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I agree, no matter how much a problem you have with spam, you shouldn't put the burden of combating it on the user.

That is very true. I guess I should have explained myself.

During my years in college, a lot of grad and doctorate students would come in and try to help undergrads with their studies, projects, research, senior design projects etc.. What I came to realize is that you can't take what they say too seriously especially when you're aspiring to create something out of the ordinary. For me they weigh too heavily on research, research, research and if you can't validate every single thing you do, then don't do it. I don't agree with that, if you have an idea and think it'll work, do it, and if you execute it properly you will have some degree of success. For me that's the attitude that most of them had. Don't get me wrong, they were extremely intelligent but were too constrained by exact academic procedure and a lot of them had no experience in the real world, let alone the startup world. They would shoot down ideas and make you do ridiculous things for projects, that to me, made no sense and took away time from working on your product. I am not saying those things have no place, but at least from my experience, they weren't terribly interesting people, they were institutionalized by the academic system and didn’t really understand what you were trying to do.

When I say I have no admiration, I don't want to label every PHD that way. They are brilliant people. But for me when you do 4 years as an undergrad, go straight to your Masters in the same school and then to your Doctorate in the same school without anything in between, that doesn't require a lot of determination and resourcefulness. It's a lot easier and less risky to do that than create a startup around a crazy idea and potentially crash and burn. Then again, it might just have been my school.

That is something I've always agreed with. I have respect for someone that goes from undergrad to doctorate, but I certainly have no admiration for them.

Some worthless Communication class, I'm all for introducing Akshell into that class!

It's really annoying. People say it looks more like Safari. I don't agree, it's just fuzzy and ugly. I was trolling the internet to find a solution to no avail.

I agree that producing clean code is part of our charter, but sometimes we're put in situations with close deadlines and a boss with no understanding of the importance of clean, organized and sustainable code. For example, I had a boss which would regularly check on my progress and wanted to see what I was working on and he'd say "that looks good, let's wrap it up by today", my typical response would be "it's not done, still a lot of rewriting a clean up to do" to which he'd respond "does it work? I don't want to spend much more time on this". I would then try to work really fast to clean up my code and finish up the functionality. I was forced to push through stuff that wasn't on par with my standards.

I learned how to deal with this by hiding my process. I wouldn't show all of what I had. This made things easier. I still met deadlines and I felt much better about the code.

Yeah, I've diddled around with it and it's great. Would love to see it hooked up into more services though.

I think that degree will have more value than a lot of degrees handed out in decent universities. I would definitely enroll!

SQL-style queries of any social network? Where do I sign up?

Thanks, now I'm not going to pay attention in class... :)