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At my last company, we used FogBugz for almost two years but started exploring other systems the last few months I was there.

I initially chose FogBugz because I loved how easy it was to create a new issue in the system (which at the time was significantly better than the others I tried). It only requires a single line of text for the description. There are additional fields you can use, but they are never required. That said, FogBugz's UI hasn't quite kept up with the latest and greatest, so we found it to be somewhat unsatisfying and even quite annoying at times (not enough inline editing for example). Ultimately the reason we started exploring other tools was because of its slow performance (although I'm not sure if it was due to having it deployed on a Linux server rather than Windows).

We tested Jira with the GreenHopper plugin (agile development) for about a month. Most of the team made the transition quite easily (a few guys wanted to go back to FogBugz) and it was significantly faster than our FogBugz system--which made the team much happier. For our planning meetings, we all really liked the user story board view in GreenHopper, and overall I found the user interface more usable than I expected. However, Jira definitely feels like a typical old-school 'enterprisey' Java app that has been quickly updated to stay current (not to mention the sprawling feature set it has accumulated over the years). Its UI definitely lacks the cohesiveness of FogBugz (and especially Pivotal Tracker).

In the end, our company was acquired by a company also using FogBugz, so the team never had a chance to make a decision one way or the other.
What's your best 2 examples?
That's actually one of the selling points for me. Something that elegant inside the case seems very unlikely to have questionable engineering behind it.

My old Dell, on the other hand...
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The low power Atom parts aren't remotely comparable in terms of performance performance, so I didn't compare them - the 2GHz Atom Z550 at 2.5 watts TDP has a Passmark score of just 386, compared to 964 for the 1.4GHz Core 2 Duo.
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So, uh, you're on the front page of HN now... Shy aren't you selling us on your thingy?
We use Moodle. It's open source, and works pretty well. As with a lot of products like this, it takes some tweaking, and some time, but for the money...

We also use YouTube to host the video (embedded on Moodle). We did have to offer a downloadable version for clients that block YouTube.

Finally use CamStudio to record the web casts/demos, with a little help from VirtualDub for audio touchups and normalizing. They are both free as well.
The x86 architecture will win out for the same reason it won out decades ago. Most of the world's software was compiled for x86. I have all sorts of software I've been running on my Windows laptop. When I go to buy a new laptop, it'll be another Windows x86 laptop because my software would cost more to replace than the machine upon which it's running.
So I know there is a whole HTML 5 vs Flash thing that's going on, but the truth is that HTML 5 can be a good thing for Adobe they make nothing on flash installs they make a lot on good authoring tools. Focusing on authoring tools for canvas and SVG as opposed to the flash plugin can be just as lucrative as Flash.
> I wouldn’t say we’re reacting to HTML5. We see whatever people are using to express themselves.

So I guess they have a Silverlight player in the works, eh?

Jabs aside, this is what they're using: http://www.kaltura.org/project/HTML5_Video_Media_JavaScript_...

Should make things simpler for anyone who is bound to Adobe tools but needs to support <video>.
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This is a really common web app flaw as well; there's almost always something your app does that reveals how many customers you have (or how much business you're doing) to any stranger with an account.
While not strictly on the state of social games, Sebastian Deterding's (@dingstweets) presentation "Pawned. Gamification and its Discontents" has some very prescient thoughts on how to make a great game, as well as why so many social add-ons to non-game systems simply suck. A good reflection on why many social games in themselves suck.

Enjoy: http://www.slideshare.net/dings/pawned-gamification-and-its-...
To me generic real time news is not interesting. Quality news, curated, analyzed, summarized or rewritten for my tastes is interesting.

Maybe seeing local tweets, population activity on a map would be interesting, but it depends on how much quality content would be in there.

Also your current websites are glaringly ugly, which probably has an effect on visitors' interest.
I totally concede that most consistent databases at scale are crap on the ops people.

I would echo Mike's argument and claim that a nice ops story and true consistency are not totally orthogonal. There are a lot of practical reasons why the big database vendors have boiled their frogs and ended up where they are today.

VoltDB certainly isn't the realization of that dream, so I'll put my money where my mouth is and spend the next few years helping it get there.
They do say they are just trying to get people to stop emailing them about the site being fucked up, but they went way the fuck off the deep end with the tone and insinuations contained therewithin.
It would be funny to set up a server that specifically crashes when you want to wake up, similar to those alarm clocks that require you to solve a puzzle to stop blaring
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Perfect; I was just looking for vc-annotate-next today.

Magit user here. I love it for its ability to let me do line-level control over what I place in the index. I use the prompt for deep surgery but for general coding/logging/commit-bundling, I haven't found anything better.

The documentation for it is great. I wanted something a little more breezy for quick task-centric scanning and made this...

http://daemianmack.com/2009/09/24/magit-cheatsheet/#

Maybe it'll be useful to you.
how do you go about selling a white-label license if no one knows you're selling it? just curious
I mean the new apple tv:
http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_ipod/family/apple...

Size and weight

Height:
0.9 inches (23 mm)
Width:
3.9 inches (98 mm)
Depth:
3.9 inches (98 mm)
Weight:
0.6 pounds

Current MacMini Size:

Height:
1.4 inches (3.6 cm)
Width:
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Depth:
7.7 inches (19.7 cm)
Weight:
3.0 pounds (1.37 kg)
I'm fairly certain that the SSD is basically a Mini PCI-E card. The overall dimensions are uncommon, but I believe there's no common standard for the size of Mini-PCIe SSDs in the first place.

In theory, the drive could be upgraded. Securing it to the chassis is a challenge left to the reader.
"So Intel lobbied heavily to get us to stay with them … [but] we went with IBM and Motorola with the PowerPC. And that was a terrible decision in hindsight. If we could have worked with Intel, we would have gotten onto a more commoditized component platform for Apple, which would have made a huge difference for Apple during the 1990s. So we totally missed the boat." - John Sculley
How much does an undergraduate really learn that's from the latest research?
It's been completely reliable when there were actual problems. The web interface was pretty intuitive to us as well. I really like the login flow.

Our PagerDuty is integrated right now with Scout, Pingdom, and our own custom alerting system.

So far most complaints we've had while using the service for the first week were our own faults: for example, our monitoring was too sensitive, which was fixed by using the regexp filters, and by eliminating spurious errors from reporting on our side. One thing that PagerDuty did was that it basically forced us to fix these reporting issues so that we weren't woken up at 5AM unless it was a real emergency.

The SMS interface got a little confusing when we had two errors at once. For example, a frequent case is getting two pages at once, "Service X is DOWN" and "quora.com is DOWN". I think what I tried doing was:

1. Receive the first report (site).

2. Receive the second report (service).

3. ACK both reports using the second report's code.

4. Fix the service.

5. Attempt to resolve the second report, receive a "code already used" error.

Resolving things via SMS is a little bit clumsy (it's what I usually default to). A link to the PagerDuty login would be cool, but I don't know if it would fit in the 160 character limit.
Thanks guys!
I will see how it works
Heh, posting the executives make too much money in a business oriented forum is bound to be unpopular. shrug

Look at the people actually taking salaries that high. They're the financial industry executives who just ran their companies into the ground and had to be bailed out. Look at the people actually creating tons of value. The people who are heros to most of the people on HN. Steve Jobs has a salary of $1. So do Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

Good executives do not think so highly of themselves that they pay themselves that much more than their employees. Granted, the people in question can afford to do this because they are wealthy in stock and dividends.
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This was linked in the article, but it has significantly more math and more historical examples: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem
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Email is very powerful and valuable data. I prefer to use the services of Flowtown, but just as Rapleaf indicated they are a data company and their tools are opt-in.

I have also found that investors tend to like startups that utilize Rapleafs data where applicable. We haven't decided to use it yet.
Is anyone else appalled by that sentiment?

If the whole point of going to an Ivy League school is to obtain an education that supposedly exceeds all others in terms of quality (and cost), who cares how you got admitted, as long as you leave with a degree? These students, at least in the case of Columbia's School of General Studies[1], take the same courses along side regular students and graduate with the same BAs/BSs, albeit granted by a different resident college. These are people clearly capable of handling the coursework of an "elite" institution who would otherwise be kept out by overly restrictive admission requirements, requirements which clearly have more to do with perpetuating the institution's prestige than anything else.

What's next, looking down at transfer students for not taking all of their courses at the school they graduated from? And what about legacy admissions? If we're so concerned about distinguishing between those who were vetted by a selective, supposedly aptitude-based admissions process and those who weren't, shouldn't we assume those graduates who attended the same elite schools their parents did benefited from some form of legacy admission and hold that against them as well?

1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_University_School_of_G...
Social pressure is pretty much what micro-finance depends on to ensure repayment.
Of course, he's out of California and you're in Canada where the admissions process is different (closer to the UK system). This is the sort of thing he's talking about:

http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2009/10/12/24103/

"African-American applicants with SAT scores of 1150 had the same chances of being accepted as white applicants with 1460s and Asian applicants with perfect 1600s"

I'm not sure if that necessarily translates into graduate studies, but I'd guess that it does.
> I would hardly be surprised to learn that Oracle will NOT sue Apple over runtimes that could trip up Google

I think the difference is that Apple licenses/d Java and bundles a standard VM and framework, while Google did not do so - they just used the language with their own VM and framework distinctly different from, say, J2ME.
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If by customer service and support, you mean reliability, then I agree with you. The whole point of buying hosting is it should just stay up. Prompt customer support isn't worth very much when you have to use it to find out why your server went down.
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I'm not sure when it happened but some time mid/late this year I realized TC, YC, funding etc .... none of it really matters. I've written the big blogs, been rejected from YC, had a couple nice investor guys tell me how imperative it is I have a cofounder.

None of that stuff dictates what is successful, and most of them are wrong most of the time for the negligible % of startups they touch. It'd be nice to have that coverage or that network or that money, but all that really matters is you, your product and your users/customers.
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Yeah, I mean pagination is so basic and should have been there in the beginning. It makes everyone feel nice to be glad-handed but ... come-on, pagination?
They are not mentioned anywhere on the official website [1] and never were because it’s still the same old website with the same old database (or at least with the same old database without any changes from them).

They are mentioned three times on the personal blog of the developer of Minecraft [2] but there is never any uncertainty about whether they are responsible for the website. It’s always clear that they are not, at least not yet. I don’t know what they expect their client to do. Should he delete old blog posts?

[1] http://minecraft.net/

[2] I believe this is the complete list:

August 12, for reporting a bug (http://notch.tumblr.com/post/943303185/security-server-updat...)

September 20, announcement that TkTech will rewrite the database, quote: “I don’t know when it will be finished, but the plan is to cut over to the new code base when it’s done.” (http://notch.tumblr.com/post/1157267535/longest-free-weekend...)

September 22, update on the database rewrite, announcement that it is nearly finished but will go only live after further testing (http://notch.tumblr.com/post/1166302589/this-is-what-im-doin...)

There have been no further updates on the database rewrite since then, with reference to TkTech or without. Please note that the plan for the rewrite arose in a time when the Minecraft server simply couldn’t handle the load.
Actually, you can't. People who "hate apple's policies" are people who hate apple for ideological reasons and are attempting to rationalize it.

If you understand apple's policies you'll realize that all of them are designed to produce the best user experience for consumers.

I've never seen apple do something malicious, like I have Dell and Microsoft, nor betray their customers, like I have seen Microsoft, Google and Facebook do.

These "policies" that people hate generally amount to nothing more than failing to march according to some rigid stallmanesque ideology.
Somewhat. We've been working on it for about a month, should have something to show by next week if all goes well.
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I work in the contract development field. This post is extremely unprofessional. You did work and you got paid, job done, STFU. This makes all of us who do this kind of work look bad.
ok, I am really depressed after reading this.
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A loophole by definition is a problem with a law that allows people to break the spirit of the law while not breaking the letter of it.

Writing laws is like programming. There are bugs. But its even harder than programming because fixing the bugs isn't as simple as finding the spot in the code and releasing a patch. It means bringing the laws back up for discussion and debating with 100+ other people about the best way to fix the bug. And not all those people actually have fixing the bug in mind. So it isn't as simple as the government enacting laws to close the loopholes.

By taking advantage of the loopholes like this Google is acting like black hat hackers who take advantage of the bugs. They are taking advantage of the bug in the government's code that allows them to use the government's services with out paying for them.
What a coincidence! Just today I used the sequential ID numbers of a companies deployment to work out their user numbers, it's interesting to compare things like that with reported figures. I wonder what the best approach to it is (when protecting those numbers) maybe something like Twitter where they would take a chunk of numbers and then stagger deployment through those numbers (If I remember correctly, I'm not all that familiar with their system)
As soon as you've got millions of years worth of metals, you saturate supply, the price falls and you're back to a mission that isn't economically viable.
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would be interesting if they could make the screen swivel around and be used like an ipad (like Dell and some others are doing). Would be hard to get the hinges on such a thin device though.
Just a nitpick, but the article didn't explain how this piece of intel gave them a big strategic advantage, it just explained that they got this piece of intel.

Had to look this up on Wikipedia for a more thorough explanation.
I agree. Usability is important, and people who are good at it are valuable, but to turn that into "all this backend stuff is going to be outsourced" is ridiculous. Generally, building a great app requires highly-skilled people working in all areas of the application.
I have no idea what this person is trying to say. Can anyone elaborate?
I'm picturing autonomous wooden robots with wood-gas hybrid engines crawling all over the Canadian north, building wooden wind turbines.

Not sure how to handle transmission, though.
As a 29-year old Harvard (College) grad, I agree that "what you've done outside of an academic environment" is more important than the prestige of the degree itself. However, I've been surprised that the prestige of the degree has continued to be important throughout my career. My experience is that it doesn't go away.

And the H-bomb has a negative effect on social relationships. Not generally professional ones.
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Do things that allow you to win and that allow someone else to win. It is not a zero-sum game.

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You will see that the low wages are a direct result of a lack of a good reputation system
Hang in there man.

What's touched upon in various ways in all the comments is that "PR" and "Media Coverage" is not the end all be all. In fact the successfully software startups I know STILL email individual potential customers on a daily basis.

I think one of the great myths of the internet is that you should just create a product, throw it up on the internet with some SEO and AdWords and the customers will come. Sure it might work for a few people, but by and large you are still growing a business. And you often grow a business one person at a time, hopefully later you can learn to scale sales.

Often what is missing from people's MVP's and business plans is how are you going to very specifically market to your target customers, and what the cost of customer acquisition is. If you can't identify a way to find your target customer, you're going to have a problem. Again, I don't think general SEO and SEM is going to work.

Don't give up on your idea, start emailing people. 50, 100 people a day. Convert them one at a time. If your business idea is not specifically just some sexy piece of technology, direct mail may work too (if you don't also have to educate people on why they need your product.)

Journalist want to write about what's hot, not about what is a potentially decent idea in a decent market. They want to talk about iphones, ipads, and facebook, and the latest jargon.

Anyways, start finding your target customers and email them. Don't worry about email campaign tools and crazy stuff, just starting email or calling them one at a time. Building a web based software business doesn't mean you can just skip sales.
Well said. I feel your pain. Hope you feel better now. It's good to vent.
First of all, you don't know what you're talking about. Signaling is bullshit. You might as well try and turn one of those acceptance letters into a job offer. See how that works out for you.

The reason elite colleges are elite is because they are filled with people deemed "the elite." Got that?

A big part of the experience at ANY undergraduate school is WHO you happen to be learning WITH not just who you are learning FROM. Harvard made a very deliberate decision to cultivate a class composed of the BEST students from across the nation. It's easy do educate students that are ALREADY motivated, good students. BTW, Harvard also took great pains to make sure that there weren't too many Jews or Asians in the freshman class. (So I guess that signalling thing works in some unanticipated ways too.)

Just keep in mind that signals come in many forms.
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"That's completely nonsensical. Microsoft didn't act anti-competitively to become big, they did it AFTER becoming big"

I didn't say that's how they got started, but rather one of the ways that allowed them to reach the size they are today. Even if you know nothing of the antitrust case, you'd have to admit some shady stuff was going on when you see a browser like IE6 last so long :p
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Ok. Yes, there is extra silicon. But it's so insignificant that it doesn't matter.

But I think you are overestimating how low-end these chips are. See http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2008/02/small-wonder-ins... for example, which shows that the Silverthorne architecture (1st Gen Atom) has pretty much the same transistor count as a Pentium 4.

No one thought that the fact the Pentium 4 had to support x86 was a significant factor vs other architectures. For the chips we are talking about, the cache memory takes more transistors, so the quality thing is pretty insignificant too.
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