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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Not Joel Spolsky's Site

[nmb3000]

To be fair, Joel had very little to do with the actual implementation or development of the site. The majority of the credit for the idea and actual creation should go to Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror.

Personally I think it's a great idea, if for no other reason than to put the screws to Expert Sexchange. Their stupid referrer sniffing and page layout designed to make people pay to see answers has gone on long enough.

Ubuntuforums covers my needs

[Thelasko]

Even for Windows issues. Everyone is very helpful.

OpenID problems

[deweller]

The openID authentication isn't working for me. Anyone else having problems?

Re:Expert sex change, again?

[Anonymous Coward]

Shh, don't tell anyone, but "Expert sex change" IS free, you need to scroll way way way way way way way way down past the answers that seem to make you have to register and login, and past the intentionally boring nonsense, and then you'll find the same responses but this time the complete answers are there. Presumably the site is designed that way to get it googled while still making it seem as though you need to register.

Re:Expert sex change, again?

[kat_skan]

Whoops, except I meant userContent.css of course. As a mea culpa, here's a version that also takes out their 7-day trial banner and some links to other random crap, and that won't affect other sites that happen to use the same class names for something.

@-moz-document domain(experts-exchange.com) {
.blurredAnswer, .allZonesMain, .qStats, .squareSignUp,
.relatedSolutions, .relatedSolutionsContainer, .lightImage,
.startFreeTrial {
display: none !important;
}
}

Re:Expert sex change, again?

[Mascot]

Valid point. I did scratch my chin over that one for a few seconds. Then clicked "learn more" and discovered I already had accounts with at least four of the listed sites. I just picked one and that was it.

Re:Example...

[Anonymous Coward]

What about from people who don't know how to spell 'moron'?