Viewing profile — jbkring

Oakland is like any other city. There are safe neighborhoods and dangerous neighborhoods. Some of the safer ones are: Temescal, Adam's Point, Grand Lake/Cleveland Heights, Piedmont…

Agreed. But more than pretentious, it's downright inaccurate. I work in SOMA and live in Grand Lake (Oakland), and I have a shorter commute than most of my San Francisco-dwelling c…

Oops. Important distinction.

Agreed. If the US legalized the production and distribution of all drugs (a la Portugal http://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/blog/time-to-end-the-w... ), a good bit of the america…

love the stark contrasting colors in your design. wonder how the login/vote buttons would look if they were flat like the rest of the design. too bad i already have an awesome gf (…

This is very good feedback. We're actually working on some Machine-Learning technology that takes all of Wikipedia's content, builds a topic model, and applies it to the 10k pieces…

If you go to scripted.com the first thing you'll see is "Standard Blog Post for $49". If you click on that dropdown, you'll see pricing for every format...

It is really important. You are right. In my haste to get this product out the door this morning, I forgot to send the post to our copy-editors. I screwed up. Sorry :( I certainly …

Thanks! Fixed the "check out" issue. I don't see the other problems, but such is the nature of copy-editing your own writing.

Totally agree. Which is why I wrote this post myself. I can only hope that my approach to the pain point felt 'honest', and that the content of my post was HN-worthy. We are absolu…

Yup. Which is why many of our clients give byline to our writers!

Hey Nate. Agreed, you definitely need a bit of context regarding what exactly Scripted does in order to understand this feature. The assumption was that if someone navigated their …

Refreshing perspective. I agree wholeheartedly.

I think you're underestimating just how many times I rethought my schema and refactored my models :)

Anyone else have a good story about Mongo as a speccing tool (as opposed to a long term solution)?

Look at all these people debating this topic. In the time it took me to read the 20 comments, 9 more were added. Wow. That's user engagement! Now look at the design...

what? an insightful article on techcrunch? oh wait, it's a guest writer. whatup sunil!

Yup, agree wholeheartedly! Will work on that shortly.

Love the redis docs! Redis powers the background queue at Scripted.

thanks! but i have to give credit where credit is due: bootstrap.