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I try to refrain from being a spelling nazi here, but "So, I shot back this brisque email" made me laugh. It's like a portmanteau of "brusque" and "brisk."
For a more daring approach, try sending a brisqué email.
$500 to be a whore. No.
This is, in my mind, evidence that companies like this are out of touch. They want to treat Stack Overflow like a search engine and marketing tool to be optimized, and, in their ignorance, don't see it as something different than what it actually is: a community of people passionate about their craft and helping others with it. Eventually people are going to learn that the way you leverage a community like that towar…
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Merely discussing something is not promoting it. The GLBT community has fought this battle again and again, when various parties sought to suppress any mention of homosexuality in public schools, because that would be "promoting the homosexual lifestyle". This discussion may make more people aware of the Samsung contest, but it is in no way a promotion of it.
> Merely discussing something is not promoting it. But in this particular case it is. There will be people who are interested in the contest, and doesn't mind that dishonest promotional tactics was used.
I guess that one could have worked. A real question on some programming problem having this as a side note...
They didn't really understand SO, but they could have done worse.
$500 to be a whore. No.
What's up with the blatant Samsung bashing recently? Does Apple have to fall back on these kinds of tricks?
This is, in my mind, evidence that companies like this are out of touch. They want to treat Stack Overflow like a search engine and marketing tool to be optimized, and, in their ignorance, don't see it as something different than what it actually is: a community of people passionate about their craft and helping others with it. Eventually people are going to learn that the way you leverage a community like that towar…
Out of touch? This guy maybe, but I would be surprised if SO, like most other communities, wasn't already successfully being gamed by marketeers a hell of a lot smarter than this clown. And let's not have the illusion that HN an pg are too smart to be manipulated by people that are at least as clever as we are but who have specialized themselves in manipulating people instead of bits and bytes. No place where human b…
"And let's not have the illusion that HN an pg are too smart to be manipulated by people..."
You're vastly underestimating how many people are interconnected in this hodgepodge of gray matter we call HN.
Blind allegiance (or antipathy) is not how things work here.
Part of the reason this community is different from others is that the best way to respect people like pg or tptacek or anyone else who's been around is to call them on something when you disagree. I think that's how they'd like it as well.
It has nothing to do with being "smarter". It's got everything to do with being genuine.
In that regard SO is at a marked disadvantage because it's such a tempting target for drive-by dropping of bait for marketing. With the exception of a handful of long time contributors, the vast number of accounts there have no discussion between each other (since that itself leads to the question getting closed) and so they have no means to get to know each other really. That's not what happens here.
You can follow people, you can read their past threads. You can even go back and watch people evolve in their thought process with the kinds of discussions we've had. Try that on SO.