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Adam Lear
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  • Member for 13 years
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  • New York, NY
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Developer at Stack Overflow focusing on public Q&A. Russian Canadian working in the American idiom.

Once upon a time:

  • community manager at Stack Overflow
  • elected moderator on Stack Overflow and Software Engineering
  • desktop software developer ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Email me a link to your favorite Wikipedia article: [email protected].

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Where did Pierre 303 go? He was an all-star!
Sep 10, 2012
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Congratulations, Anna Lear!
Jan 19, 2012
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Links in comments
Oct 28, 2011
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25
Can we get a "Belongs on StackOverflow" as a closing reason?
Oct 14, 2010
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What are the rules around moderators closing questions outright?
Dec 29, 2010
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Are "name that thing" questions on-topic?
Oct 6, 2011
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Does the community think we should have another Moderator Election this year?
Dec 26, 2012
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Change the name of Programmers to something that more accurately reflects the site scope?
Jun 26, 2012
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Should a joking answer be deleted (or was it not aparent this was a joke)?
Jun 21, 2011
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Can something highlighting the difference between Programmers and SO be added to the FAQ?
Jun 30, 2011
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How to check whether a string contains a substring in Ruby
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Global auth is dead! Long live universal login
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How to delete a file after checking whether it exists
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How do you unit test private methods?
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Why do some people only post answers, and not questions?

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