Joel Spolsky
Chairman of the Board, Stack Overflow. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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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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Everything Joel Spolsky said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
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'…”
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 …”
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…”
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…”
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 …”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Joel's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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 a16zLEDGER | Chairman of the Board, Stack Overflow | 1 | 5 | — | full record on the a16z Podcast → |