Few questions: 1. Does the author know that Quora traffic is decreasing dramatically (a fact which states a web service "in trouble") or just he assumes that "

Few questions: 1. Does the author know that Quora traffic is decreasing dramatically (a fact which states a web service "in trouble") or just he assumes that "since I left, all others left with me"? 2. What does he means "Not solving a problem"? If I want to know how many NICs I can stuff into a single server machine [1] or how to build a 10Gbs wire-tapping monster[2] or why programmers so fanatical about their text editors[3] where will I go and ask those questions? attackofdesign.com? shall I start gambling which of the 4 sites of stack exchange is the best site to get the answer and not getting it migrated 5 times before getting and answer? BTW, the first two questions were real world problems I solved and quora helped me a lot. I simply cannot stand this anymore, smart people are spending time and energy to build things we can use for free, and we, instead of thanking them, talking about their "troubles" and giving them advice. The easiest thing for a _blogger_ to do is to write where did Bill Gates gone wrong, or why is Google failing going social time after time (hey, people, until two weeks ago, this was the mainstream state-of-mind). I do not believe in critics, I do not read critics before I buy a boo, watch a film or go to a restaurant, and ever since I did so, I failed less, while by the time I was relying on critics I failed much more. The fact is simple, can you mister opinion do any better? Can you? If you can't, stay still, if you can, stay still and do instead of talk. But, no, those who cannot compose a jingle for the local radio station write music reviews, and people who cannot make a decent omelet blogs about restaurants and those who cannot do start-ups blogs about start-ups. Michael Arrington build an empire by writing about startups, yet when he gave it a shot with that tablet and the Singaporean company , he failed at the spot one would not expect him to fail at (he's a lawyer, mind you). I am not saying there is no room for blogging about start-ups, all I am saying is that I would rather be on the side of those who _make_ the news, rather than the side of those who _write_ the news, let alone those who _read_ news. If ideas are dime a dozen, advice is dime a dozen kilograms. [1] http://www.quora.com/How-many-ethernet-ports-can-I-build-into-a-single-computer http://www.quora.com/How-many-ethernet-ports-can-I-build-int... [2] http://www.quora.com/How-can-I-build-a-high-performance-server-to-fully-capture-and-record-traffic-over-a-20-GB-s-link-with-no-losses-and-no-bottlenecks http://www.quora.com/How-can-I-build-a-high-performance-serv... [3] http://www.quora.com/Why-are-most-programmers-so-fanatical-about-their-text-editors http://www.quora.com/Why-are-most-programmers-so-fanatical-a...