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Jon Skeet earns 1mm rep on Stack Overflow
- michael_fine 9y agoAnyone know who that other user is in the first graph, who just surpassed Jon? They seem to be answering at a crazy consistent constant clip.
- sephlietz 9y agohttps://stackoverflow.com/users/1144035/gordon-linoff https://stackoverflow.com/users/1144035/gordon-linoff
- sriramk 9y agoI came here to ask the same thing!
- drawkbox 9y agoLooks to be #2: Gordon Linoff (https://stackoverflow.com/users/1144035/gordon-linoff https://stackoverflow.com/users/1144035/gordon-linoff) as he is at 41k answers.
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- elchief 9y ago> Jon Skeet's SO reputation is only as modest as it is because of integer overflow From https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9134/jon-skeet-facts https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9134/jon-skeet-fact... I like his answer about Chinese time zones https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6841333/why-is-subtracting-these-two-times-in-1927-giving-a-strange-result https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6841333/why-is-subtracti...
- option_greek 9y agoThe answers given by the model mentioned at bottom don't even make any sense. I wonder if ML will even be useful at harnessing and redistributing knowledge.
- metafunctor 9y agoIt's just a simple Markov chain model, obviously included for laughs. That said, a relatively simple character-by-character RNN would probably have been more interesting.
- Piskvorrr 9y agoIt does give a relevant response w/r/t airspeed velocities.
- ars 9y agoOnce you have a large body of answers your score will just keep going up. Mine has gone up about 40% in the last year and a half, despite not having time to answer any more questions.
- frou_dh 9y agoYep. Where that gets strange is being granted moderator-style privileges despite no longer being an active user. One can be big on rep from ancient Q/As and yet have no idea about the "culture" of the site. That's me.
- Deimorz 9y agoIt gets a bit ridiculous over longer time scales. Almost all of my SO activity was in early 2009, when I got up to about 12k reputation. I had another small burst in early 2010 that took me to 17k or so. I've had basically zero activity since then, and am now at 56,725. So I've gained about 40k while doing absolutely nothing for 8 years, and am still ranked #1331 (top 0.34%) on the site overall. Here's a screenshot of my reputation graph: https://i.imgur.com/qgkdTz1.png https://i.imgur.com/qgkdTz1.png
- reificator 9y agoI'd be trying to drop six ranks in that case.
- tannhaeuser 9y agoI've only been a contributor on SO for the last 1.5 years or so (though a long-time lurker since almost the beginning) and can tell you that it's not that easy or outright impossible to reach that kind of figures nowadays. Not that I care that much about my SO rep but still. Folks would often not even respond to long answers, use throw-away accounts, and the quality of questions is depressingly low, like in "How would I go about (description of a multi-year web project)?" without even the slightest effort of basic research or checking already answered questions. And of course the frequent case where students want to crowd-source their homework (sometimes answered by others who want to quickly grow their rep). Was it always like that, or is it a recent phenomemon with more Web freshman coming to the scene since around 2012?
- labster 9y agoI didn't know reputation was measured in millimeters.
- pestaa 9y agoCould be the amount of ink required to print out the actual number.
- smt88 9y agomm is a less common abbreviation for "million," but it does appear often in the US in finance and accounting
- lucb1e 9y agoI don't get this either, it's not as if there are two "m"s in the word million. I must be spelling it wrong.
- nsgoetz 9y agoI believe it come from mille - Latin for 1000. So 1mm is one mille mille or one thousand thousand. Why we use the Latin? I have no idea.
- jl6 9y agoMM is widely, though decreasingly, used in legacy finance: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/181917/mixing-use-of-k-for-thousands-and-mm-for-millions https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/181917/mixing-us... It’s also used by finance-outsiders who want to look like they are finance-insiders, a bit like how people will casually write GOOG and AMZN instead of Google and Amazon.
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- flukus 9y agoIf only stack overflow had a crypto currency, he'd be a rich.
- Radle 9y agoI'd assume he is rich for a software engineer anyway. As he has written multiple books and is currently working as a senior engine at google.
- etergri 9y agoI wish I had his job: spending my time answering and playing (it's a gamified Q&A) on SO all day and even being paid regularly.