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for-work July 23, 2019

Power of Babble – How Primer AI is mining valuable insights from a deluge of documentation

There is an astounding amount of new text produced every day. Millions of daily news articles, blog posts, and social media make up a vast trove of documents that would take the average person a lifetime to read. How can anyone stay on top of this river of new information? More importantly, how can you…

Ben Popper Director of Content

code-for-a-living July 2, 2019

Sing Me A Song of Stack Overflow: A Musical Tail Call Optimization

When Anjana Vakil and Natalia Margolis applied to speak at !!Con (read Bang Bang Con) this year, they wanted to take the call for ‘non-traditional’ talks to heart while still sharing useful insights. They decided to tackle the following question: why recursion poses a problem for the finite-memory call stack. That could be quite a…

Ben Popper Director of Content

code-for-a-living June 20, 2019

Knowledge Engineering: Intuit’s Chief Innovation Officer Explains Their Approach to AI

We are entering a new era in artificial intelligence, one where exciting breakthroughs seem to arrive every week. But the roots of today’s AI revolution actually date back many decades. So what changed? The catalyst for the recent advances is the fact that these techniques can now leverage unprecedented amounts of data and computing horsepower.…

Ben Popper Director of Content

code-for-a-living June 12, 2019

Stack Overflow and Pursuit: Nurturing A New Generation of Developers

Stack Overflow is excited to partner with Pursuit, a social impact organization working to create a more diverse and inclusive tech industry through coding education and career mentorship.

Ben Popper Director of Content

code-for-a-living May 13, 2019

How Expensify Engineers Save Hours Each Week With Stack Overflow For Teams

Engineers from Expensify talk about how they are using Stack Overflow for Teams to improve collaboration and how it saves them hours of wasted time each week.

Ben Popper Director of Content

for-work September 10, 2018

Developer Flow State and Its Impact on Productivity

What’s the most annoying thing at work? If you ask developers, it’s likely getting interrupted in the middle of a difficult programming task. That reminds me of the classic cartoon strip I saw making the rounds on Hacker News a few years back. This is the perfect illustration of one’s “flow state”. Your mind is clear…

Ben Popper Director of Content

company March 22, 2017

Estado da Pilha Internacional – Março/2017

O primeiro trimestre de 2017 já caminha pro fim e o Stack Overflow em Português continua muito bem, obrigado. Cresceu bastante em 2016, começa o ano entre os 10 sites mais ativos da rede e a expectativa pra esse ano é de continuar crescendo, e ajudando cada vez mais gente, construindo ainda mais conhecimento de…

Ben Popper Director of Content

company November 20, 2016

Estado da Pilha Internacional – Novembro/2016

Alguns meses atrás eu comentei um pouco sobre o futuro do Stack Overflow Docs no nosso site. Não era um comentário dos mais animadores: “A primeira parte, sobre nós ainda não sabermos se teremos aqui também, é verdade.” mas era uma descrição verdadeira da situação. Só que, como o Tomás Barcellos notou, já se vão…

Ben Popper Director of Content

company October 4, 2016

Estado da Pilha Internacional – Outubro/2016

Imagine uma comunidade online, repleta de pessoas, ideias e possibilidades. Um lugar onde pessoas se encontram, para ajudar umas às outras e dividir seu interesse em algo muito importante em suas vidas. Imagine esse lugar se tornando parte da rotina de cada membro, contribuindo para que eles aprendam mais sobre algo que eles adoram fazer.…

Ben Popper Director of Content

community June 4, 2015

Stack Overflow in Portugese: now with less beta!

If you can’t read the rest of this post, you’re probably not part of the Stack Overflow in Portuguese community. It’s a shame, because it’s a really good site! We built it because it’s not fair to expect everyone to speak every language, right? Exactly. So, the important thing is that the site is great, the community is…

Ben Popper Director of Content

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