Joel Spolsky: A Visit to Microsoft and GoogleBack-to-back trips to Microsoft and Google remind me just how smart these guys are -- and just how much I love running a small company <strong>THE MEETING PLACE</strong> Today, managers at Microsoft’s 94-building campus (above) are often booked in consecutive meetings for days at a time. Last summer, I helped launch a website called Stack Overflow, on
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