bbommarito

Let me pull on a conspiracy theorists hat here, and give one possible reason:

When you purchase a laptop, at least in my experience, it records the serial number of the laptop purchased. Now, generally you don't purchase a laptop in cash (At least in the states, but that really has to do with overzealous cops who think anything over a hundred dollars is drug money), you use a credit/check card. What this means is at checkout they have an address, and name (From the card) and a serial number.

You go home, and type away, log in to Facebook, do whatever you normally do, all the while keylogger is running away in the background. NSA walks over to Samsung and says "Hey, can we get those keylogger results? Great, here's your million dollars", takes those, then sees that John Doe is searching for poison on Google. They run off, and arrest him.

Basically, that information would be NSA's wetdream.

Is this true? Probably not, but it's one possible motive.

I forgot that Ann Arbor actually has...tech jobs and...tech companies unlike the Detroit Metro area.

I actually live in Roseville right now, but may make a change to that sometime soon.

Yes, this is very true and was a mistake on my part that I am learning from.

I was on multiple ruby lists, lists from various conferences I have been at, etc and when I started looking for work again I realized I was stupid to delete it.

Yes, I could have, but forgot that was in there.

Didn't want to retype that, and having just found HN I figured I would repost it here.

And now it's gone.

Ah, indeed.

In the cloud usually means to me something like EC2 or Rackspace...etc.

Okay, will come from bbommarito@gmail.com

The major problem with 'in the cloud' assuming you mean something like EC2 or Rackspace Cloud is performance.

Many of those types of hosts use a similar setup for file-systems (Amazon might not, but not sure): GFS. Now, GFS has suffered from problems, and even huge, expensive hosts like EY got hit with it. In fact, the last time I worked with cloud hosting (I much prefer my own box) load times for static images could take up to 200 ms due to the design of GFS.

My suggestion is either go shared (If you don't want to learn sysadmin tasks) or if you do, go with a good VPS host, or get a dedicated box.

Now, when you say "discuss projects and ask questions" are you thinking wiki interface for discussions, maybe a sort of GetSatisfaction type idea for discussions, maybe with voting?

Even Github lacks some neat discussion systems that might be nice to see somewhere.

Hrmmm, Django huh? Been awhile since I worked with Django (I typically roll with Rails but have worked with Django).

What's the app? Kind of curious now.

I think I will be working on this then.

It is certainly something I could use as well. It's so hard to figure out what to write OS-wise (That's the number one question during interviews: Have you ever contributed to open source, and I always say I don't know what to do or haven't found one to work with).

I have to figure out a name, but for now I will start doing some development, and mockups and see what I can come up with.

Hrmmm, yes very interesting.

I am picturing an almost Reddit like interface on the front end with lists of open source projects looking for help, os projects that are needed, and os projects that are being abandoned and need people to take over.

I could then add on pledge systems, etc.

It's funny, but I have thought about going the dating site route.

Looking at the state of gay oriented dating sites, they all pretty much cater to one-night hookups and there are folks in the LGBT community that aren't into that and instead want to make a relationship of it.

I have been playing with the idea of building that type of site. Not only will it fill a need I see, but I could play with web telephony and stuff like that.

This actually interests me, since it's hard to find open source projects you might want to be involved in.

So, what would you ultimately like to see? A reddit type interface to talk about open source projects, with perhaps ties into Git/Github etc?

I figured most here are actually building something, but hey worth a shot asking.

The main reason this thought came up is being out of work (You don't hire a Ruby guy and then say "Hey, make this PHP script, Magento, go fast on two servers so it can handle 1000 concurrent requests") I have nothing really exciting to do. Figured I could kill days while looking for a gig with screen fulls of pretty colored code.