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You responded in the wrong order. The important point is that Ember is trying to improve, and values the feedback, right?

Defending another team member that you didn't think represented himself well should be secondary. He's a grown man, and can defend himself if needed (especially from the fallout of his own words). Addressing this first just gives me the impression that Ember is focusing on, and learning the wrong lesson, from this problem.
The problem with your definition of false positives vs. true positives, is that one would think that if false positives are happening all of the time, eventually the person might ignore true positives. The other explanations of the pains having different feelings makes more sense in clearing this up.
Got an answer from Websense: "Categorization updates should be reflected in the next scheduled database publication, and will be available shortly to Real-Time Updates subscribers" :)
> "Why is the person who does the majority of the programming also doing the majority of the customer support?"

Because no one else cares. It's a huge problem in Open Source projects. Most of them are single-person projects. One person does the coding, bug fixes, releases, documentation, and answering questions on the list.

For the OP on github, he needs to learn triage. There is no reason to be polite to people who can't be bothered to read the documentation. My mantra is "if you don't care enough to put some effort into it, then I don't care, either. Go fix it yourself."

He needs to quickly read issues, and close the idiotic ones with minimal comment. If they keep arguing, block them.

A good project maintainer can't afford to waste his time on loud-mouthed idiots. There are too many quietly competent people who need his time.
Solved? Not quite.

I too have a gmail address, and I'm getting spam in my inbox on a pretty regular basis (1-2 messages a week). Of course, it's about 1 message missed out of 1000+ spam messages, but that scarcity tends to add legitimacy to the message.

It also means I have to spend more time looking for the problem with potentially legitimate messages.
If the new user 'try this out' tutorial is busted, and the core team knows this. why is ember being pushed so hard?

recently there were many articles on HN itself about how great ember is. if it's so great, why is it people get frustrated with the most simple tutorial?

Why was the response 'i refuse to respond' instead of 'this is a known issue, we're working on it as fast as we can'?
A year ago we looked into how feasible it would be to expand operations of our company beyond the US. Because we have a Korean-born Korean as a core team member, it was placed very high on the list of countries to explore. That spot lasted about fifteen minutes. By law in South Korea, you have to use an ActiveX plugin (and therefore IE) to process eCommerce transactions [1].

Looking it up just now to see what has changed in six months, I see that it's not strictly true anymore. The official policy allows for other browsers, but none of the steps necessary to allow those browsers have occurred.

[1] http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/news/how-south-korea-became...
To be honest, i don't have any(!) Spam on both my active mail accounts.
Heck i used mail.ru for a while and had a very limited amount of spam.

Also: Spam that gets sorted out automatically is like... whatever.. ?! [at least for me]

And like others pointed out: It's a pretty nonsense approach anyways (wondering why it got so many votes)
That's actually a very decent answer. You should've expanded your reasoning a bit on the ember thread. Although to be honest, I thought the tone was more funny than sarcastic, but I'm emotionnally detached from the subject. With your explanations, your reaction makes sense. Sarcasm is a slippery slope.
I would be unlikely to pay $8 per month, but I would pay commission for selling it or sharing advertising revenue. Using a TXT record to indicate a domain is for sale seems interesting too.

(edit: yes, I do have a handful of "unused" side-project domains)
Hey small world. I heavily regret not working on the site more, but when Lolking came out with tons of funding from the Curse network, I figured I couldn't compete against a team of programmers and designers working on it full time. I could only work on the site for a few hours in the weekends at best.

My brother and I are currently working on a similar site for another game, this time putting into practice all the good things I've learned along the way. We won't quit this time.
It's a problem in so far as I'll occasionally miss real emails because they get binned as spam.
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I remember stumbling upon this from somewhere and thought it was great.

It also made me depressed a bit on how my team is doing after a year and a half of development =/.
It's important to think about how this is a product of the people with whom one surround oneself.

I think my SO would be happy with an alternative stone (or perhaps no stone at all!) and that's because her and my friends largely aren't the type to ogle a ring, a watch, or a car. Friends that do fancy material things are able to recognize it and laugh at their own materialistic tendencies because they are the outliers in our circles. Watches are cool but experiences are cooler (plus my g-shock from '98 happily survives the abuse travel and hobbies give it).

Now, we aren't a couple that will settle for tying human hair around our fingers and calling it a wedding band, but I sure as hell won't be spending 20 grand on a rock. And my friends will happily accept the free rounds that savings can cover over the next xx years.
The spam problem was solved by google's spam filtering technique. I get zero spam in my gmail box.

Sometimes i think it is spam, but then I notice i signed up for it myself :p
I see what you're saying, and it is a fair attitude. The problem is that I think others disagree on your definition of civility; for example I am of the opinion that the post was perfectly civil, and I think others would tend to agree.

You are of course free to set your own standards in your own community, however I think it would serve you well to recognize that the implied standards you are setting are extremely, extremely high. In my opinion they are so high that they are counter productive, and I posit that the fact that this article is now at the top of hacker news suggests that many people agree with me on this point.
Just ordered it. Can't wait to read it. Great find Mike!
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I don't know if I agree. I've had chronic pain since I was 18 (sure it was worse later) so I'm 20 years in. I think attitude has a huge impact. I know I was taking craploads more medicine with less results when I didn't put it in the right perspective. We really can beat our pain if we put our head in the demon's mouth as Jerry Colonna likes to say. There are obviously things that are much worse, I know that sort of thinking really helps me. Google around a little and see how people in wheelchairs are doing marathons or something similar. Makes my pain seem tame by comparison.
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It's a positive-feedback cycle: Ivy-League alums hire and promote other Ivy-League graduates, who in turn hire and promote other Ivy-League graduates ...
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I came to a conclusion some years ago: if too many users are wrong, it's probably your fault. There's not some conspiracy by a bunch of unrelated users to all trip over the same things. It probably represents an actual problem. I learned this myself with a dumb little proxy instruction web page. http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2011/07/15/ui/
> no one is harmed by overuse of SSL

Serving everything over SSL has removed HTTP's whole notion of "caching proxies." Now a website can be cached by your browser, or by the remote (i.e. through a CDN which they'll hand their X.509 cert to), but never by, say, your ISP.

And this is a shame, because HTTP's method idempotency semantics and Expire headers allowed intermediary caching to work perfectly--when something was set to expire from your local cache, it would also expire from any intermediary caches at the same time.

Sadly, some ISPs overreached and started modifying the content they proxied, at which point SSL-everything became the clear winner. Additionally, that kind of caching kind of screws things up when you serve any HTML that has been customized per-user on a generic cacheable endpoint (say "GET /timeline")--even though proper HATEOAS strongly indicates against this.
Sounds cool, but I wonder what would happen with bacteria that are trapped underneath the rapidly solidifying gel.

Usually, the flow of blood tends to wash pathogens out of the wound, reducing the chance of nasty infections. Positive blood pressure can therefore be considered a natural defense mechanism. But if you stopped the bleeding too quickly, wouldn't it trap pathogens inside the body before the blood has had a chance to wash them out? Or does the extra-rapid clotting actually trap pathogens within the solid matrix, preventing them from spreading further into the body?
I've been an entrepreneur on the sales/ops side for nearly 15 yrs. Founded & bootstrapped last co. to 7-figure yr/net. Sales at the highest level is a skill set complete with core fundamentals & best practice---just like writing clean code or learning the swan dive. HN is a community of very bright people, I wonder then how many of you know what the "sales process" is? It would next be awesome to know how many of you have a MVP that, if sold to exhaustion for next 60 days, could earn a cash flow that allows you to nix the seed investment you've been seeking because you can grow business & product internally until your ready for the your desired next step.

Below is the sales process. Much like the Pythagorean theorem and the square root of 64, the sales process is an absolute thing:
1. Build Rapport-Research your prospect, be genuine, leverage a warm intro or unique/personalized approach method if possible.
2. Qualify-3 to 5 conversational questions designed to gain clarity for prospect. What are they doing now, what parts are broken, how does the solution tangibly make his/her life better.
Be advised: The sale is made in the qualify, long before you present your product. Prospect must clearly see benefits & "lean in". Remember, a confused mind always says "No".
3. Present-Your product is solution.
4. Close-If steps 1-3 are executed properly the close is a natural ending to the conversation. You should have 2-3 closing sequences/dialogues ready as hesitation is a part of human nature.
5. Secure referrals-Be specific: "Who are 2 to 3 people...." If you've provided value and rapport is genuine prospect will want to help you/your cause.

Just as becoming a talented developer doesn't happen overnight, the sales skill set takes time & practice. The 5 steps above could be discussed in a live workshop for days---developing dialogues, role playing, handling objections, etc. But I promise the above is enough to find success as you get more proficient.
The hard part is doing it. Finding the motivation to arrest your fears, identify your target list & pick up the phone. If you believe in your product & want success you'll work it 12 hours a day & thrive.

I'm new to bay area & a big believer in giving to startup community. If you need help ping me @jdileo.
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This sounds a lot like an idea some religious groups had, where they would sign up to adult websites and then charge back, with the goal to cause the merchant accounts charge back ratio to exceed 1%.

Don't think this worked out either.
Either start applying critical thinking or go sell crazy some place else.

That’s exactly what the Agile Manifesto suggests:

- Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
- Working software over comprehensive documentation
- Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
- Responding to change over following a plan
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trek: "I definitely feel your frustration. The tone of this topic is not in line with the civil level of discourse I'd like to maintain here, so I cannot respond."

Wow, could that response be any more passive aggressive?
For quite some time, I have been using Sequel (http://sequel.rubyforge.org) as an ORM with Postgres instead of ActiveRecord, and have never been happier. Overall, Rails has been a great web-framework, but ActiveRecord has been it's sore spot, at least for me.

Also, using the sequel_pg (https://github.com/jeremyevans/sequel_pg) on Postgres ensures that even raw SQL queries are type-casted properly, plus it supports streaming and cursors, while also being very very quick.

If you want to stick with Ruby/Rails and relational databases, but think ActiveRecord might not be your bag, give Sequel a shot. It also fits nicely into lighter frameworks such as Sinatra.
I think that because TCO is all but inevitable in future engines/standards, starting to use functional patterns now for the programming benefits is worthwhile.
You're right, this should have specifically been in response to the post that was expressing frustration with Trek.
"If you’re not a good artist and not a good programmer, but you still like games, you become a designer."

Is this true?

I thought that actual "game design" jobs in terms of creative direction were like gold dust and something you could only get by either starting your own studio or rising through the ranks.

All of the game jobs I see advertised are either art,programming or testing.
We're not talking about getting laid, we're talking about getting married. Fact is, married people get way more sex than single people.
This misses the point. Scrum is not merely a prescription of sequential high-level actions.

Fundamentally, scrum is a recognition of certain risk-bearing concerns in projects, and the assignment of those separate concerns to specific roles. The division of concerns sets up a structural tension that drives attention to risks and which are necessarily resolved through open negotiation. To truly reap the benefits of Scrum is to appreciate the value of this tension.

All the steps listed fall from this basic understanding.
Knowing Trek, I think his frustration here is in large part with himself. He cares very deeply about giving users a good experience with Ember and knows that we aren't achieving that as well as we'd like. We've been planning and working on an improved Getting Started story for a while now but, because all of us on the Core Team are very busy with our day jobs, it's been slower going that we would have liked.

To have more people point out your shortcomings when you're already well aware of them is very frustrating. I think this is what we're seeing in Trek's response. Now that doesn't mean that I think his response is helpful - it's not. But I do want it to be clear that we do care about these issues and sometimes maybe too much.

When our new Getting Started Guide is finally released, I promise that we will do our best to address all of the different comments and complaints we receive from our users.

-Peter Wagenet, Ember Core Team Member
There is a time cost using SSL. So, maybe not on the same level of impact as over classification of documents.. but still there!
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+1 for the effort. But there is already a project like that which you could have used for this purpose if your purpose was not to build something like HN but build something like HN for only JS: https://github.com/SachaG/Telescope

This would have saved a lot of programming effort.
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$7.99/mo + cost to purchase a domain with minimum (if any) value? Why not just take X% off of each domain sale?
There's an interesting blurb in the following (bottom of the fifth page in the PDF):

https://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/cryptologs/cryptolog_...

"In today's Age, the public has centered in on government as "the problem." Specifically, the focus is on the potential abuse of the Government's applications of this new information technology that will result in an invasion of personal privacy. For us, this is difficult to understand. We are "the government," and we have no interest in invading the personal privacy of U.S. citizens."

This attitude is similar to Bill Binney's (in that U.S. citizens are off-limits due to FISA)[1]. I presume he wasn't the only person within the NSA who felt like that…and I can't help but wonder what the internal dialog is like these days.

1: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05/23/110523fa_fact_...
Not quite. My method was far from what this guy is doing. I only did a minimal ping, one packet per IP with a Python script:

s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_RAW, socket.getprotobyname("icmp"))
for address in addresses:
s.sendto(pkt, (address, 1))
s.close()

At the same time, I had tcpdump running, i.e. "tcpdump -i en1 icmp[icmptype] == icmp-echoreply" to capture the replies.
In an increasingly ironic way "Agile" manifestations generally bear little resemblance to that manifesto.

The first and most obvious failure is that most consultants sell a process and offer little to improve the "individuals and interactions" part. In fact to the contrary I find these contractors spend a lot of effort making "Agile" palatable to managers and upper management. They try to create tons of layers of bullshit metrics for them to be happy (or unhappy) about. Instead of fixing dysfunctional management and team structures they reinforce them. The roles have new names but everyone just falls back into their old behaviours. Nothing really changes we just have new meetings and new buzzwords.
Rob's book and the Micropreneur Academy is exactly what I was thinking of when I mentioned "hand waving" I've read the book twice, and subscribed for several months.

I found that their advice consisted of two things:

1) Find a niche using Google Adwords.

2) Rank #1 with SEO.

And that's about it. It's incredibly vague and frustrating, especially when most niches are oversaturated these days. I reached out to Rob about this, and he replied "yeah, it's hard to find an untapped niche". The entire premise of building a product in his materials is based around finding a nice that's underserved and that you can rank easily in Google for. Anytime someone tells me to solve marketing issues with "just use SEO", they're immediately discredited in my mind.

That being said, the rest of the book was solid. The problem I have is that there is very little actionable information on selling a product outside of Magic SEO-land, which everyone knows is a myth.
"discouraging culture of dickitude", nailed it.

We have to moderate the kinds of communities we want to see and participate in. You don't have to put up with people's shit.
I've suffered with chronic pain since my car accident a few years ago. It amazes me how I have gone from wanting to pop pills to deal with the damage done to my back to just saying "fuck it" and letting the pain exist while I move around. Pain medication is far worse than the pain itself due to how it affects my appetite and digestive system.

Rob's article is definitely something that makes me feel a bit better about wanting to challenge my body a bit more. I've taken up dancing and cycling since my collision and I think that it can only get better.
And how do they plan on enforcing that?
Who cares??? :)
This is the response that should have been made on OP's original thread in the first place (and I do see you've xposted it there now).
I agree completely. I've started using Backbone for the models and validation.

Although I would like to see reactive fields built in; that said I've written an extension to Backbone.Model which gives me that (just ugly syntax)
It's artificial because it's very difficult to sell diamonds. If the market wasn't so messed up, dealers would be willing to buy diamonds from individuals. But in general, they aren't.
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It's a temporary stop-gap. I'm assuming the strategy would be that when the injured gets brought in for treatment, then you re-open the wound, cleanse the area, and give the body appropriate anti-biotics to fight off any infections.

You've gotta pick the lesser of two evils - somebody that bleeds out, or somebody that is alive and able to fight off an infection.
You already own the domain (ie it was for an old side project you never proceeded with), the 7.99 would be to host the landing page, facilitate the payment, and help getting eyeballs on your list of domains.
I totally disagree.

The Ultima series had that ability to transport you into these universes (or this universe) that Lord British (aka Richard Garriott) created.

When there are threads on forums about one game to pick if you had to choose only one (which is very hard to do, but that's the game: pick one and only), if you had to choose "the best game ever", well very often people will cite an Ultima.

I played III, IV and V like crazy. The Commodore Amiga port of Ultima V really sucked. I was so sad that I paid for that crap. So what did I do? I went back to the Commodore 64 to be able to play Ultima V.

Yes, you read correctly: dodging the Amiga which has a way superior machine than the C64 (they're not even comparable feature-wise, these are two different eras of computers) to go back to an old C64 to spend countless hours / days playing Ultima V.

The crappy graphics didn't matter: it was all about the experience.

The only game which did something similar to me is FTL's "Sundog: The Frozen Legacy". FTL then made Dungeon Master which is considered to be one of the most influencial game ever.

Lord British is full of it? Yes. Totally deserved. There are no two game designers like him on this planet.
That would highly depend on if you're writing performance-sensitive code, and I doubt most JS would be greatly affected by these paradigms.
Shouldn't you be working?
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Friends is bi-directional, no?

Or did LiveJournal have a way for me to be your friend without you being mine?
I would imagine its a trade off, infections can be more readily treated, however bleeding out only takes a few moments.
Seems like you could mix in a triple antibiotic?
The article mentions that you can freely mix antibiotics into the gel, so hopefully such a thing would prevent (or at least resist) infection in the wound.
Oh, this is a Kickstarter-like campaign. I didn't know what "Indiegogo" was - this is basically a landing page for someone trying to raise €1,000,000 to "fight spam". I get it.

To those who say, "stupid idea", I'm very disappointed both in the rudeness you show, and the smallmindedness you exhibit. Will this work? If implemented the way Boris writes, I believe it would for the reasons he stated. Those who say "stupid idea" have never had 4,000 orders to deal with - that's the only logical thing that can explain such reactions. The problem is in the implementation of course. Yes, it would be difficult. Yes, it would require adaptive techniques and technologies. But don't forget that people who have a really good and innovative idea don't just have one idea in their heads for their whole life. Ask PG about that...

It's a good idea. I think that, for it to succeed, you would have to work with one of the big credit card companies. If you could get them to provide honey pot-style credit card numbers, you would have something.

For those saying that competitors could be put out of business if this was misused, what's stopping that from happening 20 years ago, 10 years ago, now, 10 years from now? That's not a reason for this to not be considered, is it? That's like saying, "We shouldn't allow lawsuits because you could sue a competitor and he could lose his business defending the lawsuit due to the cost/distraction."
I get the occasional bit of spam in my inbox, but it is not nearly as bad as it used to be. A bit of client side spam filtering coupled with Google's filter is good enough.
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