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You could add something to the effect of 'say nothing you wouldn't say to our face'.

> Mostly only people wound as tightly as me Isn't that demographic also your target audience for this post?

Fair point, but isn't the jam example also a product aisle with 24 varieties of jam? My current frontpage recommendations include around 15 laptops and 15 books - I can't possibly …

This sounds reasonable. But I've always wondered about Amazon.com's UI strategy in the context of choice - they always show me much more crap than I am interested in: on the home p…

Why did you switch to Rackspace?

I might not want to swap out Django with CGI, but I might want to use RabbitMQ-based distributed tasks in Pylons. Seems like a waste to write all that code from scratch. For Django…

Looks interesting. But shouldn't a library like celery work outside the context of a web framework? I don't see a reason to call this a distributed task queue 'for Django' specific…

On WSJ.com too: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124475525754407679.html#mod=... It looks like Scribd is building a reader for the iPhone, and this app will also allow searching wit…

Great list. I would also add a box for 'Core Values'. It might help, for instance, in computing a more accurate valuation of 'Fear' as a trade object.

http://docs.python.org/library/constants.html#exit In CPython, exit is actually an object of type site.Quitter (the actual class is implementation dependent). site.Quitter override…

They explicitly state they don't use SearchWiki to influence ranking right now. From http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/11/google-searchwiki-l... : "At this time we aren't using…

Xmarks search is indeed a cool concept (much like delicious search), but I don't bookmark everything useful I find on the web - so bookmark-based search will never be quite as comp…

A user's SearchWiki rankings do not influence other users' search results. Yet. Till that happens, it's not really HN-style modding.

Actually, Plastic Logic first started marketing this reader in fall 2008. Makes you wonder. http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29020

While its a nifty service, Topsy seems to be 'static' search for Twitter - another version of " site:twitter.com" (especially when you consider Google's time-range search options).…

Amazon pays Kindle authors/publishers 35% of the list price (which is set by the content owner). The retail price is set by Amazon. Scribd's margins are clearly more lucrative. Sma…