Stack Overflow

Stack Overflow has just been launched. It’s to be a language-neutral repository of all software development questions and answers. Duplicate questions will be removed; correct answers will be voted up; rambling discussions will be edited out.

According to one of the site’s founders:

Stack Overflow is sort of like the anti-experts-exchange (minus the nausea-inducing sleaze and quasi-legal search engine gaming) meets Wikipedia meets programming reddit.

To quote the other founder:

You know what drives me crazy? Programmer Q&A websites. You know what I’m talking about. You type a very specific programming question into Google and you get back:

  • A bunch of links to discussion forums where very unknowledgeable people are struggling with the same problem and getting nowhere,
  • A link to a Q&A site that purports to have the answer, but when you get there, the answer is all encrypted, and you’re being asked to sign up for a paid subscription plan,
  • An old Usenet post with the exact right answer—for Windows 3.1—but it just doesn’t work anymore,
  • And something in Japanese.

My experience exactly. I really hope Stack Overflow succeeds – then I wouldn’t have to waste any more time and effort scouring through Google search results to solve esoteric programming problems.

17 September 2008 | Uncategorized | Comments

5 Responses to “Stack Overflow”

  1. 1 dirn 17 September 2008 @ 3:36 pm

    finally…an anti-experts-exchange

  2. 2 nazham 17 September 2008 @ 4:04 pm

    Interesting concept. Like Digg, but for tech Q&A.

  3. 3 Ras 18 September 2008 @ 12:58 pm

    they just launched ‘public beta’. not really RTW version. but already attract people to visit. their ‘badges’ system is awesome.

  4. 4 zeff 18 September 2008 @ 1:57 pm

    cool .. one-stop-center :)

  5. 5 The Zik 18 September 2008 @ 3:48 pm

    Ong! 3/4 my usual problems when looking for answers! Don’t really get the old version stuff… Here’s to Stack Overflow!

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