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"rock star programmers"? Really? It takes rock star programmers 4-5 months to do a digg style q&a site?

• jrockway 18y ago
  I wouldn't criticize them for this. They probably had other things to do in that time.
  • nuggien 18y ago
    Wrong. "But we’re only human, and there are only three of us — and exactly one full time person (me)." http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/07/stack-overflow-private-beta-begins/ http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/07/stack-overflow-private... Atwood was on it fulltime. Even with one guy, I'd expect it to take no more than 3-4 weeks to finish all the features that their beta site has right now, minus the site design.
    • jrockway 18y ago
      I'd expect it to take no more than 3-4 weeks to finish all the features It's easy to "expect". It's hard to "do".
      • nuggien 18y ago
        every part of that site is trivial to do. I'd expect "rock star" programmers to not miss deadlines that badly.
• ricree 18y ago
  As I understand it, most of the people involved weren't working on the site full time.
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  • nuggien 18y ago
    Atwood was on it fulltime. Do you really need more than 1 fulltime "rock star" coder and a part time designer to get that type of site finished?