yes please. if this was continuously improved it would become my main interface for craigslist.

try user accounts so i don't have to type in my zip code every search. and so i can save certain searches.

and a really killer feature would be if i searched for 'desktop computer' the category searched was automatically set to 'computers/tech'

thanks!

This is beautiful. And the main site is built on top of Wordpress? Impressive.

A couple tips:

* Make the writing on your blog (and your other pages) more colloquial. And enable comments on your blog. Feedback is incredibly valuable to a newly formed company.

Example on the main page: "For over seven years, Matter has developed 'better experiences' in products and services. Perq comes from our own fruitless search..."

should be: "Perq was inspired by our own need..."

* Not so much text on the main page. As another commenter said, I don't want to see a list of every feature that you provide. If I'm interested in your product after the first page then I'll want to see a detailed feature list.

* Take the pop-up that comes up when you click "View Details" on the Tour page, and embed it into the page. Put it front and center and let all of the other text fall below it. It's very close to a demo and it speaks much louder than pure text.

* On the homepage, everything below the masthead feels superfluous because it's so bright and small.

This is how python's shuffle works:

  def shuffle(x):
    for i in reversed(xrange(1, len(x))):
      j = int(random() * (i+1))
      x[i], x[j] = x[j], x[i]

In the first loop the last element in the list 'x' has a chance to be exchanged with itself or any of the other elements. Then the second to last element has a chance to be exchanged with itself or any other element.

All the way down to the second to last element, which has the chance to be exchanged with itself or the first element.

This is exactly how the good Knuth shuffle algorithm works, right?

This is really amazing. How long did it take to code?

I've been kind thinking of making something with Canvas. I didn't know it had this potential. Thanks for sharing!

i prefer http://www.gskinner.com/RegExr/

mouse over each part of your regular expression to see what it does

Yup. IBM has an operating margin of 17% according to Yahoo.

download here: http://drop.io/seductive_interactions

Peter or Steven -- make up your mind! :P

It's Steven.

Cheating is a difficult and important problem, but I'm not sure this solution would be worth the inconvenience it would cause. If it only inconvenienced cheaters that would be fine -- but I think it would also cause some honest students and teachers a lot of trouble.

First, there's the simple privacy issue. If a professor told me to install a keylogger on my computer or if she told me to use etherpad to write an essay - either way I'd feel like my privacy was being violated.

Then there's the practical issue of how this system would affect writing ability. I personally do my best writing when I'm able to ignore the critic in my head and focus on the words. Being self-conscious about someone seeing all the stupid things I wrote along the way would make it much more difficult to get into this state of concentration.

Finally, there's the issue of making teacher's not only read two dozen boring essays but also watch replays of them being written. I personally think their time could be better spent.

where are the talks given? where do i go?

They're in room 108 West Village H on thursdays at 11:35 (440 Huntington Ave. 02115). It's the really really big building with the glass across the street from the Museum of Fine Arts.

Unfortunately, the speaker this week doesn't look like he'll be coming this week. We're showing the documentary Code Rush instead (http://acm.ccs.neu.edu/?q=node/661).