Questions tagged [jeff-atwood]
Jeff Awtood is one of the Co-founders of Stack Exchange, but no longer works for Stack Exchange. Use the tag for questions specifically about him which relates to Stack Exchange as well.
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Did the owner of Stack Overflow ask coding questions?
I was wondering if Stack Overflow owner "Jeff Atwood" was asking questions on Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange about coding?
What is his Stack Overflow username?
Or if you downvoted his ...
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Why is Jeff Atwood's title "Co-Founder (Former)" on The Overflow blog?
I recently followed a link to The Overflow, which I suppose is a post from the old blog:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200411145914/https://stackoverflow.blog/2011/06/13/optimizing-for-pearls-not-sand/...
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All of Jeff Atwood's Diamonds are gone except on Area51.Meta
I already acknowledge that Jeff Atwood's diamond was removed because he is on a break from the Internet and wanted his account un-modded for security reasons or so as described in this post.
But it ...
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Why does Jeff Atwood no longer have the diamond?
I noticed Jeff Atwood's accounts no longer use the diamond symbol.
Why does Jeff Atwood no longer have the diamond? Is this a bug?
According to jeff-atwood's tag excerpt and some posts on Meta (e.g....
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Why the name Eggs McLaren?
As you might know, this puppet account asked the first non-deleted question on Stack Overflow and is present on other SE sites as well.
I'm just curious what does the name mean and why that name was ...
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What does it mean to have 'Jeff-level access'?
I was searching something on Meta and came across a (now deleted) answer on undeleting accounts, which used the phrase "Jeff-level access".
Can anyone explain what that phrase is supposed to ...
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What are the automatic responses you can buy with Unicoins? [closed]
Will a unicorn respond this question with something encouraging? I hope all the bacon I spent on this was worth it.
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Did Jeff Atwood join Stack Exchange again? [duplicate]
Well this guy answered a question today, however his profile say "I no longer work at Stack Exchange". Did he join again to support Stack Exchange, or is he just a member?
I doubt because still he ...
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Why does Jeff Atwood still have the diamond symbol? [closed]
As far as I know, the diamond symbol is given to the folks who
are the community elected moderators, for example, animuson
are employees of the Stack Exchange, Inc., for example, Geoff Dalgas
In ...
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Thank you Jeff Atwood!
I'm quite a new user, so it feels somewhat inappropriate for me to post this (I kinda thought it would have appeared already ^^). But as a member of the Stack Exchange network who just read Jeff's ...
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Once Jeff Atwood left the company, who became "in charge"?
Now that Jeff Atwood has moved on (see Joel's blog, and Jeff's own), who succeeded him as the ultimate authority over feature requests, change requests, cross-site policy, and the like?
To be ...
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How to contact Jeff Atwood? [closed]
I have a great idea for the company behind Stack Overflow and I would like to discuss it with Jeff Atwood.
How can I do that?
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Why does Jeff Atwood have an 100% accept rate for answers if he himself recommends a 70% [closed]
In this blog post https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/new-question-asker-features/ Jeff Atwood explicitly mentions that he considers 70% a good accept answer rate:
It is considered good manners to ...
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Did Stack Overflow get designed by Jeff and Joel?
Was Stack Overflow designed by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky in the first place? (In 2008)
I am talking about graphical and functional design.
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Did Jeff Atwood convince Facebook to have employees answer FB questions?
Jeff visited Facebook headquarters Friday. Now today two Facebook partner engineer employees are answering Facebook related questions (I noticed they were FB employees because they put that in their ...