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Joel Spolsky on Building Stack Overflow

Google TechTalks · Talk · 52 min · 2009 · YouTube title: Learning from StackOverflow.com
Why it's here

Cited for Joel's account of how Stack Overflow's design and community thinking were figured out from the start.

What it covers

Joel Spolsky's 2009 Google Tech Talk on why StackOverflow was built, how it addresses the mess of searching for programming help, and the community design behind it. He also takes jabs at paywalled answer sites.