cap10morgan

That org is pretty heavily funded by ExxonMobil, among other reasons to doubt its credibility.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_St...

Very uninformed article. Big distillers, like big anything, exist to make a profit via broad appeal. Many micro distillers are trying to be more interesting than that.

Of course there are counter-examples on both sides. But Stranahan's (no longer micro) and Leopold Bros. are two examples of great micro-whiskeys from Colorado. If I were so inclined, I could recklessly extrapolate from that anecdote to reach the opposite conclusion as the article does.

The fix for flying in the US is to finally, really invest in high speed rail all over the country. When you have the option of a roomy, relaxed seat on a train that doesn't take much longer (once the time spent in the airport is factored in), the air travel industry will shape up. And they will use their ill-gotten influence in Congress to bring TSA along for the ride.

I've written a very tiny amount of code around this, hosted here: https://github.com/cap10morgan/pairon

Right now it just uses the Github API to let you pair on a GH repo by putting /github/user/repo in the app's URL.

It's a Rails 3 app.

Yes, optional bounties / payments would be good to build in. I'm looking for partners to help build it. They would obviously have a lot of say over features at that point. :)

Yeah, it wouldn't be totally random. You'd profile yourself for what you know already, and for each project you ask for a pair on, what you want help with. Then you rate people on how well they helped you.

I think the face vs. desktop thing should be A/B tested. It could go either way.

s/and this moves up/and this moves you up/

Haha, nothing to stop the junk except the "Next" button. Maybe some auto-rating based on time spent in a pairing session? Assumption being longer sessions mean useful work is getting done, but quick skips mean some doofus was showing his junk.

I'm thinking both would be useful. And/or faces and a good online collaborative code editor.

That page could be added to the list of classic examples of bike-shedding.

This is one of those "I'm not like most people" moments. I find advertising SO much less annoying than paying for nothing. If you had asked me if this model would have caught on a few years ago, I'd have laughed at you. Shows what I know!

Is the real dynamic here one of peer-pressured purchases? Or is it more subtle than that?

Hippie.