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The point he is making is that stackoverflow is important because 1. It is useful at work 2. It is useful for getting work He dimisses the possibility that p
by jayzee 16y ago
The point he is making is that stackoverflow is important because
1. It is useful at work
2. It is useful for getting work
He dimisses the possibility that people asking questions about photography might not be photographers doing it for a living ( and a hodgepodge of sites focused on photography, mathematics, Apple, video games, board games, role-playing games, and science fiction. Interesting? Sure. Important? Hell, no. )
Besides who can be more obsesses about scores than gamers?
- neutronicus 16y agoMathoverflow is awesome. I don't know if the stack exchange guys run it (it certainly uses their software), but it is already professionally relevant for practicing mathematicians.
- Aqwis 16y agoI believe he is referring to Math StackExchange (math.stackexchange.com), a site which was created to serve as a MathOverflow-equivalent for mathematics students or others who aren't professional mathematicians. I've found Math StackExchange to be highly useful, and the quality of the answers you get is higher than anywhere else.
- cristoperb 16y agoBut there is also http://mathoverflow.net/ http://mathoverflow.net/ Here's a meta question asking about the differences between the two sites: http://meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/41/differences-between-mathoverflow-and-math-stackexchange http://meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/41/differences-...
- codinghorror 16y agomathoverflow.net is an independent Stack Exchange 1.0 site on an old fork of the engine; math.stackexchange.com is a fully qualified Stack Exchange 2.0 peer site on the current rev of the engine. see: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/04/changes-to-stack-exchange/ http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/04/changes-to-stack-excha...
- wazoox 16y agoIt must be unrelated because there's http://math.stackexchange.com/ http://math.stackexchange.com/