>If a dev found a solution just half of those times, and it saved them just 30 minutes, that's nearly 1.85 billion hours saved.
Those are very generous numbers.
Amazing. I remember sending Jeff Atwood an email to join the beta in 2008, voting on the name and logo, all that early excitement. Now its a programming institution. The knowledge of the community has gotten me out of more binds than I want to admit. Joel and Jeff deserve so much credit for their vision and execution. And the community of course!
Yep me too. I'm user 419 :)
One wonders how many of those got downvoted to hell and closed within 30 minutes of being asked.