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Agreed with smanek - step in the right direction and trickle down does make sense. Where we have a problem is our educational infrastructure. We would see way more people going into tech if we had more people able to teach it to them. Need to be teaching CS way earlier in school and should be mandatory. CS should replace lost manufacturing jobs.


While it means nothing with regards to the ultimate success of the platform, it is much better uptake than wave or buzz. Will be interesting to see if people find different use for it than FB/Twitter. I don't see it yet, but if they get the groups angle right could mirror how real life sharing works to some degree.


Thanks for submitting this post spaceballs3 (and sick user name). Hope people find this somewhat useful, I'm the author so have at me with comments, critiques, etc.


Congrats - this is going to be a true powerhouse team. With both D-cancel and Dharmesh working on the new marketing landscape, they could be quite dominant.


Haha, the reason I love HN is because of vicious responses like this.


Spot on points here by Sim regarding the fact there is never a bad time to join a good startup and never a good time to join a bad one.


Interesting to see Boston.com, BU, Children's, Harvard medical and a bunch of people using Django because of the availability of Python devs.


Got to love that orange shirt.


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