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by spolsky 2y ago
I don't think Daniel's point is that Chat is generically a clunky UI and therefore Cursor cannot possibly exist. I think he's saying that to fully specify what a given computer program should do, you have to provide all kinds
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Argos, a tool that makes visible the hidden patterns of retractions on science(scitility.com)
3 points by spolsky 2y ago|0 comments
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by spolsky 4y ago
A common assumption, but it is actually from Шпола, a city in the Ukraine.
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by spolsky 5y ago
at the time Yahoo owned something like 30% of Alibaba, which, today, would be worth maybe $200B.
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by spolsky 6y ago
I don't know why everybody thinks Microsoft Word doesn't have Reveal Codes. They have it; it's called Reveal Formatting; it has mostly been there since version 1.0 which I remember installing from 100 floppy disks in college
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The Next CEO of Stack Overflow(joelonsoftware.com)
51 points by spolsky 7y ago|3 comments
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by spolsky 8y ago
A member of that team told me that for much of the project the implementation of the function to calculate the height of a line of text, which is a very complication operation involving fonts, sub- and super-scripts, etc., was implemented a
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by spolsky 10y ago
not true, actually https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/gg615596(v=o...
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Sample Trello Power-Up Code(developers.trello.com)
4 points by spolsky 11y ago|0 comments
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by spolsky 11y ago
Sorry, Prashant, you lost track of the plot of the story somewhere along the way. (creator of FogBugz, here) FogBugz won and Jira won, but they were playing different games. I wanted to make software development better for programmers. When
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by spolsky 11y ago
I don't know why people keep doing this startup every two months. Every two months somebody tries it and then discovers why it doesn't work. For almost all the smaller buildings in New York (non-professionally managed), which is w
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by spolsky 12y ago
If you want to help, post this patent application to askpatents.com and get some feedback on prior art published there that a patent examiner can find. This wouldn't be the first time Uber has tried to patent something obvious ( http:&
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by spolsky 12y ago
n.b. Nick is a Stack Exchange system administrator
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by spolsky 12y ago
this blog post is by Bobby Grace, not by me.
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How We Make Trello(blog.fogcreek.com)
290 points by spolsky 13y ago|115 comments
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Hacking StackOverflow.com's HTML sanitizer(danlec.com)
6 points by spolsky 13y ago|0 comments
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by spolsky 13y ago
stackexchange.com is bigger than stackoverflow.com. Source: https://www.quantcast.com/stackexchange.com?country=US https://www.quantcast.com/stackoverflow.com?country=US
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by spolsky 13y ago
Right. It's not so easy to pull off for someone bootstrapping (but then again, rich players / people with audiences / people with social capital will always have an advantage, this is no different)
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by spolsky 13y ago
The only business models I want to work on any more have some mass-market component that is absolutely free, and a niche companion product that makes money off of the exhaust fumes of the mass-market component. The last two businesses I sta
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by spolsky 13y ago
why wouldn't a private office have natural light?
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by spolsky 13y ago
You can filter by user in Trello... even using keyboard shortcuts! It's right on the Filter menu, and the handy "q" keyboard shortcut filters to your own cards.
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by spolsky 13y ago
[trello co-creator, here] Definitely not a joke :) But also not something you need to buy. We're working very hard to make sure everybody understands that Trello is free and will always be free. With that, we have to make money to supp
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by spolsky 13y ago
Oh. Yes. You can always submit it directly to the USPTO. See http://meta.patents.stackexchange.com/questions/105/i-want-t... for details
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by spolsky 13y ago
Ask yourself, then answer your own question.
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by spolsky 13y ago
I sort of like http://www.google.com/patents/US4464650 (Ziv/Lempel compression), which doesn't seem obvious to me
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by spolsky 13y ago
The scientific name for this is actually 'code switching' ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code-switching )
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by spolsky 14y ago
I do agree that our community sometimes misapplies the rules. We study this regularly and are continuously working on tweaking and improving the moderation system to reduce the incidence of good questions which are closed. But trust me when
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by spolsky 14y ago
I guess that's why old-style forums are so successful and Stack Overflow doesn't work, right? :) Sorry, that was unnecessarily snarky. People on the Internet tend to believe that if there is a TEXTAREA tag on the internet, they have a right
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by spolsky 14y ago
That is not our opinion ;-) We believe that the highly open ended, conversational questions generate heat, not light. They are AWESOME and we LOVE THEM, but NOT ON STACK OVERFLOW. Stack Overflow is a place where you go to get an answer to a
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by spolsky 14y ago
This. Here's a video of the speech in question: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpGA2fmAHvM We generally believe that it's important to keep the quality on Stack Overflow high, so that when you click on a stackoverflow.com result on Google

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