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The Hidden Power of Stack Overflow

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How a site for coders dominates Google and thus, the world.

Photo: Getty Images Let’s say you’re relatively new to coding. Maybe you’re studying it in college, or you’ve just started at an entry-level position after attending a five-week coding boot camp. You’re writing a function in C or Python or Javascript or whatever language you prefer. For some reason, the code isn’t compiling or it hits a snag at line 281 and the terminal outputs some arcane gibberish like “AttributeError: ‘foo’ object has no attribute ‘bar’.” So what do you do next? You could double-check and see if you missed adding a semicolon at the end of a line. You could perform the class

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