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Stack Exchange is a platform / Q&A media empire
And it is doing very well.
Stack Overflow -- a Programming Q&A forum/wiki/thing
http://stackoverflow.com and my SO profile
- also http://meta.stackoverflow.com/ for discussion of SO, itself. instead of within SO
- and my meta profile
- http://superuser.com/ and my SU profile
<I have other profiles -- it’s become tedious to list them all>
android enthusiasts profile - I’m temporarily moderator pro tem (for the time being)
- SO-family memes - life is weird; programmers are weird; compositing the two together yields unpredictable results.
Third-party tools
allowed HTML tags on SO
You can associate one or more OpenID providers with your account; I recommend more than one, as my primary OpenID provider was LiveJournal (I created the account pretty much solely to comment on a friend’s posting, so there it was when I needed an OpenID) --- aaaand sometime in July LJ’s OpenID interface changed, and SO authentication via LJ started to fail. So, I couldn’t log into my account until.... I could log into my account and add an additional OpenID provider.
branch sites
NOTE: this needs updating, as the StackExchange system has been undergoing a lot of change in 2010.
http://superuser.com/
http://superuser.com/users/972/othermichael
http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites
Image hosting
okay, not strictly SO/SE related... but other than flikr, I’ve never used online image hosting except in conjunction with a programming question on one of these. Literally one. Today.
anyway.
I ended up using http://www.freecodesource.com/image-hosting/index because it just worked.
I tried imageshack, but it ran afoul my office proxy server, or something and it failed quietly.
The now-offical host -- http://imgur.com/ -- works great. ‘nuff said.
How it works
Jeff Atwood on the wiki-nature of SO
http://stackoverflow.com/about
http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/ - the place to ask/answer questions about the usage, development of SO, etc.
People I want to watch
Nick Gotch
Phil Jones
MattBeckish
Johnathan Arkell - emacser
Jan Goyvaerts -- author of Regex Buddy
Alan Kay - “Jeff Atwood confirmed, that the user “Alan Kay” is THE “Alan Kay”. You know, the guy who worked for that copier machine company” -- him
(and why isn’t this an SO feature? Because it would lead to point-abuse, probably)
See Also
Category tags
Programming forums membership wiki
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