Basically, I am a developer with 5 years experience, and I am 25 yo, I have worked for a big companies and for a small company. When I am at home I use to work on personal projects. The thing is no matter what kind of company, salary, etc. After let say 6 > 8 months, I loose all my motivation and...

I am sensitive to noises in the office. In my ideal environment, the the sound pressure level is 0 dB SPL. In my office, people sometimes have (teleconference) meetings, so the sound pressure level may be much higher than 0 dB SPL. I am considering active noise-cancelling headphones, but judgi...

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In your question you say they ask for 3 - 7 years of experience Then you go on and on about skill, and how much better you are than more experience members of your current peers. 5+ years in the industry would tell you from experience that this is not logically a valid argument. And it wou...

As discussed in this meta post, with the changes to the close reasons we should really look in to updating the help center to match how we close questions. Below is the current markup for the current article. If you have suggestions on how to change it, please feel free to add an answer or edit ...

The other day jmac and I were chatting and he raised the opinion that the software-industry was a terrible tag and he makes some good points. If someone works for twitter in HR are they in the software-industry? I currently work for an insurance company as a programmer, do I work in the softwar...

I was looking at the new questions when I noticed this question which had three tags including elevator and lift which seemed to be proposed by the person who asked the question. Since these did not seem like helpful tags I retagged the questions and removed the offending tags. I then went to loo...

This is status-bydesign. Suggested edits are disabled on meta sites, so you will need to have 2,000 reputation before you will see the edit link on other people's posts. The only exception is Meta Stack Exchange which functions as a meta for all Stack Exchange sites and has its own reputation poo...

This idea has an immediate appeal to those of us who appreciate symmetry. However, I strongly suspect this would be an extremely impractical flag to add... See, closing and re-opening aren't exactly equal. Most notably, closing requires you to specify a reason - reopening does not. This cuts bot...

We just rolled out a change to how questions are automatically added to the reopen queue. Previously, if the author edited a closed post within 5 days of it being closed, that would trigger it to be added to the queue. This was a great way to get additional views for questions that might've been ...

motivate employees... to make certificates in their free time because they are on projects Above is a huge red flag, don't do this. If it's really in company interests ("so we can say we have highly qualified employees"), don't cheat about personal improvement. What serves the company, shou...

Bounties are always awarded to the original author of an answer. Occasionally, it would be nice to be able to award a bounty to someone who contributed an important part of the puzzle. An example I have in mind is a “reference” question, typically community wiki, on a common topic, where the goa...

Pay it forward... ...Memorize the way how your post has been improved and when you see another one that could be edited that way, just do it. As someone regularly doing edits like you mention (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6...) I would say above is exactly what would make me happy.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/how-to-answer Pay it forward Saying “thanks” is appreciated, but it doesn’t answer the question. Instead, vote up the answers that helped you the most! If these answers were helpful to you, please consider saying thank you in a more constructive w...

Sometimes on a site's meta, I want to draw more attention to a question that has been sitting in the dark. Usually when this happens, I am even willing to offer my reputation as a bounty. But metas don't allow for bounties. On main sites, we have a bounty feature to allow users to draw extra att...