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.

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 DSLs go in the opposite direction and are wildly verbose, or will sacrifice expressiveness for simplicity.

In February of 2015, I was promoted to Engineering Manager at Stack Overflow. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

I was asked this question twice in the past week, by colleagues who work with our clients. It’s a great question…

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