Archive for the ‘funny’ Category

It’s been almost three years since I built my home theater PC. I adore that little machine; it drives all of our family entertainment and serves as a general purpose home media server and streaming box. As I get older, I find that I’m no longer interested in having a home full of PCs whirring [...]

I have a confession to make: in a way, I founded Stack Overflow to trick my fellow programmers. Before you trot out the pitchforks and torches, let me explain. Over the last 6 years, I’ve come to believe deeply in the idea that that becoming a great programmer has very little to do with programming. [...]

It’s easy to forget just how crazy things got during the Web 1.0 bubble in 2000. That was over ten years ago. For context, Mark Zuckerberg was all of sixteen when the original web bubble popped. There’s plenty of evidence that we’re entering another tech bubble. It’s just less visible to people outside the tech [...]

Are you familiar with this quote? 640K [of computer memory] ought to be enough for anybody. — Bill Gates It’s amusing, but Bill Gates never actually said that: I’ve said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is [...]

Let’s look at where stackoverflow.com traffic came from for the year of 2010. When 88.2% of all traffic for your website comes from a single source, criticizing that single source feels … risky. And perhaps a bit churlish, like looking a gift horse in the mouth, or saying something derogatory in public about your Valued [...]


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