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If you're interested you can pull the latest version from \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fderobins\u002Fwmd\u002Ftree\u002Fmaster\">Dana's Git repository\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fli>\n    \u003Cli>Joel recommends Eric Raymond's \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.catb.org\u002Fesr\u002Fwritings\u002Fversion-control\u002Fversion-control.html\">Understanding Version-Control Systems\u003C\u002Fa>. Our (very, very limited) experience with Git emphasizes the importance of editing code with the goal of creating easy to apply patches. If your changes are hard to merge, they're likely to be ignored.\u003C\u002Fli>\n    \u003Cli>I've been having fun (for particularly small values of fun) \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fblog.stackoverflow.com\u002F2009\u002F01\u002Fnew-stack-overflow-server-glamour-shots\u002F\">configuring and building the new server hardware\u003C\u002Fa> for Stack Overflow. I was moderately surprised to find that live rebuilding a RAID array with a 500 GB drive takes around 8 hours; rebuilding a simple 1-1 mirror array in offline mode takes 4 hours.\u003C\u002Fli>\n    \u003Cli>Joel recommends the built in \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fedge.technet.com\u002FMedia\u002FNetwork-Load-Balancing-NLB-in-Windows-Server-2008\u002F\">Windows Server Network Load Balancer (nlb)\u003C\u002Fa>; there's also the open source equivalent, \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fhaproxy.1wt.eu\u002F\">HAProxy\u003C\u002Fa>, which the Reddit guys mentioned in our podcast with them.\u003C\u002Fli>\n    \u003Cli>We are planning to \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fblog.stackoverflow.com\u002F2009\u002F01\u002Fcoming-in-march-it-stack-overflow\u002F\">launch an IT-centric Stack Overflow\u003C\u002Fa> in the next few months. This will be a place for System Administrator and IT professionals -- people who work with computers in a professional capacity, but aren't necessarily programmers -- can go to get their questions answered.\u003C\u002Fli>\n    \u003Cli>Our first challenge with the IT-centric Stack Overflow is naming it. Naming is extremely difficult, whether you're naming functions\u002Fvariables, businesses, websites, or new human beings. We also need to find the leaders and moderators who will drive the community and set the tone for everyone else.\u003C\u002Fli>\n    \u003Cli>Joel heard the world population of computer programmers is 4 million. I \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fanswers.google.com\u002Fanswers\u002Fthreadview\u002Fid\u002F725904.html\">can't find a source\u003C\u002Fa> for this; does anyone have one?\u003C\u002Fli>\n    \u003Cli>Joel thinks the current downturn is unlikely to affect the tech sector, except possibly as a broad excuse to cut dead wood out of companies. It's interesting to contrast the Web 1.0 crash in 2000-2001 with the current environment; it certainly doesn't feel the same to us.\u003C\u002Fli>\n    \u003Cli>Joel and I don't agree with rigidly defined Project Manager, Programmer, and \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fstackoverflow.com\u002Fjobs\u002Fquality-assurance-developer-jobs?utm_source=so-owned&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=dev-c4al&utm_content=c4al-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Test roles\u003C\u002Fa>; how can you judge other people's competency in a particular discipline if you have zero competency in it yourself? Obviously this varies by company and person, but cross-training in related disciplines will make you a better programmer.\u003C\u002Fli>\n    \u003Cli>Joel talks about \u003Cstrong>\"systemitis\"\u003C\u002Fstrong>, programmers who spend the bulk of their time creating giant universal programming solutions to business problems that don't really make sense. This is perhaps a sign of programmers who aren't being challenged in their jobs. Rather than letting them spend their time creating another Universal System, try to recognize systemitis, and encourage these programmers to improve their skills in related disciplines instead of building \"the system\"\u003C\u002Fli>\n    \u003Cli>We remember the \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.codinghorror.com\u002Fblog\u002Farchives\u002F001104.html\">classic BASIC programming\u003C\u002Fa> that a whole generation of programmers \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.codinghorror.com\u002Fblog\u002Farchives\u002F000414.html\">grew up with\u003C\u002Fa>. Typing in and modifying these simple little games was our first programming experience, an experience that \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.codinghorror.com\u002Fblog\u002Farchives\u002F000936.html\">launched a lifelong career\u003C\u002Fa>. What is the equivalent for today's young programmers?\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003C\u002Ful>\n\nOur favorite Stack Overflow questions this week are:\n\n\u003Cul>\n    \u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Joel\u003C\u002Fstrong>: \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fstackoverflow.com\u002Fquestions\u002F432922\u002Fsignificant-new-inventions-in-computing-since-1980\">Significant new inventions in computing since 1980?\u003C\u002Fa> Joel picked Alan Kay's question, even before Joel knew it was from Alan Kay. We swear!\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003C\u002Ful>\n\nWe answered several listener question on this podcast:\n\n\u003Col>\n    \u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Alfred\u003C\u002Fstrong>: \"What will happen to the open source movement in a sluggish economy? Will it grow or shrink?\"\u003C\u002Fli>\n    \u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Shawn\u003C\u002Fstrong>: \"On the Business of Software: why do companies sell only small personal pizzas instead of individual pizza slices?\"\u003C\u002Fli>\n    \u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Daniel\u003C\u002Fstrong>: \"Large companies have well-defined roles like PM, Dev, and Test that are quite rigid. Is this a good strategy?\"\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003C\u002Fol>\n\nIf you'd like to submit a question to be answered in our next episode, record an audio file (90 seconds or less) and mail it to \u003Ca href=\"mailto:podcast@stackoverflow.com\">podcast@stackoverflow.com\u003C\u002Fa>. You can \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fblog.stackoverflow.com\u002Findex.php\u002F2008\u002F05\u002Frecording-podcast-questions-using-your-telephone\u002F\">record a question\u003C\u002Fa> using nothing but a telephone and a web browser. 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