Quitting (and Then Rejoining) Stack Overflow

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Ben is the longest tenure Stack Overflow employee and got started at the company because he was a reader of Coding horror and he hung out on Meta and ended up building a unicorn webservice for an early April fools joke. The early story of stack overflow and how Joel and Jeff talked it out on a Skype podcast are something I wasn't aware of.

The other thing that's interesting though, is how Jeff and Joels efforts to build a Dev First place ended up backfiring in way. Ben opinion was devs, including him, became sort of assholes to other employees and even to each other on lesser teams because they were elevated so much.