[lathamcity]

Here's mine:

Level 0: Saw the post title and didn't think he needed to look at it because he was so confident in his abilities already.

Level 1: Read the post, noticed a lot that he didn't know but didn't intend to do anything about it.

Level 2: Read the post and went out and learned everything in it that he didn't know.

Level 3: Read the post, figured out which things from it he didn't know but might need to or want to, and learned those.

Oh, and a special level -1: Read the post, noticed a lot of things that he didn't know, and decided the post was stupid because clearly he's an amazing programmer and the post didn't agree with that self-assessment.

[gridspy]

Nice.

Is there a level for "Skimmed the first part of the post and then went back to working on his/her startup" ?

[BasDirks]

No but there's one about commenting on the post in a way to make oneself seem clever. I have hereby attained it.