Experienced PHP and C programmer based in Norway, with a history of game and web development. CTO at Blue Scarab Entertainment, previously at Servebolt.com, IMVU, Smarterphone, and Funcom.
PHP is not such a bad tool once you've gotten to know it. Certainly no worse than Ruby.
Stack Overflow is a net-negative for software quality, and I blame the site's love of gamification.
Tech hiring is too strongly focused on years of experience with a set of languages/technologies. If you hire strong C programmers, they can pick up any other language, because they understand the basics.
Only one?
Yeah, I have those unpopular opinions too.
I do like stack overflow but there is a lot of bad code on there.
When it was a newer site it was great to give a good answer to a problem but most problems are solved now with bad solutions.