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Re:Stack Overflow reducing headcount by 20% by justboxing on Thursday November 02, 2017 @04:36PM (#15614059)
Funny you brought that up. I think it was Jeff Atwood who joked about how the domain name read like Expert-Sex-change

StackOverflow was such a welcome relief to this site and Atwood also wrote about expertsexchange in a blog post.

> I never appreciated how easy Experts-Exchange makes it for us. They are almost universally loathed. We don't just have a rival, we have a larger than life moustache-twirling, cape-wearing villain to contrast ourselves with.

Source: [ 2009 ] https://blog.codinghorror.com/whos-your-arch-enemy/

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Re:Stack Overflow reducing headcount by 20% by stefs on Thursday November 02, 2017 @04:47PM (#15614148)
i remember that expert-sex-change was blocked by our schools filter. thinking about it triggers a vague angry feeling, no specific reason other than, possibly, often repeated disappointment the answer wasn't readable.
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