Abstract thoughts are conveyed with a class of language, this has not worked well in its predominance historically ( only math survived) similarly how music is communicated but not accepted as a universal language.
Personal thoughts for ammon, hoping @dang hides me, please hide me @dang.
Ammon,
You single handedly destroyed something you created but I can relate and feel what you might be going through ATM.
It will suck and it will leave you with scars that'll be hard to come off and stick for the foreseeable future.
Eventually, You'll come out of "it realizing this decision and reversal of an easy growth idea with hard execution and be subjected to it on target vocalists on HN"
You'll do better, never stop because of internet shit.
Why are people using this crap instead of portfolios and filtering crap jobs? You don't want to be working for these types; you can own and operate as a business.
It is interesting to see how start-ups (twitter, forsquare and now yammer) adopting or dropping programming languages rains hailstorm on twitter, HN and blogosphere. As a serious PL designer, start-ups seem to be the prime market to target your language.
Wow, just experienced how difficult it is to find source on SF.net. Whoever made this change might be running shareware sites like download.cnet.com in his/her past life.
You probably didn't see what kind of crap SF.net was before this redesign. I think they did a good job of redesigning homepage but project pages stlll look like they are work in progress..
This is called Oligopoly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligopoly in half-assed capitalism. Note that this can be worse than monopoly because few competitors can essentially create informal cartels.
prefer to rate sites by their "percentage of total Internet traffic"
I can't help but wonder how ridiculous business model like Alexa's works in reality, their source of data is not even scientifically relevant to measure total internet traffic, and yet they manage to get attention from everyone?
I almost feel that I would be laughed at if I had this start up idea and went to raise funding.