I hate stupid titles like this. "It's not the code that matters, it's the product. However, there are a million reasons why writing readable and elegant code is important, so you may as well keep doing what you're doing."

It's also a multimillion-dollar company with a large staff and years of optimization work behind them. This site doesn't perform badly considering it was written by a couple of kids.

For now, I would probably try to keep all the activity in /v/programming. Splintering subverses too quickly can give the false appearance of a ghost town. But yeah, I'm certainly willing to answer programming questions.