I sometimes get asked by regular people in the actual real world what it is that I do for a living, and here’s my 15 second answer:
We built a sort of Wikipedia website for computer programmers to post questions and answers. It’s called Stack Overflow.
As of
Occasionally, startups will ask me for advice. That's a shame, because I am a terrible person to ask for advice. The conversation usually goes something like this:
We'd love to get your expert advice on our thing.
I probably don't use your thing. Even
I've been fortunate to have some measure of success in my life, primarily through this very blog over the last eight years, and in creating Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange over the last four years. With the birth of our twin girls, I've had a few
I adore words, but let's face it: books suck.
More specifically, so many beautiful ideas have been helplessly trapped in physical made-of-atoms books for the last few centuries. How do books suck? Let me count the ways:
* They are heavy.
* They take up too much space.
* They have
