Video: Learning from StackOverflow.com ~ Don't Call Us - We'll Call You

Monday, May 4, 2009

Video: Learning from StackOverflow.com

Presented by Joel Spolsky, known for Fog Creek and his blog JoelOnSoftware.com.



YouTube Description:
Until recently, searching for help on highly technical programming problems has been a mess. A lot of what the search engines found was old discussions in forums, where you have a lot of wrong answers and out-of-date answers that you have to sift through yourself. You also found a lot of answers at sites that were hidden behind a pay wall, which uncloaked themselves for Google and then demanded membership fees to see the answers. More
The 9 issues mentioned in video:
  1. Voting: Override by best solution
  2. Tags: Smart tags, what you can maybe answer
  3. Editing: Edit your own and other people's entries
  4. Badges: No money, status
  5. Karma: No money, status
  6. Pre-search: Previously asked questions
  7. Google is UI: Google search important traffic source
  8. Performance: ASP.NET, C#, Jquery, Sql Server, Dell
  9. Critical Mass: "Empty restaurant syndrome"

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