Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and Super User are a set of interesting sites by Jeff Atwood, the blogger behind the Coding Horror blog. Back when Stack Overflow launched in 2008, Jeff described it like this:
Stackoverflow is sort of like the anti-experts-exchange (minus the nausea-inducing sleaze and quasi-legal search engine gaming) meets wikipedia meets programming reddit. It is by programmers, for programmers, with the ultimate intent of collectively increasing the sum total of good programming knowledge in the world.
I couldn’t have said it better myself. It’s sort of like Reddit or Digg, but centered around answering everyone’s questions instead of sharing links. If you want to know the best way to go about doing something in PHP or Python, pose your question on Stack Overflow and watch as you receive at least one thoughtful answer within the half hour.
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