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I remember reading his rants about just how bad the current situation was (which was a terrible website called "developers exchange" or public phpBB internet forums). Never underestimate the passion derived from sheer hatred of the status quo.

Also his backup strategies around 2008 were quite interesting.




> "developers exchange"

It was "expertsexchange.com" initially. Then they disambiguated it by renaming to "experts-exchange.com", just to be clear.


Awesome! I didn't know that about the domain name.


Ah yes, perpetually flagged by every corporate firewall that did substring keyword matching on DNS queries.

Incidentally, the amount of sheer content-masking garbage on their pages was what originally prompted me to install and learn (IIRC) Greasemonkey and a bunch of DOM/CSS stuff.


Ah, good ol' Expert Sex Change

I don't miss that site one bit!




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