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My father, and his father before him, were military veterans in their middle age. I lived in a trailer park in Iowa when I was a kid. Not sure why you think those are negative things.
Imagine John Goodman from Lebowski.... Frankly, that was the image I had in my head - I wasn't trying to offend or be negative. Maybe you're sensitive?
It's impressive to me that when the great minds behind Experts Exchange make their voice known, they talk just like the kind of slimeballs you would expect behind such an operation. It's shameless. In their shoes, I'd just sit there quietly, take the snub on the chin, keep plying my spammy trade, and have enough introspection to realize that the reason no one wants to talk to me is because I've created one of the shi…
We should direct those slimeballs to this thread so they can get a dose of reality. Actually... not this thread... a transcript of this thread. We wouldn't want their kind frequenting HN!
Q: What makes Experts Exchange different from other Q&A sites on the Internet? A: Most of our nearly 3 million solutions revolve around specific technology questions, and the majority of those have a sense of urgency to them. Huh? How does this differ from StackOverflow? Other than, of course, that those answers are hidden behind a paywall. We switched to a premium model to keep out of the Venture Capital business (b…
By the way, if you scroll ALL the way down to the bottom of any question page you do see the best answer. Apparently they bank on the fact most people won't scroll that far and get discouraged by the "paywall" on the top. The Google crawler requires the text to be visible I've heard
Q: What makes Experts Exchange different from other Q&A sites on the Internet? A: Most of our nearly 3 million solutions revolve around specific technology questions, and the majority of those have a sense of urgency to them. Huh? How does this differ from StackOverflow? Other than, of course, that those answers are hidden behind a paywall. We switched to a premium model to keep out of the Venture Capital business (b…
By the way, if you scroll ALL the way down to the bottom of any question page you do see the best answer. Apparently they bank on the fact most people won't scroll that far and get discouraged by the "paywall" on the top. The Google crawler requires the text to be visible I've heard
Hang on, Experts Exchange has actual people behind it? I thought it somehow spontaneously congealed out of the random spam swirling around the Internet, like how the Sargasso Sea forms in the dead zone of the North Atlantic out of the detritus and flotsam there. It's where content goes to die. The notion that some sort of malevolent intelligence fuels it is a disconcerting one.