For the programmers out there, the title may seem like a bit of a misnomer. A Stackoverflow Error is one an error whic “occurs when too much memory is used on the call stack”, to quote Wikipedia. In short this is not a good thing.
Why do I like stackoverflow then? Well because its the name of a great forum for asking and answering programming related questions. I’ve been using it for a little while now, mainly for little onesey-twosey type questions. But today I decided to ask a more difficult question about exceptions in Java. I’d spent a while researching it online and I couldn’t find a simple clean answer. Everywhere seemed to give conflicting reports, and none were specific to my problem.
However when I asked my question on stackoverflow I got about 7 direct, appropriate responses within an hour. A couple of which then lead to informed discussions on the topic. I learned more in that hour than I did in about 3 hours of searching. That’s why I love it.