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Yes, I understand. But I thought I'd put my 2cents on the difference between what I did if I didn't have a green card. And how it differs with a corporation/big donors/super PACs o…

That's a great thing to think about. IMHO, it's about worth and intent - as with any. And as with any software development, it's all relative. For me - personally - coding the map …

Hi! I'm the immigrant in the story. For what it's worth I'm permanent resident, not allowed to vote. Furthermore, it's seen as an in-kind contribution, just like when you help buil…

If anyone in Google is interested, you guys might want to check out Jure Leskovec's works on blog influence. I think it has the capability to solve the junk-farming issue.

Apple comes to mind, app-wise.

Based on the comments from the site, there's a Streisand effect looming.

This is the exact same thing i am planning to do. i am currently in a lavish tech consultancy firm, but the whole idea of being a "resource" is really stagnating my brain, and also…

cool. This is like the Middle Earth's Der Untergang (The Downfall)

Touche! I always get frustrated upon knowing that the answer is blurred and I go "Ack expertsexchange"

I somewhat hate the fact that websites had to spoonfeed almost everything to the user. Quora does look rudimentary, but it gets the job done. i think the simplicity is not ugly, bu…

Here's my twocents: I think BAs and PMs are for the management side of the industry. Currently with big payout, however plateaued. While programmers are on the innovation path, who…

If we go with the fact that Anonymous is infact a true distributed environment, then the replacement mechanism will be very easy. I think Anonymous is a kind of humanized group-com…

On a related note, what he was trying to do reminded me of a Kaggle.com winner on social networks, deanonymizing social networks: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_oak09.pdf . …