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Why is he taking such a stupid question as a call to change the way he thinks instead of just answering it? >No one wants to be thought of as a user Excuse me?

I'm picturing walking past this billboard with my kid and having him ask "Daddy, why does that kid look all beat up" and answering "no, that kid looks perfectly normal, you're making it up". Nice.

It now has over $28,000 of my money, is not answering my mail, and we have been locked in an equity battle over the past 18 months. The worst part is that I still have to clean up all its answers to protect our reputation.

I will always decline answering questions, no matter the situation. There might be situations where talking is unproblematic but I dont want to make that decision on the spot and when Im stressed.

Those answering "just get over it" are clearly not interested in building applications that people enjoy using.

When you talk to them you realize that on Stack Overflow, answering questions is about learning. It's about creating a permanent artifact to make the Internet better.

And answering correctly differentiates you significantly from other applicants. I guess it is the "fizz buzz" of SQL these days .

In answering these questions, the contributors to these books provide unique insights into how they think." If you are a junior developer, and want to learn how your more experienced colleagues think, these books are the place to start.

Honestly, they would have been smarter to just have their engineering team dedicate time to answering questions on SO every week, then have a piece done in tech media about why. That is still a bit gimmicky, I guess, but much cooler than this method.

Jeff & Joel made statements about editors are important and how editing is super-important, basically trying o elevate it to the same level as answering questions. This is a problem.

In general, a work-sample test is a very good idea for answering both kinds of questions, and anyway research shows that a work-sample test is a far more valid hiring procedure than most other hiring procedures that have been tried. Check my FAQ link for research citations on that topic.

For years, I would periodically drop into severe depression; I would stop sleeping, stop eating, stop answering my phone or email. I wouldn't leave my room for weeks on end; on a few occasions I was so successfully reclusive that people worried that I disappeared or died called the police to investigate.

I'm going to skip ahead a bit here, because I don't feel like explaining the entire theory of general relativity, and it won't be that useful in answering the question anyway. Suffice to say that no, no time elapses between dropping and falling, but at the same time no, no signal or interaction has to propagate upward from the ground to Wile E. in order to make him start falling.

Prosecutors argued that since Salinas was answering some questions - therefore not invoking his right to silence - and since he wasn't under arrest and wasn't compelled to speak, his silence on the incriminating question doesn't get constitutional protection. This judgement sends a very strong message to never talk to the police.

It is important to actually get a reporter to get Youtube video of Ortiz either answering questions or running from them, as they have much more license to get in the face of a US Attorney. A guy on the street who tries Michael Moore-ing Ortiz with an ambush interview on her way to work is likely to get cuffed for harassing a peace officer or something.

Talking to Brian and Ryan on Twitter yesterday, I proposed that someone generate a list of questions to ask of a TLS codebase --- "what's the code path from first ClientHello to validating the public key signature in a certificate", or, "what's the code that determines which extensions are enabled" --- and we'd take a shot at answering them for NSS, SecureTransport, and OpenSSL. My bet is that the answers to those questions will be more favorable for NSS, even with the crappy certificate handling. Maybe a fork of NSS would be a better plan.