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Per our "whitelabeling" philosophy, Streamified actually uses your own app IDs (not ours). From Twitter's perspective, we're just acting as a middleman to help you use their API better; any blockage, then, would be a result of your implementation of their API (throttling, etc).
Yeah, it's nothing new, but it continues to amuse in a rather depressing way.

How long until the general public accepts disruption of the status quo as the new status quo?

Are we dreaming to think that that will actually happen, are change resistance and hoarding immutable properties of human nature?
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I share his frustration with the JS community. There is a rampant wave of a sort of "Ludditism" where people fight tooth and nail against innovations trying to make things better. The argument always comes down to "what we have is good enough, and OMG file size!!!".

I'm a bit more optimistic though. Randy and the Cappucino team blazed a new trail, and although he burnt out there are others who are continuing on and reinventing client side dev. Backbone was just a start. Ember, Angular, CoffeeScript, tons of other great tools/libraries are advancing things at a now exponential pace. Thankfully there are plenty of other early adopters willing to wade through the early buggy code to build projects on top of them.
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My biggest dream is making dreams come true.
Hi! My name is Nick and I’m CEO of Dreamise (www.dreamise.com)- service that realize your dreams. Like thousands of people I’m dreaming every day about many things. And every day I asked myself - how people could realize their dreams when it’s too expensive?

So I thought it would be awesome if everyone can share their dreams to each other and vote for best ones. Then i thought what if the most liked dreams will come true? That how Dreamise was born.

Idea is very simple - people post their wishes, do some actions and get what they want. Every dream has a rating, which you can control. All your actions influence on your rating. More you active, more rating you receive. Every month we realize top rated dreams.

As Dreamise execute dreams - it needs money. But we think that advertising sucks so we decided to make free and premium accounts. Premium costs as low as $5 per month. Only premium accounts can participate in dream’s rating. I think that’s honestly coz if you want something to get you must also something to give.

But even if you have free account your dream may also be realized by other person. I mean if someone knew that he can easily realize your dream... why not?

After all I want to say that this Spring we’ll start Dreamise BETA. It would be completely FREE for all and we’ll realize 3 top dreams. Also first 1000 people that signed up for beta will get 3 months premium accounts for FREE! Sign up now at www.dreamise.com and make your dreams come true!
ACLU, EFF to name a couple.

And the 2nd has been eroded tremendously, maybe not as much as 4th, but plenty still.
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He can blame the technicians for being lazy or stupid, and he does it, but the fact remains, they didn't wanted to use his tech.

Some front-end devs are technicians that need to generate value quickly, and most can't afford investing time in a new complex system that may disappear tomorrow. If there are no clear advantages on the business side that justifies the investment, then there is no pressure to the front-end devs to do it.

Good engineering also means optimizing technical designs for the usage of the technology in order to reduce costs. That includes factoring in the skills of the technicians that are going to use the tech (and the cost of training them).
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Instead of a learning opportunity, this has turned into an enormous fustercluck

I'm still holding some hope that after expending a lot of time and energy trying to distill an extremely gray situation into black and white, the communities involved will have something to learn from this.
Business model. You need a new one. Bits are not physical property.
I'm waiting for the reply article "We The People: The MPAA is a threat to us all and the best response is to make it illegal".
Yeah, that's what she told me too :)
> they're probably just praying no one notices what a culture of discrimination they've created.

You are trolling right? Or did you really infer all of that from a web page.
Newspapers have played around with this on their (paper) front pages:

http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/hr.asp?fpVname=CA_AD...

Putting "refers"/"hot boxes" above the logo to indicate some of the more interesting content inside.
This.

I had a tech book out in the mid-90s from Addison-Wesley, and I got quite a way into negotiating with O'Reilly in the early noughties. The tech publishing sector is largely driven by techies for whom a publication history is of value as a check mark on their resume, rather than people who write for a living: consequently there's a race to the margins to document extremely esoteric niche products, and this triggers a race to the bottom on advances/royalties (it's hard to justify paying up a big advance for a book with a market of maybe 2000 readers).

Even a badly paid midlist SF novel can expect about twice the advance O'Reilly offer for a tech book: the potential audience is much bigger, and the incentives for publishing in the first place are different.
You don't fall into, 'oh I didn't wake up at 4 so the 8.30 doesn't matter' trap?
How does making a joke about forking a repo and the fact that 'dongle' sounds like a slang term for a penis suddenly make women not equal or valuable?

Also:

>The analogy to rape is too obvious.

No. No, it's not at all. You have REALLY try to live in a world where you're being oppressed by evil "entitled white men" to think that.
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Men and women alike have been coming forward and questioning Adria's actions, especially since she made the same type of joke during the conference. She's become a PR nightmare for her employer because she used her media position to take matters into her own hands.

It needs to be understood that posting someone's picture on the internet with the intent of making an example out of them through public shaming, and without the accused having equal footing to present their side, has consequences, especially for an accusation as politically charged as sexism. Such an accusation can get someone fired.

One reason this has grabbed so much attention is that the remarks she overheard were not only rather benign and non-sexist, but they were also the kinds of comments both men and women make to their friends, including Adria, as she did on Twitter.

> Another way to look at it: I can't imagine this chain of events would have gone down if a man pointed out a lewd joke at a conference.

If you want to go down this route, a man complaining about a dongle joke probably would not have received the attention Adria's accusations received because she's a woman. That's simply because accusations made by women are taken more seriously due to them more often being on the receiving end of sexism. That's why it's so important to make sure the attention paid to gender inequality issues isn't wrongly exploited.
Sucks so bad because no logic matters in situations like these. The police can just say "its for your safety", and that is that, everyone has to agree. :(
Good news! Many of these very problems are being worked on right now. The component issue you raised is being fixed with web components: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webcomponents/shadowd... which should be making its way into stable browsers in a matter of months. The module system is being fixed by ES6 modules which should be appearing in Firefox and Chrome within the year. I haven't heard anything about namespaced CSS and I agree that's something that we need.
If her role was "Developer Evangelist" she has done more harm than good. The thought of walking on eggshells worried about everything I say would be enough to get me to either switch companies or avoid working there.
You're not reading some of the most cogent arguments here: most vim/Emacs/etc power users couldn't even tell you what keyboard command to use precisely because they don't think about it. It's reflex, muscle memory, completely out of mind so that it doesn't get in the way of getting code from your mind to the machine. Maybe it's that way for some mousers as well, but given that code is text, it's kind of doubtful. There's also the fact that if you have to break your concentration to context switch to the mouse, you will lose your flow.

Try coding in an editor, any editor, for 8, 9, 12 hours a day and see if you don't start forgetting the keyboard shortcuts because they become reflexive. Vi and Emacs are just hyperdesigned to enhance this effect.

EDIT: And I don't care that you link to Bruce Tognazzini, a GUI designer, when millennia of musicians have known that they don't think about what combinations of fingers they press to get an F#, they just play a glissando with an F# in the middle.
SendGrid fires Adria Richards?
This is awesome news. I use hipchat every day for two different organizations. Great product.
Hooray for i3! Best one I've found for managing a ton of windows that all need a lot of space.
http://www.liquibase.org/

Works great for us. 200+ Billions rows on Oracle.
Awesome. I am just looking into chat options for our small but growing team.

As an aside I think IRC is being sold short on this chart:

https://www.hipchat.com/compare

Nothing wrong against it since it is mosting a marketing comparison chart. IRC is fairly hard to use if you aren't familiar with it already so I get it.

We decided to try out an IRC channel because it was easy to get started, no cost really, and knowing how to connect to IRC is important if you ever want to get support inside #python or #django. Plus lots of other open source projects have IRC so it is good to know.
This looks cool. Is it meant to on a dedicated iPad or in a Square-type POS flow?

Side note: NPS questions should be on a 10 point scale, and the actual NPS should be the % of promoters - % of detractors instead of a straight average.
That's a great example. Although unfortunately many newspaper websites are placing ads in that location.
She was 'directly involved' in the conversation in that she overheard it, and uninvited turned around to insert herself into it.

And that's from her own account of things, which should paint her in the most favorable light. Her story is that she inserted herself into someone else's conversation twice and therefor launched a Twitter campaign of public shaming and social justice.
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And here is a capture of the Facebook post (and some reactions) before they pulled it:

http://www.webpagescreenshot.info/i/240616-321201371406pm.pn...
Official comment from HN on dead threads
Please give us an official comment on this...

20 points - Why are all the posts related to Aria [sic] Richards getting deleted? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5416578

45 points - Effective immediately, SendGrid has terminated the employment of Adria Richards - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5416514

81 points - Effective immediately, SendGrid has terminated the employment of Adria Richards - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5416422

48 points - SendGrid has terminated the employment of Adria Richards - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5416312

148 points (not dead, just shadowed) - SendGrid has terminated the employment of Adria Richards? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5416021
Seems to still be there according to LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=12661295&locale=...
Have we stagnated? Or has the rise of lower powered web-enabled devices forced us to re-think the classic rule of programming (ie that applications can progressively increase their system requirements as PCs are progressively becoming more powerful to handle the load).

Let's remember that even as recently as 2-3 years ago, top end phones and tablets were single core ARM processors clocked at ~1GHz. And devices of that spec are still in wide spread use even now.

The point of the HTML is that it's an open standard which should work on any internet device regardless of platform, patents and what not. While I admire the ambition of the guys who push the envelope of what the web can do, they often forget that everyday sites also need to cater for low end devices used by everyday folk.
I actually had this happen on my windows laptop a few months ago. I initially thought it was Facebook rolling out ridiculous ads haha

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4558985
Okay, this is clearly interesting news, and an official statement from SendGrid. If this gets deleted too, can we at the very least get confirmation that this is mod action and not a flagging ring?

Edit: Confirmed mod action (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5416908). I think it's reasonable, but this blog post seems to confirm that the development is real. I agree with pg that reporter confirmation would be nice. Presumably that's on its way.
Sweet, looks like something I could really dig into for unscatter.com

I'm curious, are you proxying apis or crawling and keeping the information local to serve?
Before working on startups I worked on Wall Street so I can't look objectively at this statement. If that's really true, it's a failure in our education system. Isn't it crazy that to drive a car in this country we need to take a written and practical exam but to invest our life savings we just open an account. Everyone should be forced to study the series 7 material in high school.
Slightly OT, but I think developers often over-optimize our technology choices. That is, we spend more time choosing between two options than it's really worth, because neither choice is bad. Nothing wrong with doing due diligence, but at some point it's fair to say "either option is okay" or "non-technical considerations are more important". I suspect this phenomenon shares something in common with language wars like Python vs. Ruby.
You don't have to install the browser based ones. Also, if they are decent at all, you can link to them.
> Besides the fact that transporting it could damage it further

This is just silly - a computer is not a trauma victim, it's a piece of hardware.

My experience has been that they've spent two days isolating a problem on my 2005 iMac which I caused by using 3rd party RAM with the wrong timing - issue didn't appear well after I replaced the RAM (I replaced the RAM again, it worked fine).
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> Furthermore, rather than merely assuming I met my goals, I used analytics. Every metric shows that my design is successful.

Does this mean that, for example, the green button was A/B tested against the blue?
This is somewhat meta, sorry.

What concerns me is that even in the face blistering internet rage, she dug in her heels and stood by her actions. Just apologize. Why is it so bloody hard for people these days to just admit they made a mistake? Being fired, harassed on twitter, etc etc could not possibly be better than writing "I'm really sorry I publicly outed those guys, I should not have done that, and will refrain from doing that in the future".

Here's another thread where I argue that an apology could have fixed things: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5415524

Some of the responses were indignant, and people said she shouldn't have to apologize for her actions. I agree, she doesn't need to apologize. But look where it got her! This is indicative of a much broader trend I see. People today would rather lose a finger than say they're sorry. I just cannot understand it.
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Let's see how long it takes for this one to be removed.
I've done IT contracting (not for, um, 15 years and counting) and I've been a freelance author. There's a significant difference in terms of what you do and who has control. (I come up with ideas for products and pitch them at publishers, who then pick and choose which to buy. I then do the work. So I'm not under my publisher's control, and they don't have any input on my hours -- but they hold the purse strings and I have to deliver a product they're satisfied with.)
IMHO, this is another perfect example of conflict caused by communication failure. If Adria communicated her feeling when she heard the joke to the joker he would've apologized immediately and nothing would've happened afterwards. Many more people would've remained a calmer and more pleasant mood.
I replace it with "the Internet".
I wonder how they will relate to keyboards and text input after they learn to read and program.
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Highly unlikely. You're just saying things without doing any research.

Have you ever read feminist blogs / writings? They'll often prefix text with a "trigger warning" (or TW) to alert readers if this text needs to talk about violence or sexism or racism etc. This is because some people might be "triggered" and have strong negative emotional reactions to some things. (cf. http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Trigger_warning )

Given that, it's highly likely that making dick jokes and especially claiming "It's OK, I'm not as bad as the man who beat you!" to excuse said dick jokes, is a sure fire way to get your head kicked in in some places.
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> Indeed, I am really puzzled as to why these
> "jokes" are supposed to be offensive to women.

The difference between the PyCon incident and your female friend texting you a joke is that she is your friend, and you have a rapport, and in your friendly relationship with her you two have a understanding that that kind of joke is okay!

That's a lot different from a person being subjected to sexualized jokes and comments from strangers.

Your friend gets to choose what kind of friendship she has with you; a woman on a train or at a conference does not get to choose what kind of sexualized comments she hears from strangers.

Surely this is something we can all understand. A lot of guys (me included) will say really rank things to their close friends - explicitly letting their friends know when they're getting fat, jokes about sleeping with their friends' wives and mothers, and so forth. That's all totally cool (and often hilarious) but surely you can agree: it would be a completely different story if a stranger or your boss started making remarks about your weight or how many times he's slept with your wife, correct?

That's kind of what it's like for women when they hear unwanted sexualized jokes and comments from strangers, with the added factors of being minorities in their own industries and living in a largely male-dominated world. Did you know that even in America, a woman has roughly a 20% chance of being raped in her lifetime? (source: http://www.cdc.gov/ViolencePrevention/pdf/SV-DataSheet-a.pdf)

Here's the key thing, though: it's actually not about what you feel. Whether you don't understand, or you do understand and simply think women who feel this way are being dumb, the fact is that a lot of women feel that way. You can respect their wishes and make them feel welcome in our community, or you can choose not to. My personal opinion is that the more of us who choose the former, the better - for us and for our industry.
These attacks, presumably, aren't being made by anyone that's actually involved with the situation...
What a total, total mess. To be clear, though: there is still no confirmation that SendGrid being down is a result of this incident. The timing certainly bears that out, but let's deal with the facts we actually have here.

To her credit, Adria stated that she didn't think the guy should have been fired. Perhaps she went further with her complaints than many would like, but I think it's fair to say that this has escalated far beyond what any party would have liked or wanted.
What awkward emphasis put on syncing your phone with Chrome.
Posted but dead here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5416422
Fair point, however the choice of editor/editing mode is a personal one. Are my personal results of my personal experiment not the only ones that matter to my personal choice?
I'm really disappointed in the way this story is getting buried. It's quite clear people want to talk about this.
I do NOT believe that ANYONE should suffer the wrath of the Internet

I would encourage everyone to react more slowly and deliberately to stories like this that outrage them. This applies to companies firing people as well as people using the complex facts to support their existing points of view.

Slow down, everyone. Injustice will still be there for you after your blood pressure goes down.
This has to be fake, right?
Interesting that it doesn't effect "Open in new tab" links in Chrome...
As Adria Richards backlash grows violent, SendGrid publicly fires her
Yeah, you're right. I was thinking in terms of a traditional console game controller. A phone has other features that could be used like speakers, microphone, accelerometer, etc. As a motion device it would be great, definitely.
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The node team has supported Windows since 0.6, and Linux forever.

StrongLoop Node is a bundled distro with modules etc that they're going to support as well.
To be fair, those are all systems with a drastically higher cost of failure than general web development.
HN censoring this story is only going to send it to defcon 4.
I wasn't talking about what Adria did. I agree with the consensus that she fucked up. I was talking about the fact that it's possible to be blinded by privilege and accidentally make remarks that really undermine the sense of belonging and safety of somebody with less privilege than you.
"for making gross, wildly inappropriate jokes within earshot of other attendees"

lol try being in any other industry and going to conferences. Plus try basing your argument on what actually happened. What you wrote above seems completely disconnected from reality.
What? How can that make any sense? If they didn't need a Developer Evangelist then why did they have one in the first place? Are you seriously suggesting that their timing in firing her is completely coincidental?
Thanks! Be sure to drop us a line if you want to dig a bit deeper into integration.

For social networks, we're proxying the APIs (essentially). For articles and news, we both aggregate organically discovered articles from streams, as well as scrape 250k+ RSS feeds and other news sources. So, articles are stored local to the server (which is why we have such a large collection of them), but sensitive social information is a pass-thru to the social network.

However, in both cases, we're doing lots of analysis on top of the data per our "normalization" philosophy.
We started off using Sendgrid too but found that our emails were often ending up flagged as spam, even though we had the SPF records and all that jazz. I should note that our emails were not spammy at all. Switched to Mailgun and haven't had any issues since.

I have also noticed that false positives from other startups in my own spam folder are often sent through Sendgrid (though I suppose that's not dispositive since it could just be that more startups use Sendgrid).
In your endo?

I haven't seen this joke once today, so I'm doing it.

Hate me if you wish - I know you will.
Does anybody know the state of SecureBoot-lockdown of these? From what I understand, the ARM tablets have to be locked down by Microsoft’s policy, whereas at least x86 laptops need some sort of way to either disable SecureBoot or provide your own keys – what about x86 tablets?