A Culture of Trust

Spending more than two years with the same co-workers has led to deep connections, trust, and a common knowledge base and language amongst all. That’s what I call good company culture.

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We're Changing Our Name (Back) to Stack Overflow

We are Stack Overflow. You may know us from such popular websites as Stack Overflow Q&A;, Stack Overflow Careers, The Stack Exchange Q&A; Network, and most of your Google search results.

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Podcast #68 - A Badger, A Horse, and a Dik-dik (The Documentation Episode)

Welcome to Stack Exchange Podcast #68 recorded Tuesday, September 1, 2015 at Stack Exchange HQ in New York City. Today's podcast is brought to you by Labor Day - don't forget to put those seersucker suits away for the season! Your hosts today are David Fullerton, Jay Hanlon, and Joel Spolsky, with special guest Kevin Montrose.

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A Better Syntax for Scheduled Tasks

There are lots of domain-specific languages for schedules. The most prominent might be Cron (for *nix scheduled tasks), but there's also RRULE (for iCalendar events) and many others. Cron isn't exactly what I'd call human-friendly. Can you tell me what 10 8,20 * 8 1-5 means if you don't use Cron often? Some DSL's go in the opposite direction and are wildly verbose, or will sacrifice expressiveness for simplicity.

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