I've had the same experience of looking up and finding an old answer from someone I knew, but one that I made _myself_ for the exact same problem I've just hit again years later... :D
Happens to me all the time. I'm either not automating enough things, or automating too many things. Btw, is there a simple way to backup all of ones own answers from across all stackexchange, in case the new owners mess everything up?
It has been posted elsewhere, but there is a complete data dump of stackexchange on archive.org.
all the users sharing they are in the "top X%" on SO shows how much the "gamification" took over and was fully embraced by the users.
On HN, I never read comments on Reddit where users write "I have X karma points" or comments on Twitter with people writing "I have X number of followers".
I dunno. Reddit seems like an example of a successful acquisition. Conde Nast managed not to destroy Reddit after buying it. But I agree with you overall. I'm a bit nervous too. Stack Overflow is so good, and its fate is now entirely in the hands of the purchaser. EDIT: In the other announcement post ( https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2021/06/02/kinda-a-big-announ... ): Today we’re pleased to announce that Stack Overfl…
>> The entire company is staying in place: we just have different owners now. I've been a part of a couple of these. This statement is somewhere on the spectrum of absolutely naive to willfully disingenuous. "Someone just paid 2 billion dollars to buy us, but they're not going to change anything, exert any influence or expect payback beyond what we've already been doing."
Why is it naive? If you buy distressed assets, sure, but why would you necessarily want to change a working business?
Top 0.5% SO'er here, but the funniest thing that I have had happen to me - and it has happened more than once - is I google for an answer to a programming problem I am having, get brought to stack overflow, and find the accepted answer to the question is one i myself wrote years before.
This exact thing has happened to me, and it was both a surreal and wonderful experience to realize that I had helped myself across a huge gap of time (3+ years).
It provides an even better motivation to help others with technical problems online: we can forget things that we're experts at. It underlines why it is so important to have natural language descriptions of problems that point to correct answers.
Possibly how weird it is to think of the ownership of ownerships and stakes. Nested Say there is a large [activist] investor -> who owns 5% of Naspers -> which has a sizeable stake in Prosus -> which has a sizeable stake in Tencent -> which has a sizeable stake in Epic Games (40%+) OR a majority stake in Tencent Music -> which has a respectable stake in Spotify (7.5%). Not to mention Tencent’s own stake in Spotify (1…
Is it advantageous for a company to own some of its competitor's stock? Does it represent a conflict of interest?
I guess it depends on how much is owned.
A percent or two would be very different to 30-40% (which would probably be a controlling interest).
The whole point of creating Stack Overflow was to not have subscription access like Experts Exchange. Doing that would be suicide for SO.
That was a long time ago. SO has the network effects to pull this off
SO can be cloned very easily nowadays. Network effects are actually getting worse with time; fewer and fewer people actually hang around SO, and it's increasingly spammed by students looking for free homework and people gaming for reputation.
As soon as SO vacates the free tier even a little bit, someone else will jump in.
>> The entire company is staying in place: we just have different owners now. I've been a part of a couple of these. This statement is somewhere on the spectrum of absolutely naive to willfully disingenuous. "Someone just paid 2 billion dollars to buy us, but they're not going to change anything, exert any influence or expect payback beyond what we've already been doing."
Why is it naive? If you buy distressed assets, sure, but why would you necessarily want to change a working business?
it's naive because it's a common claim that pretty much never plays out that way after a year or two. as to why, i'd say the reasons are poor, but it's because of ego, desire for power and influence, greed
Since switching almost completely to JavaScript, Node.js and React I noticed that my time spent on Stack Overflow dropped significantly. I found my answers in API docs and GitHub issues most of the time. I never created an account. Once I had listed most recent Redux and React questions, had an answer to one that was pretty tricky within one minute since posting and while I was typing out the answer in my editor some…
JavaScript is consistently in the #1 spot on their yearly developer survey, and remains as one of the most common tags on questions, so your experience certainly doesn't translate to the average JS developer.
That's likely just a function of the popularity of such language, in terms of constantly attracting newbies.
>Reddit seems like an example of a successful acquisition For whom? For people who uses it since the beginning it isn’t even the same place anymore. It’s UX (and I’m not talking about the aesthetics of the new design, I don’t mind those) is legitimately the worst I’ve ever experienced and the quality of discussion has went down the drain. Even if you find a tightly controlled community dedicated to a topic you’re int…
> For whom? Well, most people right? Power users are by almost by definition an insignificant (but over represented in discussions and noise making) cohort right? If the platform keeps quality content, gets more users over time and maintains both a good DAU and RPU, then, well, what objective metric of success do you want to measure? Number of happy power users? I really think most people don't care about that metric…
I addressed the fact that there is little to no quality content on Reddit anymore with the exception of a few niche subs (and they tend tend to be quality for long.). This was actually the main point I made.
I ended up losing access to my ancient account (it was using the OpenID providers that they don't even support anymore and the provider I used isn't around). I had gone fairly inactive, but recently wanted to contribute some content. This was on the DIY stackoverflow, there's a fairly common problem on my stove, but an easy, low/no cost fix, it's just very involved. The DIY SO had a good discussion of the problem. To…
> realized it'd take like a month of dicking around to get a new account up to the point that I could post a response in the thread If you made a whole video just post it as an answer. That takes 1 rep (the lowest it can possibly be). If you wanted to post it in a comment ...well you needed 15 rep which is also pretty easy to get. I don't understand this criticism of SO as if it is some walled garden and it's so hard…
Maybe I misunderstood what it would take, but one of the first things I saw was "account at least 30 days old". At this point, I guess I probably have that one covered, but at the time I didn't want this on my mind for a month.