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It's definitely hard. There was certainly no clear cut solution to any of the problems I included on the card in the picture. We evaluated 8 or 10 different solutions for out of th…

The localization project I use as an example here was definitely one of my top 3 hardest projects of all time (and that was years ago). It was not a particularly difficult technica…

Thanks for posting this. One thing I didn't write about is the objectiveness of interviews (felt like a different topic). Just about any question can be okay as long as it follows …

I'm familiar with the LLVM direct to wasm tool, but I was unable to get it working using the steps from the emscripten docs. The binaryen toolchain is pretty easy to digest, but I'…

Sounds like a processor to me, let's just call them kernels.

Initially my thought was to compare it to the first compiler, back in the days when punch cards were the interface, but I decided against any history lessons that go that far back.…

We (at Stack Overflow) have a new documentation product coming down the pipe with an emphasis on examples and I thought it would be awesome if we could expand our stack snippets fe…

That's fair. Originally asm.js was named capsule.js but that was taken and didn't really mean what it was. We could also call it modules but there is another very related spec out …

I had the exact same problem when I first started. Someone once told me "what we can throw away to solve this problem", so I kept removing parts until I got here which I think is c…

The last 10 minutes where you ask questions is a bad time to waste asking someone to judge your 3 year plan when they just met you. Most of these questions are better asked when yo…

> What are ‘presentation semantics’? I think this is a corruption of the concept of semantics. Semantics are what a thing is, or means, or does; not how it is presented Semantics j…

Let me start by saying I am the most vocal person about semantic HTML at my company, but it really depends on your purpose, and I'm not sure you are realizing you are taking a hard…

I'm pretty sure the folks who have amassed "hundreds of thousands of reputation" did it merely by answering 1000's of questions. http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1…

I had honestly never heard of Joel until I did my research when applying at Stack Overflow. Didn't affect the outcome.