> StackOverflow is more tilted towards "dark matter developers"[1] than many other places - the unseen, the unheralded, those that are toiling away at LOB apps

> StackOverflow is more tilted towards "dark matter developers"[1] than many other places - the unseen, the unheralded, those that are toiling away at LOB apps inside of companies. Often they're using PHP or Java or C#, or god help them, Visual Basic, still. Those are not necessarily the kind of people that are going to be seen at dev conferences, but there is a huge number of them I think that is a really important thing to bear in mind when reading Hacker News, or pretty much any online venue. People who contribute or even post comments are not the majority. SO rates me in the top 20% of Ruby developers, because I answered a few questions on the site.