Interesting that he seems to still believe that part of the value of StackOverflow was the software recommendation questions.

> almost anyone I talk to is too young to imagine The Days Before Stack Overflow, when the bookstore had an entire wall of Java and the way you picked a Rich Text Editor was going to Barnes and Noble and browsing through printed books for an hour, in the Rich Text Editor Component shelf.

The site provided me more value back when opinions were allowed.