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Ten. Million. Questions (stackoverflow.com)
31 points by MonCalamari on Aug 20, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments



>If a dev found a solution just half of those times, and it saved them just 30 minutes, that's nearly 1.85 billion hours saved.

Those are very generous numbers.


Amazing. I remember sending Jeff Atwood an email to join the beta in 2008, voting on the name and logo, all that early excitement. Now its a programming institution. The knowledge of the community has gotten me out of more binds than I want to admit. Joel and Jeff deserve so much credit for their vision and execution. And the community of course!


Yep me too. I'm user 419 :)


One wonders how many of those got downvoted to hell and closed within 30 minutes of being asked.


Apparently over 430,000 questions.

http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=closed%3Ayes




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