With all respect for Paul Graham I don't think he deserves a place on this list. Steve Jobs is 195 and Nelson Mandela is 192.
When "High School Musical Cast" is #42, we've obviously got bigger problems.
Who is Most Influential?
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Re: Who is Most Influential?
#12Ugh. Completely unrelated to the actual content -- why, oh why, do people take a simple thing like static tabular data, and make a Flash object out of it? Why? Now it doesn't scroll like anything else does, and in exchange for losing the ability to scroll-wheel through the list, I get ... nothing.
Plus I can't open a link in a new tab. Although, to be fair, flash does discourage bots, which is important for a fair poll.
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#13Don't bother, the Colbert fans will bury anyone who stands in their way.
You forget the Koreans and their cult around singing sensation Rain.
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#14Damn, I thought this was some new line of children's books.
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#15Ugh. Completely unrelated to the actual content -- why, oh why, do people take a simple thing like static tabular data, and make a Flash object out of it? Why? Now it doesn't scroll like anything else does, and in exchange for losing the ability to scroll-wheel through the list, I get ... nothing.
Plus I can't open a link in a new tab. Although, to be fair, flash does discourage bots, which is important for a fair poll.
Then make voting a flash-only feature (not that I think it's a good idea to do it).
The most annoying "feature" of flash in this case is that you can't search [for Paul Graham] in the text.
Flash is good for embedding videos, animating stuff, etc. It's terrible for text and navigation, as the accessibility is next to none.
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#16he is still in beta. open beta, but beta none the less. When his brand of influence is bought by the market he'll be on the list.
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#17Never mind Paul Graham, where is Rick Astley?
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#18With all respect for Paul Graham I don't think he deserves a place on this list. Steve Jobs is 195 and Nelson Mandela is 192.
I was surprised to see Steve Jobs and Nelson Mandela at the end, IMHO they should be way higher. Most of the people on the list I really do not know. I recognized a few artists, but thats all. The pope is number 74, I suppose there are only 1,131,000,000 catholics in the world.
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#19That title just seems like voting-bait. Could have just said what the contents of that article are.
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#20This is only a measure of influence amongst Time magazine readers. This is the same magazine that made Hitler man of the year:
http://www.scrapbookpages.com/DachauMemorial/TimeCover.html
I wouldn't take it seriously.