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I don't feel comfortable providing that number, but I can talk a bit about how the Trello team would answer it.

The concept of "active" isn't really a cut-and-dried thing. Do you count people who merely look at Trello, or do they have to do something? If they have to do something, then what is "something"? If I do one "something," is that enough, or do I have to do a couple? What if someone does that on my behalf (i.e., assigning me to or removing me from a board or card)? Are they active, am I active, or both?

It turns out the Trello team several different concepts of "active" they chart, but two they pay a lot of attention to are the number of users who have been active on Trello in the last 28 days (i.e., your pip has gone green), and the number of users who have performed at least four actions in the last 28 days (e.g., create a card, move a card, join a board, etc.). The awesome thing is that those numbers, while obviously less than the total member count, are nothing to sneeze at, and have been moving in proportion to the total member count throughout the time they've been measured. In other words, we have roughly twice as many active users today, by the above metrics, as we did at 500,000.

Sorry for the fuzziness, but I hope that at least gives you enough information to know it's not an empty statistic.
I don't think something like that can happen with Redis. I don't want to focus on the technical reasons why this is impossible, but even just from the point of view of "handling" this stuff in the best way from both sides:

1) I'll not leave VMware for another company. I received several offers from other companies, and I never ever investigated what the salary or stocks or conditions could be. It is as simple as that: VMware provided huge value to the Redis community for several years and is extremely supportive. There is no reason for me to go to another company.

2) But VMware may fire me. If this will happen it can only happen because there is a lost of interest about Redis for some reason. In this case it will be natural for me to continue in some other way the development, and if VMware will be no longer interested in Redis, it is unlikely it will be against me continuing the development in alternative ways.

Btw about the current issue with Vert.x, what I see is that a developer signed some contract where the IP is transfered to VMware, and later joined what can be considered a competitor. My feeling is that the current evolution was a bit expected or at least not so unlikely.
There is a very subtle but important point here. He worked for VMware so he had an employment agreement with VMware. That may have conveyed rights to things he worked on to the company, so even working on an open source project, his work is 'owned' by the folks who pay him.

I am not a lawyer, personal circumstances led me to do a lot of research on this topic and consult with both a lawyer who was versed in employment law and one who specialized in Intellectual Property law to see what was what. And in California your employer can claim ownership of anything you create or "enhance" which is either done on company time, or with company resources, or (and this is the tricky bit) associated with the business or goals of the company.

From the posting it sounds like this is what VMware is alleging which is that they 'own' this work he did and have asked him to transfer it back to the company. I know that sounds weird to someone who might think they were working on a free software project but it is the way the law is structured.
How do you handle cases when annoyed by lousy implementations of features of existing products? In other words, if the idea resulting from the frustration looks like "feature, not a product". Doing it right now involves not just doing that particular aspect right but also the remaining 95% of the product.
Also.. don't you think the more common case is not that the top answer is incorrect but rather you picked the wrong question from the search results? Seems to me that would be more common.
I haven't used Clojure yet although have been meaning to give it a try at some point. indentation is the reason I've never seriously looked at Python, although I know there are blind programmers who use it effectively. What matters more to me then the actual language is the variable names. If the variable names read more like English or at least follow a standard it's much easier to just listen to the code. The shorter the variable names the more likely I am to read a lot of code using my braille display instead of listening to it.
There is one reason Google+ Games didn't work: it missed the wave by several years on web/casual games. It's all mobile now.
I used to have three monitors, then went down to two, and now I'm at one. I personally feel that multitasking decreases my productivity, and that were increasingly trying to stretch our attention. I often open multiple tabs at once, have my phone blinking on my desk, gmail notifications, blinking LEDs elsewhere and etc. I often produce my best work on my 10 inch dell mini, I think others should try it too.
Needs some gloss, monotone finish and its shaped changed into a rectangle with beveled edges.
Hey, my HN post made it to a gigaom article, nice
Would love to see what kind of dev platform/technology you use to build trello, specifically the scaling challenges.
Ask HN: What's still missing in Netflix, Hulu, Amazon video?
What do you think are the needs that they didn't have filled yet?

Are you always been satisfied by Hulu + Netflix?

How are they if compared with the tv scheduling?
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>From its launch through today, everyone viewed Google Plus as "Google’s version of Facebook,"... Sure, there’s a social networking aspect to it, but Google Plus is really Google’s version of Google.

This is called moving the goalposts. If you're redefining Google+ as Google, there's no prediction here. Google already has a staggering number of users.

>So then why didn’t Google shut down Google Plus if it was purportedly such a colossal flop? Why is the team working on it the size of the contracting team building the Death Star? And why is Google integrating its other products with Google Plus at a freakish, breakneck pace?

Sorry to keep saying the same thing, but my post from yesterday describes I how feel about this attitude: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5022549

I have a couple dozen friends on Google+. There literally hasn't been a single post from one of them in over 4 months. Sometimes companies just fail.
The idea I had is that there'd be a 6-month (possibly 12, but I'd prefer to keep it short) exclusivity, and that the platform would provide services (such as playtester matching, for developers not ready to release their work to the wild) that others would not.

The 6-month exclusivity would be a small cost (for the developer) compared to what we'd be offering, but give us just enough time to become the "go-to" site for this game, a long-standing advantage similar to the one that Facebook has in general "Social". Compound this across hundreds of high-quality games and G+ is the go-to site for games, even though those same games become available everywhere over time.

Of course, we'd also serve games that were already available in most places, like Angry Birds (a high-quality casual game, not Zyngarbage). However, we'd give the best terms to our brand-defining games that would have to start out exclusively with us.
Thanks for playing with it. Sometimes the first answer isn't the greatest but -p2 or -p3 will get it. In this case the following command gets you closer:

howdoi format dates django templates -p3

Excellent idea for colorization! I've already got that suggestion on the github page -> https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi/issues/4
Surely you mean "CDMA will die soon". That's the American technology behind the American idea of "this phone belongs to this carrier". The carrier decoupling that you see in Europe and elsewhere was enabled by GSM-family technologies (GSM, UMTS, LTE) and their use of SIM cards.
For much the same reason that L1 caches exist.
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I did this:

* Ignored the caller's pressure and sense of urgency.

* Repeated every phrase she told me with a question mark added: "My computer is slow, eh?"

* Every time she said "Yes", I asked my own question: "What department do you say you work for?", "Who is your manager?", "What number should I call if I need more help from you?"

I never let her lead, never said Yes or No and never acted like an ahole. I was nice and calm. In five questions she got very nervous and hung up.
Clever founder here.

It's currently way too hard for startups to break into the education market. Our platform takes care of some of the technical challenges (developers no longer need to build interfaces to myriad legacy systems), but getting your product into the hands of teachers & students is still tough.

That's why we're incredibly excited to support New York City on this app challenge. With Clever making it easier to write an app, and New York promising to evaluate your app, it's never been easier to get initial traction in schools with your education app.
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Thanks. I built this for the same reasons. We all have diverse hobbies and resumes can't capture all of the interesting stuff that we do. I also wanted to create a mechanism for better project discovery. Mycelial accomplishes this with tags. If you tag the core components/technologies of your projects, they will automatically be related to other similar projects via the sporeprint page.
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Ah yes I should clarify. -p2 picks the second search result from Google, not the second answer to the question.

$ howdoi format dates django templates -l

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7737146/django-template-d...

$ howdoi format dates django templates -p2 -l

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1180372/how-to-format-dat...

$ howdoi format dates django templates -p3 -l

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4087717/django-template-d...

Another improvement might be to list the second and third answers to the currently selected question.
Posting a job on Hacker News
The community here is great, and the responses / discussions are always meaningful and interesting to read. We're looking for a front-end developer at my company in London and I was wondering what the best way to reach out to the community here is? Perhaps you could suggest the best place to post the job information to reach out to a similar audience to here?
Guess who owned most of the AIG shares that were diluted as part of the Government bailout, though? It certainly wasn't the guys that were running the shop - it was your pension scheme, and everyone else's pension scheme.

Also, I got my analogy wrong. It would be more like if the Government seized 92% of your house in exchange for loaning you the money to pay off the scammer with interest, which they knew you could repay.

Even after the massive swindle, AIG's problem was liquidity and not insolvency - they had enough assets to repay everyone and if they'd actually gone bankrupt, the shareholders may well have come out better in the end, but their counterparties would've been screwed because they'd have had to have waited for the bankrupcy proceedings to get paid.
A better question to ask would be "Imagine there is such a product/service that solves your issue, can you guess its price?" Let's say the answer comes out at $100. Follow up question may now be "Would you pay if this was available to you for $80?"
Forever is such a strong word... What if Fogcreek goes bust one day? I would actually prefer companies to charge money for such services, it gives greater confidence in them in the long run. Even a measly $10/year per user is a great business model if you have 1M users.
Really beautifully designed. I had one of those instant (and rare) "man this is a beautiful design" moments. And then I saw the name. I understand why you chose the name but I struggle to pronounce it, yet alone spell it.

Beautiful and I like the concept, just not a fan of the name.
Please don't make the same mistake than Chrome (ie. make a Metro app which almost prevent using the desktop version).

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140347
It sounds like you confused encoded with encrypted, encoded is no different than plain-text. The encoding is just to get a valid string for the URI (so a password can contain special URI characters) and is instantly reversible.
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I started using Trello about 2.5 months ago and its really impacted the way I do almost everything for the better. It has made organizing a plan of action for my to-do's and side projects so much easier that I feel like a blow through my tasks now.

Congratulations and good luck on your way to 2 million users!
Xi3 also offers the entry level X5A, which is priced at $499
There are trade offs - the N4 has a better price, CPU, GPU, resolution and more RAM, Whereas the S3 has a better screen and LTE.

I have an N4 and I am very happy with it, the extra RAM and the quadcore processor make a big difference.
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Thanks. Fair criticism of the name too. It's really hard to settle on a name when you're building things. Especially since it is so hard to find a .com that is a real word these days.
Re: Snapchat et al. I choose not to delete my story
Indeed! If only my L1 cache were as large as my disk...
What the hell is any of this talking about?

Both of you "copied" postfix's "alias_maps" feature, which is what I can only assume has been a standard feature since the beginning of mail server time. Back when I was running our mail for my company (we've since switched to Google Apps), I had several entires in alias_maps that were like:

"managers@example.com" | "ryan@example.com,aaron@example.com,alyson@example.com,macy@example.com"

etc.

(Perhaps I'm misunderstanding this, but from your website it sounds like you're just describing a mailing list)
OP doesn't seem to understand the ideas he's trying to communicate. Speaking as someone who loves advice, there are few things that annoy me more than bad advice.

Your spending is a choice, yes. But since the benefit of a purchase (the profit) isn't included in the cost numbers, advice like OP's must always be wrong.

Imagine someone who drinks 20 lattes from starbucks a month alone while reading (spending $1200/year), and would be happier reading spending his time and money reading in the park and getting a $100 massage once a month. For him changing what he's spending on would make him happier.

Now imagine someone who has avoided spending money on an office, and so holds business meetings at starbucks around 20 times a month. Is this a bad purchase? What about someone who drives late at night to save time by avoiding traffic, and who sometimes keeps himself awake by buying coffee from starbucks. I think these cases are much harder to call "wrong".

OP should focus on what's true: if you analyze how you're spending your resources (time, money, attention, and energy), you can often find awesome ways to improve your life. Instead we have an article about how going to the movies and buying starbucks is a waste of money... which is to say we have an article that is a waste of time to read.

Not to mention this gem:

> I have this thing about lottery tickets. Why do people invest in a gamble? (You might try and reply that everything is a gamble, and to that, I’d be polite and say nothing.)

There is a big difference between negative EV betting (lotteries), and positive EV betting. Let's take as an example hiring someone who might not work out, but probably will. If you don't think that hiring is a gamble, you haven't played the hiring game long enough. People's partners get accepted to their dream job across the country, and the strain of the separation causes them to move as well. Their college friends found a company and poach them. Even the most vetted candidates don't always work out.

Which is to say that everything is a gamble. If someone tells you otherwise, they haven't been in business long enough.

</rant>
Very informative, thanks a lot. I hadn't considered that JPEG rotation is more complicated than regular bitmap rotation.
On a laptop screen size doesn't matter. In College when living space was limited I used a 13 inch 9 pound laptop that I'd lug everywhere since I needed the portability and performance. I then switched to a desktop with 6 cores and 8 gigs of ram as my main machine with a cheap netbook that I use when I'm traveling or want to do basic browsing or email from the couch. When I give into gadget lust or get a big enough raise that I don't feel so guilty spending $1500 when I still have two working computers I may get an 11 inch MacBook air with 8 gigs of ram. Ideally I'd prefer the 11 inch form factor but until recently I couldn't find an 11 inch laptop with good enough specs to be used as a main machine. As far as the phone goes the only touch screen phone I’ve ever had is an iPhone 4 so don’t know how screen size on phones would matter to me. I do know that on touch screen devices too much space can cause me issues since it’s hard to remember where things are. After playing with an iPad I decided to stick with an iPhone since it can do pretty much everything the iPad can without having so much screen space that I spend most of my time trying to find icons instead of the space separating them. I have heard of blind developers using iPads to get a spatial layout of web pages when they are doing web development. For that purpose I could see the bigger screen being an asset but since I don’t do much web development it’s not something I care about.
Looks interesting. How long did it take you to build that?
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I think this is exactly what "pretty indirect routes" means though. They give away WiFi here, ISPs lower prices and increase speeds, consumers have more bandwidth and lower barriers to entry, they use a lot more web services and use them in new ways, which means a lot more people using Google services. They make the pie bigger, everyone online wins, especially Google. And they make money from those services. Very clever.
Casual wasn't going to be our brand-defining space, although we'd have let high-quality casual games in (no Zynga shit).

Brand definition was going to be based on German-style board games (which could get people actually using Hangouts, for an awesome experience and a back-door demo of Hangouts) and 2D RPGs, to start. Many of these games would be new games from indie developers. Those two spaces would be place to get going, and there was no shortage of great ideas from engineers on other game spaces to explore after having success in those two.

So we were going to brand-define based on the "middle class" of games in terms of intensity: not mass-appeal casual, but not "gamer's games" with monstrous learning curves. We'd fill out to those spectra once we'd achieved brand definition.
Content availability is the main problem. Hulu is really annoying because I pay for it yet still have to endure commercials, and their have strange restrictions on how you can consume the content. 30 Rock, for example, cannot be streamed through my Apple TV's Hulu. I could stream it to my laptop, however. Instead I wound up paying Apple for it, so I'm in the seemingly absurd situation of paying Apple $20, Hulu $8/month and Netflix $8/month, and I still don't get all the TV I want to watch--or even all of broadcast TV. I can't get Seinfeld without Crackle, and Crackle is about the worst.

These services are all partially overlapping solutions. Here's what I want:

- All TV shows, current season as it airs and all past seasons

- No commercials

- No time pressure to watch before "expiration"

I'm willing to pay substantially for this. I'm talking $40-60/month, and I don't care about HBO or Showtime either. Instead I have two services that charge me $8/month and have the selection of a small-town Blockbuster. If any of these services were actually trying to compete with cable, they could charge more and provide access to the rest of the content. Instead they seem happy to play the annoying long-tail game with off-brand crap, and it's deeply dissatisfying.

The real problem here is absolutely not technical. It's contractual with the companies that own the content. I doubt you could do better than they have without offering more money, but I think there could be a real niche there if you're willing to charge customers actual money to provide actual service.
Looks similar to Pipedrive http://www.pipedrive.com/en-US
> Upon the close of the May 1 comment period, it is our intention to begin posting these 73 standards in HTML and begin the process of providing a unified, easy-to-use interface to all public safety standards in the Code of Federal Regulations

This deadline has come and gone, and apparently they've gone ahead and published a number of standards:

https://law.resource.org/pub/12tables.html

The background -- particularly Supreme Court cases -- given by public.resource in the article and the above link make the situation pretty clear: If it's a law, it's in the public domain, and it's legal to publish these standards. (Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice.)

The legal question I have in mind is the following: The government adopts as law technical documents developed and copyrighted by a (nominally) private body, and thereby places them in the public domain. The authoring organization expected to generate revenue by selling them and now that is much harder, since they are in the public domain. It looks an awful lot like the government is using eminent domain: Government appropriation of private property (a copyrighted work) for public purposes (writing laws). Under the eminent domain clause of the Constitution (assuming all parties are US-based), shouldn't the government pay the organization for using its legislative powers to take their copyrighted work and place it in the public domain?

If the organization is entitled to eminent domain compensation, how do you fairly determine the value of the documents? Clearly you can't use the number of downloads from public.resource times the price the standards body would have charged. This falls victim to Hollywood's classic piracy fallacy: Assuming that anyone who downloads things for free would have bought them at full price if the download hadn't been available. (This assumption obviously defies all economic theory and common sense.) In this situation there's another effect, possibly even stronger: Relatively few people would have cared enough about these documents to spend thousands of dollars on them if they hadn't been made into law.

Would the standards body still be entitled to eminent domain compensation if they wrote the documents under the expectation that they would become law, or actively lobbied the government to make them into law?
Came here to post the same thing. Basecamp Breeze looks like a subscription service for the standard listserv functionality that dates back to slightly after the invention of the wheel. Is there something about this service that makes it different, or do people actually think that creating an e-mail address that redistributes messages to other e-mail addresses is something new?
I've done something similar. I have a 13" Macbook Air and found that I can focus better when I'm staring at just one screen.

This sandboxes my attention: do one thing at a time, finish it, and move on to the next thing.

Most of the time my second monitor was used for email and Twitter, which was a constant distraction.
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