Spolsky's Software Q-and-A Site

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Spolsky's Software Q-and-A Site

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday September 16, 2008 @08:01AM from the asked-and-answered dept.

guzzibill writes "Joel Spolsky has announced the beta release of Stack Overflow, intended to be a high-quality source of answers to software questions. Post a software question and watch the answers flow in. Popularity voting is very much woven into the site, where both questions and answers can be edited for clarity and voted up or down for correctness. Correctly posed questions and insightful answers float to the top. This site has reached critical mass." From Joel's description, he was envisioning a source of technical Q&A about programming. So far, many of the questions are broader and less technical, such as advice on the best book about software development. It will be interesting to see where the community that's forming takes it.

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Example... by Anonymous Coward · 2008-09-16 08:02 · Score: 1, Funny

Q. Which is better? i++ or i+1?
A. Either way you are wrong, and I'm a genius you fool. If you don't grasp this, then you're doing it wrong. In fact, you're doing it wrong either way.
1. Re:Example... by Ethanol-fueled · 2008-09-16 08:37 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Which is better? i++ or i+1?
  It's i=i+1 or i+=1 you idiot! Who's the muthafuckin' genuis NOW?!
2. Re:Example... by Bill,+Shooter+of+Bul · 2008-09-16 15:49 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Semi-Column? I don't know if anyone should be taking the advice of a moran that doesn't know how to spell 'semicolon'.
  
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  Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
Re:Expert sex change, again? by Ortega-Starfire · 2008-09-16 08:13 · Score: 5, Funny

Uh, they put the dash in the url for a reason.

www.experts-exchange.com

You probably don't want to go to expertsexchange.com

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important programming question by Trailer+Trash · 2008-09-16 08:22 · Score: 4, Funny

vim or emacs? Has anyone asked *that* yet?

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1. Re:important programming question by martinw89 · 2008-09-16 10:24 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  OK, I'll ask.
  Why is vim so much better than emacs??
Re:Expert sex change, again? by Anonymous Coward · 2008-09-16 08:39 · Score: 2, Funny

It's better than going to amateursexhange.com.
Re:yOUR legacy to our children/grandchildren by Anonymous Coward · 2008-09-16 09:02 · Score: 2, Funny

can you summarize?
Re:This hasn't stopped you... by nobodyman · 2008-09-16 09:16 · Score: 2, Funny

True that. Idle is like Slashdot's answer to Matrix Reloaded: the original is great and we all agree that the other does not exist.
Re:Knowledge RPG? by 77Punker · 2008-09-16 09:19 · Score: 4, Funny

It'll be like Slashdot; people will post good comments until they have good karma and then use the good karma to troll.
Faggot.
Re:Expert sex change, again? by PaladinAlpha · 2008-09-16 11:06 · Score: 4, Funny

It was at this -- and only until this -- point in the comment list that I realized it was ExpertsExchange.com and not ExpertSexChange.com. I was having serious trouble reconciling the relevance.
Re:Reputation System by autophile · 2008-09-16 14:03 · Score: 2, Funny

If you post something that's off topic or incorrect, it will be voted down. Each up vote adds 10 reputation points; each down vote removes 2. Amass enough reputation points and Stack Overflow will allow you to do more things on the site
Great. Level grinding :(

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Re:Expert sex change, again? by pacificleo · 2008-09-16 20:25 · Score: 2, Funny

want something more www.whorepresent.com www.therapistfinder.com

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