Love it. This site is hella-fast and responsive compared to the other "Try [x]" web apps I've used before. Love the addition of LOLCODE. Personally, it took me a second to figure out the lambda and eg buttons, but I didn't find it frustrating or difficult. Pretty smart if you ask me.

I like the idea. I'd like San Antonio or Austin to be added to the list of cities available. Keep up the good work!

Thanks a lot for the feedback, will definitely add San Antonio and Austin as soon as the site gets a bit of traction.

Even though I agree with most of this list, I still can't help but feel a little put-off by all the geek-this and geek-that speak. There seemed to be a basic point that "geeks" usually have a low tolerance for the stereotypical business world and speak. Cheap awards, cheap prizes, pointless meetings, the word "synergy"? No thanks.

Exactly. And my bet is that the people that need to read this the most won't read past the headline or first paragraph.

Either that or they will over focus on #14.

"It says here you geeks need my help not overengineering things. I think you guys can get this done in a week without any of your fancy testing or requirements."

If you were trying to discourage your girlfriend from purchasing shoes, this method would probably only discourage your girlfriend from checking in to shoe stores.

Granted; it was meant to be more of a humorous surprise for her. It also turned out to be much more of a challenge than I expected - there was no way to get a list of checkins for a friend, so I ended up setting up another account, friending her, and setting it to e-mail me whenever a friend checked in.

The plan was to use Lamson to parse these e-mails, but apparently it depended on a library that - in a minor version upgrade - totally fucked everything that depended on it by arbitrarily renaming several functions. Unless you specifically installed fucktits version 2.2 - not 2.1, and god help you if you installed 2.3 - it wouldn't work.

After three days, and help from a friend, I just tossed it all in the garbage and resigned myself to living under a pile of her shoes.

I'm American, and I have to agree with you. I travelled to Ireland last month and having 1 and 2 € coins was great. The different sized bills took a little getting used to, but even that was great because I could quickly tell them apart (along with the different colors). I'd like to see wider adoption of 1 and maybe 2 $ coins here sometime in the bear future.

I'm canadian, and I hate hate hate the $1 & $2 coins. (I don't like change in general) It's really nice to be able to just carry paper most of the time and get your change in mostly paper vs coins.

If these people really thought about it, they would see that the market is flooded with lawyers and screaming for quality engineers of all kinds. I know this because my wife is in law school and the law schools are admitting and churning out more lawyers than ever despite many law jobs dissolving into thin air.

What a great move to get NFC accepted into the mainstream.

I agree. While most of the items on that list are web based, they are easy enough things that can be worked on while taking classes. Working on projects like these get you into the hacking/diy mindset that really differentiate the top and low level CS students. Will every CS student need to build a web app or use MapReduce? No, but learning new technologies and getting your hands dirty teaches you to ask questions, start something, and learn as opposed to being complacent with your current level of knowledge.

^ This. If Apple ever decides to use this technology in a way that is deemed censorship, I'll join the "No Apple Kill Switch" initiative, but until then, I agree that there are reasonable uses for this tech.