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where every programmer has cried, thanked a stranger, and copy-pasted without shame.
means a question-and-answer website where developers ask coding problems and other developers answer, argue, or mark it a duplicate.
from launched in 2008 by jeff atwood and joel spolsky as an antidote to slow, snobby programming forums; named after the actual programming error where a program's call stack runs out of memory and crashes.
reputation systempoints and badges turned helping strangers into a sport
duplicate closuresfamous for closing questions faster than answering them
copy paste economyan estimated huge share of code snippets trace back here
acquired 2021prosus bought it for about 1.8 billion dollars