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Oct 26, 2018 at 19:25
An excellent retrospective on the design of Stack Overflow and the fundamental challenges in its purpose:
What does Stack Overflow want to be when it grows up?
What does Stack Overflow want to be when it grows up?
I sometimes get asked by regular people in the actual real world what it is that I do for a living, and here’s my 15 second answer: We built a sort of Wikipedia website for computer programmers to post questions and answers. It’s called Stack Overflow. As of

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