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I believe you still cannot use Django models on app-engine-patch.

The creator said it will be supported in the future though.
And then have the gall to accuse the network of wanting to make a profit itself?

To be fair, I was the first one making that accusation (not axod) and I clearly indicated that it was a tinfoil hat moment - time will tell, but the banning of mibbit and the implementation of their own webchat client (well, currently a default installation of an open source client) is awfully convenient given axod wrote a post on mibbit's revenue only the day before.
it looks particularly horrible if you are using a portrait-mode display like he does (or at least I think it's a portrait mode, as the whole thing is stretched to the full height of my sideways 24" widescreen (tallscreen?) display)
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Yes, but with concurrency/repetition/keep-alive, you can still tie up essentially all of the connections. (And it's plenty easy to open any number of hanging connections without 'ab', too -- a few lines of shell script, at most.)
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I feel like you read a different article than I wrote.

For one, Atlanta has the highest rate of entrepreneurism in the nation - true. Unfortunately, almost all of those new businesses are not startups - they are under paid consultants and mom and pop shops. Anyone who has ever attended a Technology Association of Georgia event knows this to be indisputable fact. Corporate downsizing in our big-company town has driven this rate up. A former executive selling management consulting, or a former factory worker selling bait does not a startup make.

As I said, the number of early stage deals in new ventures this year is very close to zero. If you're connected with the angel community, you know this is true. I didn't simply make it up.

As to customer-driven development, what I am suggesting is that we embrace a model that involves customers at the stage where new entrepreneurs tend to look for investment capital. It is unfortunate that you didn't care for the article's tone, but I would encourage you to take a look into the customer development model - it has applicability in Atlanta, and elsewhere.

As to a profound misunderstanding - I'm not sure you read the article that I wrote. Nowhere did I say that entrepreneurism is easy anywhere. Its hard everywhere. What I said was that Silicon Valley does support exceptional individuals with resources in every area to aid them in their success. Think about the definition of exceptional: way, way above average. People work hard in California, and they follow the California game plan and if they are exceptional, it often works. That game plan simply does not work anywhere near as well in Georgia, because it is a fundamentally different business environment. If you drew your livelihood from a startup in this area, you would probably understand that.

No offense, sir, but you seem to have been rubbed the wrong way by someone else, and you are taking it out on me.
> I'm not claiming Freenode was standing to make a profit from this; you did: "* It makes money"

I think that you should re-read that unless you are saying he said that Freenode "Isn't open source" as well...
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If you're thinking he could create a premium marketplace that works as a Wordpress plugin, it's a terrible idea. He'd be proving the model for Wordpress, as soon as he started getting traction they could introduce their own official premium marketplace installed by default in all new versions of Wordpress... and don't forget to upgrade for this month's important security fix.

I'm not a fan of the post's tone, but he's right that Wordpress needs to do it. Nobody else wants to try because they'd either fail or have it taken away from them.
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I think he's grumpy because Wordpress's actions (and lack of actions) means the healthy marketplace for themes and plugins that could exist doesn't.

A lot of plugins and themes have been abandoned by their creators because they're walking away from unprofitable time sinks exactly as you suggest. The blogger is trying to point out Automattic is doing its users a disservice by keeping this environment.
My clients are usually more apt to talk about subtleties of acronyms than I. I'm glad you fought back a little though, you have a great point. I'd prefer to take the term SEO out back and have it shot, personally. I'm a bigger fan of findability, a la http://www.alistapart.com/articles/findabilityorphan/
This problem is studied deeply in the philosophy of color, and there are three major theories on the relationship between light, color, and experience:

The theory of physicalism states that an object's color is an intrinsic property of matter, that its color is determined by its atomic properties. This theory is largely discredited in modern philosophy.

The theory of relationalism states that an object's color is determined by the atomic properties of the object in combination with physical properties of the environment: ambient light, reflection/refraction, diffusion, etc.

The theory of projectivism states that an object's color is a combination of its physical properties and the perception in the viewer; namely, that color is an experience tied to a dual system of subject and perceiver. This is the generally accepted theory today.

There's a large body of work on the philosophy of color (most of it sitting in my girlfriend's bookshelf). See http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/color/ for an example of the depth of the topic.
To rephrase things another way, would you ban mIRC if you determined that 100% of disruptive users used it as their client? Even though there are plenty of legitimate users of mIRC?

It seems more likely to me that there is some sort of objection to 'web clients' because desktop clients are the 'one true way' to access IRC. Note that I say this as someone that prefers to IRC from console clients like BitchX and irssi through a screen session.

I known plenty of people that have used IRC that don't 'know' what IRC really is other than how to use the graphical elements of their client to access things for the 'chat room'.

And in this case you are not 'providing' IRC accessibility. Mibbit is providing that. The only thing that you're doing is restricting accessibility by banning Mibbit. Now if Mibbit were banned by default on your IRCd and you had to 'grant access' to them you could argue the other case.
Quite a few registration forms do block webmail addresses for reasons of abuse.
You authenticate to source control and other services while using a public terminal?
Maybe I don't understand because I'm bad at golf and don't get a whole lot of birdie putts, but when I do I always go for it because getting a birdie is great, and getting a bogie is pretty average for me. I've never once just hoped to get it close, even for an eagle.
You are agreeing with someone who said "mibbit users are retards." That's not the kind of language that's encouraged around here.
It is probably higher - have a look at shadowstats.com to see the difference between the stated national rates, and the rates if computed using the old method.
This is a great feature that I've wanted for a long time. It's not much use to me in my hometown like when I'm Googling directions from my house. But poking around other countries, like when I was looking at Beijing during the last Olympics, it will be great.
I don't think he's approaching this from a user-centric perspective, but more from the perspective of how it's not "fair" to developers and designers. To wit:

Theme and plugin developers have helped make WordPress the champion blogging platform that it is today without receiving a single dime of the $29.5 million in funding that Automattic raised last year. Both Matt Mullenweg and his company Automattic benefit financially from the hard work of plugin developers and theme designers. Yet it’s somehow justified in Matt’s mind that it’s not okay for plugin developers and theme designers to directly receive financial compensation for their contributions to WordPress.

To me, that reads as "We've worked hard on Wordpress and we deserve to share in its success." The crazy thing is that a) as far as I can tell, not much has changed in terms of the rules, so if this wasn't a problem before, why is it a problem now? And, b) no one is saying that developers and designers can't offer premium themes and plugins for pay, just that Wordpress won't host those assets for them. How it that unreasonable? Again, this goes back to this guy thinking that he deserves to be able to charge for stuff that Wordpress is hosting for him, for free. Give me a break.
I'm glad this post was written and I hope more light gets shed on this.

I've seen many people who are naive about GPL and how it relates to themes and plugins.
Nobody else wants to try because they'd either fail or have it taken away from them.

That's the bitch of relying on someone else's platform for your business model.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=665610

Apparently #perl found a way to get around this without banning all of Mibbit. Maybe others should take the time to put more than a "F* YOU!!" into this?

I'm curious as to how much time you've spend solving the problem vs. complaining about it in forums/channels... I can say that right now I have more respect for the #perl guys than you, and I'd never heard of Mibbit before this article...
If mIRC, by it's nature, resulted in a disproportionate maintenance cost as compared to other clients, then yes, I would seriously consider banning it. Mibbit requires additional support from Freenode: trust of its declared client IP addresses, and additional abuse support from the Freenode staff.

I wouldn't demand AOL expend any effort whatsoever to support my 3rd party AIM service without remuneration, and regardless of remuneration offered, it would remain their perogative to say "no".

Why is Freenode, as an independent market actor, not allowed the same prerogative? Is it because Freenode operates as a non-profit, while Mibbit is a small startup?
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I've certainly worked with some programmers who's approach seemed more like evolution and intelligent design.
@wehriam: I'm with Russell on this. It doesn't sounds like you actually read the article. Russell's "read Steve Blank" is some of the best advice he could give. I'm constantly advising local startups to first go get customers instead of first chasing investment; so many of them see "getting funded" as a panacea. Focusing on customers instead of investors is what Steve Blank's book is all about and actually what business success is all about too.
It'd be like hackernews blocking opera users if some spam submissions were submitted by opera users.

No, it would be like HackerNews blocking a 3rd party HN client that:

* Required that HackerNews trust the third party client service to provide user identity.

* Had a significantly higher level of abuse as compared to standard users.

* Required a disproportionate amount of resources to support for the given user base.

* (Least important) monetized HackerNews via advertisements.
If I have $1million there is incentive for people to shoot me in the head and take my money. I guess that means that I should hide away in the mountains as a hermit and shun society, because everyone that is part of the society has an incentive to screw me over.
Great article. I have never looked to much into disorders like that and always thought that hearing voices that tell you to "kill yourself" is more of a popular myth. I though that one would usually hear just random things. Thank you for dispelling this for me. The guy also shows what it really means to overcome difficulties.

HN related, the brain is a very complex "computer" with its own bugs.
I golf a lot, and this seems like A "No kidding..." type of statement to me.

Birdie putts are less common, even for great golfers, and so when it comes up everyone tends to put a little bit more pressure on themselves, consciously or unconsciously, to capitalize on the birdie putt.

Even when you have a short one (less than 5 feet) you friends will say "Oh, don't miss..." etc.
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Oh. Thanks for explaining. I didn't mean to imply that mibbit users are retarded. Just that they don't quite know (or care?) as much about IRC as other people do.
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Okay, I think this post is ridiculous for many reasons. The major reason being the author just doesn't understand the point.

When he talks about 200 themes were removed back in 2007 from the wordpress theme directory, most of the themes that were removed were sponsored(or spammy) themes. wordpress.org is is the website for the opensourced GPL'd project wordpress, there is no reason for them to host themes that run in contrary to that philosophy. The idea is to create trust in the hosted wordpress themes and plugins, for people who care they know if they go to wordpress.org, everything they download is GPL'd they are free to use, free to modify and free to redistribute.

I don't see that the onus is on Automattic to support any other agenda but their own, they are a business and the ultimate goal is to make money(for themselves).

That being said, the idea of a wordpress theme/plugin marketplace is a fine one, but as many people have already said in this thread it would be easy enough idea for automattic to take as their own. I would find it hard to believe the guys at automattic are stupid so if it doesn't exist already, there is probably a reason(ie/ profit margins are too low to spend the time developing the service, not enough demand, etc.)
webmail clients are only blocked 'due to abuse' because it's easy to make bots to register fake email addresses. But even that is not fool-proof. I remember that back when AOL on dial-up was my internet connection, the 'master' account could create multiple 'child' accounts. So even the ISP in that case could allow you to create a 'fake' email for the purpose of registration.
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And O. J. Simpson didn't murder anyone. Let's be serious here, anything is possible in the court. Maybe his friends only planned to play with that sniffer and not steal any money.
It was big news 10 years ago (literally, 2001ish) when these kind of attacks were initially discussed. Nowadays it's more of a big yawn as the script kiddies rediscover old playgrounds.
We (as a channel) initially tried to avoid banning Mibbit wholesale, but that strategy failed. I imagine Freenode had similar issues at a larger scale. I can't say that any developers I associate with are unhappy that Mibbit was blocked.

Specifically, on a technical channel:

<me> Looks like Mibbit was blocked
<user1> so sick of mibbit luzers
<user2> nice!
<user3> mothafuckers who can't be bothered to
use an IRC client probably don't need to be on IRC
<user1> had some random moron join #scheme and then
start /msging me to ask where I was from

It's difficult to find places to engage in community discussions with other high-quality developers without eventually being inundated with low-quality participants. The quoted response may be overtly rude, but the fact is, Mibbit brought exactly the type of users that we're on IRC (and freenode, specifically) to avoid.
The point of the article is that great golfers are OK with not capitalizing on the birdie putt, but a bogey is to be avoided.

Edit: Apparently I should clarify. The golfers are putting more pressure on themselves to make par and avoid a bogey score. On the putt for birdie, they are not putting too much pressure on themselves; instead they are OK with settling for a par score so they take shots that aren't as risky. In other words, it's more important to them to avoid a bogey score than it is to capitalize on the birdie putt.
This webpage may be helpful in answering that questions:

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Question:
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Why is Freenode, as an independent market actor, not allowed the same prerogative? Is it because Freenode operates as a non-profit, while Mibbit is a small startup?

I'd suggest that freenode's arguments seem to be fairly hollow given that freenode as a network is populated by tech savvy users and if they want to cause strife on the network, then the client they use wont make much different, they will find a way.

I personally find it incredibly convenient that axod writes a post about mibbit's revenue that is posted to HN and then the next day, mibbit is banned from freenode but that's ok, freenode has implemented their own webchat client that you can use. Great timing no?

Given we've established that people trolling freenode will find a way to do so regardless, that could be construed as a little fishy, no? Especially since it's just a default installation of an open source client - it wouldn't surprise me if ads pop up on the freenode webchat client in the next few months.

I also find it interesting that even though axod was in channel asking the #freenode ops what he can do to fix the issues and the general response was "sorry, it's done now" - stonewalling him only lends weight to my argument.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for freenode trying to make money to support their servers, but at least be transparent about it.
"go play somewhere else."

A better suggestion: if you think your complaints are the same as the rest of the community, fork the project and create a fair and healthy ecosystem for your partners.

Isn't WP GPL'ed?
It's not only other hackers that are beneficial to meet. It's potential employees and potential customers. For example, there were many non-hackers at ProductCamp (which I was unfortunately too sick to attend.) Did you go to that?

BTW, what type of business are you running and how do you define your target customers?
They're also blocked because of a high number of users (proportional to other e-mail services) registering accounts to troll anonymously.
This article shows a tendency among many of today's economists to make the mistake of thinking they know it all. For all they know, there is some hidden benefit to avoiding bogeys and settling for pars. Maybe even one bogey would hurt your morale far more than a birdie would help it, especially if you're a great player. Maybe there isn't an easy way to avoid that effect, and it affects how well you play. Who knows? That could easily serve as a rational justification for this behavior. But most economists have bought in to the idea that they know exactly what is rational and what isn't.
But things may change as you do down the version ladder. I bet it is slower than IE 2 or 3.
Heh, best argument against creationism yet: If God were omnipotent and omniscient and God designed the human body, then it wouldn't be such a phenomenal mess!
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Maybe because they're so excited that they might make birdie on the hole that they lose their concentration?
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If you read the article, this doesn't seem to be the reason. Many golfers admit that they're more interested in avoiding bogey than making birdie.
Two thoughts immediately rushed through my head:

1) Netscape Navigator did this 15 years ago, although not nearly as cool

2) Why did he just show a screenshot? Couldn't he have given, you know, a link?
I think this can be explained by the different level of competition. It sounds like you're a more casual player, at least when compared to the players mentioned in the article.
That isn't the case in a lot of states that aggregate the taxes and disperse them. Texas does this, I think.
So, basically, we need to refactor the human body.

I am quite alright with that.
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Sorry, but how is this hacker news?
Or maybe the Universe was a hastily done outsourcing job?

Seriously though, as messy as organ systems and biochemistry may be, the weird thing is that it all works by itself, using basic chemical properties. I remember how some textbooks can make it sound like proteins and molecules are ordered around in a cell, but in reality everything just floats around, is attracted and repelled to other stuff in the right places, and it works.
I'd suggest that freenode's arguments seem to be fairly hollow given ...

The point is, isn't this entirely their perfectly reasonable prerogative as free actors? Given that my own minimal channel 'work-load' has increased due to Mibbit, I'm inclined to take their position at face value.

However, if I were to entertain the notion of a secret plot for IRC monetization, I still wouldn't begrudge them that choice.

... freenode as a network is populated by tech savvy users and if they want to cause strife on the network, then the client they use wont make much different, they will find a way.

Mibbit's user base is relatively self-selecting. I don't believe it's inconceivable that the Mibbit user base is much more inclined to cause strife.

Whenever I go hiking in a relatively populated area, I always am bemused at how litter and graffiti disappears just a mile or so down from the trail head -- it seems that anyone willing to leave behind beer cans and spraypaint trees is also generally unwilling to walk more than a couple miles to do it.