{"id":220,"date":"2008-09-16T13:17:04","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T21:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/?p=220"},"modified":"2008-09-16T13:17:04","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T21:17:04","slug":"stack-overflow-answers-your-hardest-tech-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/16\/stack-overflow-answers-your-hardest-tech-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Stack Overflow Answers Your Hardest Tech Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/codinghorror\">Jeff Atwood<\/a>, the blogger who gives you <a href=\"http:\/\/codinghorror.com\/\">Coding Horror<\/a>, your hardest tech questions get answered at <a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/\">Stack Overflow<\/a>. I wanted to see if somebody had coded a way to edit text fields in Vim, and bam, <a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/75652\/is-there-a-firefox-add-on-to-use-vim-to-edit-textboxes\">there was the answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/codebelay.com\/img\/stackoverflow.png\" alt=\"picture of stack overflow\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe idea behind Stack Overflow is that the collective wisdom of technologists will always be better than the experts.<\/p>\n<p>So far it has surpassed my expectations on the quality, obscurity, and speed at which tech questions get answered.<\/p>\n<p>Will entropy, otherwise known as spam, kill this site? Or is its reputation system good enough to prevent that?<\/p>\n<p>Has anybody stumped Stack Overflow yet?<\/p>\n<p>As always, your comments are very welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Jeff Atwood, the blogger who gives you Coding Horror, your hardest tech questions get answered at Stack Overflow. I wanted to see if somebody had coded a way to edit text fields in Vim, and bam, there was the answer. The idea behind Stack Overflow is that the collective wisdom of technologists will always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,33],"tags":[153,152,154,155,389,43],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techbiz","category-webapps","tag-coding-horror","tag-jeff-atwood","tag-stack-overflow","tag-web-apps","tag-webapps","tag-wisdom-of-crowds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}