Jeff Atwood: Stack Overflow and Coding Horror

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Lex Fridman

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2018

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Jeff Atwood is a co-founder of Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange, websites that are visited by millions of people every day. Much like with Wikipedia, it is difficult to understate the impact on global knowledge and productivity that these network of sites have created. Jeff is also the author of the famed Coding Horror blog, and the founder of Discourse, and open-source software project that seeks to improve the quality of our online community discussions. Video version is available on YouTube. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on

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0:00.0	The following is a conversation with Jeff Atwood.
0:02.4	He is the co-founder of Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange.
0:05.8	Websites that are visited by millions of people every single day.
0:09.5	Much like with Wikipedia, it is difficult to understate
0:13.8	the impact on global knowledge and productivity
0:16.6	that these networks of sites have created.
0:19.5	Jeff is also the author of the Fame Blog Coding Chorer
0:24.0	and the founder of Discourse, an open source software project
0:27.6	that seeks to improve the quality of our online community discussions.
0:33.4	This conversation is part of the MIT course
0:36.6	on Artificial General Intelligence and the Artificial Intelligence
0:39.6	podcast.
0:40.8	If you enjoy it, subscribe by YouTube, iTunes, or your podcast
0:44.4	provider of choice, or simply connect with me on Twitter
0:47.4	at Lex Friedman spelled F-R-I-D.
0:50.9	And now, here's my conversation with Jeff Atwood.
0:54.6	I'm Jeff.
1:11.7	Having co-created and managed for a few years
1:14.5	the world's largest community of programmers in Stack Overflow 10 years ago,
1:19.6	what do you think motivates most programmers?
1:24.0	Is it fame, fortune, glory, process of programming itself,
1:28.7	or is it the sense of belonging to a community?
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