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nate
7,926karma·1,070submissions·October 10, 2006
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YC alum. Founded Inkling and Draft. Ran Highrise. Founding engineer at Census (acquired by Fivetran)
https://ninjasandrobots.com
I'm working on https://allihat.com, https://pageforth.com, and more. If I can be helpful at all with anything, please hit me up on X (@natekontny) or email me anytime (nate.kontny+hn@gmail.com).
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This seems to have at least a positive reaction from a few folks who'd like to see something accomplished. So to get the ball rolling: http://draftreview.tenderapp.com It's a private site. If you …
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All good points. And I'm going to sound like a pitchman for Tender ( http://tenderapp.com ) :) But that's kind of why I liked using this to create a minimum viable version of this community. Tender…
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Yep, I wasn't imagining this as some kind of lets all get together and write a blog post kind of thing. Really just to get some comments on "does this make sense", "am i dangerously offending anyone …
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Oh, that's interesting. I'll dive into this community maybe a bit more. My initial reaction is the community here seems to be catering to very beginners and up. And maybe what I'm purposing is a bi…
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Right, it would definitely be "private". Meaning, in #1 the reviewers would be a group of moderators who the community trusts through a "Friend DA". Not sure we are going to get some legal document …
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If you're using a private, invitation-only Google Group you could probably replace it with a Tgethr group. Hopefully we've made it a ton simpler and more secure. Some examples about security: I don't …
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To short circuit any confusion, right now these tgethr groups are private and more private :) (using email encryption). You can't give out a tgethr address to people outside of your group and have th…
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I do not intend to disparage ccBetty in anyway, haven't used their service enough. I'm sure there's some users that will find their service great. But mainly we wanted something to do secure business…
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I had attempted to keep the drama and subjective language out of my post and communication about this. I think the developers working on Rails including you, Koz :) does a killer job at making the be…
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Here's a ticket now though. https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/2755-s... And I've also put it up on rubyflow.…
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"Security vulnerabilities should be reported via an email to security@rubyonrails.org, do not use lighthouse for reporting security vulnerabilities. All content in lighthouse is publicly available as …
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Rails 2.3.x. The app you tested this on, what's the password procedure like? One part of problem is doing a password procedure like "Users[name]" where Users is a hash of usernames/passwords. Also …
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hey man! been a long time. you raise an interesting point, and i have thought about it, but not very long and with no real conclusion. like even summarizing ryan singer's github nav redesign: http…
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Sweet, exactly. Feel free to throw that up there! http://ninjasandrobots.com/throwdowns/new
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yep, heard loud and clear. we'll do something better around that
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Agreed, that twitter message looks gross. And I wanted to keep it as short as possible so people felt comfortable adding their own message rather than just leave some redundant default text. Feel fr…