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Community Manager at Stack Exchange since August 2013. Due to the volume of mail I get, if you send me a message — pops@(either stackoverflow or stackexchange).com
— you actually will* get a personal reply!
*: offer not valid if you are a spammer, bot, jerk or troll
Joel: I have all these opinions ... and no outlet for them!
Josh: Have you tried yelling them at the Internet?
Joel: Almost exclusively! And yet problems still persist!
-"The Grand Opining", HijiNKS ENSUE, by Joel Watson
"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
-Charles Babbage
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
-Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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Esperanto Language
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Mathematica
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Raspberry Pi
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Open Data
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Veganism & Vegetarianism
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