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Code in
Society
The Developer Age
The Life of a
Developer
Code is literal…
people aren’t
How do developers
deal with this?
Writing the script for the future
Surrounded
by Code
The influence
of small
decisions
Shaping our future
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6 Minutes7 VisitsPer User, Each Month Average Time Per Visit
By The Numbers
11,096,637
Questions
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18,065,986Answers
Votes, Edits, Comments
By The Numbers
7,522,902,979times a developer found a solution on Stack Overflow
Who Is On Stack Overflow?
The Global Pool of 16M Professional Developers
10,793,000
Full Stack Developers
474,600
ML & Data Scientists
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DevOps & Network Engineers
1,498,000
Database Administrations
1,206,000
Mobile Developers
984,000
Embedded Systems Engineers
Every Professional Programmer Around The World
500,000 to 3,869,095
240,000 to 499,999
100,000 to 239,999
30,000 to 99,999
5,000 to 29,999
0 to 4,999
Map of Developers Viewing Stack Overflow
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