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Jeff Atwood: Stack Overflow and Coding Horror | Lex Fridman Podcast #7
So.
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Jeff Atwood: Stack Overflow and Coding Horror | Lex Fridman Podcast #7
So let's take a small pause here.
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First of all, discourse.
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Can you talk about, can you lay out the land
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of all the different ways you can have communities?
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So there's Stack Overflow that you've built.
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There's discourse.
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So Stack Overflow is kind of like a Wiki,
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Wikipedia you talk about.
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And it's a very specific scalpel, very focused.
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So what is the purpose of discourse
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and maybe contrast that with Facebook?
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Jeff Atwood: Stack Overflow and Coding Horror | Lex Fridman Podcast #7
First of all, say, what is discourse?
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Jeff Atwood: Stack Overflow and Coding Horror | Lex Fridman Podcast #7
Yeah.
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Start from the beginning.
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Jeff Atwood: Stack Overflow and Coding Horror | Lex Fridman Podcast #7
Well, let me start from the very beginning.
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So Stack Overflow is a very structured
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Wiki style Q and A for programmers, right?
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And that was the problem we first worked on.
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And when we started, we thought it was discussions
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because we looked at like programming forums
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and other things, but we quickly realized
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we were doing Q and A, which is a very narrow subset
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of human communication, right?
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Sorry, so when you started Stack Overflow,
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you thought you didn't even know the Q and A.
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Not really.
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You didn't know it would be Q and A.
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Well, we didn't know.
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We had an idea of like, okay, these are things
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that we see working online.
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We had a goal, right?
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Our goal was there was this site, Experts Exchange,
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with a very unfortunate name.
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Thank you for killing that site.
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Yeah, I know, right?
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Like a lot of people don't remember it anymore,
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which is great.
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Like that's the measure of success
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when people don't remember the thing
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that you were trying to replace, then you've totally won.
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So it was a place to get answers to programming questions,
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but it wasn't clear if it was like focused Q and A,
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if it was a discussion.
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There were plenty of programming forums.
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So we weren't really sure.
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We were like, okay, we'll take aspects of dig and Reddit,
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like voting were very important.
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Reordering answers based on votes.
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Wiki style stuff of like being able to edit posts,
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not just your posts, but other people's posts
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to make them better and keep them more up to date.
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Ownership of blogging of like, okay, this is me.
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I'm saying this in my voice, this is the stuff that I know.
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And your reputation accrues to you
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and it's peer recognition.
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So you asked earlier, like what motivates programmers?
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I think peer recognition motivates them a lot.
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That was one of the key insights of Stack Overflow
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was like recognition from your peers is why things get done.
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Not necessarily money, not necessarily your boss,
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but like your peers saying, wow,
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this person really knows their stuff, has a lot of value.
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So the reputation system came from that.
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So we were sort of Frankensteining a bunch of stuff together
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in Stack Overflow, like stuff we had seen working
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and we knew worked and that became Stack Overflow.
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Over time, we realized it wasn't really discussion.
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It was very focused questions and answers.
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There wasn't a lot of room on the page
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for let me talk about this tangential thing.
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It was more like, okay, is it answering the question?
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Is it clarifying the question?
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Or could it be an alternative answer to the same question?
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Because there's usually more than one way to do it
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in programming, there's like say five to 10 ways.
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And one of the patterns we got into early on
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with Stack Overflow was there were questions
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where there would be like hundreds of answers.
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And we're like, wow, how can there be a programming question
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with 500, 200, 500 answers?
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And we looked at those and we realized
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those were not really questions in the traditional sense.
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They were discussions.
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It was stuff that we allowed early on
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that we eventually decided wasn't allowed such as
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what's your favorite programming food?
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What's the funniest programming cartoon you've seen?
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And we had to sort of backfill a bunch of rules
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about like, why isn't this allowed?
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Such as, is this a real problem you're facing?
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Like nobody goes to work and says, wow, I can't work
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cause I don't know what the funniest programming cartoon is.
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So sorry, can't compile this code now, right?
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It's not a real problem you're facing in your job.
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So that was run rule.
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And the second, like, what can you really learn from that?
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It's like what I call accidental learning
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or Reddit style learning.
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Where you're just like, oh, I'll just browse some things
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