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We're humbled hearing from folks like you - your willingness to give back is what makes it all work. Keep your money. But here's how you CAN help, right now: Sign up if you haven't…

Regarding point 1, blowing off that question was an inside joke. I get why it comes off as dismissive and rude without context - it was originally an internal presentation - but th…

I work at SO, and we couldn't agree more. This is one reason we're so excited about our upcoming launch of [Documentation]( http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/303865/warlords-…

Most useful book I've ever read, period. Changed the way I think about decisions and influenced how I think about building products.

[Here's the link to the Stack Exchange post]( http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/122009/develo... ) (on the Programmers site) that's reverenced in the blog post.

I work at SE... and you're right. We eliminated this close reason because a huge percent of the cases it was used weren't appropriate.

He's my boss, so I'm super biased , but I can still share a primary-source perspective. I knew him for years before working here, and would say that both as a manager and a general…

Kind of you, but the real credit goes to all the people who donate their time and knowledge to help others. We (I work at SE) are incredibly excited to be able to use this investme…

The problem here appears to be that it's hard to report that the site's readability is poor with images turned off in your browser, in large part because the interface elements nee…

It sounds like what you're mainly describing is that it's hard to ask a question that isn't already answered on the site. (You can't close as a dupe unless the duplicate has answer…

The term "mod" is a red herring here. The engine will auto-reverse obviously targeted voting, and the community team reverses cases too subtle for the engine to handle, but that ar…

Disclaimer: WORK THERE. BIASED. Now... I actually agree that we can do more to help with questions that are less black and white. It's harder than it sounds - being a little rigid,…

We'd love to be able to take all the info we have, and make it available in every language. But here's why it's harder than it looks: `This is probably a dumb question , but why Go…

Fragmenting has always been a concern, but eventually, we realized that there are LOTS of good developers who are much less likely to participate (type) on a site in a language oth…

People making individual decisions. All else equal, we'd slightly prefer to have people in NYC, because we think the in-person time is a plus for the casual interaction that happen…

DON'T TRUST ME BLINDLY: I work for Stack Exchange, so I'm totally biased. On the other hand, I left a lucrative career in finance for a lot less money here because I believe in wha…

I work at Stack Exchange, and contacted Samsung as soon as this was brought to our attention last night. 1. The company engaging in these tactics was not hired by Samsung; they app…

No offense taken, and thanks for the overall support! As to: > "Do you have any evidence that your site is the reason the USPTO found this?" Well, the office has told us directly t…

The USPTO explicitly asked us to set up this site to help get the public involved in getting prior art to the examiners. (Press release: http://www.uspto.gov/news/pr/2012/12-60.jsp…