Re:How We Make Money at Stack Overflow
by codinghorror on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @04:52PM
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Joel, eh? Think you might be forgetting someone in there, somewhere? ;)
Re:How We Make Money at Stack Overflow
by morbidhawk on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @11:28AM
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This is what I love about HN, occasionally the author of the software being discussed will randomly show up in the comment thread
Re:How We Make Money at Stack Overflow
by mattmanser on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @05:23PM
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I always got the impression from the podcasts that while you both designed it, it was more you actually programming it. I could be mis-remembering after all this time!
Didn't you quit your job and program it while Joel was still mainly focused on Fog Creek day-to-day?
Re:How We Make Money at Stack Overflow
by codinghorror on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @11:36PM
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Yes, it was Joel's famous "servant leadership". We brainstormed ideas once a week on weekly calls (which became the podcast) and he trusted me (and Geoff and Jarrod, the first two people at the company after the founders) to build Stack Overflow as we saw fit.
Community feedback was a huge part of that feedback cycle once the beta was live.
You may be gone, but not forgotten, never that, Jeff :)
Or as Joel likes to call it 'that hyphenated site'
Re:How We Make Money at Stack Overflow
by sah2ed on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @05:01AM
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> Joel really did knock it out of the park -- remember expertsexchange? His goal was to get rid of that and it worked.
You left out the other co-founder: codinghorror [1]!
FTFY:
Joel [and Jeff Atwood] really did knock it out of the park -- remember expertsexchange? [Their] goal was to get rid of that and it worked.
I agree that they make an enormous contribution to the world economy. Joel really did knock it out of the park -- remember expertsexchange? His goal was to get rid of that and it worked.