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For some reason I'm not finding the front page of http://skribit.com to be informative enough of what your startup does. Could easily just be me though.

I was going to ask if there was a way to vote, but then I found this example and it answers my question: http://paulstamatiou.com/

After looking at that example, why is there no way to vote yes or no? It looks like you can only vote yes for something . Based on the frontpage there are a lot of polls, why not add voting?

I'd like to see nicknames anonymized on submissions and comments until you vote them up or down. This would make votes count more on the merit of what they are saying than who is saying them.

Sounds like a good candidate for the EFF patent busting project: http://w2.eff.org/patent/

Anyone know of any prior art?

(I don't know if they pick patents to bust on their own or take requests)

EDIT: If the above poster osipov is correct and this patent is legit/novel, please disregard my comment.

Not a bad idea. What if the front page was dynamically generated on a per user basis depending on whose opinion you respected. After typing this I realize it sounds similar to friendfeed. "A dynamic front page of people who you want to listen to"

FWIW, I voted up on this article so you can stop listening to me.

What's new here: http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html

"In tests of fourth-grade reading from 2000 to 2007, for instance, the scores of the lowest-achieving students increased by 16 points on a 280-point scale, compared with a gain of three points for top-achieving students, according to the study, by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a research organization in Washington."

Is it just me or does this seem normal? Is it not much harder for someone on top to improve vs. someone on the bottom? For example, a Michael Jordan who already spends considerable effort and energy being the best (having little more total time to work on improving), vs. someone who puts little time and effort (having much more time to contribute and therefore improve).

This stood out to me:

"In his senior year at Exeter, Zuckerberg and his roommate, Adam D'Angelo, wrote software for an MP3 player that was able to learn a user's listening habits and build a digital library based on previous selections. Several companies showed an interest in the application, including an AOL subsidiary, but D'Angelo and Zuckerberg had no intention of selling. They didn't care about money. They cared about code. "They were the most advanced computer-science students at the school," recalls Kristopher Tillery, a classmate who set up a site with Zuckerberg that allowed Exeter students to order snacks online."

And this: "The way he talked, the way he dressed, everything about him screamed immature," Greenspan recalls. "He seemed unprofessional. I had run a company since I was 15. It just didn't seem like he got it. That whole persona just didn't impress me." Although he was congratulatory at the time, Greenspan now says he was put off by Zuckerberg's original venture, Facemash. "You can spend time writing software for good or evil, and that was pretty close to evil," Greenspan said. "It wasn't that he inflicted harm because he enjoyed it — it was because he didn't care. Which I thought was almost worse."

I tried googling for the page and it wasn't trivial to find.

Here are queries I tried: 1. "parkside dental" 2. "parkside dental goldsworth"

I found it with the second query, it's the third result.

yes

right now

And Richard Stallman:

For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I also have not net connection much of the time.) To look at page I send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page back to me. It is very efficient use of my time, but it is slow in real time. [1]

[1] http://lwn.net/Articles/262570/

This is a good snapshot of the population right now, I'm curious to know what the trends are. I suspect the 25-34 age category is growing and the 35-44 category is shrinking.

"When starting a startup was expensive, you had to get the permission of investors to do it. Now the only threshold is courage." [1]

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/webstartups.html

"Even as high as DH5 we still sometimes see deliberate dishonesty, as when someone picks out minor points of an argument and refutes those. Sometimes the spirit in which this is done makes it more of a sophisticated form of ad hominem than actual refutation. For example, correcting someone's grammar, or harping on minor mistakes in names or numbers." [1]

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html

At SS08, MA@TC quoted "Man in the Arena" [1]. An excerpt from the same work by Roosevelt:

"Of course all that I say of the orator applies with even greater force to the orator's latter-day and more influential brother, the journalist. The power of the journalist is great, but he is entitled neither to respect nor admiration because of that power unless it is used aright. He can do, and he often does, great good. He can do, and he often does, infinite mischief. All journalists, all writers, for the very reason that they appreciate the vast possibilities of their profession, should bear testimony against those who deeply discredit it. Offences against taste and morals, which are bad enough in a private citizen, are infinitely worse if made into instruments for debauching the community through a newspaper. Mendacity, slander, sensationalism, inanity, vapid triviality, all are potent factors for the debauchery of the public mind and conscience. The excuse advanced for vicious writing, that the public demands it and that the demand must be supplied, can no more be admitted than if it were advanced by the purveyors of food who sell poisonous adulterations."

It is nearly impossible to take MA seriously after he uses terms like "Amatuer Hour at Twitter" for one of the most influential technical individuals in our community right now. Blaine Cook is a Man in the Arena, MA is a slandering journalist. MA should apologize and hold the same standards to himself that he asks of his readers. That is, if he was ever serious at SS08, something which I must now question.

[1] - http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/3745/tr.html

Definitely worth listening to all the way to the end (it gets much better at the end).

B.Sc. Software Engineering - Universtity of Calgary