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name	Joel Spolsky
member for	14 years
seen	Jun 24 '15 at 22:18
website	joelonsoftware.com
location	New York, NY

I am:

the co-founder and CEO of Stack Exchange
the co-founder of Fog Creek Software
owner of Taco, the most famous Siberian Husky on the Upper West Side.

You can find me:

on Twitter as @spolsky
on my rarely-updated blog, Joel on Software

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