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Totally understand that.

Q: What do you mean by source code guarantee?

We'd love your feedback on consulting as a piece of our business model.

The main reason we're doing it is to put our customers at ease while we continue learning, not because we want it to remain a substantive part of our revenue at scale (because the linear opex is unattractive to us as businesspeople)

Hadn't seen jetstrap before this. It's going to be a hit at hackathons! Nice work.

Okay it's actually pretty amazing that this post made it to the frontpage immediately, then was flagged down and buried.

I like justice and all, but ironic humor trumps even that ;)

To me, your post could be pretty easily translated to another industry & time as follows:

"Got a problem with slavery? Stop complaining about it! And just buy cotton from the Yankees or from the Dutch, ya bunch of whiners."

Drawing maximum attention to the problem is the most important step in solving it. Even stoking seemingly unproductive conversations like this HackerNews thread is an important step, if only because it helps those of us who are on the side of justice practice our arguments.

As one of those people myself, I certainly didn't mean to suggest that all straight white males are oppressors, but rather quite the opposite: that all or most oppressors of civil rights in this country appear to be straight white males.

I think he means "I think I'm going to get downvoted by a lot of privileged dudes", rather than "I'm gonna get mad points from this!"

Aaaand, cue the throng of straight, white, upper middle class males, who'll post a hundred aggressive comments like "stop being oversensitive".

Haha, good point!

At least everyone on the internet either knew what they were getting into, or had the option to close their browser once they realized what was up. Those poor jurors.

Steve's letter is a disappointment to me. I wrote up my thoughts here, in a post entitled "It’s important not to worship any hero wholesale":

http://dorkitude.com/post/41267859215/its-important-not-to-w...

Disgusting as the video is, I'm pretty sure having a council of random citizens deciding what is and isn't "art" is the start of a slippery slope...

Well, that's certainly not what everyone of consequence is doing, just the risk-averse and as-yet-unrescued.

A lot of us work hard to rescue them :P

How many such projects will you be funding?

Rodrigo Y Gabriela: http://open.spotify.com/artist/7vX3cMVyW8gtDA4y855ynF

It says html5 app, but I get this Flash error when loading it on an iPhone :(

http://drktd.com/LozO

This is clever!

My solution has always been something to the tune of:

    var kyle = Person.getByName("kyle");

But your solution is better in that the interface need not change (there could be a lot of code to rewrite in my case, if the "new" keyword were already being used everywhere).

I do like it that in your solution the interface is (or remains) elegant, but I can't help but think, as a pythonista at heart, "explicit is better than implicit". So I'm little freaked out by the idea that code reading:

    var kyle = new Person("kyle");

isn't actually constructing a new instance.

I love the language in this narrative.

"My afternoons and evenings all surrendered to a series of heavenly nods."

You can't have breakthroughs without breaks!

Wow, this is messy!

Darn :(

Working for me still!

This looks awesome. I have the pleasure of knowing the team behind this, and they are insanely capable people who can do what they say.

Can't wait for the beta!

I think our target markets are different.

Our API is the only product we have, and thus it's the only way we can make money. We think that, over time, that will incentivize us to make the best API possible.

We really admire your product, especially the new Engage stuff, which helps app marketers close the loop between intelligence & personal action in a way that the market hasn't seen before (we'd even like to be customers, once our export-to-Mixpanel feature is done!).

As I mentioned before, we see ourselves as the SendGrid to your Mailchimp. Both play a valuable role and have different use cases.

Please check out my response to Brian Chu here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4870090

Exactly.

We're operating at a layer below other analytics products, and we're certainly not as useful out of the box. A good analogy might be:

MailChimp : SendGrid :: Google Analytics : Keen IO

Which is to say, Keen IO is a set of developer API's wrapping hosted infrastructure, whereas other analytics products are end-to-end solutions. We're an agnostic event data backend, and they are each a full product offering with its own focus.

Hopefully that helps explain why we don't think of ourselves as competitors to products like Mixpanel or GA or KISSmetrics -- in fact we plan to build one-click import and export connectors from/to those services and others. We think our position in the ecosystem will actually help them retain customers who would otherwise churn in favor of building in-house.

Thanks! Just a small hack, but it took like 30 minutes :)

IMO whether or not you have good cofounders correlates pretty well to whether or not you'll be able to hire good employees.

Mongo has a pretty low scale ceiling and a nasty distribution story.

Can you talk a bit about how RethinkDB compares?

I was lucky enough to sit down with Cooper early on in his Wishery journey, and I was extremely impressed. Tenacious, authentic, and just a nice guy. Congrats to Cooper and the Wishery team!

One of them has a functioning mobile app that I used last night to order groceries; the other doesn't even have a website.

Makes me think of this old story about spoons and shovels:

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/10/10/spoons-shovels/