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Jeff was the author of https://stackoverflow.blog/2011/06/13/optimizing-for-pearls-... and was more focused on quality than community - his vision was the library. Joel was indeed more community minded - thou
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When I worked technical support in college I often worked nights and weekends (long uninterrupted times to work on homework or play games) ... there was a person who would call and ask non-computer questions. They were potentially legitima
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Comments have less visibility in moderation. This has made them spam / link farming targets in the past. A lot of people come to Stack Overflow with the mindset that it is a forum to discuss something and have tangential discussions i
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That would entail a significant redesign of the underlying display engine... and an agreement of that being the correct direction at the corporate level. Unfortunately, after Jeff left I don't think there was that much upper management
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> Moderation should have been aimed squarely at making the site friendly, and community should be moderating the content entirely, for exactly the reasons you point out - mods aren’t the experts on the content. The community was the on
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What points do you get for moderation activity?
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The site was a consensus of what Jeff and Joel and their associated blogging communities who started posting on Stack Overflow wanted. There was some tension between those two communities about what should be there, but that's where
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https://archive.org/details/stackexchange_20250930 > As of (and including) the 2025-06-30 data dump, Stack Exchange has started including watermarking/data poisoning in the data. At the time of writing, this do
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> I remember one infamous user who would farm points by running your questions against some grammar / formatting script. You can only get at most 2000 rep from suggested edits. After you get 2000 rep, your edits aren't "su
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I believe that this tension about what type of questions was baked into the very foundation of StackOverflow. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/09/15/stack-overflow-lau... > What kind of questions are ap
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Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46438828 (at the time of this comment, 199 comments there)
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It's not a bad habit ... it's a bit of a culture marker. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-context_and_low-context_c... and https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/communication-and-ma..
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To whom it may concern; Congratulations on your hiring for head of digital security for the inauguration of the mayor of New York City. The mayor elect has drawn scrutiny from right wing agitators and there are creditable threats that some
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In the United States, that's known as constructive dismissal or discharge. https://webapps.dol.gov/elaws/eta/warn/glossary.asp?p=constr... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_
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You can get the overall unemployment by demographic breakdown at https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cpseea10.htm (this also gets into how do you count unemployment https://www.bls.gov/news.release&#x
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> People don’t realize how many man hours went into those early decisions. In my "trying to hunt down the earliest reference for the coefficients" I came across "Television standards and practice; selected papers from the
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This gets into "my French is rusty... and legal French is non-existent". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dismissal_(employment)_in_Fran... https://www.rippling.com/blog/termination-in-franc
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To the "the grandfather of all luminance coefficients" ... https://www.earlytelevision.org/pdf/ntsc_signal_specificatio... from 1953. Page 5 has: Eq' = 0.41 (Eb' - Ey') + 0.48 (Er' -
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> You're uninformed. France has that, and it doesn't result in excessive unemployment; in fact, the unemployment rates in France and in the US are practically the same, respectively 7.5% vs. 7.8%. You might want to expand that
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> A fun tangent on the "green cast" mentioned in the post: the reason the Bayer pattern is RGGB (50% green) isn't just about color balance, but spatial resolution. The human eye is most sensitive to green light, so that ch
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Ahh... thank you. That's a different part of the already established legislation and wasn't part of this one (which is why I couldn't find it at first glance - I was looking at 1520 and this is 1500). It was referencing i
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The summary and justification sections help set the intent of the bill, but they don't define the law itself. Those uses are: Section two of this bill adds a new Article 45-A to General Business Law to require addictive socia
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https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S4505 "Addictive feed" is used, but it's circularly defined. "Algorithmic feed" doesn't appear in the text.
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> Social media platforms with infinite scrolling, auto-play and algorithmic feeds will be required to display warning labels about their potential harm to young users’ mental health under a new law, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announc
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That gets you into the marble run world... which is segment of YouTube... and there are some very impressive setups. https://youtu.be/qGsD19P16rs As an aside, there's an app out there is an app for the iPad called &q
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Tangent - Monktoberfest 2016: Bryan Cantrill - Oral Tradition in Software Engineering https://youtu.be/4PaWFYm0kEw?si=avSAlBsCVUzjW2xo&t=163 (only 2:43 in ... so after the relevant clip, start over and you'll catch
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The first tax in the United States was in 1791... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff_of_1791 > Tariff of 1791 or Excise Whiskey Tax of 1791 was a United States statute establishing a taxation policy to further red
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I use Navicat in the early 2010s for the "cheaper Quest Toad" (a regular developer could afford a few of their tools) and before DataGrip.
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Very much still around... and one of those "this (the terminal tool the HN post is about) might have some trademark challenges" given that every license of TOAD (Tool for Oracle Development) is bundled with some AI and the likel
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> Alcohol is not declining in popularity https://www.ohbev.com/blog/gen-z-alcohol-trends-consumption-... > Generation Z (roughly those born 1997–2012) is reshaping the beverage-alcohol landscape. Numerous studies

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