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01:31

Since I've recently noticed, for the first time, that some higher ranking users have the habit of deleting discussion in the form of comments in bulk, under the justification that it falls under the term "extended discussion", I would like to ask - can someone provide me clarification on the term...

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Stack Exchange

02:46

Stack Overflow Blog: DevDays 2011 is Cancelled

Posted by Joel Spolsky on September 6th, 2011

DevDays has been canceled, due to poor attendance.

It’s my fault, actually. I took a perfectly good thing (DevDays ’09) and gold plated it until it was a different thing.

DevDays ’09 was one day. So even people who couldn’t get their boss to let them go to a conference could take a vacation day or something. Everyone told us “Great conference! Too short!” So version 2.0 had to be longer, we thought. Two days!

Oh, also, DevDays ’09 was $99. We pulled that off by being cheap. Really cheap. So even people who couldn’t get their boss to pay could afford to spring for the conference themselves. But t …

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user20683

04:02

So apparently they are using java to teach bitwise programming

user20683

the equivalent course where I got used SPARC, each to their own I guess

user2334

04:29

I think I learned bitwise programming in QBasic

Pierre 303

05:10

Coder: for Belgium (Western Europe) it's from 22K to 35K with advantages, including a car, insurances, etc.

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Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen

13:08

@coder, note that there is quite a difference between standards in the old East Europe and the West.

@Adel, they can all do the same in the end, so choose a fun one. You might find BrainF*ck or InterCAL interesting.

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Anna Lear

18:34

@Pierre303 Whoa, you guys get company cars as developers? I need to move to Belgium. :P

Stack Exchange

19:17

Stack Overflow Blog: SE Podcast #17

Posted by Alex Miller on September 7th, 2011

Jeff & Joel are back with guests this week – joining them are Kyle Brandt and George Beech, our very own sysadmins/ops guys/[insert your own term here]

After a brief test of the emergency broadcast system, we plunge right into the podcast, including:

Joel is late because he had to go up to AOL HQ to pick up some more floppy disks for the office

We recently launched Blog Overflow - which was actually a pretty substantial engineering and technical background to making it happen.

A huge discussion of the the SE infrastructure setup and why we host our own instead of relying on Amazon or another outside provider. Hint: not only can we roll our own better, but its a lot cheaper too. …

Programmers

20:05

Q: Auto-delete comments over time?

It has been suggested in this question that comments should be for the purpose of clarification of a question or answer, and that eventually the clarifications should be editted into the question/answer so that people don't have to look down the comment change to see what was "really" meant. Is t...