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Was reading article while listening to his banjo song: https://dancederholm.bandcamp.com/track/election-day. Good article, fellow Masshol...yman!

I read the article and full disclosure, I don't use Dribbble and am not a member. My thought is that temporarily suspending a user based on report from community members is reasonable. Dribbble looks like a very social/community-centric site, I'd imagine if a rogue member were to post inappropriate content, the community can come together and help moderate. This also mean that if community members feel personally offended and take it the other way, and ding someone like in this instance, the site steps in and make it right. Again, Dribbble unbanned him shortly after. I just feel like it's a non-issue-but that's just my opinion.

Disclaimer: I posted a draft of this last week. Got some feedback and had since updated the article. I've also moved the article to Medium for a bit more eyes. Not personally trying to gain anything, just wanted to raise some awareness about the issue. Thanks.

Doing tech, especially tech startups for a while and some day you wake up thinking to yourself: if we pool all our skills together, we could build the world we ought to have by the end of next 'sprint'--But why are we all stuck building sand castles after sand castles? Yeah, when the hivemind takes over and everyone is afraid to speak up, that's when we can no longer innovate. It's great to find like-minded team mates, it's not so great when people are afraid to speak their minds due to fear of being an outcast.

Absolutely agree with you on starting conversation. Both you, me and a lot of our tech friends can use our skills as armors and shields. Unfortunately, many of our colleagues are a little more vulnerable especially since most startups often do not have a full-fledge and empowered HR department. I hope that we can start speaking up more and coming into defense of these colleagues sooner to prevent workplace bullying from taking shape in the organizations we're a part of. Thank you again for speaking up, my friend!

Beautiful culture. It appears that headdresses are so much more than simple ornaments in pretty much all cultures. When I got married, as a Vietnamese male, I also wore the headdress.

I think there's much more to Ukraine than what we read or don't read on the news.

As someone from the outside looking in, my heart breaks for many friends in Ukraine who lost their homes. I wrote this for my Donetsk friends who had to uproot: http://nguonthieng.com/thirty-ba-muoi/story-of-the-wind.html

I've been a little confused because I've seen the name "Wanderlust" somewhere before. http://wanderlust.com/ isn't yours is it? If it's not, then I would seriously consider a different name since .com domain name combined with the fact that it has been around a little longer as well as the (almost similar?) "explore something/somewhere" mission. Other than that, your chance is as good as any one's. Good luck!

Thanks for getting back to me. Wow, Day One looks like an amazing app. I would certainly use it if my needs were simply journaling AND I can read their key management system specs. For some reason, I'm stilling writing on a notebook when it comes to private thoughts--just a force of habit I suppose. I think I'm like you, I would probably be more honest if I know what I write is going to be for my eyes only.

EDIT: You did launch your note app. Congratulations! I would to hear more about QuickNotes if you have a chance.

You make a good point. Having worked in consumer & enterprise security space, I can definitely confirm that security is indeed a very VERY difficult thing to sell. It's a chronic pain killer often-time conceived as a vitamin. I wasn't planning on pushing the security aspect of it, but yeah, engineering habit--I get excited about tech and forget that most people don't find it as as fascinating hah.

I sincerely hope you launch your note app. I think there's a reason why there are so many of them out there. No one has gotten it right yet. I thought Evernote did a pretty good job as conquering the market, but I think there's enough individuality, because I think that's what it is, everyone captures and consumes notes differently. We can certainly carve out a niches :)

Good luck!

-V.

Hi Duncan. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Yeah, I currently use multiple tools to manage my stuff as well but it's starting to feel like playing lego with tools. As much as I love to play around with lego, I'm getting tired of jumping from app to app to just handle a couple of "seemingly related" tasks to me. Not to mention usability and collaboration isn't without much friction. If anything, I need a tool that I can tell my wife: "here, use this, write your note and secure your passwords here" instead of scattering them everywhere.

While I think successful folks do a fair share of "rewriting history" especially about spots in their timeline which could be considered "mean", I would much prefer PG's optimistic view. It keeps me more hopeful and that I could make the harder choice to be a good person for long-term success than to be a bad one for instant gratified returns. There's no problem in being hopeful and I welcome such positive "opinions".

Using its best guess with dependency, it creates the appropriate migration file(s) favoring more files over potential conflicts. I think that's fine. The problem is consistency. However you choose to run the makemigrations, it should at least result in the same amount of files. It can't be more or less conflict if nothing is changed.

I have to say that I've been a big Django user and have been using 1.7.x for a bit in my own development. There are a couple of "oddities" for me that perhaps folks will encounter:

1. If you do heavy TDD, you might not like that fact that you can't skip migrations the same way you previously could with SOUTH_TESTS_MIGRATE = False. There's a thread going on (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/django-developers/PW...). It appears that with syncdb going away, there isn't an option available. I really hope there's a way to retain syncdb for unittest because I don't need to test database migration every time I run my quick unittests.

2. I think 'makemigrations' is a bit inconsistent at the moment. Sometimes it creates more than 1 initial files, sometimes it creates just 1 (if you run 'makemigrations app-name' instead of 'makemigrations')

There are a couple of other general Django issues, but those are the things I encountered while working with 1.7.x.

Actually, have you had a chance to read this: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.7/#schema-m...

I think it's a pretty cool project for father & children bonding. I wrote down some thoughts down in "The Future of Our Past" (quick read I promise!): http://nguonthieng.com/thirty-ba-muoi/the-future-of-our-past...

Thank you. I really appreciate the kind words. -V.

I wrote this on the home-bound train one night during a tough time with the startup. I assured you, no creative license here. The hours were pretty brutal on a couple of occasions. I made sure that everything is well supported at home first though.

I wrote this because I honestly was missing my daughter a lot and hope that capture that feeling and put it into words. I do my best to take care of my family and express my care to my love ones.

I think at the end of the day, we're all engineers, hackers, lovers etc. and it's our nature to solve anything that seems like a problem coming our way. This is why I decided to share it with everyone. Because I know that home-bound train, I wasn't by myself and there were others who were on it with me.

Thank you for your kind words to me. I am flattered and somewhat embarrassed when you call it "arts" though. I'm shy! I don't even call it poem because I didn't want to offend those who truly dedicate themselves to the craft. I'm simply a convert who wanted to share a feeling I captured.

Take care.

Good luck! I think we all share a dream of having the ability to control Time to satisfy our thirst for creativity and at the same time take care of our love ones. Here's to dreaming, right?! :)

Thank you for sharing your thoughts with me. I hope you have or will find your words and your own happiness. Take care.

If you can drop the stress at the office after 5PM, I think you should be feel blessed and I'm very happy for you.

I generally try to not miss dinner, but I have a rule that I go by, which is I never ask my colleagues to do what I was not willing to do myself.

Even if I spend all the time with my daughter, I never think it's enough. This was written when I made a decision to do both: be the best father I could and be the best professional at my job; when I did that, the only solution was to cut down on my sleeping time.

It was taxing on my body and one night on the way back on the train, I wrote this piece thinking about my daughter. I shared it because I didn't think I was the only one riding that home-bound train. I've been receiving personal messages telling me how much they appreciated me putting their feelings into words. That's when I knew I was definitely not riding that train by myself.

By the way, I left work early yesterday to take my daughter to the park yesterday. She was quite happy :)

I wrote this during a very tough run at the startup. Perhaps let me share a little bit more so that is it in context.

First and foremost, most credits, indeed go to my wife and family. The reason why I didn't mention my wife in this piece other than "You’re the only cool shade in the hottest of days/For a weary soul/that your Mother saved many years ago" is because this was a letter to my daughter. This piece was part of a collection of my thoughts from last year (when I was thirty) and I did thank my wife and family when I publish it: http://vuongnguyen.com/thirty-ba-muoi.html.

I'm 31 last month and I've been with my wife for 11 years now. We're best friends in many way and we support each other in our own dreams. Before my daughter was born, I was mostly doing consulting. I made sure I spent time walking and taking care of my wife. I made it a point to never miss a doctor appointment or any pregnancy/childbirth classes we have together. I really appreciated every step of the way.

Then my daughter was born, I stopped accepting new clients (as mentioned in the piece). Spent time with my wife and newborn. Then I stayed home for another three months with my daughter so my wife could return to work.

When I joined the startup, after much discussion and encouragement from my wife, I also made a promise to never miss any doctor appointment. That is still true. I feel blessed that I was able to afford much flexibility with my family and I never take it for granted. I know many other folks who go through a much more difficult time.

I think there is much more I could do and of course I'll continue to do my very best to be a good person every day. This was written as a personal thought and shared because I wanted to feel for myself and others, that we are not sitting alone on that home-bound train, if that makes any sense.

I hope that clarifies things a bit more.

-V.

A very short and sweet thought. Love it.

My wife and I have a pact: we'll live for our children and family but we'll always continue to develop ourselves. This way, there is never a resentment toward the people you love. I, too, work and go home for my family.

I've read everyone's comment thus far. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and for allowing me the honor to be part of your discussion.

I figured that we're not trying to find a correct answer here. But knowing our community of engineers, hackers, lovers etc. we'd always trying to solve any problems coming our way :)

My humble opinion is: feelings are honesty trying to express themselves. Even if we can't solve the problem of "feelings", I'm quite happy we can search for it together as a group.

I wrote this piece during a tough part of the startup last year. I recently looked at it again and realized it wasn't just about me but rather about all my friends, I actually do refer to you folks on here as "friends", with the common dream.

I think at some point on one train-ride home or another, we've searched for some sort of understanding and hope to know that we're not the only one. Today, I'm happy to know that my "friends" do share the same feeling at one point or another. And we are not alone.

-Vuong.

A couple of friends from the HN community & IRC helped edit this piece. Just thought I'd share with others as well.

Although it servers an entirely different purpose, there are a couple of things I would ask: 1) How would one share encrypted files? 2) What happen when user forgot password? 3) What cryptographic algorithm is this using?

Actual issues when I gave it a try: 1) Unmounting the safe is possible but there's no easy way to remount the Safe 2) All the filenames are obfuscated (good and bad). Abilities to search for files, view thumbnails etc., usual filesystem functionalities are affected.

I think it's quite early but it is an intriguing project. Like others, I would love to learn more about the folks behind it as well as the product details.

I wrote a little bit about data security, especially cloud data security a while back: http://vuongnguyen.com/personal-business-cloud-security.html if anyone is interested in my humble opinion.

-V.

If you find yourself needing to use Dropbox (or other cloud providers) for one reason or another, I would humbly suggest giving us a try: https://www.ncryptedcloud.com/. We try to remedy the situation by allowing what cloud storage providers do best: syncing & sharing of data and we secure them. Having the data without the correct key render the data useless to any prying eyes.

Hi there, awakeasleep.

I think all your points are very solid. I would, however, disagree with you about Dropbox or any other cloud provider implementing their own, in-house, encryption.

They're the one with the data and having the key to open your data as well is, to me, a conflict of interest. I've share my thoughts on this a while back (http://vuongnguyen.com/personal-business-cloud-security.html).

Now, if you haven't had a chance to use nCrypted Cloud, give us a try: http://ncryptedcloud.com. We do client-side encryption and work on top of Dropbox and shortly other cloud providers. We're free for regular consumer. The enterprise clients we have a usually more interested in the integration, management and control mechanisms we have in place.

Thanks,

-V.

PS: Please feel free to contact me if I could be of any help. My email is in profile.

>On the other hand, China can do pretty much whatever it wants

I'm a Vietnamese with Nghe An root, so pardon me if I'm a little surprised at this statement.

Has the world learn nothing from history? This is not my question, this is a question that was asked countless times by politicians and scholars during the Vietnam/American War.

China had tried to invade/colonize Vietnam for over 1000 years, and each time, they went home in shame. Mongolians, Manchurians were able to take over the entire China, yet weren't able to completely dominate or wipe the Vietnamese people out. Vietnam is a VERY small country comparing to China and I think wars aren't always decided by military strength.

Unfortunately, like many other smaller countries, Vietnam doesn't have a China problem, it currently has a Vietnam problem. China keeps pushing and the smaller countries are going to realize that they can't fight a bully by themselves. For Vietnam, China keeps pushing, it will expose the Sino-friendly elements of the Vietnamese government and will escalate a change in government power.

So perhaps "China can do pretty much whatever it wants"... for a short time. Because if the water is under so much pressure, it will break the dam.

Didn't work so well with Ho Chi Minh during the Vietnam War. When there's nothing left to loose but pride, I'm quite sure that the "mad" metric is a little off.

Congratulations on your success. I really enjoy reading your story and looking at the web site. Are you guys self-funded? I'm curious about the first few mattresses and orders. Would love to read a longer and detailed article if not a little to the text. Thank you.

-V.