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Nobody’s Going to Help You, and That’s Awesome
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29 Jul 2011I’m not into self-help. I don’t buy self-help books, I don’t read productivity blogs, and I certainly don’t subscribe to self-proclaimed self-help guru newsletters. Reading someone else’s advice on the rather generic concept of helping yourself always struck me as a particularly misguided idea. Apparently I’m not the only person to reach this conclusion, either. [...]
Building a PC, Part VII: Rebooting
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29 Jul 2011I’ve had more or less the same PC, with various updates, since 2007. I’ve written about most of it here: Building a PC, Part I: Minimal boot Building a PC, Part II: Burn in Building a PC, Part III: Overclocking Building a PC, Part IV: Now It's Your Turn Building a PC, Part V: Upgrading [...]
Performance is a Feature
In: funny|programming
15 Jul 2011We’ve always put a heavy emphasis on performance at Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange. Not just because we’re performance wonks (guilty!), but because we think speed is a competitive advantage. There’s plenty of experimental data proving that the slower your website loads and displays, the less people will use it. [Google found that] the page [...]
Geek Transportation Systems
In: funny|programming
16 Jun 2011On my first visit to the Fog Creek Software offices in 2008, I was surprised to see programmers zooming around the office on scooters. I didn’t realize that scooters were something geeks would be into, but it sure looked like fun, albeit borderline dangerous fun, on the 25th floor of an office building in Manhattan. [...]
Suspension, Ban or Hellban?
In: funny|programming
7 Jun 2011For almost eight months after launching Stack Overflow to the public, we had no concept of banning or blocking users. Like any new frontier town in the wilderness of the internet, I suppose it was inevitable that we’d be obliged to build a jail at some point. But first we had to come up with [...]
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