Jon is a web developer and heads up developer evangelism efforts at Stack Exchange.
When I think about the impact that Stack Overflow has had on the world, it’s tempting for me to think about numbers: how many active users we have, how many questions are answered in a day, how many jobs get posted on our Careers platform. These are things that I, as a developer, think about on a daily basis to measure how we’re helping programmers around the world grow. But I find that these numbers are hard to wrap my head around: it doesn’t quite give me a feel for what our work is doing. What is the quality of our impact? What does it feel like at an individual level? …
Há mais ou menos 2 anos nós fizemos uma descoberta avassaladora: nós percebemos que a maioria das pessoas do mundo não fala Inglês. E, se isso é verdade, significa que existem programadores que, pasmém, não conhecem o Stack Overflow. O choque inicial foi grande, mas depois de um copo de água com açucar nós decidimos fazer algo a respeito disso: abrir novos sites sobre programação!
Criar novas comunidades onde mesmo quem não fala Inglês possa se expressar em sua própria língua, à sua própria maneira. Afinal, ter a resposta para todo tipo de pergunta sobre programação é só metade do que faz do St …
Some time ago, we hired a Russian-speaking Community Manager named Nicolas Chabanovsky. He works remotely from St. Petersburg (we’re pretty sure it’s the one in Russia). In the past Nicolas was a software developer, and participated in the development of DLNA-stack at Motorola, webOS at LG Electronics and many other notable projects. What we found the most interesting about Nick is he’s one of the founders of the most advanced clones of Stack Exchange we’ve ever seen, which was ХэшКод, otherwise known as HashCode. …
Long-suffering readers may have noticed that, as we’ve expanded Stack Overflow into strange and exciting territories, we always start by hiring a new community manager. These intrepid souls act as emulsifiers, enabling and promoting communication between the company and the growing community. This role is just as critical for our 140+ English-language sites, where our small team works to ensure that requests and concerns are addressed in a timely fashion (6-8 weeks, give or take). Whenever possible, community managers are hired from within the community itself – after all, who knows its needs better than someone who has been a part of it? …
Welcome to the Stack Exchange Podcast, episode #65, recorded Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at Stack Exchange Headquarters in New York City. Today’s podcast is brought to you by the Association of Airline Mile Programs and hosted by the usual suspects.
We’ll start off with the extremely important and community-relevant subject of why Joel hates frequent flyer programs. It’s a fascinating story and I can’t do it justice in summary. But I will say, for those of you who find it TOO ENTERTAINING AND DRAMATIC, that this story ends around 7 minutes into the show. 7:16 to be exact. …
I agree, so I changed it.
I've asked question how I can decrease my SO points to 1 and my question was deleted at once? Why? Where can I ask such question?
