I also sound cranky a lot lately when complaining about loud or unwelcome sounds in public spaces. So this project (and your comment) resonates with me.
Also yes, hiking with a bluetooth speaker is particularly galling. you're in nature! For that reason I've been considering buying (or building) a portable bluetooth jammer. I wouldn't do all the time, no reason to punish someone using wireless earphones respectfully. It'd need to have a trigger for JIT intervention.
Part of the reason this got a good response is due to Ned himself. nedbat@ has a great reputation in several communities. Also he showed his homework. And then posted with a good, tight repro case.
Fun to see the problem and the solution. Thanks Ned and thanks HN.
The author of this article wrote one of my all time favorite books, _The Making of the Atomic Bomb_. Hr tells the story of the Manhattan Project incredibly well.
The sequel, _Dark Sun_, about the making of the hydrogen bomb, is OK but has a lot more Cold War espionage than science.
I cross-post tweets to FB with this app: https://apps.facebook.com/twitter/. I wish it had a way not cross-post everything, i.e. with a #nofb tag, but my volume isn't high enough that that's a concern.
I got bit by your site recently too. The way that flow is designed feels like it was designed to be deceptive. I was embarassed when I found out that you'd spammed a bunch of my contacts.
It's too bad because your business seems really valuable and would have been something I would have considered using if it wasn't for this terrible experience.
I hope you take my feedback as constructive and you use it as fodder to justify for changing this UX. Good luck.
For Stanford's database class that just finished we had 64 thousand register, but only 20,000 actually do some work, and then close to 5k actually take the final or get a statement of accomplishment.
Concur about big changes on Friday. In our daily release meetings, we always used to ask people who wanted to release things on Friday -- "will you be at your keyboard all weekend in case something goes wrong?" Answering no to that meant no Friday release.
Fair point. I had tested that delete/restore had worked, it's just the "what are you deleting" criteria that I'd missed. Our test environment didn't match production that closely so the difference in data is what bit me.
Luckily, Ning did (does) have a nice way to handle network deletes. Once "retired" it is gone from the system in all visible ways, and then a month later an auto purger comes along to clear database content and blobs for good.
I don't take credit for that -- it was the work of smart folks who came before me. But it sure saved my bacon this time.
Also yes, hiking with a bluetooth speaker is particularly galling. you're in nature! For that reason I've been considering buying (or building) a portable bluetooth jammer. I wouldn't do all the time, no reason to punish someone using wireless earphones respectfully. It'd need to have a trigger for JIT intervention.