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Contentsquare Acquires Heap Analytics(contentsquare.com)
13 points by df07 3y ago|0 comments
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by df07 5y ago
Author here, surprising to see this blog post of mine trending, but it has held up pretty well! Happy to answer any questions about my time at Stack Overflow. I've since moved on to Heap ( https://heap.io/ ) and we are h
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Tech Debt(heap.io)
31 points by df07 5y ago|13 comments
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by df07 10y ago
The blog was down for a bit and falling through to the generic Stack Exchange network handler, which is what you saw. It should be working now.
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by df07 10y ago
This is exactly what we did to diagnose (source: I was on the call). The only tricky part was figuring out which post it was, since it wasn't in the stacktrace. To do that, we grabbed the 3000 most recent posts and ran the regex again
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How does Stack Overflow do pagination?(meta.stackoverflow.com)
1 points by df07 10y ago|0 comments
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We haven’t forgotten how to program, we’re making the best of what we have(medium.com)
2 points by df07 10y ago|0 comments
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NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program?(haneycodes.net)
1725 points by df07 10y ago|854 comments
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by df07 11y ago
The comment is here if you're curious about this (as I was): http://avc.com/2015/06/two-charts/#comment-2108986922 Direct link to the comparison chart: http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads&#x2F
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by df07 11y ago
Good news, I actually do know everyone who was part of the original build of Wasabi! None of them left because of the language. I think this accounts for everyone who was there at the time: 1. Original author left because his wife was goi
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Providence: Machine Learning at Stack Exchange(kevinmontrose.com)
6 points by df07 12y ago|0 comments
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by df07 12y ago
They are not paying us :) They did work with us to develop a new schema.org type for Questions ( http://schema.org/Question ) and Answers ( http://schema.org/Answer ) which we implemented.
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by df07 12y ago
I wrote the article and I probably end up working through lunch (or most of lunch) at least 2-3 days a week. It's definitely optional.
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by df07 12y ago
Stack Exchange's office is very similar. Starting to feel like Joel is the only one who still believes in private offices. https://www.google.com/maps/@40.708933,-74.006578,3a,75y,203...
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Android vs. iOS Start Experience(lukew.com)
4 points by df07 12y ago|0 comments
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by df07 12y ago
I used to think this was right (trained in the school of Joel), but now I'm not so sure. I look at it this way: the best predictor of future success is past success. School is pretty non-predictive of your success in industry. General
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by df07 12y ago
Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow) - Remote! Full Stack Web Developer: https://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/34229/full-stack-web-... Site Reliability Engineer, Networking (sysadmin): https://careers.stac
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by df07 12y ago
The main difference we've seen is between retained vs. contingency recruiters. Contingency recruiters don't get paid unless they find you a hire, which sounds great in theory but turns it into a lottery for them: spam as many deve
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by df07 12y ago
Try Dapper for a simple .NET ORM. We created and use it for Stack Overflow. https://code.google.com/p/dapper-dot-net/ Here's the original post describing how we made it: http://samsaffron.com/
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2013 Stack Overflow User Survey Results(blog.stackoverflow.com)
4 points by df07 13y ago|0 comments
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As much Stack Overflow as possible in 4096 bytes(danlec.com)
382 points by df07 13y ago|72 comments
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by df07 13y ago
Give the system time to work. It's already been taken off hold.
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by df07 13y ago
The only thing that really hurts are the SQL Server licenses. Everything else (MSDN licenses for devs, OS licenses, etc.) are small percentages on the cost of hiring a dev or building a server. SQL Server pricing is a beast -- they know you
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Stack Exchange Creative Commons data now hosted by the Internet Archive(blog.stackoverflow.com)
31 points by df07 13y ago|0 comments
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Killing Kennedy(kennedyandoswald.com)
2 points by df07 13y ago|0 comments
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by df07 13y ago
We release an XML data dump every 3 months. It'd only be a bit of work to make it presentable and load it into something searchable. http://www.clearbits.net/creators/146-stack-exchange-data-du...
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Why use .h1 instead of actual h1?(stackoverflow.com)
2 points by df07 13y ago|0 comments
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Five years ago, Stack Overflow launched(blog.stackoverflow.com)
519 points by df07 13y ago|177 comments
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Trello for iPad is Here(blog.trello.com)
148 points by df07 14y ago|59 comments
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Announcing Kiln Harmony: the Future of DVCS(blog.fogcreek.com)
224 points by df07 14y ago|131 comments

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