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Seems Jeff and Joel are always patting their readers on the back and saying they are so 'elite' for reading Coding Horror or attending Dev Days. That part may b
by bmalicoat 17y ago
Seems Jeff and Joel are always patting their readers on the back and saying they are so 'elite' for reading Coding Horror or attending Dev Days. That part may be true, but using SO is anything but elite. Any google search containing something remotely resembling programming will return an SO result, it's not quite the underground programming exchange where only the artisanal coders are allowed that they think it is.
That said I use SO and enjoy it for what it is, but I definitely don't think it has made me the elite of the best, perhaps the elite of the not so bad.
- raintrees 17y agoFrom what I have heard from the SO podcasts, being the returned site from Google is _exactly_ what they want. So it sounds like a roaring success, in those terms.
- bmalicoat 17y agoYea, it is definitely successful but what I meant by that is the users of SO are not at all elite when Google sends them there when they ask how to do their homework.