# Programmers - what a cool website... (stackoverflow.com)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/programmers-what-a-cool-website-stackoverflow-com/481135>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 13, 2009, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/programmers-what-a-cool-website-stackoverflow-com/481135 "2009-01-13T19:44:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Absolute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Absolute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absolute)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/programmers-what-a-cool-website-stackoverflow-com/481135/1 "2009-01-13T19:44:06Z")

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> **[Stack Overflow - Where Developers Learn, Share, & Build Careers](https://stackoverflow.com/)**
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> Stack Overflow | The World’s Largest Online Community for Developers

This is a free, collaborative, community-driven programming-driven question-and-answer site. People mark up the questions they want answered, and the answers that they think are the best.

It is really rather addictive to search the site for questions to answer, post a good explanation, and watch your “reputation” score go up (your score goes up when you ask a question other people mark up, or post an answer other people mark up).

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**Author:** ![Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cornelius_Tuggerson)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/programmers-what-a-cool-website-stackoverflow-com/481135/2 "2009-01-13T19:47:27Z")

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That is a nifty little website, I just might answer a java question or 2 when the weekend rolls around.