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by spolsky 16y ago
I have to agree. This post and the survey results do not really meet my standards for accuracy, so I've taken then down while we rework it.
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by spolsky 16y ago
If you're really passionate about your idea, you just want it to exist. It's almost a chore to be the one to create it yourself. For years I tried to get people to steal the idea for Stack Overflow and just build the damn thing so I didn't
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by spolsky 16y ago
This might possibly be the most ridiculous comment I've ever seen on the internet, let alone Hacker News. * I am not a Microsoft Loyalist * I don't make the technical decisions. Why would I? I'm the person who knows the least * It is not ne
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by spolsky 16y ago
No, they weren't. I've been watching for a while and they've been hidden from Quantcast for months.
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by spolsky 16y ago
No.
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by spolsky 16y ago
working on it!
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by spolsky 16y ago
we were profitable until we raised VC and started spending it :-)
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by spolsky 16y ago
Yes... we didn't have time for GitHub/Blog/Twitter integrations for today's launch, but that is our absolutely highest priority and of course you can always add links to those things.
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by spolsky 16y ago
Here's our blog post announcing Careers 2.0: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/02/careers-2-0-launches/
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by spolsky 16y ago
ugh, no, I can't imagine ever saying that. Full Text Search in SQL Server is very badly integrated, buggy, deeply incompetent, and I hate it. Hate it hate it hate it hate it hate it.
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by spolsky 16y ago
This is at a VERY high level, but here you go: In theory I think that different stacks (LAMP, Java, and Microsoft were the big contenders at the time) are similar enough in capabilities. There are a million pros and cons to each stack. Bu
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by spolsky 16y ago
I'm pretty sure that Tumblr can certainly afford bad PR like this. Show me an example of a company that was, actually, hurt by something like this. One example, please. Every high school kid in New York uses Tumblr every minute of every day
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by spolsky 16y ago
Bubbie, you don't know what you're talking about. Do you really think that Tumblr isn't aware of it's flaws? Are you seriously claiming that David is denying that they had a few outages? Very, very few mass services grew as quickly as Tumbl
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by spolsky 16y ago
Oh please, get over yourself. David started a company when he was 20.... obvious proof that he's extremely mature for his age, not immature. Let me know when you're running a successful website that zoomed to the top 50 in a couple of years
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by spolsky 16y ago
Give David a break. First of all, he's a very nice guy. Secondly, he's not running a corner greengrocer, he's running a site that's growing supernaturally fast and which has completely, utterly displaced myspace as the place where high scho
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by spolsky 16y ago
I never understand claims like this. They proved that it implements "the spec" perfectly, but to do that, you need a detailed spec with no abstractions. That means the spec contains just as much information as the code itself, which means t
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by spolsky 16y ago
Historically untrue. Stack Overflow promised that its data would belong to the users from the very beginning . The data was created by its users and belongs to its users. We saw what happens when a commercial entity starts to try charging
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by spolsky 16y ago
To be honest I don't really think Stack Exchange and Quora are the same thing. Or, to be jargonny, "we're not in the same space." Quora is Yahoo!Answers done really well... it's more social and bloggy, and it's for chat and subjective quest
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by spolsky 16y ago
Yep... as I remember it, XML RPC was "specified" by Dave Winer, and it was really sloppy. As I remember, there was no discussion of character encoding in the spec, and if you read the spec literally, you actually HAD to generate invalid XML
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by spolsky 16y ago
Not just you. People are blowing the valuation out of proportion. A 100 PE ratio is completely understandable for an earth-changing company like Facebook at this stage in its growth. I myself wouldn't invest at that price, but that doesn't
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by spolsky 16y ago
Yes, in the United States, this violates the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) of 1967. Source: http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/statutes/adea.cfm
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by spolsky 16y ago
IANAL either, but small claims court is a "court of no record" and does not establish precedent.
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by spolsky 16y ago
It's a pretty bad strategy for hiring great programmers. Given how many cool, interesting, VC-funded startups are hiring, good developers can work literally anywhere they want. A job description that doesn't reveal the company or at least t
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by spolsky 16y ago
There are a lot of things you have to know to make sense of a deal like this. (1) You have to know what Twitter's financials look like. You can speculate, but since they're not public, you don't know. It may be the case that based on the fi
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by spolsky 16y ago
This detection process doesn't detect toxic customers, it detects corporate customers at large companies. It's fine for a small startup to cater to small startups, but the big companies have big budgets, and eventually, you'll be making 80%
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by spolsky 16y ago
I'm wondering how they got around the state banking laws requiring them to be a chartered bank if they want to use the word "Bank" in their name (for example, in New York, Banking Law Section 132). All the confusion in this forum as to whet
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by spolsky 16y ago
Where did you get the 15-30 million number? We believe the number is closer to 9 million. For the United States, there are 1,336,300 programmers, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The United Kingdom has 333,000 "software professi
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Video-game interface for Khan Academy ... built on Google Maps(bjk5.com)
82 points by spolsky 16y ago|9 comments
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by spolsky 16y ago
I spent a summer with a Symbolics Lisp Machine in 1988. At pretty much every point when Lisp machines were commercially available, they were slower at Lisp tasks than the generic competition. We couldn't wait to get off of the Symbolics ont
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by spolsky 16y ago
Scaling has been cheap, and fun. Read about our newest data center: http://blog.serverfault.com/post/1432571770/stack-overflows-... Read about our SQL Server hardware: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/10/database-upgrade/

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