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   by spolsky 16y ago

   I'll tell you what happened--they started reporting "nobody at home" so they didn't have to ring the doorbell. Haven't you ever been sitting at home waiting all day for a package to arrive, only to find on the website that the driver report
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   New Stack Overflow data center(blog.serverfault.com)

   3 points by spolsky 16y ago|0 comments
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   by spolsky 16y ago

   One of them did -- Nassim "Black Swan" Taleb was great friends with Mandelbrot.
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   by spolsky 16y ago

   I don't get how Minecraftwiki is serving "more traffic than StackOverflow." I think we have at least twice their daily traffic. All our numbers are on Quantast--feel free to check.
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   by spolsky 16y ago

   That's it? Four anecdotes of sexism over 19 years? That sounds like a great record.
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   by spolsky 16y ago

   It already does that.
7. 157.▲
   by spolsky 16y ago

   All new, shiny, custom code, built on the Microsoft platform. I'm sure a detailed blog post will follow.
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   by spolsky 16y ago

   And that is bad why... ? :-) Actually there is a major class of problems people have where they are so stuck that they don't even know what question to ask on Stack Overflow. Being able to ask a question live, and get immediate feedback, an
9. 159.▲
   by spolsky 16y ago

   I haven't used IRC in years, so it may have changed, but the big wins: * Stateful server. When you enter a room, you immediately see the conversation that has been going on there. That means it's possible to have conversations that are long
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    StackOverflow launches chat(chat.stackoverflow.com)

    112 points by spolsky 16y ago|76 comments
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    by spolsky 16y ago

    Just go here and type in your SQL query: http://odata.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/new
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    by spolsky 16y ago

    When we find out about these cases, we ask them to conform to our creative commons license agreement by linking back to stackoverflow.com, in hopes that ultimately this will teach Google that they are non-canonical and rank them lower than
13. 163.▲
    by spolsky 16y ago

    Any evidence that "high-volume, high revenue searches are being impacted"?
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    by spolsky 16y ago

    Any evidence of that?
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    by spolsky 16y ago

    Now that I think about it, the whole argument is bogus. For every SERP where your result loses traffic by virtue of falling below the fold, there's probably a SERP where your result gains traffic because the competitors fall below the fold.
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    by spolsky 16y ago

    Well, Stack Overflow gets about 90% of its traffic from organic search results, on the order of millions of daily page views. The traffic Google sends us did not perceptibly change when they switched to Instant. So anecdotally I can tell yo
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    by spolsky 16y ago

    That's a nice theory, in the abstract. In the concrete... replying to email costs money... a lot of money. First of all, just wading through the out of office, change of address, and bounces probably costs 10-20 cents each. But answering a
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    by spolsky 16y ago

    cauliflower farms everywhere are withering for lack of water.
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    by spolsky 16y ago

    people don't have a sense of humor. obviously my comments about chicagoans not knowing how to multiply was a joke, too. They multiply like bunnies.
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    by spolsky 16y ago

    2. That's just not correct. Spend twenty minutes talking to anyone who trades in bonds or equity before you make assumptions about what liquidity you need to get a good price... it's not much. Facebook trades all the time on sharespost, cer
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    by spolsky 16y ago

    They're almost certainly making $2 per user. Another dime is gonna be easy.
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    by spolsky 16y ago

    That's not correct. There is a secondary market for Facebook stock which is plenty liquid (see Sharespost, et. al).
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    by spolsky 16y ago

    I hate to leap in with what seems like an ad-hominem attack on the 37 signals, but their utter and complete misunderstanding of all the basics of business is starting to grate on me, and I'm wondering if it has anything to do with Chicago.
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    by spolsky 16y ago

    Baloney. These guys didn't get rich by thinking they have market powers that they don't. There are zillions of angel investors who weren't in the room who were the ones who were raising the prices, including plenty of loose-cannon hedge fun
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    by spolsky 16y ago

    Ah, that's just baloney. I'm sorry to disrupt your belief that the Canon of Paul is strong enough to overpower any possible truth and to settle any possible HN argument, but that is just not true. Stack Overflow got investors into an auctio
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    by spolsky 16y ago

    you don't need an account to post. Pick one of those and write it up!
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    What should every programmer know about programming?(programmers.stackexchange.com)

    84 points by spolsky 16y ago|84 comments
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    by spolsky 16y ago

    I know! I know! Step 1. They'll announce that Facebook is going to invest in any Y Combinator companies that want to make their products work well with Facebook. Step 2. They'll announce that Facebook will pre-acquire any Y Combinator compa
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    How does mkdir() really work?(unix.stackexchange.com)

    90 points by spolsky 16y ago|31 comments
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    by spolsky 16y ago

    I love skype on the iPhone - the audio quality is so much better than normal phone calls (at least on AT&T in New York) it blows me away... even over 3G.