Re:Stack Overflow's CEO Doesn't Understand Stack Overflow
by chmod775 on Thursday July 27, 2023 @05:27AM
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Yeah, I'm surprised that a company whose core product could be run by three people for less than a million USD per year with room to spare for lavish company cars, somehow manages to lose $84 million USD.
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Re:Stack Overflow's CEO Doesn't Understand Stack Overflow
by bunga-bunga on Thursday July 27, 2023 @07:06AM
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This is a “Dropbox is just a pretty rsync”-level comment
Re:Stack Overflow's CEO Doesn't Understand Stack Overflow
by chmod775 on Thursday July 27, 2023 @07:38AM
(#36892016)
Plenty of sites of similar scale were run on less or are to this day. SO also is technologically as basic as it gets. They don't even serve big files.
Re:Stack Overflow's CEO Doesn't Understand Stack Overflow
by bbarnett on Thursday July 27, 2023 @07:51AM
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Some can't stand the fact that they have a perfect product.
Re:Stack Overflow's CEO Doesn't Understand Stack Overflow
by tmpz22 on Thursday July 27, 2023 @10:15AM
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I think OP may be referencing SO has multiple products outside the core QA site that may be more headcount-intensive or at least have more costs outside a few .NET servers and a well tuned database.
Not to mention an international presence benefiting from 24-hour on-call rotations that would benefit from international offices and other fixtures that are very expensive to maintain.
Re:Stack Overflow's CEO Doesn't Understand Stack Overflow
by toyg on Thursday July 27, 2023 @01:40PM
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Atwood and Spolsky themselves boasted repeatedly that SO, for a long time, was just a Windows server and a SQL Server with some C#.
The key element in the success of SO was not technical: it was Spolsky and Atwood leveraging already-established (Microsoft) audiences they had, to create a virtuous circle of sharing that snowballed for years.