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“726 Extra Weeks” (Everything I learned in finance before transitioning to tech)(medium.com)
4 points by jaydles 7y ago|0 comments
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by jaydles 10y ago
We're humbled hearing from folks like you - your willingness to give back is what makes it all work. Keep your money. But here's how you CAN help, right now: Sign up if you haven't, create a developer story, and when you ARE
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by jaydles 10y ago
Regarding point 1, blowing off that question was an inside joke. I get why it comes off as dismissive and rude without context - it was originally an internal presentation - but the asker was Michael Pryor. He's Joel's co-founder
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by jaydles 10y ago
I work at SO, and we couldn't agree more. This is one reason we're so excited about our upcoming launch of [Documentation]( http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/303865/warlords-of-d... ). We think that
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by jaydles 11y ago
Most useful book I've ever read, period. Changed the way I think about decisions and influenced how I think about building products.
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by jaydles 12y ago
[Here's the link to the Stack Exchange post]( http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/122009/develo... ) (on the Programmers site) that's reverenced in the blog post.
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Is a line of code like a factory or a painting?(equitablegrowth.org)
1 points by jaydles 12y ago|0 comments
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by jaydles 12y ago
I work at SE... and you're right. We eliminated this close reason because a huge percent of the cases it was used weren't appropriate.
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by jaydles 12y ago
He's my boss, so I'm super biased , but I can still share a primary-source perspective. I knew him for years before working here, and would say that both as a manager and a general human being, he's one of the genuinely best
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by jaydles 12y ago
Kind of you, but the real credit goes to all the people who donate their time and knowledge to help others. We (I work at SE) are incredibly excited to be able to use this investment to do even more for them.
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by jaydles 12y ago
The problem here appears to be that it's hard to report that the site's readability is poor with images turned off in your browser, in large part because the interface elements needed to do so (buttons) have images associated with
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by jaydles 12y ago
It sounds like what you're mainly describing is that it's hard to ask a question that isn't already answered on the site. (You can't close as a dupe unless the duplicate has answers.) From a "helping the most peo
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Stack Exchange releases native iPhone app.(blog.stackoverflow.com)
8 points by jaydles 12y ago|0 comments
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by jaydles 12y ago
The term "mod" is a red herring here. The engine will auto-reverse obviously targeted voting, and the community team reverses cases too subtle for the engine to handle, but that are clearly personally targeted.
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by jaydles 13y ago
Disclaimer: WORK THERE. BIASED. Now... I actually agree that we can do more to help with questions that are less black and white. It's harder than it sounds - being a little rigid, and downright intolerant of questions that descend i
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by jaydles 13y ago
We'd love to be able to take all the info we have, and make it available in every language. But here's why it's harder than it looks: `This is probably a dumb question , but why Google Did not translate simply use ? (Or eq
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Why Stack Overflow in Portuguese?(blog.stackoverflow.com)
205 points by jaydles 13y ago|251 comments
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by jaydles 13y ago
Fragmenting has always been a concern, but eventually, we realized that there are LOTS of good developers who are much less likely to participate (type) on a site in a language other than their primary one. (Japan is a great example of a pl
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Announcing Stack Overflow in Portuguese(blog.stackoverflow.com)
80 points by jaydles 13y ago|91 comments
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by jaydles 13y ago
People making individual decisions. All else equal, we'd slightly prefer to have people in NYC, because we think the in-person time is a plus for the casual interaction that happens in between "getting things done". But we
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by jaydles 13y ago
DON'T TRUST ME BLINDLY: I work for Stack Exchange, so I'm totally biased. On the other hand, I left a lucrative career in finance for a lot less money here because I believe in what we're doing, so there's that. MOST IMP
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by jaydles 13y ago
I work at Stack Exchange, and contacted Samsung as soon as this was brought to our attention last night. 1. The company engaging in these tactics was not hired by Samsung; they appear to have been sub-contracted for some promotion by the co
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by jaydles 13y ago
No offense taken, and thanks for the overall support! As to: > "Do you have any evidence that your site is the reason the USPTO found this?" Well, the office has told us directly that examiners are reviewing the site. So, when
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by jaydles 13y ago
The USPTO explicitly asked us to set up this site to help get the public involved in getting prior art to the examiners. (Press release: http://www.uspto.gov/news/pr/2012/12-60.jsp. ) So, while it's entire
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Victory Lap for Ask Patents(joelonsoftware.com)
1075 points by jaydles 13y ago|151 comments
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by jaydles 13y ago
DISCLOSURE: I wrote that blog post, I work for SE, I AM biased. Thanks for the general support. You raise two concerns, though: 1. Upvotes - this is tricky. The problem with never allowing questions with lots of upvotes to be closed is tw
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by jaydles 14y ago
Um, the MySpace reference seems to highlight Joel and others' point: practically limitless user choice on MySpace turned it into such a boundless cacophony of gangsta rapping cat gifs that it was noisy and unusable, and got devoured by F