What Was Stack Overflow Built With?

Re:What Was Stack Overflow Built With? by tptacek on Sunday September 21, 2008 @08:18PM (#310688)

Hey, everyone, let's use this content-free comment to vote on how much we like ASP.NET!

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Re:What Was Stack Overflow Built With? by axod on Monday September 22, 2008 @06:46AM (#311002)

Take a look at the html source and see if you think it's an abomination.

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Re:What Was Stack Overflow Built With? by scott_s on Monday September 22, 2008 @10:02AM (#311134)

I don't. Why should I?

Also, you may want to peek at the HN HTML source.

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Re:What Was Stack Overflow Built With? by jwilliams on Sunday September 21, 2008 @11:31PM (#310790)

.. At least they didn't use Visual SourceSafe.

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Re:What Was Stack Overflow Built With? by aschobel on Sunday September 21, 2008 @07:48PM (#310671)

If your team is comfortable with Microsoft's stack, why force them to learn Java/python?

Well, they other options are open. So it might make sense. :P

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Re:What Was Stack Overflow Built With? by kschrader on Sunday September 21, 2008 @08:14PM (#310685)

Microsoft's stack adds a not-insignificant cost to a 3-4 person bootstrapped startup's budget.

Up to you whether or not you're getting enough of a productivity gain to justify it.

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Re:What Was Stack Overflow Built With? by utnick on Sunday September 21, 2008 @09:28PM (#310722)

Visual studio express editions are free and a windows vps is cheap.

Even if you decide to spring for the full developer licenses you are looking at less than a week of a developers salary for some really good tools.

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Re:What Was Stack Overflow Built With? by anthonyrubin on Sunday September 21, 2008 @10:51PM (#310763)

During one of the podcasts I believe Jeff stated that he was able to get free copies of the most expensive version of Visual Studio from a friend at MS.

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Re:What Was Stack Overflow Built With? by anthonyrubin on Sunday September 21, 2008 @10:51PM (#310764)

How much would SQL Server licenses cost?

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Re:What Was Stack Overflow Built With? by icey on Monday September 22, 2008 @12:28AM (#310824)

I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt:

http://www.microsoft.com/sql/editions/express/default.mspx

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Re:What Was Stack Overflow Built With? by aschobel on Monday September 22, 2008 @01:01AM (#310843)

If you are a startup you can probably get Microsoft's software for free.

Talk to one of their technology evangelists, they love seeing cutting edge companies building their business on MS.

Anand Iyer, http://blogs.msdn.com/aniyer/, can point you in the right direction.

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Re:What Was Stack Overflow Built With? by michaelneale on Monday September 22, 2008 @02:00AM (#310873)

Jeff Attwood and co that built it are used to .Net/MS/Visual Studio development, so for them the cost was probably small compared to the cost of switching stacks + tools.

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Re:What Was Stack Overflow Built With? by danw on Monday September 22, 2008 @08:07AM (#311046)

The MS stack also has lots of good tools which can help speed up development.

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