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You can include a header in your email message where, if a user marks a message as spam, Gmail / Hotmail / whatever will let you know.
Why do they do that? Seems great for this use-case but terrible information to give bad actors.
Seems like it came straight from PR land to me.
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How do you know they don't make that much money? I didn't see that anywhere in the blog post. I agree that they make an enormous contribution to the world economy. Joel really did knock it out of the park -- remember expertsexchange? His goal was to get rid of that and it worked.
Joel, eh? Think you might be forgetting someone in there, somewhere? ;)
A reminder that you don't need to use the latest or fanciest tech stack to achieve success in business. In the case of SO, boring wins, it's proven and seems like it allows them to focus on their product and to create new value for users.
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>>book or a tool that will help you to learn better and become I've tried that before, many times. Unfortunately when you are trying to do real work those books are many times useless. Example, I kept trying to build a newtonian physics simulator so I got a Statics and Dynamics mechanical engineering book. The book was a text book for Mechanical engineering students and yet the examples they teach you are for toy pro…
As an aside, buying a print reference book frequently feels counterproductive. Even if I'm going to get a formal reference text, instead of online resources, I probably want a digital copy. Otherwise, I find myself going "I wish I could do text search for this thing..." and wondering why I didn't get the version that actually allows that. When I read for pleasure I enjoy the physicality of books; when I read for tech…
A reminder that you don't need to use the latest or fanciest tech stack to achieve success in business. In the case of SO, boring wins, it's proven and seems like it allows them to focus on their product and to create new value for users.
what's their stack?
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How do you know they don't make that much money? I didn't see that anywhere in the blog post. I agree that they make an enormous contribution to the world economy. Joel really did knock it out of the park -- remember expertsexchange? His goal was to get rid of that and it worked.
Joel, eh? Think you might be forgetting someone in there, somewhere? ;)
Didn't you quit your job and program it while Joel was still mainly focused on Fog Creek day-to-day?
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Why do they do that? Seems great for this use-case but terrible information to give bad actors.
What information does this reveal besides your email address, which they clearly already have?
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> and upvotes give points to all significant contributors (+5 or +1 depending on size of contribution), not just the author That's interesting. I wasn't aware of the trickle down karma like that.
Keep in mind that's for [Documentation][1], not Q&A (which is what most people think of when they think of StackOverflow). [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/documentation
StackOverflow is so powerful resource on the Internet, alongside with Wikipedia and Internet Archive.
I wish I could donate two ways: 1) Yearly or monthly (subscription) donations, like on Wikipedia 2) I would be extremely happy to donate authors of some great, life-saving answers. I feel so excited when I find the right answer after searching a solution for hours.
Just shut up and take my money!