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Yes, I've been using the beta for the past 4 months with a few people from work. The product has come on leaps and bounds, especially with the new UI refresh.

It's more akin to a web based collaborative version of Things http://culturedcode.com/things/ and it does this job very well. The keyboard shortcuts help you to quickly jot stuff down, throw it into a project or assign it to someone else. Anyone can leave a comment on an item or take ownership of someone eles's to-do that's been added to a project. Plus there's a personal section so you can keep the Milk reminders away from your team's projects.

Two things I'm excited about.

a) I've read somewhere that Asana wants to be the platform and if our workspace needed a custom time logging application we could build / buy this functionality and have it built into our workspace.

b) Because of the real time nature of comments / assignments the email notifications are sometimes a bit slow, it would be great to have an Jabber / iChat interface to receive and reply to incoming comments and to-dos.
It feels like the mobile web client.
Its funny how here you get down voted for not reading a part of news thoroughly, or for that matter being wrong. (Or even for acknowledging that you were wrong), i am dying laughing here guys haha..! great work keep up..

EDIT: in case you couldn't fathom, that was sarcasm.

EDIT 2: seriously, stop it! or reply as to why are you down voting? is it a crime to mistakenly post a comment and then acknowledge your mistake or are you guys just some proud 'elite' HNers?
Pretty sure we have the experience to know our cats aren't going to devour our cities, but it seems like a lot of what happens due to fracking we're still figuring out.
Yeah, not sure, not an easy problem. Maybe go public? In open source world reputation is almost everything. Honesty figures in that well. If you have good proof, their reputation would be ruined.

I personally don't care if this was RMS himself or Torvalds, if they are copying code from others as their own, I lose respect for them and will refuse to use or promote their projects.

Maybe present it in an exploratory kind of blog post -- "So yeah we found this out and we don't know what to do, what does the community think?" Just make it public.
The "browser usage" market share is a very inaccurate and pointless stat by default. Do developers really care if a user uses 5 hours a day his browser or 1 hour? Wouldn't they care more about how many use a certain browser?

Especially on the mobile side, the stats get very skewed, because browser usage will be much higher on a tablet (read: iPad) than on a smartphone (iPhone/Android/Symbian/whatever). So say 10 million iPads could get as much "browser usage share" as 50 million iPhones. The iPads, although much fewer than iPhones, could easily double up the "iOS Safari" market share in this type of stat. That's why these stats don't make any sense.
I agree and disagree. If you take a historical perspective of the role of universities with respect to corporate employment a university education was just needed to validate whether someone was of 'high calibre'.

In the past anecdotally at least in the City of London 'well rounded' individuals were preferred for high finance i.e. you might be better off studying Classics at Oxbridge than pure math. Today this is probably less true as computerization and trading systems have come to the fore.

However, I would be very surprised that in your case you didn't have all of those skills mentioned in place before going to university. Is it likely they got some enhancement? It certainly wouldn't do any harm studying anything in a good department.

I don't see any tangible evidence that 'soft skills' are manufactured out of liberal studies and I find it a baffling conclusion that there even would be an automatic superiority of these skills versus a 'high calibre' person studying engineering.
No, I switched to one of the paid apps (GV Mobile+) because it actually worked.

EDIT: I don't really know why I'm being downvoted for this. Wouldn't you switch apps too if you relied on google voice for your text messages and you couldn't log into it anymore without it instantly crashing?
why did this get downvoted? it's a valid point.

This is actually the first time i've seen a downvoted comment that i just, really can't understand why it was downvoted. Anyone care to explain?
I think it depends on numerous factors. For instance, I have spent so much time at a Kinesis keyboard that a laptop keyboard slows me down. Not by orders of magnitude, but enough to be annoying.

I used to exclusively work at two 24" monitors. Then I switched to a tiling WM and from many years on OS X back to Fedora. I found that the WM/OS switch improved my productivity to the point that I was better off on a 15" laptop with those two changes than before them on two monitors. And the setup was around $2,000 cheaper.

Now my ideal setup is a single large monitor along with familiar peripherals (Kinesis, trackball), xmonad, and Linux. If you'd told me a year ago that I'd be happier with one monitor than two--or nearly as happy on a laptop as a desktop--I'd have said you were nuts. But, here we are.

I agree that the difference in productivity between the worst-case (Mac laptop) and best-case (Large monitor; peripherals; xmonad) is not orders of magnitude. But I would say that over time it has come to approach 2x, which is not at all insignificant.

And I think "expense" matters little compared to "comfort". If a keyboard that didn't cost $250 was just as comfortable for me, I'd buy it. In the case of this particular switch (laptop -> linode), the comfort level would be close for most tasks as I already live in Vim and things with Vim-like bindings. But the totally new window/peripheral interface would definitely slow me down. I've spent enough years comparing environments over long periods of time to know that.
Headsets for Unified Communications
Unified Communications integrates technologies such as voice, email and instant messaging and facilitates improved productivity and collaboration by unifying and simplifying the way we communicate. Our headsets are plug-and-play with the leading Unified Communications applications. The common interface for these applications is what makes unified communications, work efficiently.
The functionality for fashion is "makes you look great."
yours is not quite a haiku either.

you say its haiku
but you missed a syllable
in your second line
Back in the 80's, the Japanese model was the ideal to which America aspired. Funny how thatturned out. During the 90s the US did manage to create a tighter alignment of government with industry and banking while ignoring the fact that the Japanese sun was sinking into the ocean.
Advanced server definitions in Capistrano
What if you have several servers with different users, ssh-keys, and even port numbers? How to manage all this stuff flexibly ? This tutorial covers poorly documented Capistrano features for advanced servers and roles configuration. Many of them obtained via digging into Capistrano sources.
I think that most people aren't saying that they need the two monitors, laser mouse, etc. It is more of an issue of what helps them work the best. I spend most of my day using vim in a screen session on a remote server as well, but if I switched to this setup I think I would feel cramped. Sometimes I open four terminal windows at a time and have firefox behind them in order to get something done. Sure, I could accomplish the same thing with the iPad, but it would feel like a lot more work. Resistance has a tendency to suck away productivity.
Kibo 2.0: A Robot That Wants To Be Friends
Like that bootstrap in the Bootstrapping Design logo, it's simple just like the concept and adds a cool touch
> I'm not sure this is still the case in iOS5.

It still is. The JIT was enabled for "pinned" web applications (added to the home screen), but for the JIT to be enabled the whole process needs to be allowed to execute code from writable memory. There's absolutely no way Apple is going to allow arbitrary applications to do that.

As pilif notes, a workaround would be to have UIWebView's content exist in a separate, JIT-able process.
I guess it's about expectations. As a web app, people might expect a slight delay when tapping. But a native app should be responding instantly to taps (like the rest of iOS does), and this doesn't cut it.
Any good alternatives so?
"Capistrate the world!"

That scares the hell out of me, if you remove pi.
It says it on the website, but of particular note is that Alex also runs the Strange Loop conference (https://thestrangeloop.com/). Of its three years, I've attended two consecutively, and have had a blast both times, learned many new things, and made great connections.

He also runs groups here in St. Louis that I attend, so that paired with my experiences at his conference lead me to say with confidence that a conference run by him is certainly worth considering.
That people accept (bad) things from web applications they will never accept from a native application, I'm guessing.

This would imply native applications generally being better than web applications, since the acceptability threshold is higher.
Pakistani startups get a boost as Lean Startup Machine lands in Lahore
Actually the poster managed to miss the entire CONCEPT of Joel's article.

Joel is not ranting against synchronization in general or synchronization a la Dropbox in particular.

He is ranting against over-encompassing architectures that are out of touch with reality. It just so happened that one of the characteristics of Live Mesh was file synchronization, but that is completely irrelevant to Joel's argumentation.

"""But Windows Live Mesh is not just a way to synchronize files. That's just the sample app. It's a whole goddamned architecture, with an API and developer tools and in insane diagram showing all the nifty layers of acronyms, and it seems like the chief astronauts at Microsoft literally expect this to be their gigantic platform in the sky which will take over when Windows becomes irrelevant on the desktop.""""

If anything, Dropbox is the exact opposite of the "architecture astronauts" designs that Joel rants against: it's dead simple, does only a couple of things but does them well, and it is not based on a grande all-encompassing architecture out of touch with engineering reality.
Thanks for spreading the word! And seriously, feel free to email requests and feedback.
Didn't Twitter for iPad use this before Facebook?
I is simply not true. 2 MBPS is _easily_ available for home connections from all the vendors, and is pretty popular plan.
Ask HN: Best and cheapest cloud host for a startup?
I'm looking for a cloud host to host my startup on, and I know of a few like Rackspace and Amazon Web Services, but I was wondering if there were any cheaper options out there.

I'm looking for a price around the ~$100 range, but a little over is still fine.
That native apps are better.

People have lower expectations from web apps, e.g. it wasn't too long ago that GMail getting drag-and-drop attachment support was a big deal.
E-learning Shift
No, if TimeMachine screws up a file it stays screwed up for ever after every backup, there's no integrity checking. It also completly barfs on large files that change little by little. The best example of that is the entourage mail store, but any single file db will do. I've seen clients bit bad by these problems. Don't get me started on the time capsule...
I don't see the point of doing anything for the "hipster" factor.

Sometimes people are surprised that the reason I buy macs is not because they're metal and shiny.
Interesting style. I feel like this is hyperbolic in his negativity but if there are people in the audience who were expecting this to be easy perhaps it's what they need to here.

The salary/options becoming public anecdotes are interesting. More and more I'm wondering if this type of information should just be public so these discussions happen early and it's all out on the table.
I know. But having being born in China and stayed in the US for the last 3 years, I feel there are many more barriers for a Chinese startup than a US one. That's why I've started my own in the US, even knowing that there will probably be some messy business when my student visa expires.
I really like the 13" Air form factor, but the high resolution and smaller physical size results in fonts that are a bit too small for my eyes these days. So, I stick with my couple-gen-back 15" with matte finish and 1440x900.
Securing a RESTful Web Service with Spring Security 3.1
How to secure a RESTful Web Service with Spring Security 3.1, focusing on the security configuration, the web.xml, the HTTP status codes for the authentication process and the Maven resolution of the security artifacts.
"There's next to no additional value (especially with the currently broken push) provided by such a half-assed pseudo-native app."

There may be no additional value to nerds like you and me, but there are plenty of normal people who want GMail on their homescreen and want to get it from the App Store.
I use vim+cscope+screen. I used to operate solely out of a putty window (The company I work for uses windows on the desktop and really, all I need is that one putty window).

I might look into tmux, screen is kind of buggy under cygwin.

There are plenty of code-completion plugins, and I used to have tab-completion enabled, but I never got around to adding it on my latest environment and don't miss it.

Of course, cscope is mostly useful for c/c++/java, but I've used the ruby vim map just fine. I operate on a codebase that's probably past a million lines of code. Maybe not all useful lines, I haven't seen them all ;)
and Windows, unlike Textmate
Can someone tell me why both this site and this magazine have "hacker" in the title? Both are geared towards entrepreneurs, not hackers.
Super disappointing that it's just a native wrapper around a web interface. They had a chance to kill it with this app and they didn't reach very far.
> ... there's no barrier to entry...

Other than being quite confusing to set up.
You'll always get the refund within a couple of days, well before you'll have to pay your credit card bill for that charge.

Also, you don't pay full price online - you only pay the discounted amount and you will be rebated the _full_ amount after redemption.
Did anyone seriously suggest the women were CIA sleeper agents? Seems more likely to me like the CIA bought them (or their story) afterwards.

One also assumes that he might be a little paranoid about sexy blonde Swedish secret agents hanging around his suitcase...
That, unlike the iPad, Courier, and the future Win8 devices, is legitimately a specialty device, and if you think that Apple's restrictive about what software developers can do, take a look at Nintendo's policies.

Then try browsing Hacker News, Gmail, or some PG essays on your DS. The DS is an interesting device and I love it to pieces, but comparing it to an iPad, a Win8 device, or a Courier tablet, is very, very tenuous.
> The kids get that. That's why they don't go to class.

Baloney. They don't go to class because they are hung over, or because a new movie came out, or because they want to play video games, or because they just don't feel like going. A very few don't go because they are sick or have actual life issues beyond being unmotivated.

They are - as a rule of thumb, say, about 98% of the time - not sipping wine and discussing complex and nuanced issues.
Every Entrepreneur Needs An Elevator Pitch
WoW Tailoring Guide for Beginners
Does this support sticky sessions?

What are the balancing options are available (weighted round robin, least connections, etc.)?
I don't think that stat is particularly meaningful. Your FF1 usage figures have I'm sure dropped off far more severely.
I was just using Gusto for web development at lunch yesterday. It's a pretty good way to work if you don't want to drag a full laptop around everywhere. It's like that famous saying about the best camera -- the best coding tool is the one you have with you.
App idea inspired by Startup School.  Put a SHA512 hash in your "about" section.
You seem to have misunderstood. I did not mean the availability of speeds. I meant the definition as per TRAI. As per what I checked just now, TRAI's definition of "broadband" in India has been updated to 512kbps since Jan-2011.

According to Google, the page here http://www.trai.gov.in/broadbandpolicy.asp was updated/cached last in 2006 so maybe thats why it still says 256kbps
Great idea for an eBook. As a developer without a design background, it would be really handy to know the basics so I could bootstrap things without having to bring in a real designer early on in a project.
You could use LLVM to compile to .Net. But not sure how easy it is to wrap the OpenGL calls.
I want to get unplugged for 1 year (365 days)
Lately it seems I been making myself inundated with too much information. Whenever I need to procrastinate, I will find myself web surfing or needing to read something. I find myself, losing the ability to focus, think creatively, and be able to critically think effective. It's like ideas are put into my head from surfing various websites and discussions.

I want to do an experiment to see what it's like to be unplugged for 1 year. Of course I realize I can't be unplugged from everything. But I want to at least do the following.

1.)Stop reading online news and browsing social news sites.

2.)Stop going to any website, if it's not a website to either check my mail, pay my bills, or have a question that I already have answered.

3.)Not buy an new electronic devices/toys, and not keep up with, same old when is this new gizmo coming out.

4.)Not download/purchase any new software apps, music, etc.

5.)Not try to research any new programming/database/web app technologies.

6.)Not reading any books or magazines, unless they are direct reference materials for some problem I am trying to solve.

However I do want to

1.)Keep up with my fitness goals. I use GymGoal for the iPhone, it's the best app I have found that works for me for body building.

2.)Really learn the technologies I am interested now. Learn it so well I can start pointing out the flaws in each tool.
iOS Development, NoSql Databases (Redis,Hbase,MongoDb, and Cassandra),learning Ruby,Python,C,C++,erlang,javascript,x86 and arm assembly, truly well, build a web app using ROR and NodeJS, and build and server on local machines as well as the cloud.

3.)Keeping up with/maintaining and building upon , relationships that I already have with friends and family.

4.)Using whatever tools/software I have to the fullest,learning the minute details of each.

This for me will be an exercise in not only self control, but also how my view of the world will change if it does so.

I want thoughts to come to my head naturally; not being spoon feed through blogs, social web sites.

So I will keep track of this every day. I will bookmark this post and pretty much update for 1 year, every day.

----------------------------

Day 0:
I am actually considering trading my iPad for an 11" MBA. It's just an inch larger, pretty much the same thickness, and much more productive.
Isn't it a bit of a retcon to say that Vi(m) has grep builtin?

As far as I understand it, grep was named for the :g/.../p sequence one can do with Vi's global command; that is "global-regex-print".
Republic Wireless to launch $19 unlimited talk, text, and data
We used to program with punch cards... so yeah we're spoiled and damn happy about it.
Daily Mobile Minute: Is Appcelerator the poster child for the mobile industry?
Hanlon's Razor. There was a login bug with iOS 5, and Google pulled the iPhone app from the Appstore until it was fixed. It's been back for a little while now, and stable.

The Android version is far better, though, due to its OS integration. I don't think Apple would ever allow what it does on Android.
It's incredibly meaningful in deciding whether it makes sense for us to continue supporting IE6 or not. And IE7 appears to be not far behind.
Deconstructed: Greatest College Football Play Ever
I have seen this kind of thing more and more as of late. I have concluded we are beginning to see downvotes used as "dislike" rather than "disagree".

For example, suppose I posted a comment irrefutably proving that Ruby was the worst programming language ever written. A year or two ago, I would have been upvoted for making useful observations. I suspect today I would be downvoted, because people like Ruby.

Note: I have nothing against Ruby. It is an example.
I haven't noticed cscope being all the slow, other than having to rebuild the database. I use all the C-Spacebar-<letter> commands, it's second nature to find all the callers of a function for me now.
This is my workstation at home:

%uptime
11:49AM up 143 days, 17:08, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

My internet connection has been up for the last 65 days (yay for actually logging data). I don't keep remote connections to servers as I do all my work on my workstation and push when needed at which point my servers automatically pick up the changes and put them into {testing,staging,production} depending on where I push.
>some website isn't compatible with IE9 //

Have you examples of where the website is using non-standards complaint HTML/CSS and this is causing IE9 to fail?
Thanks! Cool that you noticed. It's a ligature built into the font. (Calluna: http://www.exljbris.com/calluna.html)
Ask HN: Anybody feel Google Chrome 15.0. performance drop on Win7?
It now becomes the worst browser when viewing canvas based web app.
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Ask HN: How would you build a better auction site?
aka. how would you beat Ebay? I know this one was on PG's list of ideas he would be interested in funding and I started thinking about it a bit more yesterday and inherently ran into the issue of the ecosystem/platform moat that Ebay+PayPal has built.
Wow, I have to ask, what do you think are some of the best resources to pull on for postgres knowledge are? and do you blog/tweet about your postgres work? if so, where?
Google has actually fixed these issues. The Google Voice app now works perfectly fine on my iPhone 4S...
i had great fun doing this interview -- we were all on a real high at the end of the event, and sam asked some great questions

the event goes from strength to strength!
Davidsharpe411: http://t.co/8FLwplCG
US breakup: Myth or reality?
Funny thing is that I'm currently "pair-designing" with a designer. He told me he is actually really happy that there are books like that and frameworks like twitter bootstrap out there: it allows him to start working from higher grounds (logo, branding) and avoids dealing with the very basics.
Ask HN: country TLDs with "requirements"
I'm thinking about registering an .re domain, but the residency requirements seem to state:

Registration open to legal persons (whose headquarters is located on the Ile de la Reunion, or have an address on the Ile de la Reunion) and individuals (of French nationality residing on the Island Meeting of foreign nationality or whose habitual residence is located on the Ile de la Reunion) and holders of a trademark. The administrative contact must reside in France.

There are registrars out there who "find" someone who fits the requirements. I'm wondering if people here have ever used services like this, or what you've done to get these kinds of domains.

Thanks!
When did that happen? When I did my degree (mechanical engineering at UQ, as it happens) there were 3 HECS bands - liberal arts was the cheapest, engineering/science/business was the middle band, and law/medicine was the highest.

I understood that the difference in bands was due to the difference in earning potential of the graduates.