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yesthatmcgurk 1 year, 2 months ago

codinghorror.com — JA and Joel Spolsky join forces to kick the s*t out of Experts Exchange. I didn't know anybody else hated them as much as I did. I even toyed with the idea of creating a google frontend to append -experts-exchange to any search....

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I hope they open source the project

posted by

gavinjoyce 1 year, 2 months ago

Yea, as much as JA says .NET needs more open source projects (or a better open source community) ... I hope that this would be OSS'd too.

posted by

dengar007 1 year, 2 months ago

Thank goodness. EE is garbaj.

posted by

bradygaster 1 year, 2 months ago

Am I the only one that just doesn't get the point of Yet Another Development Messageboard being developed from scratch at this stage?

Beating ExEx is a strawman. Like developing a search engine to beat Lycos, when Google already exists.

posted by

gt1329a 1 year, 2 months ago

This comment on that post (in response to people saying the name is dumb) is hilarious...

"Despite what some of us have said about the name choice, at least you won't need to change it later down the road when someone points out the unfortunate juxtaposition of the words...like expertsexchange.com

Congrats on the new venture.
Matt on April 17, 2008 07:50 AM "

posted by

dengar007 1 year, 2 months ago

Yeah, that old domain of the EE was as bad as, say, therapist.com etc ;)

posted by

Jemm 1 year, 2 months ago

Here for the "main" Posters Problems...

1. Save the following into a .Reg File...
2. Import it into the registry
3. Goto the URL "g Whatever" (It also supports KB for MSDN and L for translating with Leo)
4. Enjoy clean search results...

Here are the keys:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl\KB]
@="http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=%s"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl\G]
@="http://www.google.com/search?q=%s -Experts-exchange"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl\L]
@="http://dict.leo.org/ende?lang=de&search=%s"

posted by rdrunner 1 year, 2 months ago