Joel Spolsky

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bio	website	joelonsoftware.com
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I am:

the co-founder and CEO of Stack Exchange
the co-founder of Fog Creek Software
owner of Taco, the most famous Siberian Husky on the Upper West Side.

You can find me:

on Twitter as @spolsky
on my rarely-updated blog, Joel on Software

	586 reputation	bio	website	joelonsoftware.com	visits	member for	2 years, 2 months
315 badges		location	New York, NY		seen	Feb 25 at 20:49

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Mar 18	awarded	Yearling
Feb 24	awarded	Nice Answer
Feb 22	answered	Are our moderators legal?
Aug 13	awarded	Nice Answer
Jun 15	awarded	Nice Question
Jun 5	awarded	Popular Question
May 29	comment	Do you have to close your blog / website on shabbos? For reference the B&H site is actually open on Shabbat, although if it crashes, they don't restore it. It does not take orders during Shabbat.
May 25	comment	Is a Jew allowed to be knighted? Problem with kneeling? I feel like if you were knighted you should at least try saying "mah nishtana halayla haze" in hopes that the queen would say, "what makes this knight different?"
May 3	awarded	Good Question
Mar 18	awarded	Yearling
Nov 2	revised	Abbreviations before/after names translated and explained nun yud. At least I think it's right.
Oct 4	comment	What is the correct spelling of Akiva? Idle speculation: the Aleph-ending would be rather unusual for a Hebrew word; that's far more common in Aramaic. So I might expect the Y'rushalmi to go with the more Hebrew-looking spelling while the Bavli uses a more Aramaic-spelling? Just speculating.
Aug 2	awarded	Scholar
Aug 2	accepted	Should you say HaGomel after a flight?
Aug 1	revised	Does the Torah discuss aliens? nephIlim -- added Hebrew
Jul 25	awarded	Commentator
Jul 25	comment	Etymology/connection between Ari, Aryeh, Yehudah, Leib, and Leibel Wait... what? I always assumed it was from Yiddish "ליב" (dear, beloved, from the German lieb).
Jun 24	awarded	Nice Question
Jun 24	comment	What is the halachic source for objection to gay (civil) marriage? Usually the orthodox rabbinate tends to look to halacha in deciding what's important to lobby for, and the halacha on this particular issue is unusually thin compared to just about any other issue. Where's all the orthodox lobbying for better welfare laws based on e.g. Pe'ah, which torah and halacha actually care about? I could fill a bookshelf with great commentary on Pe'ah, yet you have to scrape to find hazal saying anything about civil gay marriage contracts.
Jun 24	comment	What is the halachic source for objection to gay (civil) marriage? @Jake, for example, orthodox lobbying in Israel to adjust daylight savings time with the aim of minimizing hillul shabbat from movies on Saturday night. That's obviously inspired by a halachic imperative.