spolsky

13 ms·

61.
by spolsky 15y ago
Co-founder of Stack Overflow, here. A lot of the people who were involved in some way in Experts-Exchange don't understand Stack Overflow. The basic value flow of EE is that "experts" provide valuable "answers" for novices with questions. I
62.
by spolsky 15y ago
We are both brave and mad! Just kidding. Imagine a traffic chart. The x-axis is time. Trello will last for 20 years, so imagine it going from 2011 to 2031. The y-axis is usage. The numbers climb up and to the right. We think we can get to 1
63.
by spolsky 15y ago
TL;DR - Adam is saying that the new top-level domains will require that you prove your identity when you register with them. First of all, I don't see any evidence of that. None of the links that he provides include any such claim. Second,
64.
by spolsky 15y ago
I think it was because the default buttons were slightly different sizes and looked terrible next to each other.
65.
by spolsky 15y ago
This law is too complicated for the average TV viewer to understand. Debating it on the merits is going to make you lose. You have to find counterpoints that the average TV viewer WILL understand. They have to fit comfortably in a tweet. Wh
66.
by spolsky 15y ago
In that era we're talking about people like Hejlsberg ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Hejlsberg ) -- architect of Turbo Pascal, Delphi, C# and .NET. Almost certainly worth $1,000,000 -- I hope his signing bonus was a lot more than tha
67.
by spolsky 15y ago
Nice theory, but the data doesn't support it. We have other sites (cooking.stackexchange, diy.stackexchange) that are much more representative of the population at large. Even on those sites, you see a similar ratio... the second largest se
68.
by spolsky 15y ago
OK-doke, here's the last month of Stack Overflow search engine referral traffic. Google 69,081,674 visits Bing 520,543 visits Baidu 319,294 Search (CBS) 176,208 Yahoo 133,833 MSDN 109.875 Yandex 80.399 Naver 89,733 Ask 3
69.
by spolsky 15y ago
Do you have a source for this story about paying Borland's engineers to sit on their thumbs? I knew a few ex-Borland engineers that came to Microsoft and they were all doing awesome things on Microsoft's (many) compiler projects. Most of th
70.
by spolsky 15y ago
weird. I'll check into that. It used to be UTF-8.
71.
by spolsky 15y ago
Not sure what you're talking about; FogBugz sends UTF-8 email.
72.
by spolsky 15y ago
We wouldn't provide that kind of support, nor would be it be expected, for a free and easy-to-use product.
73.
by spolsky 15y ago
If you have two windows open in Trello, the changes do sync between them. If you're not seeing that it's a bug, but that particular feature has been pretty solid since day one.
74.
by spolsky 15y ago
If I were a registrar, I would have rate-limiters on domain info downloads to prevent harvesting by spammers. And those rate-limiters would be set so as not to interfere with normal demand, but might be tripped if, say, everyone tried to tr
75.
by spolsky 15y ago
In the United States two people look at your boarding pass: the TSA (at the entrance to security screening), and the airline (while boarding the plane). The TSA also checks your ID. In most airports, the TSA is NOT online and merely looks a
76.
by spolsky 15y ago
For those of you too young to remember, all the early web browsers supported telnet: URLs, usually launching an external telnet client.
77.
by spolsky 15y ago
The fact that Google's employees are young does not say anything or imply anything about the half life of a computer programmer. It's just one data point. Here are reasons why it is skewed: * Fast-growing companies at large scale do enormou
78.
by spolsky 15y ago
right around the corner? It's going to be 15 years before that thing is generating graduates. But yes it will be a good thing!
79.
by spolsky 15y ago
Wha? That's ridiculous. Mostly, Facebook just copies Google's playbook, usually because so many of their managers came from Google. And a part of Google's playbook is that not every good developer wants to live and work in Silicon Valley, s
80.
by spolsky 15y ago
we're a little bit slow!
81.
by spolsky 15y ago
Right, no pressure. That said, we are really running low on 30" monitors, and you might have to use an old 13" SVGA monitor if you don't accept by midnight tonight
82.
by spolsky 15y ago
BetaBeat asked for permission to repost this, which I granted. They did not pay me for it.
83.
by spolsky 15y ago
Kickstarter is lucky that the America Invents Act that Congress just rammed through includes a porkbarrel clause that Sen. Chuck Schumer stuck in for the banks, making it much much easier to challenge business method patents in the finance
84.
by spolsky 15y ago
Success does not come from Getting Real, or from Lean Startups, or from any other business book. It doesn't come from sitting in your room reading Inc. Magazine or Joel on Software. It doesn't come from great typography or presentations wor
85.
by spolsky 15y ago
Were you a battlefield company (presenting on stage) or just a "startup alley" company (presenting from a small table in the lobby)? There's a huge difference. The battlefield companies DO get a lot of attention and, imho, it's a great way
86.
by spolsky 15y ago
or Cuil. Or Apple Ping, or Google Wave, or Google Buzz.
87.
by spolsky 15y ago
Pretty sure this feature is in the online help, along with lots of other cool tricks
88.
by spolsky 15y ago
It's more complicated than that, and it's hard to answer here. Basically -- if you're building something big and complicated and you should know exactly how it's going to work, a big written spec really helps. If you're building something b
89.
by spolsky 15y ago
Thanks for the nice words! I'm not sure about IE8, but, this being a new product, I specifically told the team not to worry about any non-current browsers. By the time this product hits its stride, IE14 will be shipping.
90.
by spolsky 15y ago
Er, I think we have that, but we may differ on terminology. A "board" is the whole thing. A "list" is one column. Each list has multiple "cards". Each card has multiple checklists (on the back). Lists, cards, and checklist items can be reor

More ›