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This explains how I got scammed on Shopify last summer. I’m not talking about a missing product label or receiving a counterfeit item. I paid $1200 for a Shopify product (drone) and received a box with a poster tube inside of it that said “the world is yours”. Nothing else. The merchant was gone that day. The real scammers live on Shopify.

Hey creator, just wanted to say great job. A lot of these Hacker News comments are predictably neck-beardy and lack the recognition of effort and dedication put into a product launch.

Don't listen to the non-constructive "yeah but X already does it" comments. This seems like a simple but useful product, and good on you all for putting this out there. Keep creating and iterating!

The long and rambling, confusing and grammatically indirect answer that this piece puts forth is that yes, Rails is still relevant in 2018. I could agree more.

React Server 10 years ago

To me this product markets itself. This team has accomplished a lot with this tool, and i'm compelled to adopt and educate myself.

The proof (and splash) is in the pudding here. Kudos to dev team that built this.

"We will remain steadfast in our efforts toward contributing to an Internet that represents the best, not the worst, of humanity."

But doesn't the full human experience include both the best and the worst?

Amazon Dash Button 11 years ago

| and when it's my turn, I ask her if there have been any big winners lately.

So, were there any???

Diversity at Amazon 12 years ago

You're right that they're not consistent between the two charts. That can be misleading.

They are ordered by percentage descending, so you can quickly understand which is the 2nd most populous, 3rd most populous, etc. The ethnicity name is right by the percentage so you can quickly grok it, even though the colors don't match across pie charts.

"For the first time, you and your family can access and easily share not only your own Kindle books, but also books from the Amazon account of a spouse or partner"

This seems like a really nice feature that was somewhat buried in the Kindle Voyage description.

Wait, so Google hasn't actually done anything to the article?

"Although the BBC has had the notice from Google that my article will not show up in some searches, it doesn't appear to have implemented this yet."

My thought (as a developer) is that it's just lazier (and worse for the product) to ask for everything. The more permissions you ask for, the less users you'll get.

For example, Facebook blatantly recommends that app developers ask for only the bare minimum of permissions on the initial app engagement. They cite numbers showing that click-through rate falls off precipitously once users see more than a few permissions required. They say that you should only ask for more permissions as the user explicitly tries to do something that requires them, for instance, ask for sharing rights only when they click 'Share', not before.

Lots of people are turned off by the number of permissions. Be surprised.

[dead] 14 years ago

This isn't the only time Yehuda Katz has bogarted a talk.

I listen to the Javascript Jabber podcast. One talk was on Backbone. Jeremy Ashkenas was a guest, and I was really looking forward to listening to it. Yehuda was also on the call as a host.

Throughout the call Yehuda repeatedly interrupted and contradicted Jeremy. He would go off on tangents for several minutes, talking about his own work. The main host tried to re-direct the conversation but Yehuda was consistently interrupting. Apart from him not having good manners as a host, I felt like Yehuda really got in the way of my learning more about Backbone. He kind of ruined that podcast for me.

And I might not be alone. Ever since a few shows after that episode he hasn't returned to Javascript Jabber.

Sometimes people don't know how they're perceived until public reactions like these. I hope this helps him understand more about himself and how he affects others.

I agree with the author that learning and becoming handy with git cli is very important.

I don't agree that you should stop using a GUI for git, especially if you've already cut your teeth on the command line. Tower, a git GUI for Mac OS X, has a great interface and ties in very well with the core git functionality. I've learned a lot about stashing, merge conflict resolution, and cherry-picking, thanks to that app. Also, Tower shows a tree graph, similar to the network diagram the author "seriously cannot live without."

Why knock visual tools when when you rely on them so much?