It will not be easy to find a CEO who is the right person to lead that mission. And unlike chatrooms, searching actually works. He was one of the founders of the kibbutz Hanaton in Lower Galilee. It lets you set up a private place on Stack Overflow where you can ask questions that will only be visible to members of your team, company, or organization. And in the first month of running that job board I think we sold about $90,000 of job listings. We have almost 300 amazing employees worldwide and booked $70m in revenue last year. Learn more. ), To make room for all these people, or, at least, those who live in New York, we rented a 7500 square foot, class A, super-elite batcave in New York and then fixed it up to be nice, with cool furniture including Aeron chairs and height-adjustable desks, and lots of glass to bring views and daylight deep into the batcave. Spolsky was born to Jewish parents and grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and lived there until he was 15. So we decided to put this announcement out there in hopes of finding great candidates that might have been under the radar. We’ve got an incredible team firing on all cylinders, so we’re really looking forward to 2011. 2010 was an absolutely amazing year here at Stack Overflow. At Rackspace, Prashanth really proved his mettle, creating from scratch a completely new business unit inside the company, the Global Managed Public Clouds Business. For those of you who have been with us since the early days of Our Incredible Journey, thank you. Stack Overflow only accepts questions about programming that are tightly focused on a specific problem. You’re reading Joel on Software, stuffed with years and years of completely raving mad articles about software development, managing software teams, designing user interfaces, running successful software companies, and rubber duckies. Overall 2010 has been a real breakout year for Stack Overflow, which is now the largest programmer website in the world (source: me) and the best, fastest-growing Q&A website in the world (source: also me). Last seen 10 hours ago. There’s a LOT more to be done to serve developers here and we’re just getting warmed up. One day, you’ll be telling your grandchildren about getting a programming job, version 1.0. It’s really hard to get through all the extraordinary difficulty, pain, and stress of starting a company if you’re not super, super motivated to solve a problem for the world. Learn more. The company itself has passed 200 employees worldwide, with big plush offices in Denver, New York, and London, and dozens of amazing people who work from the comfort of their own homes. It’s also why we optimize for questions and answers that will be helpful to other people, later. (Not kidding, actually. Today I serve as the chairman of the board for Stack Overflow, Glitch, and HASH. The snack room at Stack Exchange got a wee upgrade today: Find out why (and read to the end to find out how to get your own StackExchange sticker) at the Stack Overflow Blog. (They were technically called newsgroups, not forums (even though they had nothing to do with news. This chat was moderated by Peter Marx, CTO City of Los Angeles.Stay connected to our community!Subscribe- http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c...GA Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/gnrlassemblyGA Twitter- https://twitter.com/GAGA LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/company/gene...GA Online- https://generalassemb.ly/At General Assembly, we are creating a global community of individuals empowered to pursue work they love, by offering full-time immersive programs, long-form courses, and classes and workshops on the most relevant skills of the 21st century – from web development and user experience design, to business fundamentals, to data science, to product management and digital marketing. I served as a paratrooper in the Israeli army, graduated from Yale University in 1991, and spent time on the Excel team at Microsoft where I was the program manager responsible for the launch of VBA in Excel 5.0. Stack Overflow Jobs is the job site that puts the needs of developers first. [24], Stack Overflow also has a Jobs section to assist developers in finding their next opportunity. I also founded Fog Creek Software, one of the most influential small tech companies in the world. Learn more. That’s why we built Stack Overflow Careers. Or ask! We were looking for that rare combination of someone who could foster the community while accelerating the growth of our businesses, especially Teams, where we are starting to close many huge deals and becoming a hyper-growth enterprise software company very quickly. We programmers started asking about our problems on various web-based forums, of which there were thousands. “Have you ever noticed how certain questions come up, stackoverflow.com is one of the top 50 websites in the world. But, hey, this is Stack Overflow. That would only be serving them 98%. (Source: completely made up. Like Stack Overflow. Join us for a conversation with Joel Spolsky, founder and CEO of Stack Overflow, the #1 site for developers to ask and answer programming questions. The second problem was that EE let you get a free membership if you answered a certain number of questions. Ready to level up? We thought the job listings would pay the bills, and we’d fix the internet, and that was all we cared about and it’s what motivated us to work so hard. And, also: we’re just a few weeks away from launching Stack Overflow Teams, the biggest upgrade to Stack Overflow ever, so that’s going to be really cool. This followed the success of Tumblr and Petfinder in previous years. [35], In 2016, 1.5 million posts were deleted, of which about 8% were deleted by moderators. Meta user. Profile Activity. Last March, I shared that we were starting to look for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. This so-called “information” was utterly useless at determining whether you could program or not, but if you spelled everything right and used suitable fonts, you could come in for a day of interviews at which you would be asked to perform mundane programming tasks on a whiteboard. Some of these sites are directly related to programming (for example, Game Development), but some are quite far afield, from English Language toCooking. Member for 9 years, 3 months. The statistic I’m proudest of is the percentage of questions that get a good answer, over 80% (and many of the new Stack Exchange sites have 100% answer rates!). Nobody ever did. We’re especially focused on identifying candidates from under-represented groups, and making sure that every candidate we consider is deeply committed to making our company and community more welcoming, diverse, and inclusive. Instead of putting all the Java programmers in one little forum and all the C++ programmers in another, we dumped everyone together and just let them tag their questions. And when that still didn’t satisfy your needs, we set up Stack Exchange so the community could create sites on new topics. If you want to know when I publish something new, I recommend getting an RSS reader like NewsBlur and subscribing to my RSS feed. Three of our sites actually have 100% answer rates! Nobody is going to raise their hand.”. That’s why we sort the answers by votes. So, we decided that anybody who wants to get with the program is welcome to join in our plan. At the beginning of the year, Stack Overflow LLC was just three developers working from home. I’ve also written four books, do a lot of Arduino stuff, and talk too much about Barry’s Bootcamp and Burning Man. In 2000 I co-founded Fog Creek Software, where we created lots of cool things like the FogBugz bug tracker, Trello, and Glitch. It is a paid service, but it’s not expensive. Only six months after we had launched Stack Overflow, my co-founder Jeff Atwood and I were invited to speak at a Microsoft conference for developers in Las Vegas. [20] Jeff Atwood stated in 2010 that duplicate questions are not seen as a problem but rather they constitute an advantage if such additional questions drive extra traffic to the site by multiplying relevant keyword hits in search engines. Stack Overflow is also the flagship site of the Stack Exchange network, 160+ question and answer sites dedicated to all kinds of topics from cooking to gaming. stackoverflow.com is one of the top 50 websites in the world. Stack Overflow is still the biggest. I also founded Fog Creek Software, one of the most influential small tech companies in the world. Wow! As an independent, privately-owned company, we’ve been making customers happy since the turn of the century. Where are we at after 11 years? Stack Overflow has been around for more than a decade. It reminds me of those medieval maps of the ancient world. Another solution being sold today is the idea of having some kind of online IRC-style chat rooms, and hoping that by searching those chat archives, you can find “institutional knowledge.” Ha ha ha! If, as planned, we continue growing at 51% a month, we will be bigger than Facebook in 15 months. I kept thinking “Man, this is so obvious, somebody is going to do it.”, And I went to one of the programmers at Fog Creek, and explained my idea, and he was like “yeah yeah sounds like a great idea, but I really like working on FogBugz.”, And eventually, early in 2008, a developer/blogger named Jeff Atwood called me up, and said, “Hey Joel, I’m thinking of quitting my day job to be a Pro Blogger; you’re a blogger: what do you think?”. *I didn’t think so. But when regular people went to the same page, they saw the answers were scrambled, with instructions to pay (I think it was about $250 a year) to see the results. Under his leadership, Rackspace successfully pivoted from a leading managed hosting company to a cloud services company. Nobody is going to raise their hand.”. When you search, you can search everywhere, or just within your team. We were there, I think, to demonstrate that you could use their latest ASP.NET MVC technology on a real website without too much of a disaster. This idea was stolen from flickr (remember flickr?) Join us for a conversation with Joel Spolsky, founder and CEO of Stack Overflow, the #1 site for developers to ask and answer programming questions. So the site actually moderates itself, which is pretty cool. I care a lot about this. Joel Spolsky Founder of Stack Overflow, Trello, and Fog Creek Software (now Glitch). And programming is hard enough; we should see our mission as making it easier. Stack Overflow is also the flagship site of the Stack Exchange network, 160+ question and answer sites dedicated to all kinds of topics from cooking to gaming. And every time I see a developer write code, they’ve got Stack Overflow open in one of their browser windows. And of course, we have private offices with a half dozen gigantic 453-inch monitors for each developer. According to Quantcast, Stack Overflow is the 30th largest web property in the United States and in the top 100 in the world. We started talking about all the ways our Q&A site would be amazing. Please do not use Stack Overflow to promote social causes. 757. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania for a year before transferring to Yale University, where he was a member of Pierson Collegeand graduated in 1… Stack Exchange grew 51% in December alone. But, hey, this is Stack Overflow. And if you want to learn more, check out our hott new “about” page. But we’re bigger). So far, 13 sites have gone all the way through the Area 51 process and launched. [32] As of 2011, 92% of the questions were answered, in a median time of 11 minutes. And we did such a good job of serving programmers that a few smart non-programmers looked at us and said, “Behold! Stack Overflow Talent is a fully-customized sourcing solution that helps you understand, reach, and attract developers on the platform they trust most. I also worked with Jeff Atwood to create Stack Overflow and served as CEO of Stack Overflow from 2010-2019. According to Alexa, stackoverflow.com is one of the top 50 websites in the world. Why do I need an IoC container as opposed to straightforward DI code? Today, audiences just laugh. We’re doing great work and making great progress in these areas, and I’m confident that Prashanth has some great ideas about how to move forward faster on all our goals. Stack Overflow has been around for more than a decade. How do I move the turtle in LOGO? We’re looking for a new CEO for Stack Overflow.