The fall from grace of StackOverflow is something both mesmerising and horrifying.
An invaluable repository of programming knowledge ground into dust as the last tokens of good will are cashed in for stinky money. It was a unique place, where self-moderation by the community actually worked to a large extent.
How the fuck did we get here? First the AI debacle, now this. Joel Spolsky always appeared as a reasonable guy, I wonder how much him stepping down is intertwined with SO making some of the worst possible calls in the past few years.
An invaluable repository of programming knowledge ground into dust as the last tokens of good will are cashed in for stinky money. It was a unique place, where self-moderation by the community actually worked to a large extent.
That’s the worst part about this situation - Joel’s burning the coder’s Library of Alexandria in pursuit of that cash. Whatever comes to replace StackOverflow is gonna be a pale imitation of what came before, and I suspect the entire field of programming’s gonna be feeling the setbacks for a long, long time.
Joel’s no longer associated with SO, though, right? He’s not even a chairman at this point.
where self-moderation by the community actually worked to a large extent.
This is apparently not totally true, it was apparently (I read people talking about it, I have no source on it) not a great place for non-white people. But it is unclear what was wrong with it to me. (I saw this when there was the backlash against the AI moderation thing). So minor point, but I have no more information.
Already deleted my login. Absolute shitshow.
You’re familiar with older web and pre-web languages like JavaScript and Java. Did you know that you can use these well-known languages with Web3 technologies?
What the fuck is this? Since when is JavaScript not the main and almost the only programming language of the web, by usage?
And I remember when Java was actually used on the web.
And I remember when Java was actually used on the web.
I’d rather forget…
And if you work in a corpo, this memory might sadly be pretty fresh.
There was a question on here recently like “Please recommend an e-commerce web application which doesn’t use JavaScript” and the top response was “I don’t understand what you’re asking - how can you have a web application without JavaScript??‽”. It was like everyone has forgotten about HTTP POST.
What’s going on with the header image? You’ve got Google Chrome, YouTube and Xitter in one hand, Bitcoin, Ethereum and Brave browser in the other and you’re bridging the gap by fusing your index fingers together?
Were it not for the illustrator credit I’d assume it was generated. (No shade intended to Alexandra Francis, I wouldn’t want to bring my A-game either if I had to work for this kind of bullshit.)
I hope for the most people here the dubious history of the Brave browser is well known right?
Oh absolutely, though among the others listed it doesn’t particularly stand out.
every time I started reading this I seriously got the most disorienting feeling that I was in the past, and my brain kept telling me “the time travel worked! you’ve got to warn them!”