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The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.

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How much content is OK to display?

As long as you follow the guidelines Jeff laid out on Attribution Required you should be able to display as much content as you want. Visually indicate that the content is from Stack Overflow, …
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What real world application does the Stack API have?

There were a couple of old questions on Meta that had a lot of good ideas. What do you want to build with the SO API? What would you want to see in a StackOverflow API?
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How to format time since xxx e.g. "4 minutes ago" similar to Stack Exchange sites

Here's a Java implementation that was heavily influenced by the answers on the SO question How do I calculate relative time?, particularly @Jeff's and the accepted answer by @Vincent Robert. /** * F …
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How to format reputation numbers similar to Stack Exchange sites

Here's a Java implementation using NumberFormat. public static void main(String[] args) { int[] values = { 999, 1000, 9999, 10000, 10100 }; for( int rep : values ) { System.out.prin …
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