain wrong. I think the amount of cruft they're going to deal with in the next 10 years is going to be HUGE.
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#4Names don't matter much. As long as they still have a community willing to shame users for asking a question vaguely similar to one that was asked a few years earlier, then it's all good with me.
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#5Was just thinking what it was like to develop before Stack Overflow... and before github... Yikes! Kudos to the team over at SO to continue to iterate the business. I do wish they'd add an "out of date" button to flag questions/answers that are no longer relevant or just plain wrong. I think the amount of cruft they're going to deal with in the next 10 years is going to be HUGE.
This would be a nice change. It's frustrating when your own questions are marked as duplicates because there's a similar question from five years ago.
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#6Buried in there is an announcement [1] that they're going to start accepting documentation and particularly examples of API usage, not just Q&A.
It seems like a good place to put stuff that isn't a question.
[1] http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/303865/warlords-of-d...
Re: Stack Exchange Is Now Stack Overflow
#7I was always confused by the difference between the two, even thought they might be different entities. This will minimize confusion in the future, glad to see the change.
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#8Was just thinking what it was like to develop before Stack Overflow... and before github... Yikes! Kudos to the team over at SO to continue to iterate the business. I do wish they'd add an "out of date" button to flag questions/answers that are no longer relevant or just plain wrong. I think the amount of cruft they're going to deal with in the next 10 years is going to be HUGE.
before SO/github there was usenet and good quality books, but then again we didn't have a new framework to learn every day, personally once I bought my O'Reilly X/Motif series I was set for quite some time!
Re: Stack Exchange Is Now Stack Overflow
#9Was just thinking what it was like to develop before Stack Overflow... and before github... Yikes! Kudos to the team over at SO to continue to iterate the business. I do wish they'd add an "out of date" button to flag questions/answers that are no longer relevant or just plain wrong. I think the amount of cruft they're going to deal with in the next 10 years is going to be HUGE.
stackoverflow is also part-wiki, so depreciating questions isn't as likely as someone coming around and updating the answers
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#10Was just thinking what it was like to develop before Stack Overflow... and before github... Yikes! Kudos to the team over at SO to continue to iterate the business. I do wish they'd add an "out of date" button to flag questions/answers that are no longer relevant or just plain wrong. I think the amount of cruft they're going to deal with in the next 10 years is going to be HUGE.
For me, it was a lot of forums, mailing lists, and Planet Source Code.