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Pekka

Tübingen, Germany

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Age: 31

I currently live in Tübingen, Germany.

  • I have been working full-time in IT for ten years (freelance and as a contractor), and am currently studying Interdisciplinary American Studies at the University of Tübingen.

  • I am not very active on Stack Overflow right now due to other projects and commitments, but I can be reached via E-Mail: pekka@gmx.de

  • I have an Amazon Wishlist that I love to get stuff from.

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Top Questions
168 votes

Reward finding duplicate questions - +10, +2, -5

feature-request exact-duplicates incentive asked May 10 '11 at 10:43
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132 votes

Introduce a “general reference” close reason

feature-request status-declined close-reasons general-reference asked Apr 5 '11 at 14:28
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99 votes

Understanding REST: Verbs, error codes, and authentication

web-services rest asked Jan 4 '10 at 19:55
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85 votes

Building an archive of deleted questions

feature-request deleted-questions asked Feb 13 at 20:50
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82 votes

Does SO need social networking features to improve the experience for expert users?

feature-request status-declined questions question-quality social-networking asked Sep 19 '11 at 21:45
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82 votes

Setting up a deployment / build / CI cycle for PHP projects

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81 votes

Tetris'ing an array

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67 votes

Let SEDE users get hold of data on unsuccessful close votes for stats

feature-request status-declined vote-to-close data-explorer asked Mar 13 '11 at 12:07
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67 votes

Show recently cast downvotes

feature-request support status-completed voting asked May 16 '11 at 9:59
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61 votes

Another take on canonical answers: Add a “canonical” vote

feature-request questions canonical asked Dec 15 '11 at 9:18
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Top Answers
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How to Manage CSS Explosion
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Thank you Jeff Atwood!
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Is there any benefit in using PHP comments over HTML comments in HTML code?
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Careers 2.0 Featured Listing: Web company needs successor for retiring unicorns
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51
In JavaScript, does it make a difference if I call a function with parentheses?
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51
What kind of Stack Exchange & community swag do you want
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Am I downvoting too much, or are things really that bad?
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Stack Overflow has too many “too localised” new questions
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47
How can we discourage people from answering bad questions? Should we?
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How can I learn noun genders better?
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Is SQL injection a risk today?
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Why freeware (closed-source) instead of open-source?
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43
What kinds of bad question askers exist?
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The ultimate clean/secure function
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Why were my answers about using a library I've created deleted?
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39
Does Internet Explorer support CSS transitions?
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38
What time is it?
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37
Allow more than one @name notification per comment
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36
Are there applications that can crunch numbers directly?
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The Efficacy Of Stack Overflow's Question Title Filter
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CSS: url() - what's better?
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Community-led deletionism: a protocol for sanity
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34
Does IMDB provide an API?
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Deleted posts should not influence reputation
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33
Limits for self-promotion in answers
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Please dump the new onerous triviality algorithm
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33
Something on my web site doesn't work. Can I just paste a link to it?
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Where can I get Stack Overflow wallpapers?
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Is there any markdown to create tables?
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Do you think that moderators from MSDN forums should use our answers word for word?
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