Stack Overflow

By Jim, on March 25th, 2009%

For most of the ’90s, I was a part of TeamB—a group of volunteers who helped answer questions on Borland’s Compuserve forums. I met a bunch of really great people doing that, got some free Compuserve time, a few trips to the Bay Area, and lots of Borland products. But mostly, I learned a heck . . . → Read More: Stack Overflow

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Recognizing Rare Coins

By Jim, on March 13th, 2009%

My dad’s mother was a coin collector. When I was seven or eight years old, she bought me a Whitman folder to fill with pennies from 1941. Grandma Mischel taught me to always check my change for pennies that I needed to fill my book, and also for certain other coins (for example, dimes, quarters, . . . → Read More: Recognizing Rare Coins

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Music everywhere

By Jim, on March 9th, 2009%

One of the benefits of what I’m doing for work (we’re building a media search and discovery site) is that I find all kinds of different music all over the Web. Sure, there’s lots of commercial music out there that shouldn’t be, but it’s a relatively small part of what’s there. The crawler’s incredible breadth . . . → Read More: Music everywhere

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