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Any plans for adding multiple lists per column (two at 50% height, etc)? That would be the only thing I can do on our current Kanban board that I couldn't do on Trello.

I really like the app though, it's like a distilled, get out of the way version of Jira.
If that's the case, why are so many tech bloggers treating this as though it's the "OS that will defeat the iPad"? If everyone thought as you do, then they would realize that comparing this to a shipped product which has already been evaluated by the public is a pretty poor comparison, and Gruber's argument stands pretty strong.
Looks like a great site. I'm very fortunate that my Crohn's is doing well enough that I'm not particularly looking for more information, but I'm very happy to help others.
Design is about constraints. Throw battery life, processor power, and price out the window and it's easy to produce something incredible.
I signed up for an invite a month or so ago, any idea when you are going to open it up for more people?
herbivore, I don't consume any liquid dairy (as a part of the Specific Carbohydrate Diet). And it certainly helps. I could possibly imagine that my health could improve even more if I avoided all dairy, but there are so many things out of my diet as is. The main things I have eliminated from my diet are grains and refined sugars. I eat none of those. These two restrictions eliminate about 80% of most grocery stores, on their own. But this diet really helps. It's similar to the Paleo Diet, if you've heard of that.
I like the pane-based user interface. I welcome any alternative to the desktop metaphor.
It is very hard to make a computer do this due to the problem of meaning. Google will get you about 80% whereas a highly-optimized purpose-specific tool would buy you maybe 90%. Either way, you still need to stop and ask a native speaker.

Google is actually fairly good for first-order checking. The summaries will give you an overview and the near-match suggestions will sometimes catch issues as well.

For example: "blong" has slang connotations, is a surname, and sounds similar to "bong"; "schnipp" sounds like "snip" and is a surname; "gnurb" maps to GNUrb and a few user names.
I really think the big thing is the idea of running apps side by side. Otherwise, I don't think apple is necessarily as far behind as this article makes it seem.
Microsoft does not launch unfinished Xboxes (hardware + software product). Apple does not launch unfinished iPads (hardware + software product)

Microsoft launches unfinished Windows builds (software). Apple launches unfinished Lion builds (software).

The question is flawed in that it assumes that they companies have different release methodologies for the same class of products. Both Microsoft & Apple are making similar choices for similar classes of products.

What Gruber is doing is comparing release methodologies of different classes of products that are in the same market space. What drives the choice of release method is not the market space, but the nature of the product being released.
Thanks for this! Any chance you'd consider writing a full blog post later down the line about your experience with this stack?

I'm working on a node/backbone/mongdb (I don't grok coffeescript) app at the moment, and any real world apps and write ups just make my day : )

By the way, GREAT app, definitely had one of those "didn't know I wanted it 'til I saw it" moments watching the video.
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You know what would my make flights better (I travel a lot for work - but work out of my house and book a lot of my own travel)

I want to be able to setup standard trips/itineraries and be able to single clik re-book them with simply a leave and return date.

Further, I want the system to auto arrange for a cab/shuttle/uber to pick me up and take me to my destination.

For example, I fly to LAX several times a month - Nome Alaska once a month, Soon it will be Dallas once a month - and various places in the bay area.

If I can setup my "Visit LAX trip" with all my details and know that a car was waiting for me when I got to LAX to take me to my office/hotel and I didnt have to do anything other than click "Re-book LAX" that would save me so much time and hassle.

I would setup my preferred airlines, times and seats (Virgin America etc...)
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CushyCMS does that, but without DVCS (although it does support versioning).
I suspect that has to do with corporations. I've had nothing but problems with Java's auto update and I don't want to give users administrative access just to update their Java. So I either had to have someone go around every update and do it manually or have the user put up with a little bubble popping up every few hours. So I just uninstalled the whole thing and only gave it to those who notice it was missing.

And no one's noticed yet.
Would it have been different? Yes. Non-existent? No.
Sadly, the set of "evil" things is also uncountably infinite.
Thank you so much. I think there are two sides of the spectrum: patients that are in dire need of help and information, and patients that are 'veteran' and have a lot more information to give. I think these two sides of the spectrum actually work really well in concert. Experienced patients helping new and sick ones. I think both of these groups get a lot out of that interaction. It's really empowering to help others, especially when they really need it.
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Anyone have any idea how the new UI works with multiple monitor setups?
Advanced or just obscure?
Here I was expecting some actual surprising theorems.
Joel's presentation at TechCrunch Distrupt:

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/13/joel-spolskys-trello-is-a-s...
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We have several technical blog posts in the works talking about the stack, why we used it, and what we think so far.
Android much more closely resembles iOS.
That's my take, anyway.
One year later (give or take a few days)
So? There would be no Silicon Valley without cheap credit and a massive financial sector, but that doesn't mean the Federal funds rate should be lower or the financial sector should be bigger.
I always laugh at people who back into spots in large parking lots (although in close-quarters it sometimes makes sense to), but now I realize that it could be a security measure (particularly in states without front plates), with or without this park assist.
Patents are just one way to be evil. Another way to be evil might be to let Canadian companies advertise illegally to sell prescription drugs in the US.

From http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/24/google-settles-phar...

"Investigators snared Google's ad system by creating seven undercover websites offering prescription drugs to be sold without a prescription or the completion of an online medical questionnaire, Martin-Weis said. An undercover investigator informed Google employees creating the advertising for the products that they were manufactured overseas and did not require customers to have a valid prescription, she said.
"In each instance, despite this knowledge, Google employees created a full advertising campaign for each of the undercover websites," Martin-Weis said."
Here in Canada, CTV used it to build their site for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. To call it a disaster is not an understatement. The most curious effect, for me, is how many people first discovered what Silverlight was from having to visit that site -- and how universal they all thought the site (and therefore Silverlight) sucked.
Fair point, Thurrott calling this the iPad killer is pre-emptive, and Gruber is right in that respect.

I was railing on Gruber's snide remark about "ship something real", where he is subtly making the point that shipping when a product is final is the right way to do things.

EDIT: Typos
I for one am thankful that Netflix uses Silverlight. For one thing, it doesn't seem plagued with 0-day exploits all the time, doesn't want to update itself every other day, and crashes a hell of a lot less on my Mac than Flash does.

I'd be ok if MSFT won this one.
A 7 minute video? That seems long...curious how many people who'd land on this page would watch it all. (I got through 56 seconds of it).
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Nice. You have a lot of people on your side.
This is great. My uncle had horrible chrons disease and is managaing it well with his diet (no grains/legumes and plenty of probiotics from Kefir)

Really great.
HFT is about making money by supplying liquidity or making money by exploiting the portions of the system which are designed to supply liquidity. You don't want to end up with a position. You want to net out the day with no position in any stocks. HFT is done by an HFT fund which is usually trading off credit extended by an agressive hedge fund who they split the profits with.

Algos are about getting a trade done at the least cost. You want to buy 100M shares for fund XYZ or sell 10M shares for fund ABC. Algos are run by brokers on behalf of their buy-side clients. A simple algo is something like TWAP, the time weighted average price, which attempts to buy a large position over the course of the day gradually. The purpose of this algo is to avoid moving the market. This is suitable for the "build up a large position because I'm bullish on this industry" type of trade.

Another algo might be IQx, a package offered by CovergEx which tries to quickly execute the trade by sending it out to multiple dark pools and the major exchanges at gradually worse prices until the whole order fills. (Or at least that's my reading of the marketing material.)
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Seems to be working, in Chrome at least. Can some other people try it out? http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/112966

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I did not know this, otherwise I could have taken the day off.
Most of the Enterprise Managers I know moved their desktop applications to Silverlight. It provides reliable local caching (a must), out of browser support and can run on a Mac. More importantly encryption is a snap.

WPF really is dead and it was killed by Silverlight
Dear Benevolent Developer,

We cannot thank you enough for notifying us.

Here's what happened:

1. The API should never have been made accessible publicly. The regular authentication that protects API access was incorrectly disabled. We have corrected the configuration and the services are now protected again.

2. The code snippet should never been placed on pastie. We were sloppy in that regard.

While the information in the API is mostly used to get counts of how many spaces in the car park are currently occupied (which you can find out by going to the site and reading the digital signage), any unauthorized access to the data is an unacceptable breach.

We acknowledge that these mistakes should never have occurred and we will need to take a hard look into our security procedures to ensure this does not happen again.

If anyone would like to discuss this issue further, we welcome your comments and advice.

Thanks once again.
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That would break the usability. Right now you know that horizontal axis = lists, vertical = items in lists.

The only thing that I don't like is horizontal scrolling.
I've just started doing this and my feet feel similar to how they would if I'd done a day of walking. They are slowly getting used to it now. Is there any benefit to getting a dedicated standing desk? I'm currently using a combination of a chest of drawers and the kitchen counter?
great feedback lsc, clearly we need to work at making the location filtering more obvious. the map actually filters the mission list as you zoom in. so if the map is showing the region you're interested in, the mission list is showing the available missions for that region.
been waiting a long time for mine....
Why aren't there civilians in video games?
silverlight's baby daddy right now is netflix. Until they go html5 silverlight will have a huge userbase.
I assume it runs on your computers behind your firewall and not actually 'inside' the firewall.

Also don't quite understand why TC would compare it to Dropbox. Seems like a solid service on it's on merit.
Ask HN: Advice on Alpha testing?
Hey guys,

Just wondering if any HN'rs have any advice for undertaking, collecting, and "sorting through" alpha feedback?
I know this is a pretty generic question, but I thought there might be something obvious I can learn from.

My startup Setkick (http://setkick.com - an online film/tv pre-production and scheduling tool) is ready for some alpha feedback, and my basic idea was:
* Sit down with some existing users (of pre-production software) and get them to run through the whole program from A to Z
* Screen record the whole session for reference
* Maybe create a short questionnaire at the end, 'what stood out', 'what was lacking' etc

I'm debating whether to allow alpha testers to play via the web (not under my supervision), as I want to make sure I can get all the feedback (even down to user mumblings whist using Setkick, facial expressions etc) - btu I guess at the same time I need to get a wide array of feedback.

Anyways, any advice would be great,

Cheers guys,

Chris.
I just watched it all. It's a great video.
hmm, send a chat message to me on C&P (Becky) and I can look into that for you!
Oh, wow. Didn't really expect to see something like this here. I have crohn's, so I'm very much interested in such projects. I'll definitely be giving it a try.
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Actually Microsoft hardware has previewed unfinished hardware which didn't debut at all, or was radically changed:

Microsoft Spot

Digital Home

Courier Tablet

And don't get me started on their abandon-ware hardware projects (Networking, WebTV, Digital Photo TV, Zune, Microsoft at Work, MS Automotive, etc)
Go back. Refresh the page. Click More.

I think the more important thing to worry about here is getting back to work, not the pages on a social news aggregator expiring for being open too long.
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We just launched our startup, and it's currently in beta. The point of the site is to find friends based on what interests you have in common with them. Users will post about specific interests they have already selected. Your homepage consists of a mix of all your favorite interests. We also have a user directory where you can see who has the most interests in common with you, and what they've posted in which categories. We are using Facebook Connect for user authentication to avoid unnecessary account creation and inappropriate content.

We are looking for people to help test the site out, and would like honest opinions on how everything works. We are very open to suggestions and ideas for the site.

Our site address is http://www.bunchify.com. After clicking on "Login with Facebook" and accepting the permissions, use the invite code "bunchify-HackerNews".
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I like you.
You should check the BUILD telecast; they showed how the new UI works seamlessly with multiple monitors!
history repeats itself, 20+ years ago it was windows and Mac OS getting into multitasking
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS#.22Classic.22_Mac_OS_.28...
> Try pulling the marker from one location to another.

For me it just drags the map (Chrome 13.0.782.220 / OS X).

> I may have a general area of where I want to end up, but this lets you choose exactly where through a visual map. Again, very cool.

...is a map really helpful for this? How often do you want to go somewhere but not know the name? I'd rather they take all of that map space and use it for something else. I wouldn't mind something that says "hey, you could save $x on this flight if you went to $nearby_airport instead of the one you're on."
Try resizing your browser window for a couple other viewing options.
Perhaps a social media element with picture sharing?
Seems like asking is an easier way to find out.
I actually thought 'Wave for Business' at first glance due to the the more free-form nature.
Self-respecting coders write in non-proprietary protocols that won't lock them into a license.
I'll just leave this here: http://www.kanbanpad.com
If nobody were investing long term any longer, wouldn't there be less money in the system, and thus it would be relatively cheap to buy and hold?
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Hard to say who's side I'm on, but I can't help but think of those spam apps you see all over the Internet that charge you a small or large sum of money for something you can get for free on the net (i.e. watch all the free movies you want for $10, which in turn they sell you a repackaged version of uTorrent with links to Pirates Bay). In a way, the CBC is protecting the free availability of their service; it's like they're protecting themselves and their brand from people who want to profit off of it.
Malbs, as you allude to, it can be a hard leap to start openly telling people you have Crohn's or Colitis. It's not easy to lash your personal identity to the disease. Believe it or not, I've gone through a personal struggle with this myself. For Crohnology to work, it was required for me to wear the badge really clearly, so to speak. What I think is that telling people unabashedly that you have the condition is probably almost like coming out (just a guess). It's incredibly empowering and allows you to leave lots of personal shame and suffering behind, and join a whole new community of like people. It's really uplifting.
I just watched it, and more than anything, it seemed like it was slow. It seemed like he would swipe and nothing would happen, so he would swipe again, but it was actually just that the tablet was still processing stuff, so then it would eventually process both gestures. I think it would be quite normal for a developer release to be slow.

As far as your point about whether Apple would allow people to see this, well, that's just the Microsoft vs Apple marketing philosophy. Apple typically presents things that are very highly polished and nearly complete, whereas Microsoft says "Hey, check out this thing we're working on." All else being equal (I'm not saying it is, but if it were), they both seem like viable strategies.
I think a great way to do it is to ask some friends & family about their jobs: 'What is the most inefficient part of your industry?'

It's quite an obvious one.. but sometimes getting that insight into another industry is super valuable. (I now have so much insight into the inefficiencies in the film and t.v pre-production due to my startup)
The speculation is obvious unlike the OP and couched in the science.
Agree. But that doesn't necessarily mean that he has better opinion as well :)
Has anyone installed this as a virtual OS?
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Honestly haven't used Lion myself but this seems to be a consensus view. "Incoherent mess" does not seem to be the consensus view.

That said, I hereby reserve the right to come back in a few days under the unlikely circumstance that my machine blows up and (further unlikely circumstance) that I replace with a mac and tell you that it turns out I also find it to be an "incoherent mess".
Honestly, this is amazing. The big qualifier is, "YMMV", depending on medical history.

If you could parlay some deals with the insurance companies related to being an "authorized reseller" where you could input Medical History and come out with a Comparative List that you could sign up for.... you'd be sitting pretty. IMO.
> If that's the case, why are so many tech bloggers treating this as though it's the "OS that will defeat the iPad"?

Seriously?

Because tech bloggers are morons that want to sensationalize their story but can't seem to come up with a new way to do it. You might as well ask why every vaguely scandalous political story is labeled "something-gate." Spoiler: it's probably not because the comparison to watergate is in any way interesting.
Yeah I'm keen to try it out when I get home tonight but don't exactly want to hose my home machine, hoping vmware player 64bit will play nicely with win8, if no one else has tried it by tonight I'll let you know how I went
ya, but unlike 20 years ago, I feel like the world will not be as divided in mac vs windows world. But I agree, I think we're seeing a cycle of events here
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Maybe - I think that the border around the lists is clear enough separation. I agree about the horizontal scrolling, that is why we have multiple queues per column on the whiteboard. If you have lists with only 2-3 items in them at a time (think WIP limit) then the bottom half of the screen is empty.
Nanex makes a good case that it was HFT that caused the flash crash.

http://www.nanex.net/FlashCrashFinal/FlashCrashAnalysis_Theo...
hm, working from San Francisco. I'll keep my eye on it though. Thanks for letting me know.
I guess you aren't the only one who started putting in trades within a reasonable margin around the market price after the flash crash. Thus it will be hard to repeat like that.

Perhaps a flash crash could happen in the other direction as well? I.e. flash boom, maybe by squeezing the shorters? In that case buying way out of money call options and putting in automatic orders to sell those options if the stock price goes 50% (or so) over last minute's market price would be a viable strategy?
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Darn kids.. Get off my lawn :)

Seriously, this is fucking cool.. Congrats to feross
Further Down the Rabbit Hole:
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It only gets worse.
This is quite disappointing to me, as C# and WPF are actually extraordinarily nice to work with. I write javascript and HTML at my day job, but I've done some side projects in C# and WPF, and I find C# and WPF much nicer for building native apps.
Microsoft/Nintendo/Sony absolutely "launch" unfinished consoles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_U

The more 3rd party applications you need on your platform, the longer a lead time you need to give to those 3rd parties. And for that matter -- Apple does launch unfinished iOS builds/features.
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It definitely has all the trappings of a Fog Creek app:
- The overall UI: built by programmers who dabble in design
- A seven(!) minute video about how _simple_ it is to use. It's easy! Instead of just raising your hand, you mark a light on the corresponding tote board, which informs your manager that you need more information.

I hate to be contrarian, but there are many other apps out there that solve this problem much more succinctly. I'm not sure who thought a solution like this is needed.

Also: "lemmur"
While I don't know anyone with Crohn's, it's great to see resources becoming available to patients made by people who understand what they are going through.

To slightly "thread-jack" - a former co-worker of mine recently launched ihadcancer.com and made it with her personal experience with cancer as her motivator. I hope sites like yours and hers can help plenty of people out there deal with their situation and find support and advice from others.
Always panics on boot in VMware. Sad :(

Edit: Seems to work in Parallels.

Edit 2: Boots in Parallels but is not very usable. Hangs very often, Parallels Tools do not work. Now trying in VirtualBox.

Edit 3: VirtualBox works as good or bad as Parallels. Native install seems to be the best option. Did someone try to install onto an external drive?
Haven't they already begun testing html5 for Linux support?