Read some more of Aaron's stuff, including his Authoritas thing he promotes at the end of the article, and he's the one who comes across as the possible sociopath.
Right because using the Facebook platform to gain tens of millions of users and hundreds of millions in revenue off simplistic games with poor graphics has definitely been a poor business decision.
I don't think I was suggesting that he should require his users to sign a waiver of liability or anything like that. All I said was that something involving food should take this type of thing a bit more seriously than something that doesn't involve food. I'd imagine that the cookbooks themselves contain some type of disclaimer of this sort to help protect the authors and publishers. His site is basically a publisher where some of the authors are probably anonymous.
And I don't know where your second paragraph came from. Why does considering these things mean I'm unable to sleep at night? At some point, you made the decision to include a terms of service for your site. All I did was try to point out a couple things he should consider for his TOS that wouldn't be relevant for most sites.
What if there's a recipe that includes poison as an ingredient?
Or, more realistically, recipes that cause food allergies or something along those lines. I don't think it's at all likely he'll get sued, but I do think his product is riskier in this regard than say bingo cards simply because it deals with things people will be putting into their bodies.
This is another person who doesn't understand real Facebook users (as opposed to the people who just joined so they could "participate in social networking") at all. A leaderboard ranking your connections is an idiotic idea.
Having more friends generally equates to greater personal satisfaction with Facebook and in real life
This is the case only because the Facebook accounts of real users are actually a reflection of their real-life social networks. Those who are happy and outgoing in real life are likely to have larger networks of friends and acquiantances, which results in more Facebook friends. They do not "friend" random people, nor do they "make" friends on Facebook.
So you think the best way to judge whether an applicant might be a good addition to a college is whether he makes money in the free market? If he had been a Paid intern, that would make his experience more valuable for the college? Does someone who works at McDonald's for minimum wage have more to offer a college community than someone who has a somewhat unique volunteer experience?
And nobody's trying to impress you. These kids are trying to impress college admissions, who are in turn trying to build interesting and diverse student bodies.
As someone who actually goes to top school, I cannot even fathom how someone would think that being captain of a track team and learning calligraphy would be more impressive than lobby U.N. delegates.
Track captains are a dime a dozen and there is nothing "impressive" about signing up for calligraphy class. Maybe those were the easy classes at his school - I don't know. But there's nothing inherently impressive about taking calligraphy. I don't even know why you would put that on your resume unless you were going to write an essay about it.
Working with the UN as a high schooler is something that grabs the attention of an admissions officer. I'm sure his essay about the experience sealed the deal.
Why do people have to post links to BusinessInsider? They are a garbage site that does nothing other than to take other people's work and repackage it on their site (often slideshow form so they get more pageviews). They leech off the production of real journalists and contribute nothing of value. I never had any sympathy for media outlets wanting to close off their site to aggregators until I started reading BusinessInsider for a while. At least they actually got permission from the original author this time; usually, they just include a link, which apparently makes it okay to copy other articles in their entirety.
That type of strategy consulting is completely different from IT consulting. You don't "ascend" from doing IT work at Accenture or IBM into doing management consulting at MBB.
But there are many more misconceptions in your comment.
First, Kasparov became world #1 when he was 20 and then world champ when he was 22. Second, there has been ratings deflation among the top players over the past few years. When Kasparov hit his peak rating there were several others over 2800. Third, Kasparov was not uncontested. All of his victories over Karpov were by extremely narrow margins, as was his victory over Anand. He then LOST the title to Kramnik in 2000.
This reminds me of the video of an old Kiai Master (using chi to physically attack people) fighting a young karate guy. The old guy can't really do anything and gets hit a couple times. It's pretty funny but also pretty sad that the Kiai Master's students led him to believe that he was actually affecting them with his chi attacks, probably over the course of several years. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMgVmFzBrus
Watch carefully at around 1:15. When the camera comes is shot behind the designers, the envelop is not on the table. It is still in Derren's hand, as it should be. When the camera view switches to the one from behind Derren, the envelope (or whatever that is) is already seen to be on the table. Then it switches back to the view behind the designers, and he has it in his hand again and finally places it on the table. There's lots of other shading editing throughout.
I agree with his complaints about reusable apps to an extent, but I feel a lot of the fault has to do with the design of the apps he referred to. I feel that the good apps are the ones that focus on a very narrow scope and try a singular problem (Paypal integration, Twitter integration, etc). Pinax tries to shove every social media idea at you. Other ones like Satchmo (shopping cart) even have their own templates and styles, sorta like a CRM where you're kinda meant to use the Admin to manage your shop. I think you can get decent flexibility with Django as long as you choose simple apps.
I've always liked the Django debugging information and haven't had too many problems. I agree that it's very possible for many to feel limited by the ORM and standard templating system.