Timothee

The main point is that it's not instant (i.e. your last comments are not taken into account) and it uses only recent comments, rather than over the life of your account.

However, I would think that patio11's, edw519's and others' reputation attract karma more easily than the "regular" commenters. I mean that people are more easily convinced by whatever they say because they trust their reputation.

Off-topic, but what does this mean? (curious non-native speaker)

Yes, they would deserve a cut on most of our iTunes purchases, but for one thing, I don't know what that would amount to. Maybe not enough. (I believe the iTunes affiliate rate is 5%, so that would be $1-$1.50 per TV show season, 25 cents per movie rental)

And indeed it doesn't seem to make sense: let's say they added a "latest season is on iTunes" link. It would tell the user "we are not able to secure the latest content for you". And if they added exclusive rentals on top of the flat fee, it would be tempting to delay the switch from exclusive to regular catalog for how long as necessary. It would be going against everything Netflix has been about from the start: flat-fee for unlimited consumption.

I'll just put a reminder to cancel in a few days…

Looking back, I feel that I indeed had no idea what I was doing. I still don't but I feel I'm more self-aware of this fact.

I typically think of the term in the way it's used in the question "Please tell us about the time you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage." I.e. something like finding a loophole.

It's too bad, this diverts the discussion on that post around the use of the word, whereas there is some good stuff in there.

Personal chef makes it sound like it would be somewhat fancy, and thus expensive, but in that post it was just somebody who was cooking at home but make more and bring it to them. That could be something to look into if you're really interested.

edit: I believe it was this post http://sidsavara.com/personal-productivity/the-price-of-my-d... At least that's the idea. (I can't believe there's no date on that post)

So I guess this is one reason why people leave that enabled: not quite obvious.

It looks like a fairly regular resume to me except for the fact that it's rendered as HTML, but that's not really something new. Sure, it's actually built dynamically with a few PHP functions, but the way each element is built could be smarter (e.g. you have HTML markup in the function's arguments sometimes which seems to beat the purpose a bit).

I'm not trying to be a downer but I was expecting something different and I feel I'm missing something.

If I were to do something like that, I would probably do it in Markdown with Jekyll. Right now, your index.php mixes a lot of presentation with content and I feel that one benefit of Markdown+Jekyll is that you have a readable Markdown file that can be made into a nice looking static HTML page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_spam#Countermeasur...

Works with AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-mobile according to Wikipedia.

But that doesn't mean the industry doesn't care about them. Look at how many stories mention "founded by ex-Googlers/Facebook", "YC-backed", etc. Sure, these are just from tech blogs, but if they add it in there it's because the readership reacts to that information, most often positively.

Besides, I don't think any industry doesn't care about credentials, since at least someone's reputation is their credential. For example, I don't know much about John Resig besides the fact that he created jQuery. That fact would open him many doors. It's not about education, but it's still credentials. Don't you think YC would instantly back him?

More to the point, I'm totally convinced that adding "YC-backed startup" to your resume, even if said startup never really went anywhere, is a very strong credential in a lot of places and I wouldn't be surprised if people use it that way. I'd even say that I'm sure many YC applications are "YC or nothing" in that if they don't get in, they won't start a company. It doesn't hurt to apply but the upside is fantastic: you get access to a great network, media coverage, some automatic seed money… and that YC stamp you can put on your resume.

Like every namespace, it's great if you're early and you get something short and simple, useless or at least annoying/convoluted later on.

;-) (everything is subjective and people affect other people in different ways)

Because let's be fair: Facebook is one of the very few companies that announces active users, with a fairly clear definition of what they mean by "active". At this point they're likely to have more accounts (including unused ones) than there are people alive so it would be silly now, but they've virtually always used the active metric.

Because if you're really just interested in a clean blog design, it's really not that hard to make your own.

(I say that as someone who doesn't really like the Svbtle "elitism", though I give Dustin Curtis credit for picking great writers in general)

A recent example would be when I was trying to set up my local environment with virtualenv, whose whole purpose is to make that easy. Everything seems fine but pip (Python package manager) was throwing errors. The culprit was that virtualenv creates Python scripts in the local directory with a hashbang for a local version of Python. The thing, it turned out, is that hashbangs don't work when there's a space in the path. And there was a space in my path because I wanted to use Box's sync folder which (stupidly I must say) is called "Box Documents". Now I know.

Long story short, the point is that I wasn't trying to debug virtualenv but had to dig deeper than I wanted into it just to get started on the problems I created. :)

Though you're right: just recalling this, I have a feeling of victory over the problem.