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Adam Lear
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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)_/¯

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Mar 22, 2011
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May 20, 2011
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WordPress.com button is going away from login/signup screens
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Tag synonym dashboard 2.0
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2018 monthly product team updates
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Stack Exchange Privacy Policy Update
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Dec 25, 2012
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May 6, 2014
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