I had an extremely bad experience with Developer Auction. Ultimately using the site got me fired from my job and the team at Developer Auction was extremely non-responsive/uncaring about it all. Matt Miszewski in particular was extremely callous.
"I don't see the connection between the title and the graph."
My thought was that startups target younger devs as they believe that they'll be more 'liberal' engineers. I think the graph shows that to be false.
edit: well I don't think the graph shows anything - but it suggests that age and liberalism are not correlated. Many people have suggested that the survey is flawed - and that Yegge's original post is biased against conservatives.
My thought is that startups tend to target 'liberal' developers so they can iterate fast and innovate rapidly. It's the 'fuck it ship it' kinda attitude.
I'm the shirtless guy in the top-left photo. I feel pretty bummed that something we did to parody the ridiculous 'brogrammer' movement was used in this context : (
I forked this https://github.com/mkrecny/BrowserQuest - added a static file server on branch static and dependency management via package.json.
Main annoyance now is that they don't include the audio assets in the github repo : /
Great fun game though.
How influential someone is should be a function of #followers and #following - not just #followers. A high #followers/#following is what really indicates influence.
Most of my top 10 were people (or biz accts) that had followed 60k people and hence have a lot of followers.
Edit: Just noticed the VIP factor, which does exactly what I'm suggesting.