There's no scam.
See mlinsey's comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2749838
He posted a full explanation here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiRzBnlbpUs
There is no Jake Frink
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Re: There is no Jake Frink
#42Hi everyone, I apologize for this mess. I made a video telling my story: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiRzBnlbpUs
You don't owe anybody an apology.
There's a probably apocryphal story of the ancient Romans having a dwarf in the chariot with generals at their victory parades. His job was, when the throngs were shouting the general's name, to whisper "Nah, you're not really that special."
Sometimes I think some folks need whatever the opposite of that dwarf is. I know I have needed it on a time or three. Ignore this if I'm stepping on toes, but otherwise: you're doing pretty darn well. You got into YC. Yeah, you had a product shot out from under you, but it happens. All your buddies will tell you the same. You then subsequently made something which is both technically impressive and rabidly loved by users. Very, very few people can say that. (It may not look that way, given selection bias among the folks you know personally, but trust me: hundreds of millions of dollars has been spent to less effect than making WarpPrism. Many, many times.) And you're clearly on the ball with talking about the product, which is another thing that not all engineers are good at.
If continuing in the project is what you want to do, great. If you ever want to try something else or just hear "No dude, seriously, you're awesome", talk to someone. I'm positive anybody in the greater YC mafia would say that or help hook you up with the next big adventure, whatever you want that to be. (FWIW: I would, too.)
Also FWIW: Reddit is sometimes bat-shit crazy. I would not let their current opinion of you factor too highly in your "Am I having a good day?" barometer.
Re: There is no Jake Frink
#43Hi everyone, I apologize for this mess. I made a video telling my story: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiRzBnlbpUs
*hat tip!
Re: There is no Jake Frink
#44Hi everyone, I apologize for this mess. I made a video telling my story: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiRzBnlbpUs
You don't owe anybody an apology. There's a probably apocryphal story of the ancient Romans having a dwarf in the chariot with generals at their victory parades. His job was, when the throngs were shouting the general's name, to whisper "Nah, you're not really that special." Sometimes I think some folks need whatever the opposite of that dwarf is. I know I have needed it on a time or three. Ignore this if I'm steppin…
Yes, during the Roman Triumphs[0] during the Republic and heavily during the Roman Empire there purportedly was a slave who held the wreath of a victor over the head of the Imperator or who ever else was being celebrated and whispered phrases like "Respice te, hominem te memento" -- Look behind you, remember you are only a man and
"Memento mori" -- Remember (that you are) mortal.
Re: There is no Jake Frink
#45OK, so this is the second time in a week I'm going to have to post this PG quote: "Your comment is a classic instance of people on a forum rushing to judgment based on incomplete information. It's isomorphic to the sort of thing one sees on reddit, except that it's about startups rather than the federal government or international bankers." Edit: it looks like Jiggity (aka Jong-Moon Kim, Warp Prism's creator) has gon…
Okay guys, WHAT THE FUCK ?
I don't even know where to start... Why would he chose a white-sounding name ? To "bide" his Korean name ? Once again, what the fuck ? My alias is Teraka since something like 10 years, I originally took it because I liked Karate and had no imagination (I was like 8 or something), and I'm not Japanese, I'm French... Why in hell would you need a reason to pick whatever alias you want ? It's even the reason why there's aliases... Seriously...
Next, the conspiracy theory. What is the point in thinking that it's in reality a big company that just wants to make profit ? His explanations makes perfect sense, he made a 20 minutes video in which he explains in great details all the questions you could have, and he did nothing that could make anyone thinks he's a fraud, except for using a domain name that he already owned, because of a copyright issue...
I can't believe how stupid the internet can be sometimes... Let the poor guy alone, and thank him for doing all his work so that YOU could watch Starcraft more easily...
Re: There is no Jake Frink
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
He's not though, only Pre-stream ads are disabled due to the problems it would cause while switching streams. All the ads that use "/commerical" work fine
ok he's not blocking all, he's blocking the most revenue generating ads for the streamers. As a streamer the pre-roll ad is the most important and brings in the most revenue.
He just responded on this, it isn't intentional, it's a bug in Justin.tv's API so he's not blocking any of the ads by himself.
Re: There is no Jake Frink
#47OK, so this is the second time in a week I'm going to have to post this PG quote: "Your comment is a classic instance of people on a forum rushing to judgment based on incomplete information. It's isomorphic to the sort of thing one sees on reddit, except that it's about startups rather than the federal government or international bankers." Edit: it looks like Jiggity (aka Jong-Moon Kim, Warp Prism's creator) has gon…
"Your comment is a classic instance of people on a forum rushing to judgment based on incomplete information. It's isomorphic to the sort of thing one sees on reddit, except that it's about startups rather than the federal government or international bankers." Hmm, pointless interjection of comp sci jargon like "isomorphic", I dunno, that doesn't sound like Graham at all.
Re: There is no Jake Frink
#48OK, so this is the second time in a week I'm going to have to post this PG quote: "Your comment is a classic instance of people on a forum rushing to judgment based on incomplete information. It's isomorphic to the sort of thing one sees on reddit, except that it's about startups rather than the federal government or international bankers." Edit: it looks like Jiggity (aka Jong-Moon Kim, Warp Prism's creator) has gon…
"Your comment is a classic instance of people on a forum rushing to judgment based on incomplete information. It's isomorphic to the sort of thing one sees on reddit, except that it's about startups rather than the federal government or international bankers." Hmm, pointless interjection of comp sci jargon like "isomorphic", I dunno, that doesn't sound like Graham at all.
Well, it is:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2698635
Re: There is no Jake Frink
#49So I have a friend. For the purpose of this post, I'm going to call him Hideyuki Chikafuji. That isn't his name, but it gives the right sort of feel. He works as a well-paid professional in an industry which isn't investment banking, but could be. He has a degree from Northwestern in, well, let's call it Physics. Magna cum laude. What question do you think he gets asked in every job interview? If your answer was "Do…
It's Reddit. Reddit, when it comes to doing things for the community, absolutely doesn't care what your race or gender is. What Reddit also is, though, is violently anti-commercialism. Any sort of additional advertising, or company-posing-as-a-user, or anything that tries to take advantage of the community's overall good will in that fashion, will get slapped down. That's currently the case here. It seems to be a com…
I should add something to your statements. SCReddit is a lot of things (not good), but their leniency towards commercialism is by and large more flexible than the other SRs. It's mostly driven by the fact Starcraft has been an underground, disproportionately represented (compared to how much "passion" the TL/etc community as put in) community. As such, they are starving for progress.
That being said, there are some "new kids" to the SC scene which create a stink at every turn. Overall, your description of Reddit is more or less accurate.
I think you can see now that "JakeFink" has more or less won the day over there.
Re: There is no Jake Frink
#50OK, so this is the second time in a week I'm going to have to post this PG quote: "Your comment is a classic instance of people on a forum rushing to judgment based on incomplete information. It's isomorphic to the sort of thing one sees on reddit, except that it's about startups rather than the federal government or international bankers." Edit: it looks like Jiggity (aka Jong-Moon Kim, Warp Prism's creator) has gon…
I think they are more upset that he is denying ad income from JTV streamers and putting up his own ads. Also intentionally misleading the community, why not be upfront from the beginning.
I find it ironic that Reddit, the usual source of anti-commericalization, is now complaining about software that block ads.