An interesting aspect of StackOverflow is that they don’t require you to be logged in / registered or identified to the site in any way to ask a question (because early on Joel and Jeff determined that having a constant flow of new questions was vital to the success of the site). However, this policy has some interesting side effects: [...]

Factory Joe has an excellent thought about rewiring the UI of the OS X font explorer from it’s functional interface (which depends on knowing what you want in advance) to an exploratory one where (where you can find what you really need). It’s a very different way of defining the problem you are trying to solve and naturally leads to [...]