merak136's comments

I take it you have never used vim or sublime with plugins that can do the same thing.

BTW, I've used both. No need for a snarky response to me as well

Am I the only one impressed with how long some of these technologies have been around? I know most of the common ones such as the internet and FORTRAN but I did not realize how long markup languages have existed. Also at the rate that technology improved in such a short amount of time. That must have been an exciting time to work in the field.

But.. but.. but.... It's in the JavaScript. :(

My favorite part is if you go to this site and hold the space bar. Just trust me.

You are correct. I edited my post and actually found a good blog post on the subject.

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2013/02/why-we-still-believe-i...

Some points that I find interesting:

[1] StackOverflow has VERY FEW tests. He says that StackOverflow doesn't use many unit tests because of their active community and heavy usage of static code.

[2] Most StackOverflow employees work remotely. This is very different than a lot of companies that are now trying to force employees back into an office.

[3] Heavy usage of Static classes and methods. His main argument is that this gives them better performance than a more standard OO approach.

[4] Caching even simple pages in order to avoid performance issues caused by garbage collection.

[5] They don't worry about making a "Square Wheel". If their developers can write something more lightweight than an already developed alternative, they do! This is very different from the normal mindset of " don't reinvent the wheel ".

[6] Always using multiple monitors. I love this. I feel like my productivity is nearly halved when I am working on one tiny screen.

Overall, I was surprised at how few of the "norms" that they follow. Either way, seems like it could be a pretty cool place to work.

He actually says " I'm not advocating that you shouldn't put in tests. [ The reason we can get away with this ] is that we have a great community. "

I take this to mean that he feels that StackOverflow doesn't need tests. Not that tests are useless.

Am I the only one thinking " Who cares "?