Aarthi Devanathan

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Winter Bash 2012 Conclusion: Boxing Day

So. We’ve torn through the advent calendar, tossed aside all the wrapping paper, and (hopefully) obsessively screencapped our gravatars wearing various kinds of silly hats. As of last Friday, Winter Bash 2012 is officially over! This event was awesome. We had a total of 46,710 users participating across 76 sites, and we gave away 108,924…
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community December 19, 2012

Welcome to Winter Bash 2012!

It’s been an amazing year for Stack Exchange, both as a network of experts and enthusiasts and as an organization. We launched twenty new sites, rolled out tons of user-requested features, and are helping 99% more visitors get answers than we were a year ago. Last year, we celebrated the holidays on Gaming with Hat…
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background December 14, 2012

Hey there, stranger!

It’s that most wonderful time of the year again — time for the Stack Overflow Annual Survey! So, put down that third glass of eggnog and fire up a new tab. It only takes a few minutes – and there are stickers! As the name suggests, we’ve been doing this for a few years now…
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company December 2, 2011

The Best of Blog Overflow: November 2011

Ah, it’s that time again — time to recap the best posts from this past month on our Blog Overflow sites. The last time we did this, we featured some really cool posts from all over. This past month, we had even more really awesome posts. We didn’t have over 9000 of them (though one…
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company November 3, 2011

People are basically good…right?

Some of you might recall that we’ve been reading Here Comes Everybody, by Clay Shirky. In Chapter 11, he talks about the nature of human behavior: “[People] are basically good, when they are in circumstances that reward goodness while restraining impulses to defect” (Shirky 284). Now, for most of us this feels obvious. It’s intuitive…
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company November 3, 2011

The Best of Blog Overflow: October 2011

We here at Stack Exchange love our blogs. Blogs! The way our users can have all that fun that we don’t allow here. Not to mention that Jeff and Joel, and CHAOS all blog regularly. We’ve noticed that our site-specific blogs have some amazing content that just isn’t getting the attention it deserves. Maybe some…
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company August 11, 2011

Winning People and Influencing Friends

So recently, us here at CHAOS read a book — a kind of famous book, you may have heard of it? — called How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. Despite being full of hokum (what a great word) the book itself has pretty solid real advice about getting people to, well,…
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