Wow, this bit of wisdom is unbelievably valuable in my experience. The number of programmers who have thousands of unread messages in their inbox has always sta

Wow, this bit of wisdom is unbelievably valuable in my experience. The number of programmers who have thousands of unread messages in their inbox has always startled me. So many of them don't respond in a timely manner via email, which earns them the title of 'flake', and opens them up to phone calls and other interruptions.