Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

Post by karmicthreat » Thu, Jun 03, 2021, 1:56 PM UTC

horsemans wrote: post #521

karmicthreat wrote: post #317

I remember back in the day Jeff or Joel came on the somethingawful forums and started talking about their idea. They were resoundly trolled about how horrible their site idea is. Why would we want un-certified randos on the internet giving people advice? Stack Overflow succeeded and SA is just kind of limping along. Though maybe now that Lowtax is gone it can just kind of maintain.

You're confusing Joel/StackOverflow for Jeff Atwood, who posted on the forums while designing Discourse. Atwood was lambasted for not understanding the SA forums culture before making assertions about it, and for being seen as wanting to ignore the necessary role that human moderation plays in maintaining strong communities.

Post by deepfriedrice » Thu, Jun 03, 2021, 1:59 PM UTC

thamer wrote: post #674

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How did they find out he originally posted under his real name? They must have known that was his profile, and then SO handed over the data proving it?

> then SO handed over the data proving it? Yes, something like that. The very first mention of the Silk Road online was from a user named "altoid" on Shroomery – the post is actually still up: https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/1386099... altoid was also the name of the account that had originally posted another question on SO, not the one about sessions, but one about Tor services: https://stackove…

Post by sokoloff » Thu, Jun 03, 2021, 2:29 PM UTC

craftinator wrote: post #416

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I think of hard work as being more of a necessary but not sufficient condition for most of these outcomes, so to some extent: "The harder I work, the luckier I get..." You can't control your luck, but you can control how hard you work. Some will read that sentence and conclude that working hard is a fool's errand. Others will read it and conclude the opposite. Neither is entirely wrong.

If you really want to be rich, don't work hard; either inherit, or get other people to do hard work. Working hard is easy, hundreds of millions of people do it, the trick is getting the hard workers to give you a percentage of what they earn, and scale that model up.

Post by potamic » Thu, Jun 03, 2021, 2:39 PM UTC

A-Train wrote: post #774

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You can bet your ass if one of these obscenely funded startup takes on the same problem, you are going to see all of that microservices, event sourcing, reactive patterns, service mesh jazz all over the place when they are dealing with like 100k users. And throw in the obligatory machine learning for intelligent ranking or some shit like that.

What is wrong with event sourcing? We also built our app without any microservices but event based processing is actually quite good pattern. Basically the state of the application can be replayed with the events.

Post by jenyay » Thu, Jun 03, 2021, 3:19 PM UTC

barelyusable wrote: post #766

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I loved listening to the Stack Overflow podcast with Jeff and Joel. It was kinda crazy that they were doing a podcast like that while they (Jeff mostly) were building it and coming up with the name, etc. Still have all the mp3's somewhere. Edit: I'm in the top 2%. Most of my rep. comes from interest earned on questions/answers I posted very early on.

I'm a fan of Spolsky's writing. I haven't heard of that podcast before. I see joelonsoftware.com has some expired links. Where can I listen to this archived podcast ?