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The people who make your apps go to Stack Overflow for answers – here's how it works

Decoder with Nilay Patel

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Stack Overflow

Every question, we have 50 million questions and answers. We have the ability for community users to sort their answers that they are receiving as part of their search results. So let's say there was a question asked about JavaScript 10 years ago that somebody answered has been uploaded. Let's say thousands of times that can be the answer that they look at,. or they can also sort it by what we call trending sort. That is just technology progress. Every year we see a new technology language, a kind of a programming language come to the top of the list on our service. You know, we have one day it's rust next day it's felt if that didn't exist, like what's

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