[brudgers]

I thought maybe SO points might be a way to land a programming job since I did not know anyone in meat space. It wasn’t. But it was an excuse to write clever answers, get positive feedback, and learn something while helping people. With time my interests moved on and I seem to still pick up a few points a year based on looking at my profile today.

Anyway, stackoverflow was/is a pretty amazing project and I listened to all the original podcast with Spolsky and Atwood while intercity driving. The very original podcast started when development started and was a weekly phone call between them.

Like I said, different tags had different cultures. I spent time in Racket and SML mostly…small ponds for small fish.