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On the day that came to be known as Black Friday software development came to a screeching halt all over the world. Disruption of industry and changing of the world through extensible context aware computing also took a big hit today. There are reports of window jumpers in San Francisco and Austin, Texas. We'll keep you updated on the latest from this developing story.

nvm, it's back up

Indeed it is: http://isup.me/stackoverflow.com

It's surprising how much this hurts my productivity. And as great as archive.org is, it's not a very good substitute in this case[0], as most questions aren't archived.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/https://stackoverflow.com

It would be interesting to see what caused a bigger loss in productivity:

Stack Overflow or GitHub's outage?

Is it really? Noticed from this HN item, went to check...and it seems up. From the timestamps on front page, a 7-minute outage looks likely.

PANIC Stack Overflow Is Down