Joel Spolsky

Chairman of the Board, Stack Overflow · 1 appearance on the record.

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He co-founded Fog Creek Software and co-founded Stack Overflow, serving as its CEO from 2010 until 2019. He is also renowned for his blog Joel on Software and has written several books on software development and management.

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Spolsky: Modern developers learn by page faulting knowledge, not reading manuals

“We think is that people have given up from learning a priori how to use the programming environments that they're working in. They don't even read a book, let alone the documentation. I think they start by writing code or by cutting and pasting code. They don'…”

Joel Spolsky Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:00 a16z Podcast | The Future of Software Development

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Spolsky: Hiring programmers requires evaluating public portfolios like GitHub and Stack Overflow

“It's really looking at a programmer's public work now that's relevant. And so just like you wouldn't hire a designer without looking at a portfolio that they brought, brought you when you're hiring a programmer today, you're likely to look at the, Open source …”

Joel Spolsky Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:34 a16z Podcast | The Future of Software Development

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Spolsky: Enterprise code risk should be managed biologically and statistically

“At some point, you start to treat the units that you're dealing with as either atomic agents, which is, all right, fine. People are bringing in iPhones. I don't actually know what code is running on those iPhones. Up to almost biological, where you start to th…”

Joel Spolsky Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 27:04 a16z Podcast | The Future of Software Development

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Spolsky: 40M people write software monthly, vs 9M professional developers

“When we started building Stack Overflow we did a lot of research on how many software developers there were in the world, and the conclusion seems to be nine million people that call themselves software developers in the world, and we had at the time six milli…”

Joel Spolsky Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 29:41 a16z Podcast | The Future of Software Development

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Spolsky: Open-source software is driven by developers' motivation to help others

“If you can do three minutes of work to answer something that maybe 10 people in the world know the answer to, and you can save somebody hours and hours of discovery, there's almost no stronger force than the motivation to help that person. And it's especially …”

Joel Spolsky Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 25:29 a16z Podcast | The Future of Software Development

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
a16z Podcast \| The Future of Software Development	Jan 2, 2019	4m

Joel Spolsky

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