The original HN post said, "The final publication date is set for mid-January 2024." Early-access was framed as "so that you can start learning today, but also, so I can get feedback and refine the content of the book with your feedback." Yet in two years there’s been no content updates, no requests for feedback--nothing.

delays happen, and writing a book is tough. But two years of radio silence while still posting plenty of unrelated writing, blog posts, and projects (like Pingoo itself) isn’t the situation that was advertised. An active project with normal delays and complexity is way different than vaporware. Buyers expected an active, rough-but-completion-in-sight project they’d help refine--not immediate and total abandonment and silence.

So after two years of this, seeing Sylvain's frustration about a lack of clarity/communication from someone he's given money to and has expectations of (GitHub), is pretty galling to be frank.

Having no communication from people you’ve given money to sucks, doesn’t it, Sylvain?

If there is a really simple, honest, clear narrative that proves me wrong on all of this, I'd be thrilled. Let's hear it!

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It was on github here: https://github.com/skerkour/cloudflare-for-speed-and-securit...

Though it's currently unavailable of course.

What's up with that Sylvain? If your github account is restored, will you finally either give some kind of update to confirm that this was not a scam, and/or refund folks' money if they request it?

You want to hear from a real Human [sic] here in your case, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who wants to hear from a real Human (you) about wtf is going on with this mystery book whose completion seems...dubious.

Concerns about property values, congestion, and other impacts are valid, but are plainly less important than preventing homelessness. Or not having medical care. Or not having good drinking water. Etc.

It's possible that the NIMBYs in this case are right, especially if the proposed new "affordable housing" isn't really affordable at all, etc.

But in general NIMBYism is essential for keeping things exactly as they are: it lets people feel good about "wanting" better things for society, without having to make material decisions which are inevitably imperfect and zero-sum.