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Hey all, I'm the creator of Churn Buster.

Over two years ago I was working on Stripe web hook emails for a client and spending way too much time tuning, tweaking, and maintaining them. Every little improvement was yielding even greater conversion rates and more money in the bank. At that point, I suggested that instead of paying me so much to maintain the in-house dunning system on their behalf, I could create a service that did the same thing but better, and charge them $200/mo instead. The plan was to subsidize the cost of development by selling the product to friends who were having the same problem. I've been working on it and growing it ever since.

I'm really proud of some of the incredible companies and brands I've had the opportunity to work with in the last two years, (some of them are listed on the new product homepage,) but I'm also really pleased to now be able to put the product into the hands of Matt, Joelle, and Ken and let them take it's growth from this point forward.

Happy to answer any questions anyone may have!
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Moving their child to an environment where they develop a healthy, positive attitude toward learning and outgrow a crippingly low self-esteem is "terribly selfish"?
I work for a company with many product. This post explains why it is so hard for the company to move forward in our fast moving tech world. It also explains why so many startups today are "single trick ponies" that learn to expand their from only one product.
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A large part of the value to primary school is socialization with a peer group.
> which is going to be peanuts for a company requiring this kind of scale

That depends. Two million connections from people in an e-commerce site is a lot, but two million connections for a side-thingy like some analytics/ads/background-job-whatever doesn't have to be that much, especially if you consider 3rd party code.
Herbert Stoyan's historical work on early Lisp http://www.mcjones.org/dustydecks/archives/2010/07/29/185/ https://web.archive.org/web/20050617031004/http://www8.infor... is probably worth reading if one is seriously interested. (I haven't read much of it myself yet.) McCarthy praised Stoyan's work as better than his own 1979 HOPL paper ( http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/lisp/lisp.html ): "Stoyan's reading of the early LISP documents gives a more accurate picture than my own memories turned out to have given." http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/

(As a side-note, I'm pretty sure that the broken, Wayback-beating link to "Lisp references according to Miller" on McCarthy's page is to this http://www.ai.sri.com/~delacaze/alu-site/alu/table/Lisp-Hist... document by Kent Pitman and Brad Miller (see http://www.ai.sri.com/~delacaze/alu-site/alu/table/history.h... ).)
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In fat arrow functions, the `this` works the same as `arguments`. Both of them use the closest scope/closure which has the variable defined. The `.bind(this)` is a good mental approximation, but is actually a little different because the inner scope doesn't actually create ANY `this` variable.

Not having `arguments` isn't a mistake because `...rest` parameters are allowed and are much better in every way.
You are wrong. There is compelling evidence that emphasizing the importance of intelligence (including praising it) versus emphasizing the importance of hard work, causes children to do worse at a variety of tasks.
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It's not a conflict with the LPGL, it's technical. Apple does not allow iOS apps to link to any shared libraries, they must be statically linked. Apple does not care how you license your libraries, only that you have the permission to do so, just like any other licensed content like photos or music.
Well there ya go, anecdotes both ways. Shall we just declare it a common potential pitfall then?
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> Moving their child to an environment where they develop a healthy, positive attitude toward learning and outgrow a crippingly low self-esteem is "terribly selfish"?

Speaking as someone who spent years in a "normal" environment where I was consistently at the top of the curve, I don't think it's necessarily the healthiest learning position even if it benefits self-esteem. When you never have to try to beat everyone else, you don't develop a lot of essential skills and instead just have a growing ego.
Being visible and being a persistent measure of preference is different. Twitter is very ephemeral and my worry is that this will imply less ephemerality. It's an irrational worry.
People --> government --> central bank --> money --> people...

This is 2015, why do we need so many middle men and such an inefficient closed source volatile paper based system? How about letting the people issue their own money based on open source computer algorithms and p2p networks instead of oligarchy voodoo?
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That's really great to hear, Patrick.

We're pretty excited about how we structured the deal, and it's definitely not the way things are done in Silicon Valley. Even down to the expectations of our investors. We're setting out to grow a profitable business with the goal of early and lasting distributions for investors...not with the goal of an eventual mega-exit.

Happy to answer any detailed questions specifically about the structure/acquisition process (negotiation/due diligence/lawyers/etc), something you know plenty about :-)

Also of note, we didn't use an escrow account, or a website broker. This probably saved about $20k-$30k. We had an advisor, JD Graffam of SimpleFocus, that helped coach us along the way based on his experience acquiring products like Ballpark App.
Also keep in mind our clients aren't just idle WS processes. They start a channel process for each topic they join ("rooms:lobby") in this case. So 1 WebSocket connection will spawn two processes. One for the transport (WS handler), and one for the channel. The channel also holds its own state, which is mostly empty, but carries metadata, so it's hard to compare to your 500k raw connections.
> Still, at least India has a rocket going to Mars even if its children don't have toilets and clean water.

Fallacy of Relative Privation?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_relative_privation
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Including XML and RDF doesn't bother me. A lot of people greatly prefer JSON over XML. I don't get exorcised either way. The final two look like problems. I would guess the penultimate one is because most medical systems ignore time zone so you just assume it happened in the time zone of the system of origin. It probable doesn't matter often in practice. If two different patients had a lab test done on opposite sides of the world would that knowledge ever be important? On the other hand, time is important within a patient data set. This might be a problem if a patient radically changed time zones within the course of a day.

I can see it being inconvenient for import into a better designed system. You'd have to make an assumption about time zone.
You're right that it's not an agency endorsement; as I clearly stated and the article clearly states, it is from someone "affiliated" with NASA, the denial of which I was responding to.
"Because I'm the PM" is too often the only reason given, and of course that leads to animosity.

Ah, well, that's a different problem: PM arrogance.

Confidence + Humility is not contradictory to Leadership, but unfortunately not everyone understands that.

'course, many also don't understand that Manager and Leader are two different things... and a Product Manager has to be both.
I absolutely agree that nuclear is our best option as long as the reactor and the waste is located in your backyard.
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People have been migrating to cities for years and years now, the rural areas of America are less populated than ever. I'm sure there's some middle ground where we can put new power plants that are relatively unpopulated.
I'm younger than you, but I feel similar. Any thoughts on how to work through it?
I guess. There are risks to telling a kid anything. I was fat, un-athletic and shy. I'm kind of glad I had one thing to cling to.
Legally, I think arbitration clauses probably will hold up. As you said, both parties have agreed to them.

The problem is that, currently, I can't get wireless from Sprint, ATT or Verizon without signing away my right to sue. If this is the case, I feel like I have been forced into signing an arbitration clause (I don't really have a choice not to have a phone). Comcast allows me to opt out (though at the time I didn't realize this was an option).

At what point am I no longer able to make a choice to live a life without entering into an arbitration agreement with someone, and if that point comes, have my rights been violated?

Technically, I've entered into a contract for a service. However, if every contract for that service includes an arbitration clause, I no longer have a choice, and I haven't really "opted in" to the arbitration process, because I can't "opt out".

I'm pretty sure this isn't a valid legal argument, but that doesn't make it right. At the very least, controls need to be put into place to make sure that arbitration is neutral: otherwise the clauses are similar to a clause that says "if you wish to sue us, we win by default: tough shit", which feels like it should be illegal (or unenforceable).
> If maintainability, extensibility, portability, amenability to cheap labor, etc. are considered as engineering goals

Those don't sound like goals they sound like principles.

A goal is I want to create a web server that implements the HTTP 1.1 specification that can process a stream of N bytes per second over X simultaneous connections. There are metrics, tolerances, and limits to consider.

A well engineered program that considers the data first and foremost can be easier to maintain since there are fewer abstractions to consider and reason through. It can be easier to debug since the program execution and memory layout are explicitly maintained. Performance is much easier to reason about for the same reasons. It is actually easier to refactor this kind of code in my experience.

We have to get out this idea that our job as programmers is to write code. It's really about solving engineering problems with computers -- real processors with caches, memory channels, interrupts, and the whole nine yards.

update: To wit, for those that know me, I actually write a lot of Python code. And Common Lisp. Doesn't change a thing; you can write a Python program that is ignorant of the underlying platform the interpreter was compiled for at your own risk... "write once, run everywhere," is a nice idea but a fiction in reality... a cleverly disguised, hand-wavey fiction.
I watched the video, and it seems all it really does is spins in circles and turns the headlights on and off.
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More than anything, the cases show the power of arbitration clauses.

Perfect pull quote. The article buries the lead by putting this line so far down in the body.

The article cherry-picks a few religious examples to support the headline, but there's nothing inherently religious about arbitration clauses. If they are infringing on the rule of law, this article hasn't demonstrated how.
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I recommend this list, which includes this important warning sign:

Toilet paper quality suddenly drops.

This is surprisingly common. The obvious conclusion is that if someone is actually bothering to take the time to cut corners on such an insignificant expense, they probably cannot afford the larger expense of your next paycheck.
advertising becomes scary when this service tries to suggest responses like "Yes, let's have a meeting tomorrow and why not enjoy a refreshing glass of ice-cold Dr.Pepper together!". But if not, I'm not that worried about the ad revenue aspect.
I skimmed, but I think this is missing the value of the land that people won't be able to use in case of an accident. A semi-permanent mass evacuation isn't cheap.
Hey, thanks so much for that. Seriously, means a lot to come in here and know full well you're not really the right person to answer the question but give it a shot anyway and the other party is gracious enough to explain it.

I will definitely be passing this along so we have some proper request information on hand. My bosses are reading this, one has even interacted in this discussion already so they're seeing this already but I'll make it a bit more official tonight when I write up a summary of what I seen requested.

Thank you again for taking the time to make sure I was on the right track.

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Most people outside New York have multiple children by the time their oldest goes to school, so there's opportunities to learn these things at home by playing with your siblings.

I'm guessing that only children are a lot more common in NYC than elsewhere, though, thanks to the impossibility of affording the kind of living space that people elsewhere take for granted. Perhaps the bitchiness of the kids is attributable to the high prevalence of spoiled only children?
I'd say only being available on Google Play is an even greater dealkiller. Telegram (which is, to be honest, not quite comparable) is on F-droid, that I like.
Transporting electrical power over long distances is expensive. If most demand is in cities, most power plants need to be relatively near cities.
I agree with the article and think static web sites is the way to go if the read/write ratio is high, and where the view is not unique to the user.

However, quote > "The static version is more than six times as fast on average!"

This must be an engineering problem, especially on easily cached content.
Serving static web sites Does require computation. But the current tools are very well made and optimized for it, witch is not the case with most CMS systems.
I've known Ken for many years, and I can say without doubt Churnbuster's exactly what he's great at. I've also followed what Matt/Joelle have done for awhile and think quite highly of the whole team. I'm sure they'll do some great stuff with this product—i'll definitely be referring it to many people in the future!
> When you file your taxes: Hire someone; don't try to do this yourself.

I don't necessarily agree with this. The median person intelligent enough to work for a successful startup is competent enough to handle the tax implications of stock option exercise. True, it's time consuming to read enough to know what you're doing (e.g. what forms need to be filed), but the actual paperwork and calculations are not complex.
Classical macroeconomics has some real problems. These include:

- Most models of capitalism are based on trading in goods. This was a reasonable model a century ago, but today, services are much larger in the developed world. This has tax policy implications - sales and import taxes apply only to goods, not services.

- Classical models assume that demand is infinite but capital is limited. For most of history, the problem was making enough stuff. In today's economies in the developed world, demand is a scarce resource but capital is not. The US population is essentially maxed out on buying power, with a low savings rate. Manufacturers could easily up production of just about anything if they could sell it. There's lots of capital around looking for something which will provide even a few percent reliable return, but few investment opportunities. This is why tweaking the capital supply, which is all the Fed can do, doesn't seem to affect much any more.

- Technology has brought an asymmetry to recessions. In a recession, as demand declines, the least efficient producers drop out first and there are layoffs. Productivity increases. Now, when the recession is over, the most efficient producers scale up, maintaining the productivity level they had, increasing their market share. This may be the real cause of the "hysteresis" of which Summers writes. It's also a way in which industries become more concentrated.

- Classical economics overestimates the effect of capital and underestimates the effect of technology. Recent work indicates that most economic growth is driven by technology, not capital, and has been since the Industrial Revolution two centuries ago. (Economic growth rate pre-industrial revolution: about 1%-2% per century.)

- Classical models of the "free market" assume a large number of players. That's rarely the case today. One big effect of computerization is that it's now possible to run very large organizations, like Amazon, quite well. Business used to have scaling problems - beyond some size, businesses became harder to run, and couldn't get out of their own way. For most consumer-facing industries, that's no longer a problem. There's now a tendency to consolidate as far as antitrust enforcement will allow, which in the US, seems to be down to a duopoly. When the number of competitors is very small, they tend not to compete too hard.

- Classical economics assumes labor is mostly direct labor, and that output requires labor inputs. Today, direct labor is way down, and most labor is indirect labor, leading to change, not direct output. Online businesses are an extreme case - doing what the business did yesterday requires almost no labor. Economics doesn't really have a handle on this yet.
One question/concern I have always had -- Do you have multiple feature flags in place at once? How do you avoid the combinatoric increase in possible configurations? If you have feature A and B, what happens if A is turned on first? If B is turned on first? What if they are both turned on at the same time?
I'm sure you're doing well right now, but are you sure it's a good decision to rely your entire life on a judgment made by your 9 year old self? I mean, what have we learned by when we're 9 year old? Maybe you learned some arithmetics and concluded that you've mastered the entire field of mathematics? Again, I'm not saying you made a mistake in your life, it may have worked out for you but it may not work for 99% of the population. Maybe you were lucky.
I think the Christian version is new (and uncommon) because it's unbiblical.

"Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers, but brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers? To have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded?" (1 Cor 6:5-7)

He appears to be saying Christians shouldn't sue Christians at all, especially not in a secular court, and grievances should be settled by a wise member of a local church.
Cases will vary, but if you have 2 million active users at a time and can't cover $1500/mo, then I'm not sure what your options will be. Along these lines, I'm really excited about what kinds of creations Phoenix will enable exactly because the kind of scale it gives you for current hardware. I think we'll see disruptive applications/services come out because of what you can get out of a single machine, so I find stressing price as not affordable in this context really bizarre.
The solution to that is to strip local governments power to interfere with power plant construction. Or just put the plants in the middle of nowhere and pay the transmission line loss cost.
The moat metaphor is common way to talk about a business's competitive advantage. In this case I'm talking about improving or at least not actively impeding web application data interchange, and maybe even exposing smaller, more granular services.

Take Wikipedia, for example, who already offer their compiled data. Now to take that a step further they could expose the transformations they use to compile that data as separate endpoints.
Unfortunately, many MBAs are still looking at the world through a manufacturing lens. Software sector is fairly different in that you don't have a conveyor belt and "plant size" is only marginally useful in that you cannot replicate productiveness exactly.

For product marketing aspects of that job, an MBA is useful, but again, one needs very solid grounding in the subject matter itself. MBA is more of a way of thinking, as opposed to a blueprint in how to do X.
How concerned should I be about my employer (sizable company, ~300 employees) being reticent to divulge our 409A valuation with me? I've had a hard time (read: never did get; only got my options' fractional ownership in percentage terms after long nagging email chains) in the past getting any information to this effect, and we just raised another round a few months back, so I would like to estimate my tax burden, but they don't seem keen on sharing.
I don't necessarily want to start a giant derail here, but this thing has some social significance in that it resuscitated some pseudo-scientific claims about advanced ancient human civilizations ala Atlantis, that suffered cataclysm and disappeared from history.
It's not acid rain, but dissolution of CO2 into oceanic water creating carbonic acid. This carbonic acid dissolves the materials many marine organisms use to construct their homes and shells.

So anthropogenic CO2 (we know it's anthropogenic because of satellite measurements showing seasonal variations around population centers) caused anthropogenic climate change. Even if an unknown effect serves to counteract the massive greenhouse effect of all of our CO2, temperature is only one effect of climate change. There is also changing ocean currents due to meltwater changing salinity and temperature of the ocean, shifting of precipitation to other regions creating droughts and floods, the aforementioned acidification, etc.
Almost all ES5.1 code will run on a browser that implements ES2015. There are subtle breakages like there were when moving from ES3 to ES5.1, but affected code is rare (and probably bad anyway). If `arguments` were changed, it would break huge swaths of the web rather than a couple sites.

While it would be nice to require everyone to re-write their website code, the cost would probably be in the hundreds of billions of dollars. The pragmatic choice is to leave it in place and discourage it's use. Maybe it can be deprecated in a couple decades.
I'm more upset that he calls it a PDF when it is clearly a word document...
Mea culpa. I would edit my comment but it's apparently too late. My apologies to the author.