the.com/stack overflow
the internet's group chat where every question was already asked in 2011 and closed as duplicate.
means a question-and-answer website for programmers, and also the error you get when a program calls itself one too many times and runs out of memory.
from founded in 2008 by jeff atwood and joel spolsky as an antidote to slow, snobby programming forums; the name doubles as a pun on the actual computing error where a call stack overflows its allotted memory, usually from unchecked recursion.
reputation pointstop users have earned over a million
copy-paste culturemost devs quietly build on its answers daily
closed as duplicatea running joke among frustrated new askers
gpt effecttraffic dropped sharply after ai chatbots arrived
for instance
jon skeet — legendary top answerer, over 1.3 million reputation points
segfault recursion bug — classic real-world cause of an actual stack overflow crash