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You can build cool stuff in any language, so it depends what your goals are. If you want to get a job as a web-developer, PHP is your best bet. If you want to have fun coding, Ruby or or maybe Python is best. If you need to maintain servers, Perl is the best to learn. Clojure is worth learning and a lot of fun, but not yet as practical for getting jobs, if that's your goal
As long as you know your technical shit and don't lie about your ability, this strategy will work regardless of how illogical you personally feel it is.
Write on a future resume that you're under NDA about the exact site. Say that you worked on some social-networking site, and give a description of the traffic you got and your role for them. If you know your technical shit, very few companies will care and this lie will work.
Lol at an organization that terrorizes and murders people every day whining about a little sunlight shed on their activity.
Reply to SHOwnsYou, sorry I hit the wrong reply.
What's the key qualitative difference between a facebook profile and a dirtyphonebook page?
I'm not a lawyer, but your answer probably lies in understanding this first.
Neither is DirtyPhoneBook the final arbiter of what's right and moral and nobody here ever claimed to be that. It's just a platform for free speech
* Forget DPB for a minute. Wouldn't employers be faced with discrimination suits if they tried to base hiring decisions on any random Internet post?
* After photos are implemented, I am probably going to build the feature you suggest. It wasn't a priority on day 1 to have that until we started getting a lot of content to organize.
* If you don't like it, that's your decision. But I don't see good people getting harmed. If you're nice to your friends why would they believe something untrue posted about you? I think bad people are the only ones who have reason to fear this. Call me naive, but that's my honest opinion.
* You can search the site and sort by phone number/area code. Not the same thing, but kind of what you want. I would push for a random button feature that works by area code but we're working on some other stuff to organize local information even better. :)
Has 4chan ever targeted some innocent person? I don't think so, but feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
If 4chan did use DPB, I'd think it would be to expose scientologists that control other peoples lives, animal abusers, etc
* Besides voting and commenting, there is a feature that allows you to verify yourself as the owner of a phone number on DPB if you want to make a verified rebuttal against a comment.
* I'm not a fan of the roach either. It was a marketing decision made before I came onboard. There's some story about why our founder liked the roach and I'll try and find out about it from her tomorrow.
* The name DirtyPhoneBook was chosen for marketing reasons. It's definitely a bit attention-getting.
* Besides the ability to vote on and comment on posts you don't think are true, there's a feature that allows you to verify your number and post an authentic message as the owner of that number. But everybody has the same free speech rights to post on DPB.
I am one of the (anonymous, though my phone number is unblocked) developers of http://www.dirtyphonebook.com and to me that's the closest thing to Juicy Campus. It's a better version, because it affects everybody.
The site wasn't my idea, but I came up with the toolbar and some of the cool existing features and some of the features we're working on implementing right now. We are working on implementing pictures and other cool location and search-based features very soon.
Even though the site is admittedly very sophomoric right now it's going to be one of the most useful resources for all types of personal information fairly soon. Think spokeo and wikipedia and facebook on steroids.
To those that suggest this concept is evil, DirtyPhoneBook site has exposed cheaters, abusive people that go after people with guns, child-support deadbeats, drug-dealers that sell to kids, and other scum too. There needs to be methods of punishing mean and evil people.
I was randomly punched in the face and beaten up in highschool. I've gotten fired from a job I loved before because somebody else screwed up and they had power to blame me. I think the DPB concept is incredibly underrated because it gives you a way to expose jerks with no way of tracing who said anything. The anonymity allows a lot to come out that otherwise wouldn't.
Free Speech should always triumph over censorship. For the good of society, http://www.dirtyphonebook.com is the first place that let's anybody tell the truth about anybody without any censorship.
We're working on some fabulous stuff that is going to entertain and amaze people. ;)