Jon Galloway

I'm coming around to agreeing with this. - Jason Kaneshiro

When I say this kind of stuff out loud, the torches and pitchforks come out. - Bwana McCall

I wonder what this guy thinks of off-site backups? Does he expect everyone to be savvy enough to be able to ensure that their data is safe offline as well? And what about applications like Evernote that have an offline and online component? What about Google Gears where you can get to your data offline? This seems like a lot of FUD to me for people who don't know what their options are. - Lindsay Donaghe

IT'S A TRAP! - Vincent X

Anything Grizzly Adams says about the internets, I believe! - Emotion Tad

Note this statement: "One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control," he said. "It's just as bad as using a proprietary program. Do your own computing on your own computer with your copy of a freedom-respecting program. If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless. You're putty in the hands of whoever developed that software." I can't disagree with that. - Jason Kaneshiro

I agree with that too, to an extent, but what if what you want to do isn't available except through a "proprietary program"? We're all at the mercy of the file formats we use... Unless you're going to write your own software (which apparently this guy does) you're out of luck. Time to go back to paper and pencils. - Lindsay Donaghe

"Richard Stallman's beard is a trap" warns FriendFeed user willia4. "Don't stick your hand in there. I saw a bird fly in there once and a few days later all that came back out was little bits of beak. Don't do it." - James Williams (willia4)

http://stackoverflow.com/users... - James Williams (willia4)

I don't really have much to say over there, though. - James Williams (willia4)

Well, I do have quite a bit to ask though :) - Yuvi

http://stackoverflow.com/users... - Morton Fox

http://stackoverflow.com/users... <-- but I haven't done much there yet. - Lindsay Donaghe

By your command: http://stackoverflow.com/users... - Roberto "Maverick" Bonini

http://stackoverflow.com/users... - Jon Galloway

Nothing there yet: http://stackoverflow.com/users... - Jason Wehmhoener

http://stackoverflow.com/users... - Mark Trapp

http://stackoverflow.com/users... - Susan Beebe

Am I missing something: you can't add connections/contacts/friends in SO? - Mark Trapp

@Mark - I don't think you are missing anything. Jeff wants SO to be something and *not* be something. It's not a SocNet. - Yuvi

http://stackoverflow.com/users... - Alan Le

The highest rep in the list is Jon with 5000+. everyone else has less than 100? - Alan Le

hey I have 173 last I checked. - Roberto "Maverick" Bonini

http://stackoverflow.com/users... - Donato (ricin)