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Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

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Re: Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

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Post by bidirectional »

sangnoir wrote: post #196
bidirectional wrote: post #175

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And how does this apply to modern investment funds who have to regularly provide client reports and make disclosures?

Take 512 investment funds, in one year half of them make a profit, half of them will make losses. Drop the ones that had losses, the next year half will make profits, the other half will suffer losses. Repeat until one fund is left: "Invest in us - we are market experts who had no losses for the past 9 consecutive years!"

Well yes, I understand that. The point is that your model predicts the current landscape of funds as being about as likely as pigs flying.

Re: Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

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Post by richardwhiuk »

passivate wrote: post #225
croes wrote: post #176

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Simple answer, it's impossible that all people choose the wrong investment even if you just choose by chance. It like playing the lottery, why do some people win? Because not all can lose all the time. And as soon you reach a certain wealth level it's easier to keep that level than to reach it in the first place, unless you are in idiot.

How many times can one person win the lottery? The large firms seem to successfully bet on winners quite a bit.

_Somebody_ wins it every week.

Re: Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

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Post by selfhoster11 »

systemvoltage wrote: post #52
numair wrote: post #28

This is absolutely phenomenal. Naspers/Prosus are some of the savviest and most forward-thinking players in tech investment — would you have been smart enough to give Tencent all that money, way back when? And remember, they were a bunch of nobodies based out of South Africa when that happened. This is much more interesting than a monopolist like Microsoft buying SO, and I’d be keen to see what the growth strategy is…

I don't see how giving money to Tencent has anything to do with the ability to steer SO. The best thing would have been the status quo. SO has been running on its feet for many years. This consolidation, while disputably better than Microsoft acquisition, is no worse than large companies buying out small ones usually guaranteing their demise. If anything else, Microsoft has left Github untouched so far. I am not conv…

To me, it seems that Github has become more proactive (or hair-trigger) in pulling down content via DMCA in the recent years. This could be down to companies finally figuring out that you can DMCA code repos, but I can't help thinking that the Microsoft acquisition was a factor.

Re: Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

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Post by jnosCo »

plorkyeran wrote: post #150
ectopod wrote: post #96

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They changed it.

The domain was experts-exchange.com from the very beginning. Archive.org even has the 1997 version of the site: https://web.archive.org/web/19970421013342/https://www.exper...

https://web.archive.org/web/20000302050619/http://www.expert...

Re: Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

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Post by sharken »

I hope StackOverflow can continue to be a great source for accurate information, it was hard to find good quality information before they started.

Two things I'd wish I had done:

1. Mine a lot of bitcoins back when it was just starting out.

2. Asked Jeff Atwood author of codinghorror.com if he had an extra spot on the team for this new venture called StackOverflow.

Here is a link to Jeff talking about the ideas behind StackOverflow back in 2008.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/introducing-stackoverflow-com/

Thanks to all who helped build StackOverflow, it still makes a difference.

Re: Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

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Post by mitchdoogle »

RandallBrown wrote: post #20
steve_adams_86 wrote: post #8

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I don’t want to seem like a jerk saying this, because I’ve put effort into supporting the site and helping with moderation, I know it’s all very challenging and difficult, but: I think stack overflow has been dead for a while. Maybe you and I wanted different things from it and you still find it useful, but I haven’t really enjoyed it for many years. I loved it over a decade ago, these days I generally avoid it. I wa…

The StackOverflow community has always been extremely abrasive. People will constantly be rewriting or deleting your questions or leaving unhelpful comments complaining about something silly like the formatting. With that said, it's still extremely useful. It makes my job easier and saves me a ton of time.

Formatting doesn't seem like a silly consideration when we are talking about programming.

Re: Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

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Post by selfhoster11 »

croes wrote: post #125
TchoBeer wrote: post #93

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Since when is stack overflow dying?

Now?

How so? As far as I know, it's _the_ de-facto dumping ground for tech questions and answers. The only alternatives around are Quora and Reddit, the latter of which is full of nonsense.
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