Radar 41

[chadwhitacre]

What are you working on this week and why?

last week

[chadwhitacre]

Roadmap (what?)

Short Term

Embarrassments:

• can't edit teams (Team Basics)
• not using immutable ids (use id as primary key instead of username gratipay.com#835)
• widgets are broken (Radar 31 #389 (comment))
• escrow imprecision (Radar 31 #389 (comment))
• Security 9 (Radar 31 #389 (comment))
• no payroll! bring back take-what-you-want gratipay.com#3433

Long Term

Color code:

• red—external forces that we're under
• yellow—administration
• green—product development
• orange—marketing
• blue—capitalization

[chadwhitacre]

We should probably get some blog/microblog action going, it's been a while. Do we have anything to blog about? How's Twitter looking, @kzisme?

[kzisme]

It has indeed - Not much happening lately just a few mentions here and there. Any suggested content? I know #441 has been quite busy other than that I'm not sure @whit537 .

[chadwhitacre]

I was really encouraged by the call with the OuiShare folks today (#314 (comment)). It made me feel like we are on the right track going to OuiShare Fest, that these are Our People. Here's the part of the call where I really felt like that. You'll see I picked up on some of the language from this old lightening talk (from #314 (comment)) about open companies, open non-profits, and open governments. I like that old lightening talk a lot, too. Reminds me about why I started Gittip in the first place and what makes me excited about it. I think I'll find a lot of like-minded people at OuiShare Fest.

Maybe we should publish a blog post going back to that old lightening talk and also picking up on some of the recent calls—Nathan (#399), Neal (#403), Janelle (#72 (comment)), and now Taoufik and Francesca (#314 (comment)). Would that be an interesting post, do you think?

[chadwhitacre]

The other big things I see that we could report on are HackerOne and then the accounting work (#308, etc.). HackerOne would be a pretty easy post, but probably filler from an interest point of view. The accounting stuff is boring but important, also likely low-traffic, maybe worth waiting on that one until we are further along with it.

[chadwhitacre]

some of the recent calls

Also James (#421 (comment)).

[mattbk]

I think tweeting as each of the new teams is approved would help us get some positive buzz.

[chadwhitacre]

Sounds good to me.

[chadwhitacre]

Inbox 16, GitHub 6, L2 Support 0, Vendors, etc. 0.

Gonna work down those queues while @kaguillera starts looking at the books for July 2012, and then jump on gratipay/finances#1 ... hopefully we can land that today!

[mattbk]

Support 0. I'm at least checking this every morning and trying to stay on top of it.

Looking to carve out time to review teams every day; things are still a little crazy around here.

[chadwhitacre]

!m @mattbk

[chadwhitacre]

P.S. @mattbk Is COS's work relevant to your day job at all? Are you aware of their preregistration challenge?

[mattbk]

At the edges, yes. I'm trying to push openness at my job, especially of data and communication. The preregistration challenge is new to me; it wouldn't work necessarily for my job but it might work for other academic research I'm involved in (academia doesn't care whether you're paid for work or not).

[chadwhitacre]

academia doesn't care whether you're paid for work or not

Apparently neither do we. 😞

But we shall!

[chadwhitacre]

I just really feel like we're doing one of the most interesting things on the planet right now. Interesting to me, anyways. :-)

[chadwhitacre]

I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT AN internet x-road IS BUT I WANT TO BE ON ONE.

[chadwhitacre]

WTF slipped this slide in there I love them?

[chadwhitacre]

It only gets better/worse. This could mean so many things. Well, two things, really.

[chadwhitacre]

Now you're just messing with me, E-E-E-Estonia.

[chadwhitacre]

P.S. Always with the snowflakes.

[chadwhitacre]

Me very soon (#438 (comment)). Edward. Lucas Edward.

UPDATE: OR IS IT EDWARD LUCAS????

[chadwhitacre]

Is that SimCity? With snowflakes? With snowflakes.

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How did I get here I didn't even try?

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P.S. https://www.dropbox.com/s/x47juuonqf5lfm0/e-Estonia_%20Showroom_%20oct_2015.pdf?dl=0

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Soundtrack, btw.

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54 results.

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Probably?

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(2007)

[chadwhitacre]

I just did the very wrong thing, and bought that book ($38.01), to see if there's a note on where the painting is from. Don't tell @JessWhit.

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Aaaaaaaaaaaand the music just ran out.

[chadwhitacre]

The snowflakes are stymied by raspberry-ish flowers, I note. Inflected, even.

[chadwhitacre]

Gosh. Who are you, wonderful Estonian who made this slide deck?

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Ping @martinpaljak. Any chance you could help me/us track down the person who made this slide deck? I would like to snail-mail them a personal note of thanks. Thanks. :-)

[ref]

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P.S. #462 (comment) SO MANY SECURITY SERVERS I AM SO SECURE>

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cf. #462 (comment) and #462 (comment). The snowflakes are masks.

[chadwhitacre]

In a sense, we all wear masks, don't we?

[chadwhitacre]

Alright, I think I'm slowing down.

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🍸

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I just can't believe they passed up the chance at e-stonia.com.

[chadwhitacre]

You know what's kind of messed up? Pittsburgh metro has twice the population of Estonia.

[soundtrack]

[chadwhitacre]

Benigno Numine.

[chadwhitacre]

Alright, that shiz is a pinned tab. Closing here before I do more damage. Peace, everyone.

!m *

[chadwhitacre]

Eep! 😳

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[chadwhitacre]

OH: "We'll get a few anonymous parties to advertise the app on Reddit."

@hurlothrumbo's suspicions are confirmed.

[chadwhitacre]

GitHub 0! Moving on to gratipay/finances#2.

[chadwhitacre]

Just discovered a Python Easter egg that I hadn't seen before. :-)

>>> foo, bar = 1, 2
>>> foo != bar
True
>>> foo <> bar
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    foo <> bar
         ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>> from __future__ import barry_as_FLUFL
>>> foo != bar
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    foo != bar
         ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>> foo <> bar
True

Context: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0401/.

See also:

• import this (encoded in ROT13! see also)
• import antigravity
• from __future__ import braces

[mattbk]

I'd like to add gratipay/gratipay.com#3852 to embarrassments. Thinking about it, this may be more of a problem than we realize. It could be something we look at with Google Analytics, to see how many people drop off on ~user pages.

[chadwhitacre]

@mattbk Noted in #472 (and I've taken "Security 9" off the list with #460).

[chadwhitacre]

Email (what?)