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Slader | Design & UX Lead | NYC, New York | Onsite | Full-time At Slader, we're changing how students do homework and study. Millions of high school and college students use our we…

This reflects more or less what we found, in 2016, in the Stack Overflow Developer Survey: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2016#salaries-and-... TLDR: Move to Montreal.

Hey, I figured it out! https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/savedquery/809799891616:6b... There's a learning curve. Getting in without giving up your credit card isn't exactly intuiti…

Gotcha! I figured that might be the case. I'd be very happy to hear more about those table stakes. 100 stakes is a lot tho =)

I find it interesting that the author doesn't mention anything about the product as priority during his job search. No mention of tech stack, product-market-fit, growth potential, …

Nope.

I work at Stack Overflow. We don't have an SEO team. We don't care about this at all.

Attribution doesn't necessarily need to be a name or contact information. It just has to help end users identify the provenance of a work of intellectual property. A URL does that.…

Curious, what's the right way?

I work at Stack Overflow. I've been working on this licensing initiative for a year now. Moving to the MIT only protects the company insofar as it protects the community. I conside…

Trying to get indie artists paid, are we? Or just astroturfing your last.fm ranks? Both seem noble enough.

At least today even fraudulent impressions are valuable because ad buyers are willing to pay for them. They're smartening up though, as Tony Haile (author of the linked article & C…

I respect your ideals. And I'd love to hear about how you plan to move the Internet towards Utopia. But I'm not sure consuming without paying (attention to ads) is really the most …

The adblocking : DVR analogy is broken. TV ads are interstitial. Online ads are, for the most part, native. You can consume the content and the ad simultaneously. So online ads rea…

Advertising is paying for goods with attention. It's a novel type of currency. It's a wealth generator. And it's contributed to a more diverse Internet. If you don't want to pay wi…

With zero assurance that all work emails are truly in the dump, I wonder if it will be at all possible to analyze gaps in it (ie. questions by Hilary without a response, regularly …

WFH doesn't just pay off in productivity, it pays in compensation, too. Our latest survey shows that full-time remote devs get paid 40% more than never remote devs: http://stackove…

Creating a company page is free: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/products/company-pages

Also with CPA, if I'm a seller, I'm not going to sell to you unless I know your landing page converts. That's asking me to do a lot of due diligence or assume a lot of risk.

No. The stats seem to be in the public domain. See: http://www.silha.umn.edu/news/summer2009.php?entry=195089

There's a lot of talk that Publishers are a dying breed, but I don't really think there is a status where publishers don't exist. Middlemen with more perfect information will alway…

He suggests he won't relocate the team to Seattle (doing so would be "value destructive"). But I wonder if this purchase itself destroys the value of his own net worth. That's a lo…

Article seems relatively balanced to me. And I don't think we should fault Ackman for shorting a company he's lobbying against. But having publicized too-close ties w Representativ…