Coincidence? Who knows :)
Yeah I remember you talking about Python all that long time ago. You were saying how it was really crazy cool and the next big thing even though it was already big it was just going to get bigger and how you were, um, really good at it. I remember you had a lot of strong opinions and smart things to say about it. And stuff. That was a cool time that time.
It's crazy Yahoo! bought tumblr. It would be very difficult to look at $1B and say 'no thanks', even when you were pretty sure that Yahoo! would run it into the ground. Immediately, I would begin thinking about the other projects on the back burner, and what could be done with a truckload of money. The model makes sense in some ways, but the graveyard of success is a very weird thing. I think tumblr had to sell because it had so much VC investment, and was not bringing in revenue to match it. I'm sure the rationale is that Yahoo! has the ability to leverage blah blah blah. This would be difficult. Tom Waits and Bill Watterson kick ass.
Next thing you know they will implement gold badges to show appreciation... oh, wait.
Hahahhaaha copycats left and right..remember:
TO be I think he butled for Chuffy I mean Lord Chuffington when he was trying to get american billionaire to buy Chuffnell Hall
And the herping and derping commenced within minutes. The stupid thing is it has to be a shoutout, rather than a straight-up monitor, which has been available via metareddit for about five years now. Thing is - people have been asking for this shit for years. If you want to see what Reddit will look like in six months, cruise /r/Ideasfortheadmins from 2010. Supposedly they have a master list of code improvements that they want, and whenever they hire somebody new they have all these visions of implementing some of them, but then discover that simply keeping the kernel from crashing takes 99% of their time, so they leave. Diemorz has been on a roll, but he's gonna burn out.
Imho, shoutouts make much more sense on a site like Hubski than Reddit. Reddit is just too big. It they are doing something like that, it has to be a version that suits their scale and use-case. It seems like it would be too much of a firehose for some users, especially users that are too well known. Really it seems to me that it would have been a good feature for Reddit many years ago, but less so now.The stupid thing is it has to be a shoutout, rather than a straight-up monitor
I once sent spladug a tea gift set after he added the badges for some of the initial secret santas. Maybe we should send them something every time they incorporate a hubski feature.