The Mortensen technology popularity index (MTPI) is equating the number of times some technology is misspelt with its popularity, that is, how many are actually using the technology and misspelling it when mentioning it on the Internet is taken as …
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The short version: Past edit summaries used on Stack Overflow can be extracted from Firefox using a simple Linux (or Windows) command line with the SQL query “SELECT fieldname, value FROM moz_formhistory”: The current directory must be where file formhistory.sqlite …
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Trying to find Jeff Atwood‘s reference “Stinking badges” highlights just how broken search engines are nowadays. I this case I knew Jeff Atwood had used “no stinking badges” (a reference to a scene the film The Treasure of the Sierra …
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One would expect Markdown to be supported on the Stack Overflow official blog, but it is not. It is a WordPress-based blog and there aren’t any comment plugins in use. Also, comments get lost if JavaScript is not allowed from certain …
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It is not easy to find or review older Stack Overflow blog posts. Doing it manually by clicking the link “Older Articles” only gets you a very limited number of entries per page (currently five), and you have to scroll …
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