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Spolsky's Software Q-and-A Site

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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  1. Re:Expert sex change, again? by Ortega-Starfire · · 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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  2. important programming question by Trailer+Trash · · Score: 4, Funny

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

  3. Re:Example... by Ethanol-fueled · · 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?!

  4. Re:Knowledge RPG? by 77Punker · · 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.

  5. Re:Expert sex change, again? by PaladinAlpha · · 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.

  6. Re:Example... by Bill,+Shooter+of+Bul · · 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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