This is great news for both Steve and Balanced. For Steve, because he wanted somewhere engaging and interesting to work, which I believe Balanced is/will be. And for Balanced because Steve is a talented programmer and - perhaps more pertinently - an interesting thinker, who can only be a positive asset to the company.
Thanks! I'm mega excited about the open-ness and the standards work: I've basically made a mini-career out of triaging issues for Rails and all the other gems I maintain, and I like that I'm explicitly able to go work with other companies on building stuff. Because ultimately, we're all in this together.
Plus, since our product is an API, I can use more than just Ruby... I'm really excited to learn a whole lot more about Python programming, but also contributing to Ember stuff, as well as whatever else ends up going on.
I've had an account here for 1725 days, and am 54th all-time by karma. This is my community, as much as I hate on it from time to time. Plus this is a YC company, discussing where they're going in the future. Hypermedia and JSON API are cutting-edge tech. Plus a Rails team member working at a Python shop is surely interesting news.
You're just short of the deadline, so:
> If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying
> that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)
>
> http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
;) I think 100 karma is the cutoff for flagging, you should do that with stories you don't like rather than posting comments complaining.
EDIT: See, there we got some flags, and now it's at the bottom of the page. Just like HN is supposed to work. :)
