[mathattack]

I find it to be an enormous productivity help too. Almost always it's the best hit from Google on any programming problem that I have.

The one thing I've noticed is I've switched from being a contributor to a consumer of information. I'm not sure if it's selfishness, or just that the easy questions have all been answered. I wonder if this is part of any larger trend.

[edraferi]

Perhaps there's a way to measure the maturity of software by looking at the age and upvote distributions for its posts on StackOverflow. The common questions get answered well and stick around for quite a while, usually helped along by edits. New projects with "easy questions" yet to be asked should have a decent new question velocity without any mega-answers.