jxm262

Images aren't loading for me, getting lots of 500 errors :/

cool , feel free to email me direct, or better yet - fill out the survey so I can keep track :)

We're not in disagreement.. this is actually why I created the post, out of personal frustrations.

> If a site was developed that solved the issues I pointed out then of course I would also reconsider

This is exactly what I'm going to try and solve. After all the feedback received, this will definitely be my next project I'm taking on. If you have any specifics you could add, please please take the survey and sign up for the beta list. Or send me an email (in my profile) and perhaps we can send a couple quick back and forths on the major issues that you think need addressed. Would be nice to connect with fellow entrepreneurs, even if it's just to validate ideas :)

Cool! I'm definitely open to hearing about these "interesting" eperiences :) Been getting alot of responses and feedback lately, so yeah feel free to drop me a line if you haven't already (contact is in my profile)

Yeah I hear you. I also like Assembly but feel they're missing some key features (although I haven't formalized them in my mind yet). You've sort of hit one of my major peeves with alot of these sites - they don't seem to have any good way to find/recruit projects based on domain interest. If you haven't already, it would help me a great deal if you filled out the survey. I'm trying to get as much info as possible before I start making something :)

Thanks for the suggestion. Yes I agree that knowing each other beforehand is strongly desired. However, when you really reduce it down to the actual reason, I think it comes to trust. Knowing someone and working alongside them builds a trust relationship that carries you through. It's becoming apparent through the responses of the survey that the platform will have to address building this trust level , whether that's through a short term program with networking, or something else - i'm going to work to figure it out!

Yeah I'm aware of this site. It's actually the reason I posted this thread (frustrations with my experience). They do a great job at collecting users, but are still very limited since it doesn't have any filters on subjects or decent ways to validate people. It's basically /r/cofounders with user profile pages (imho - this isn't to knock the company though)

I've actually thought this exact thing before. A site with a curated list of potential entrepreneur partners. It would be tremendously difficult to do well though. But thanks for the comment, this gives me something to reflect on.

yeah , I completely agree. However, I feel there has to be a way to do this outside of the standard school/day-job. Reason I'm saying this is because I've worked in numerous open source projects and have met many friends that I would love to work with. The world is just too big to limit myself to a small circle of people. Also, take for example folks who live outside of major tech areas (an basically all rural locations). Where can they go to find good people to even begin building these relationships?

I don't have the exact answers on how to build this "trust" system into a platform (still researching). However I think it's definitely possible.

This is quite possibly the coolest thing I've ever seen on HN

Thanks for sharing

This is actually one of the major reasons I read HN. Not so I can make myself feel stupid, per se; but to get better insights into things I don't experience in my offline life (job, friends, etc..) Just make sure you don't get caught up in feeling like your stupid. It's counterproductive, we all have different backgrounds and experiences. Some people here have highly specialized backgrounds but are completely oblivious to other areas. Some have 30 years experience in a field, some are brand new. I just try to learn more in my skillset and compare myself to myself only, incrementally getting better (at least thats the goal)

^ this. Id much rather use a decorator with ES7 then extending out classes. Although, i thought i heard that react is working on making some better alternative to mixins

Cool Thanks! Do you know if there are any plans to make a sample app on github for us to follow?

I'll try to do a rewrite of the example todo app using this for practice. Seems like I have a bit to read since this would seem to change the standard flow I'm currently using in my Flux pattern. Actually stumbled across this thread which gives some good reading as well - https://forums.meteor.com/t/meteorflux-flow/920/63.

You caught my attention with this "alot less painful than trying to use Flux with an API backend" Can you elaborate a bit on how you architect your apps with Meteor and React?

I've typically tied my Flux Action layer to my api backend (where my ajax code goes) which then dispatches to the Store layer, then the View (react components) listens to that...

With Meteor where are you hooking your api backend into the react components? I'm a little lost looking for decent examples of different Meteor/React architectures.

Awesome!! never saw this link they've mentioned - http://react-in-meteor.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

I've been playing with meteor just recently and am totally loving it. I really like Blaze, but love React's component system, so not really sure which way I want to turn now... I'm almost thinking of just implementing a React-like dictionary in Blaze to keep it more 'component' like , because I really dislike the jsx transpiling.

Anyway these announcements are definitely making me more convinced that I should try Meteor in a production app. I see many good things coming for this project.

Just saw this a day late :(

I'm looking to join with someone(s) to help collaborate on ideas and build something. I have an idea curation list on Trello. If anyone wants to look at it and add to it, possibly join forces let me know -

jxm262@gmail.com

Nice read. I don't mean to derail the discussion, but I wonder what sort of developers they were looking for when recruiting for the program. When I applied to the US Digital Service, I received a message back - "we are seeking candidates with skills tightly matched to our current projects. Members of our team reviewed your application, and we don't have the perfect match for your background right now". I'm mostly a web developer, so perhaps they were looking for a different background.

I have many of the same thoughts as the author (feel like my dev skills could be used to help some greater causes), but not sure where else I could make an impact. Particularly in government where I have alot of interest.

Apologies if this sort of information is redundant, but if you're just looking for an understanding of how it all works, this article helped me quite a bit https://www.igvita.com/2014/05/05/minimum-viable-block-chain...

comment from elux on reddit seems like it gives some more plausible details.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/36uxxz/bitfinex_has...

I also remember this from a few days ago..

http://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/353yu8/bitfi...

This looks really cool, but some of my things I'd like to do seem to generalized to break down into a 100x iteration. For instance, I want to "level up" my functional programming skills (about to take the next Coursera class on Reactive programming). I also have a huge interest in Bitcoin, and want to learn alot more about the overall ecosystem.

I would love to post some sort of 100 day list of goals, but I'm not sure how to fit it in with the section on #4

>Choose your action. What’s your verb? Here are a few to get you thinking: stand, speak, drive, study...

Reading your comment is a huge inspiration to me. Do you plan to do any writeups/blog posts of your experience. I love to hear stories from successful bootstrapped companies. I too would love to start something in the bitcoin space :)

Agreed. The content of the chat's would be potentially much more important in my mind.

Whoa, thanks. Just installed homebrew and did a `brew search`. Has a ton of stuff. Pretty cool that it's all git/ruby too :)

Although I can't find it stated explicitly, if you look at "Guide Part 2: Creating a charge"

:currency => "usd", # presently can only make bitcoin charges in USD

So, looks like USD for now. Although I think you could probabaly just implement the conversion yourself on your own wrapper code.

<<Edit>> my apologies. I misread your question, thinking you were referring to currencies. But assuming they only accept USD, i'd have to assume its only for US accounts too? Perhaps someone can chime in and let us know though. Or try it with a canadian account and see what happens.

> Fluctuation-resistant - Avoid exchange rate hassles—specify amounts in USD and we’ll send you dollars.

I don't think I fully understand this part. Does the exchange rate remain static for a period of time, or do they just mean to say it's automatically converted for you? If the latter, how is this fluctuation resistant.

Regardless, I'm very happy. Been waiting for this to come out of beta.

Honest question, but as a male, what can we do to stop this? I've seen much more subtle things in previous jobs that drive me nuts (men overtalking women in meetings, assigning lower tasks, etc..). It's usually not very overt and when I pick up on it, I usually try to help, but never know how far to go.

I'm sorry if I'm derailing the main topic, but after dating a female developer for a while now, I see things in a much different light. This stuff makes me sick; We always talk about how this is a collective industry problem.. but I'm left wondering what I can do about it personally when I see it.

My personal experience is that I've taken MOOC courses with an end goal of _actual learning_ the topic thoroughly, or at least getting the most out of the subject. This was related, but different than my objectives in college, where I was mostly concerned about my _grades_ and completing a degree to show employers. Although, not mutually exclusive, I find that when I'm focused on learning the subject completely, I'll eventually go off the normal course guidelines and spend extra time on supplemental materials (blogs, additional explanations, etc..). I'll also spend extra time completing all the assignments as perfect as possible (doing the extra sections, etc..). This is different than when I was in college, where I would often trade off a few extra grade percentage in order to make a deadline to achieve that A- or whatever. Couple this with the fact that I defer the MOOC assignments if work/life gets in the way and eventually I miss the projects and test due dates.

IMO (speaking personally here) - I find this approach to be Much more beneficial than the traditional college system. I learn the material better and have a deeper understanding of the entire subject. I've officially "failed" every MOOC course I've taken, because of missed due-dates. But when I look through the actual submissions, I usually receive near 100% on every assignment. This probably wouldn't apply to every topic, but the MOOC courses give me a structured way to learn that I wouldn't be able to come up with on my own, but also provide enough flexibility for family life, work, etc..

This is really cool and a great write up! I've been using React for about 6 months on my side projects and I really love it. The only issue I have now is, where do I learn Flux? I mean I can go through the tutorials that they have , but there doesn't seem to be any standard Framework or canonical way of using it.

From the article "When Flux was announced, it was just a pattern. Facebook didn't release a library. We adopted the pattern for our new web client. However, because we built our Flux library from scratch"

Are there any posts/blogs that highlight the different flux frameworks? Or any recommended way to get started? There seems to be so many right now I'm feeling kind of overwhelmed on where to start (Fluxy, Fluxxor, Reflux, etc..)

This might be unrelated. But I'm curious if the new US Digital Service has any good projects related to cybersecurity? There was a posting a few days ago for this new initiative https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8988819

I don't know what you'd formally call this. It's not really an agency and I'm not sure how it's funded. I'm curious if something like this could spearhead this kind of project.

Thanks for your detailed response!