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Did you read the post? It’s not about the cryptocurrency, or even the network. It’s about abstract ideas for distributed consensus, which are applicable beyond any cryptocurrency. It’s probably interesting even if you’re not interested in Stellar!

Anecdotally, I have found a correlation between misogynists and virgins.

This is true of many people that we idolize in tech.

And here are the winners!

First place: Inventory Second place: virtual perspective Third place: Webtube

Definitely check out the full list too because there ARE some great apps which didn't make it into the final 20.

Well, does karma have any value?

That may be true. But that's not how the services are designed.

Quora gives your full attention to an answer. It collapses the comments. It lets you downvote unpopular opinions.

Branch limits the most that anyone can say at a time (to something like 800 characters--which is enough for an explanation but not enough for a tirade). And it gives equal weight to each comment that someone makes.

I don't understand the "Branch is an elitist Quora" analogy (which is one that I've heard before).

Quora is for monologues. Branch is for dialogues.

This, this, 100x this.

I'd like to see more women in tech. I'd also like to see more men in tech.

As a college age person, I'm glad this isn't an issue in tech. As far as I know.

I wonder why. (Not sarcastic, btw.)

subscri.pt is pretty cool. That would be a nice URL for a blog.

Cool, thanks!

Wow, very handsome. I like it--I was just wondering what platform I could use to share thoughts that are a bit longer than a tweet but maybe don't merit a full blog post with all the bells and whistles.

My only gripe is that when I clicked on my profile it said, "This guy hasn't written anything yet." which was slightly off-putting as I am not actually a "guy."

>> Diversity is what can happen when lots of different people choose to show up. Diversity is not about how people look, but about how people think.

That may be true--or, at least, it may be true that that is the sort of diversity which is important in a conference. But what Mr. Rutledge fails to acknowledge is that the "how people look" diversity (e.g. race or gender) can deeply influence how people think.

And so it's still important to press for "how you look" diversity and encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, sexual orientations and ages to take leadership roles in the tech community.

Ah, yeah, I agree. There's a fine line between setting good guidelines for safety and enforcing rules based on highly subjective and personal ideas.

I was mostly impressed by parts like point 18:

>> 18. You will mess up. I will take away your phone. We will sit down and talk about it. We will start over again. You & I, we are always learning. I am on your team. We are in this together.

That kind of learning is important.

Congratulations! I was an MS intern last summer and it was terrific.

(You might want to change the line where you describe the smell of Seattle as "sweat" to "sweet," which is what I think you intended.)

I think this is terrific.

I was 14 when I joined Facebook, in 2008. My dad, who is no dummy, laid out a series of rules for my Facebook use (he had been on the site for a year or so already).

One of those conditions was that he had my password and could look at my behavior on the site at any time. Occasionally I'd post something that he thought was inappropriate, and we'd talk about it, and I'd get embarrassed.

But in retrospect, I'm grateful. Everyone needs guidance as a teenager, and this is especially true for behavior online. Online behavior is at least as permanent as IRL behavior, and the consequences are often more public or serious.

I think it's really important to guide your kids online. Though your 13 year old may not appreciate it at the time, s/he will when s/he's 20 and has only half as much embarrassing teenage material floating around on their Facebook timeline (or Twitter account).

Since when is being fast considered hacking growth? I think some of the "hacks" here are really just facets of a strong product and user experience.

Instagram's user experience is/was great--it lets people feel like they're doing something significant and artistic in only a few seconds. I think that's the most important aspect behind Instagram's growth.

Is a strong product a "hack?"

What about the growth of virtual economies?

The only secret group that I am in is for an organization which is, in turn, a secret.

I can't imagine why you'd want a truly secret group otherwise. Not just closed, where non-members can't see the content, but secret, where non-members don't know the group exists.

Cool, I'll take a look. Perhaps this is a naive question, but what differentiates Code HS from something like Codecademy?

I know; I was stunned to see the ways that different states have handled the ACM's recommendations: http://www.acm.org/runningonempty/roemap.html (One of my friends from Idaho gleefully pointed out that they "don't suck at everything.")

If you're passionate about helping CA stay the course ahead, you really should check out some of the resources for talking to administrators at http://www.csedweek.org/ or even get in touch with the CSEdWeek organizers.

That's one of the reasons I suggested App Inventor, actually. Even picking a project like "make an app for your stuffed animals" (which is the kind of thing I would have LOVED when I was 7 or 10) could be a way to move forward from the video tutorials.