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Jeff Atwood: Stack Overflow and Coding Horror

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Stack Overflow - I Don't Know What It Is

As you go to higher level abstractions, do you lose track of the lower level? For example, c sharp, which i was working ind thess. We built stack overflow, and i still is written in andthe switchd to ruby. And you're a nubia again, right? Like i'm bu but you have the framework. I know what a for loop is,. I know what recursion is... But at some point riting code becomes a ity to you in terms of getting things done. There's so many other things that go on in the project, like building the prototype. How quickly can we iterate? That's the critical metric of any sol

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