[havermeyer]

Gordon is amazing, and it's almost impossible to beat him to an answer for certain types of questions :) I had the chance to meet him a few years back to talk through some new SQL features coming to BigQuery (I'm at Snowflake now). He had a lot of great insights into what could make the product better, and what he thought was missing relative to other OLAP databases.

[gfody]

I like to answer sql questions too and it's like being in a quick draw match with Linoff around. he once blogged about how he's able to find all the new unanswered sql questions so quickly, iirc he made his own search

[tonyedgecombe]

I remember John Skeet saying he would sometimes post a half finished answer just so he could get their first and deter other users then polish it later.

I don't know what the point of that is.