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Author here, surprising to see this blog post of mine trending, but it has held up pretty well! Happy to answer any questions about my time at Stack Overflow. I've since moved on t…

The blog was down for a bit and falling through to the generic Stack Exchange network handler, which is what you saw. It should be working now.

This is exactly what we did to diagnose (source: I was on the call). The only tricky part was figuring out which post it was, since it wasn't in the stacktrace. To do that, we grab…

The comment is here if you're curious about this (as I was): http://avc.com/2015/06/two-charts/#comment-2108986922 Direct link to the comparison chart: http://a.disquscdn.com/uploa…

Good news, I actually do know everyone who was part of the original build of Wasabi! None of them left because of the language. I think this accounts for everyone who was there at …

They are not paying us :) They did work with us to develop a new schema.org type for Questions ( http://schema.org/Question ) and Answers ( http://schema.org/Answer ) which we impl…

I wrote the article and I probably end up working through lunch (or most of lunch) at least 2-3 days a week. It's definitely optional.

Stack Exchange's office is very similar. Starting to feel like Joel is the only one who still believes in private offices. https://www.google.com/maps/@40.708933,-74.006578,3a,75y,…

I used to think this was right (trained in the school of Joel), but now I'm not so sure. I look at it this way: the best predictor of future success is past success. School is pret…

Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow) - Remote! Full Stack Web Developer: https://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/34229/full-stack-web-... Site Reliability Engineer, Networking (sysadmin)…

The main difference we've seen is between retained vs. contingency recruiters. Contingency recruiters don't get paid unless they find you a hire, which sounds great in theory but t…

Try Dapper for a simple .NET ORM. We created and use it for Stack Overflow. https://code.google.com/p/dapper-dot-net/ Here's the original post describing how we made it: http://sam…

Give the system time to work. It's already been taken off hold.

The only thing that really hurts are the SQL Server licenses. Everything else (MSDN licenses for devs, OS licenses, etc.) are small percentages on the cost of hiring a dev or build…