Wow. This could be another user re-creating the account to create drama, though. Is the rest of the profile info (favorite line of code, etc.) the same?
I wouldn't call it impossible, but this seems like such a deliberately bad move that I can't even believe it was done by livecoding.tv
I'm amazed. Michael, if you're reading this - get someone else to handle this situation. Anyone, even it's just the guy who does SEO.
Your company has appeared on HN before, and as a YC-backed company you should probably have some idea of the type of people who are part of this community. It amazes me that you believe you can respond to this story by attempting to doxx trusted long-term users (or rather, just plain lying about their identities) and claim that the people here are attacking your company.
Even more so that you believe you can claim that a "majority of the comments [in this HN thread] come from competitors and banned users" (@livecodingtv). Most of the people in this thread have never used your products (myself included) - and in response to this story, many who may have never will.
You are the one attacking your company. Stop lying on Twitter. Stop trying to avoid criticism by claiming that your (outraged) potential customers are competitors or spammers. Stop trying to remove pseudonymity from HN commenters (especially the ones trying to be at least slightly sympathetic to your company).
Consider the fact that you may be facing legal action for some of your behavior. The way you respond to these accusations will undoubtedly be reflected in any proceedings, and at at the moment I don't think you're helping your case. (IANAL)
I'm not going to make jabs at your psychological state like a few of the comments here have, but it would be in your interest to visit a mental healthcare professional (if only to check you're capable of handling the pressure caused by this story).
The issue with this is updates. In most of these cases with malicious addons, the addon was safe initially, then the author slips in some tracking code / spyware etc. at a later date.
While I might inspect a source for a single sketchy looking addon at installation, inspecting every addon every time it's updated (sometimes weekly or more often) is absurd, and that's why you get cases of adware slipping by for months before anyone notices.
Firefox currently* shows a red warning in the console, but still loads normally. I can't press F12 on any half-popular site, including most of Google, without seeing that wall of red.
I assume something similar will happen from Chrome. Hopefully they'll add an option to suppress or aggregate the messages.
* I'm using the developer edition, which is on Aurora. I don't think this is dev. edition specific, but I've never checked.
Just coming up on four months, here.
Enter!g in your query to automatically redirect it to Google. I do this for about 50% of my searches (mainly looking for docs)
!yt for youtube is useful too, as is just ! for I'm Feeling Lucky and !wiki,!define.
This is the main reason I began DDG, so useful, faster than using a drop down or looking for the relevant site on Google. Not sure if other search providers do this, but I also appreciate the privacy aspect of using DDG.
Library - a collection of useful things.
Framework - a collection of things, and a methodology, used to structure your application.
In general, a lot of new, modern frameworks do 'call you' (Inversion of Control). Exmaple: Most PHP frameworks are setup so that you put all your models in one folder, your routes in another, etc. Then the framework itself accepts requests and determines which parts of your code to pass it through, and in what order.
However, you can also have frameworks that don't do IoC. You setup the framework, tell it what to do, tell it how to do it. But you still structure your code around that specific framework's methodology (which is why it's hard to mix 'n' match).
jQuery is an odd thing, because it's not really either of these. It provides lots of useful functions, but it also does so in a way that it replaces a lot of the 'core language features', and causes you to use it across most of your code.
However, I'd still say it's a library (with a very nice syntax) - since it doesn't tell you 'this is how you structure your application'. You can use jQuery how ever you like, and it imposes almost no constraints. Therefore it's not a framework.
I wouldn't call it impossible, but this seems like such a deliberately bad move that I can't even believe it was done by livecoding.tv