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Random Discussion / Re: Fork of steem, "calibrae"
« on: October 26, 2017, 09:58:55 pm »faddat, you are still around?
Your last post was 5 months ago on steemit.
Please tell us what you are up to, especially after you abandoned fuzzy's project and left him hanging. I am interested.
If your newest project makes money, is there anything in your schedule of things to refund him a portion of the funds you took for an uncompleted project? Curious?
Please don't take this as me being negative. I appreciate your ambition. However, there is something that needs to be done to clean up what happened within the last year.
I'm going to ruminate on this some, publicly.
Project to develop a steem front end for fuzzy did go south. Some, but not all of that was on me. I don't feel like I owe a refund, but I do feel like I owe a tip of the hat, and supplying an alternative to what couldn't be built.
#1) Steem docs didn't exist when I started.
#2) Steem docs were frequently wrong.
#3) Project was never carefully scoped/spec'd out. If I were to take a project like this in the future, I'd be putting the whole thing in the public domain from the start, including the spec.
#4) I was an amateur (and I said as much).... and I still am.
#5) Steem didn't always function as described.
It was laying alphas, on alphas. If you're curious what I've been up to, well, I'll ruminate on that publicly, as well. Round the time that Dawn failed, I lost my sanity. I mean that so literally that it hurts. Literally.
I lost all my crypto keys (deleted them, you see... because I thought that was a good idea)
I lost a lot of business associates and friends, and have to deal with the reality that I was an asshole to a lot of them. (this includes fuz)
After an http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4576396/American-man-severely-beaten-furious-mob.html inglorious incident involving a truck full of sand, I got my way to a mental hospital where I was given lithium for bipolar disorder with psychotic features. So, once I'd taken the lithium for three days, I no longer thought I was going to be made king of cambodia, and no longer thought that I needed to meet my ex-girlfriend at the intersection of routes 5 and 6 in phnom penh cambodia, and had no desire to go naked street fighting anymore.
So at the moment, there's not a chance I can do anything to recompensate fuzzy financially. It's possible that we could cobble together a beyondbitcoin blockchain, if he'd like that.... and I don't think fuzzy's a bad guy. I do think he and I mutually fucked up that project big time. A key to getting it righter would have been a publicly posted spec sheet agreed upon by both of us, and probably "failure points." What's a failure point? It limits risk when working on ultra-alpha software like steem was at the time. At various points, there were indications that it wasn't going to work out, and both fuz and I kept plodding on. Probably around the time that I realized that you could really only access steem *well* with javascript, shoulda been about the time I bailed out. This situation has changed somewhat now, as the go library has matured a bit (but not enough).
Hindsight, is 20/20.
...btw when I say "mutually fucked up" I don't mean the fuckup was even. I strongly believe that the fuckup was more on my side of the court, than on fuzzy's, and that the rest of the fuckup really dealt with the state of steem at the time.
If you want to know more, please see: https://steemit.com/@jacobgadikian
https://steemit.com/@faddat died in the great key destruction of 2017.
