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Adam Lear
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  • Member for 12 years, 7 months
  • Last seen more than 3 years ago
  • 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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What do the red-background numbers on user pages represent?
Feb 15, 2012
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What is the parenthetical number indicative of?
Jul 9, 2012
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Delete [puzzle] tag
Mar 15, 2012
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Active view is no longer sorting correctly
Sep 16, 2012
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Can 5k users directly approve a tag wiki proposed edit?
Jan 22, 2012
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Design bug when editing an old revision
Apr 23, 2014
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"Possible duplicate" message is difficult to notice
Apr 22, 2014
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Unreadable styling for highlighted tags on meta
Apr 22, 2014
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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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