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It's my turn to call out Hacker News now. How did a submission from 2009 that isn't really relevant now as it was in reference to comments made on Hacker News b
by DigitalSea 13y ago
It's my turn to call out Hacker News now. How did a submission from 2009 that isn't really relevant now as it was in reference to comments made on Hacker News back in 2009 make it to the homepage? I'll sit back and watch people bite though. And for the record, I know there were numerous clones of SO made. Probably not in a weekend, but come on, the hardest part about Stack Overflow isn't how it is coded, it's scaling the site up for the millions of views it probably gets on a daily basis. You can build a clone of Stack Overflow using Wordpress with Buddypress, a Markdown plugin, JSON API plugin and the Cubepoints plugin.
Articles like this always make me laugh, especially when talked 4 years after they were written.
- Oculus 13y agoLets disregard the age of the article for one moment. I think that the author is making a good point, developers oversimplify applications and when they begin to work it turns out that it's a hundred times more complicated then initially thought. Very valid.
- rythie 13y agoThe hardest bit by far is getting traction.