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Jeff Atwood 7 Jan 2025 11 min read

We are at an unprecedented point in American history, and I'm concerned we may lose sight of the American Dream.

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Jeff Atwood 22 Oct 2018 15 min read

I sometimes get asked by regular people in the actual real world what it is that I do for a living, and here’s my 15 second answer: We built a sort of Wikipedia website for computer programmers to post questions and answers. It’s called Stack

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jonskeet 19 Sept 2018 1 min read

This is more of a quick, explanatory “heads-up” post than anything else. On March 31st 2018, I started an experiment: I created a new Stack Overflow user called “Daisy Shipton” with no picture and a profile that just read “Love coding in C#” (or similar). I wanted to see how a new user presenting with … Continue reading Farewell, Daisy…

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jonskeet 17 Mar 2018 9 min read

This blog post was most directly provoked by this tweet from my friend Rob Conery, explaining why he’s giving up contributing on Stack Overflow. However, it’s been a long time coming. A while ago I started writing a similar post, but it got longer and longer without coming to any conclusion. I’m writing this one … Continue reading Stack Overflow…

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jonskeet 26 Apr 2017 2 min read

This is a brief post documenting a very weird thing I partly came up with on Stack Overflow today. The context is this question. But to skip to the shock, we end up with code like this: That just shouldn’t happen. You shouldn’t be able to create an instance of an open type – a … Continue reading Surprise! Creating…

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jonskeet 23 Apr 2017 6 min read

This post is an attempt to reduce the number of times I need to explain things in Stack Overflow comments. You may well be reading it via a link from Stack Overflow – I intend to refer to this post frequently in comments. Note that this post is mostly not about text handling – see … Continue reading All about…

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lukaseder 7 Nov 2015 1 min read

A very interesting problem that can be solved very easily with SQL is to find consecutive series of events in a time series. But what is a consecutive series of events in a time series? Take Stack Overflow, for example. Stack Overflow has a cool reputation system that uses badges to reward certain behaviour. As … Continue reading How to…

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jonskeet 5 May 2015 7 min read

There are many, many questions on Stack Overflow about both parsing and formatting date/time values. (I use the term “date/time” to mean pretty much “any type of chronlogical information” – dates, times of day, instants in time etc.) Given how often the same kinds of mistakes are made, I thought it would be handy to … Continue reading Common mistakes…

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jonskeet 8 Aug 2014 3 min read

I started writing a post like this a long time ago, but somehow never finished it. Countless posts on Stack Overflow are vulnerable to SQL injection attacks. Along with several other users, I always raise this when it shows up – this is something that really just shouldn’t happen these days. It’s a well-understood issue,and … Continue reading The BobbyTables…

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jonskeet 3 Jun 2014 4 min read

(Note that I’m not talking about "processing collections in parallel, which is definitely not an anti-pattern…) I figured it was worth starting to blog about anti-patterns I see frequently on Stack Overflow. I realize that some or all of these patterns may be collected elsewhere, but it never hurts to express such things yourself… it’s … Continue reading Anti-pattern: parallel…

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jonskeet 20 Jan 2014 6 min read

I see a lot of problems which look somewhat different at first glance, but all have the same cause: Text is losing “special characters” when I transfer it from one computer to another Decryption ends up with garbage Compressed data can’t be decompressed I can transfer text but not binary data These are all cases … Continue reading Diagnosing issues…

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