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Yeah!

Thank you for setting the record straight!

rise to my defense!

(Also always lost in the mythologizing of this quote is that the first version of the iPod was not good. Mechanical click wheel, mac only, it took them a revision to disprove my statement!)

Hey!

I don’t think slashdot was firs to use crowd sourced rating, but I am not aware of others to have an actual functioning system at a scale of 10s of thousands in that era.

And to be fair, everything2 used the term karma before slashdot. We had the concept of karma, but it was called like modtotal or something innocuous. Nate was working on e2 and we were discussing ideas and I realized the term was way more clear so I did the UPDATE TABLE that day. 98 maybe?

I’m still here! I wish people would try more crazy stuff. I’d even help brainstorm the crazy!

Still here. Still appreciate the kind words ;)

Hey!

That makes two of us!

Our shoestring budget probably prevented us from chasing that rabbit like it deserved. And Frankly there were far more seismic shifts that rocked us more.

Thanks!

Thanks!

This tactic has probably blocked a million bot posts over the years, so I guess... Sorry... But not really sorry?

You are to kind :)

I'd consider myself slightly left of center, but I Think the best part of slashdot during my time Was that it was home to all views.

It was great while it lasted!

Thanks.

That would have had to been one hell of a kickstarter ;)

Thanks for the friendlies HN.

I don't think anybody cares about patches to enlightenment, afterstep, or various X11 widgets written 15 years ago!

So is my 1 digit UID.

Notice that my resume isn't ON Slashdot!

Well, I wasn't the CEO, so I was always on someone's team.

Thanks wes. That version is much better anyway.

I'd very much consider it.

Whatever resume gets me the best job is my favorite.

Someone else can link the joke version and try to get HN karma... I felt dirty just posting the first one.

Right- an anonymous HN user squatted the nick, and handed it over to me when I resigned from Slashdot in august.

LIAR!

Managed teams for 13 of the 14 years ;)