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I built it in about five weeks and since then I've been adding new features and optimizing the UX. Its week 7 now and still fun!
I still wish for the deeper Fogbugz integration with Trello that has been coming up for a while.

I reasonably use it, would love to use it more, it's Wonderful. :)
HipHop is incredibly promising, though it basically wasn't used outside Facebook in 2012. I hope it will get more adoption in 2013, which (as well as the performance benefits) should make PHP play a bit better with the Heroku-style services. (Since it makes a full-on web server unnecessary.)
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I ran through my audio recordings in 1.5x speed the week before finals when I was studying. It's kinda like skimming.
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International support.
You're sure that the way to appeal to people who don't like being bombarded with crap games is to offer them "quality" games? Maybe they don't like any games, or at least not on their social networks? Although I'm a fairly indifferent social network user, I can't imagine my use being affected by the quality of games on offer. The more compelling a game is, the greater a distraction from the other purposes of social networks it can be. It's not as though the popularity of Facebook (or MySpace, in its time) was based on the availability of "quality" games.

I can't imagine any situation in which "quality" games would have been the silver bullet you're portraying here. They wouldn't have hurt (in fact they wouldn't hurt now should such an effort start even at this "late" date). There has to be more. Something like Hangouts, or maybe even the sort of Google Reader integration we've seen over the last year. (I'll stipulate that GR sucks, but it's still very popular and most of its users have been effectively forced onto G+ to some extent.)

It appears from the outside that the manager who decided not to concentrate on games made the right decision.
You want to keep taxi's allowed to use the lanes because then taxis are as fast as renting a car, or owning a car, so you you do not do the above behaviors.

If getting to the airport took 2x as long in a taxi, few would use that.
Is there a way to "contribute answers"? I think a hookup with a wiki-type system would make this useful and essentially replace the text file of commands I discovered.
The team wrote a blog post describing their tech stack last year: http://blog.fogcreek.com/the-trello-tech-stack/

The biggest change since then is that Trello now runs on AWS, rather than colocated servers in NYC. But the software is the same.
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Great to see -- this has been a giant pain in the past! Happy to see you guys taking this on (so I don't ever have to :)
Partnership is harder than marriage.

People are often quick to rush in and slow to leave. We should be slow to enter, and quicker to leave once we know how to recognize, and see the writing on the wall.

You will learn more from business partnership and making one succeed will make it that much easier to succeed in other relationships including love, and marriage.
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That's not really what the article is about.

Quick Edit: Seems to me that this is more about "Hey, don't forget there's also this" and taking the chance to "teach a quick lesson" about how dumb the concept of stealing ideas is and not to fear competition.
I mostly watch Netflix streaming on a DVD player, so I'm not sure if there's a way to do this on other alternate interfaces or not, but it'd be nice if you could tag particular episodes of programs. Mark your favorites, or even type in keywords perhaps.

The ability to build playlists might be useful as well.

More of a blue sky wish would involve deeper searchability, like, find all episodes of "Star Trek" across all series with an appearance of the character Sarek, as an example.
I understand that at least one publisher prefers thick books because that makes the spine wider and therefore the book is more visible on the shelf in the bookstore.

Maybe now that so many books are purchased online this isn't as much of a concern.
Not sure I agree with all the points made in this article (actually I'm pretty sure a lot of it is off). That being said I think Google has a track record of using the "boiling frog" strategy: not much fuss when adding new features, going easy on the PR for new tools and just slowly, but surely, surrounding the user.

I think indeed, the wide variety of very high quality verticals being progressively tied up together with G+ around its users, wherever they come from, will do quite some collateral damages. We'll see if it extends to Facebook and the likes.
Yes I agree it is quite similar, I discovered this application while doing market research. However, there are a couple of features that I have planned which will differentiate - such as a tighter email/Gmail integration.

Also, there is definitely space for both ClinchPad and Pipedrive to coexist.
I wonder how much, it at all, has Trello's success impacted sales of 37 Signals' Basecamp. We cancelled our Basecamp account and switched to Trello after we realized Trello was ideal for our project management needs.
Same here, but on OSX Chrome.
i love trello.. i use it for everything and really love what fogcreek has done with it. i do have one suggestion: please make you mobile app faster. the UI, in terms of moving cards to different list is really hard to use and lags a lot. i suggest finding a better solution for that feature, instead of trying to replicate the desktop experience. i rarely use the mobile app for this reason.

keep up the good work
Learning Python the Hard Way is all exercises, because it's based on this concept that you need to do exercises and projects to learn.
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I'm not sure about the technical limitations of LTE, but for densely populated cities (case in point: Manhattan) WiFi might be a better choice, even in an ideal world where mobile data cost much much less.

Google is interested in mobile applications that will use more than a few GB of bandwidth per month, like Project Glass maintaining a constant connection and streaming photos or live video.

Any interesting vision of the mobile future requires vastly cheaper bandwidth, one way or another.
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In this interview, you are going to hear Mixergy's founder share how he made the site one of the most successful membership sites on the web.
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Great gallery, unfortunately it will ruin Hollywood monsters for the remainder of the year.
Thanks for the comments guys. Actually, that's a big point of what I'm writing here. These ideas just keep getting copied and morphed into something else. It's ok to copy. It's ok to try and make it your own without being petrified someone else is already doing it.

Many people using tgethr or breeze don't know how to setup a listserv. I've got my in laws on tgethr. They don't understand how to even attach files to their emails. Google groups doesn't highlight code fragments I send to other developers. There's all sorts of things like that where 37signals and I are trying to copy these old ideas and make them our own.
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Yep, just pointed out because I stumbled on Pipedrive.
And actually Pipedrive was released before Trello.
Now that Steam for Linux has taken off, Carmack might have to eat his words.
I agree with you, although to be fair, they likely wouldn't have 1M users if they charged.
I think a better approach is to solve your own problems. This way you don't have to waste time cold calling people and hoping they are sincere with you with their feedback. You are the user and the creator... It's a very powerful position to be in.

I would recommend reading Paul Graham excellent post on "startup ideas" (which could easily translate to "project ideas"):

"The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It's to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself." http://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html
> Did 37signals copy my idea?

No. Distribution lists have been basic features of MTA's (postfix, qmail, exchange) for decades.

link bait. Does 37Signals even know Tgethr exists?
Thanks for that. I thought it was rather strange for an article about video footage to have only two stills from the video rather than the video itself.
It's not that hard actually, it's just tedious. The easiest way to do it is use the CIImageProperties (http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Graphi...)

The better way though is to use a class like this:
https://github.com/gpambrozio/GusUtils/blob/master/GusUtils/...

I see your point though - it's not trivial. I just happen to have a lot of experience in this area. I do a lot of video/imaging on the iphone.
There is more than one way to skin a cat. Customer development based approaches like this are effective at birthing certain types of products. But lets not fall into the trap that there is a one-size-fits-all approach to innovation. Necessity is always the mother of invention, but often people can't conceive of what their life is missing or what parts of life could be more enjoyable or less painful.
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It integrates a web archive of email sent to the address, keeps attachments for later download, integrates with Dropbox, etc.

Seems closer to a lightweight Google Groups than to a simple email alias.
This chatter of "what are they REALLY doing!?!?!" is so tired. By the way did you know that YOU ARE THE PRODUCT!?!?.

Yeesh.

What would you do if you were a multi billionaire with one of the largest, if not the largest, tech companies in the world?

I would probably do things like:

1) Try to give everybody in the world free internet

2) Try to build sci fi stuff like autonomous cars, or drones that protect rhinos

3) Offer free computing resources to non-profits that align with my view of the future

4) Fund projects that I find interesting. I don't care if they make money, because I have shitloads of money.

--

Honestly, my friends and I are mostly /already/ doing these things, just on much smaller scales (we're not billionaires.

Go check out a hackerspace some time. If you're in the Bay, go to Ace Monster Toys in Oakland, if you're in Phoenix, go to Heatsync labs in Mesa. I will buy you a beer if you do :)
Well, how do you communicate with the robots? Radio waves don't penetrate water.

So say you have a robot that's autonomously floating around look at stuff and then it goes by a giant squid. There is no one to tell it "Hey! Look, a giant squid! Stop and turn your camera at that!" so it just keeps going.

Also, I have no idea how they would know where they're currently located (again, no GPS).. but I'm sure they have some solution.

One huge advantage I could see is potentially you wouldn't need to pressurize anything. Optics can easily be made to work immersed in water, electronics can be slathered in epoxy so you don't get any short circuits. Then there shouldn't be any limit to how deep the thing can go.
LISTSERV (from 1986) is 11 years older than postfix. :)
I do the same, and it drives me crazy. This is one habit I've been trying really hard to break in the last few years.
Will they be compensating the bloggers whose content they are profiting from?
I use atool (http://www.nongnu.org/atool/), which is packaged in Debian and Ubuntu (and I am sure in other distributions as well). It supports all the formats I have encountered so far (tar, tar.gz, zip, rar, bz2 and others).

It provides a few commands, two of which I use the most:

als - list files in an archive
aunpack - exatract files from an archive

The best part is aunpack extracts files into a subdirectory (I hate polluting the current directory with files from a new archive which wasn't properly packaged to include a directory), and it does it only when necessary. Before I found it, I always used to create a temp directory, cd to it, unpack into it, and possibly move files around etc.
"howdoi wittgenstein" is the search of the day. Well done!
A similar program is `cheat`, from http://cheat.errtheblog.com/. Like howdoi, it prints short help on various topics to the commandline. But rather than searching Stack Overflow, it accesses a much smaller online wiki of cheat sheets. I’d give some examples of cheat sheets it has, but the online wiki seems to be down right now.
there are plenty of unmanned submersibles and they regularly produce new images, but it takes a pretty good chunk of energy to move around, following "interesting" things isn't easy to automate and wireless is a non-starter at that depth so they're all still tethered to ships/platforms.

if you've got something like a whale where it surfaces often you can do wireless tagging but that's about it for automatic exploration.
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You are absolutely right, but that's really not the point of this post. While real poverty is an issue worth talking about, that's not what this guy is trying to address.

The point seems to be that many people who have disposable income treat that money as disposable and then wonder why they don't have more money. There are many people who could afford more of what they really care about (be it time, travel, things, etc) if they didn't nickel and dime themselves on things that might not really be that important to them.
They are generally easier to kick in if they open inwards. Might be part of the reason.
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From https://balancedpayments.com "no redirects. no iframes. no external accounts." That's the unqiue, killer feature right there. If some M&A were to happen between those companies, the existence of this feature is imperative. Specifically, if I have a marketplace I don't want my customers to do any more than a) type their paypal email or b) type their bank account details.

Edit: if you happen to seriously be confused by what I've written, please visit the url and ctrl/cmd f for the quote. Then, take a look at what is below. That is,

curl https://api.balancedpayments.com/v1/credits \
-d amount=10000 \
-d description="Math lesson" \
-d bank_account[name]="Johann Bernoulli" \
-d bank_account[account_number]=9900000001 \
-d bank_account[routing_number]=121000358 \
-d bank_account[type]=checking \
-u 7b7a51ccb10c11e19c0a026ba7e239a9:

You can't do that in Stripe. If you want accomplish the same effect using Stripe, however, your customers will need some kind of account which is external to your site and/or a redirect. Does that help?
Are they really profiting at this point? I haven't seen any ads on the sites, and funding shouldn't be considered profit.
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I can't imagine any situation in which "quality" games would have been the silver bullet you're portraying here. They wouldn't have hurt (in fact they wouldn't hurt now should such an effort start even at this "late" date). There has to be more. Something like Hangouts

Well, yes. Would you rather play a German-style board game using a MS Hearts interface or in a crisp, modern one using a Google+ Hangout? The latter obviously.

It appears from the outside that the manager who decided not to concentrate on games made the right decision.

"Not to concentrate on games" might have been the right decision-- the games space isn't a strong match for Google's proven competencies, so staying out of it may have been the best call-- but once Google decided to do Games, it needed to do them right. It didn't, because the right people weren't calling the shots.

We did want to make the games unobtrusive, of course. Games were just the draw that would bring people into the network. The idea was that they'd stay and use the features for other things.
Reading this reminded me of 9rules[1], which used to be pretty popular some 8-10 years back but eventually withered away. As with most communities, scaling svbtle without comprising on the quality is going to be the greatest challenge.

[1]: http://9rules.com
Reminds me of when DropBox "copied" my idea of automatically uploading every picture you took from your phone. Mine was a web-app with mobile component. The idea was to make it so easy you would never have to think about it. I even had plans that it would create albums for you based upon dates or locations. I was in the middle of writing the application when DropBox released their upload every picture you take service, shortly followed by many others.
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I'm sure there's tons of academic literature riddled with ad hoc <code> block usage and strange deviations from standard markup.

This thing is great.
Have you considered the Trello apps for smartphones and tablets as an alternative?
Heh. It must have been a blast to have you around. Upvoted.
This looks like a great service that i didn't know about before. Definitely going to be getting one more user. I wish we could use something like this at work.

Since most of this is rather new to me, are there any other great organizational/ basic life services out there? I would be curious to see what other people are using.
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I don't think there is any profiting going on at the moment, but svbtle wouldn't exist without the great contributor in the network. Because of this it will be interesting to see where Dustin takes things and how he handles the situation. I'm sure a lot of the writers in svbtle wanted to be part of a great group that just wanted to bring great content to the forefront of the web. That changes slightly when money is involved because now some writers will be wondering how much they can make off a post and whether they should write about what is hot or just the random stuff they are used to.
what's wrong with providing that number? I think number of sign-ups is pretty much useless metric. even dead MySpace keeps increasing their sign-ups. It doesn't mean they are doing well.

To be honest, I would be really really interested how many active users Trello has. It would be great service to startup community to see what is conversion rate out there for bigger services like Trello.

Evernote is very public with their numbers, for example they claim 1/3 of total sign-ups being active users (users who logged into service in last month).
antirez is Salvatore. ;)
I really like articles like this (on how to "find" ideas) and have seen a few on HN. Does anyone have more articles like this book marked? I've seen PG's essay.
Ah that brings back memories. I got my first Information Unlimited catalog back in the early 80's. There was a shop in Los Angeles called "Alltronics" which got a lot of surplus from the various companies that did military work and it was great fun to find things you could re-purpose.

We took one project which had some 1uF @ 1000V capacitors which we ganged together to make a spot welder. You would spend about 15 minutes charging up the capacitors, move the 'welder' into position (basically two pieces of 3/8" copper rod that came together in a a rounded point. And then push the button and "poof!" spot weld. We had to order a push button switch from the IU guys that wouldn't fuse itself on every time you used it. It was some oil/gel filled thing, worked great though!
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I doubt the funding was set up as a charitable donation, so at some point, they're certainly going to have to figure out some way to make revenue.
I guess the number of sig figs when you write out "a billion" is ambiguous.
It's interesting what Dustin is trying, but I find the utter lack of design personality across the sites to be quite off-putting.

It's trying to fix 200+ differently-shaped circles into the exact same square.
Consider Finagle (from Twitter), perhaps?
I don't understand - what possible business model could you have with such niche blogging? Can anybody explain how this is expected to work? Some kind of sponsored advertising on what the blog topic is about?
Presumably at least someone (i.e. the investors) means to turn a profit. Who knows how they'll go about it though.
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Microsoft doesn't think like that.

They still make it damn impossible to run the windows phone simulator on Mac (even with a virtual machine, can't run the game part), so no iOS devs bother with the platform.
RE: visit and/or getting a chance to sit in

Ditto on the added insight. It also produces a setting where you can ask different questions, on my mind right now are the ones that might have a historical reference. Meaning: was there some reason in the past that made you do things this way now?

Personally, I have seen interesting habits when people switch software and technologies, so they do things a "legacy" way that complicate their process.

Not that I want to advocate for NOT selling a final product, but I find people are sometimes just as happy if you can show them an alternate way of using their current tools. And other times, they end up giving you better feedback on what they really want vs what they think they want.
Well, there's no mention that the idea predates you. I have nothing against you copying the idea at all, and take to heart the main point of your article. It's just that your lead-in talking about Breeze and Tgethr omits any mention of any preceding technologies, and that absence makes it sound like you're saying Tgethr was first but you don't mind if people copy you.

I think you have a good point, but it seems poorly made. You lead with a question whose answer is an obvious, "No, because the idea predates both of us by decades." It just ends up not being relevant to the subsequent discussion.
You will just have to make sure many others have the same problem and like your solution.
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You're referring to the "generate-recognize" theory of memory recall. It's actually an interesting theory, which states that you can't actually recall memories directly -- at least ones from more than a few weeks ago -- because your brain does not store that much detail about them.

Instead, the theory states, memory recall is a rapid-fire, iterative process of "generating" details of a memory, then checking whether it matches the original. If it does, then the detail is 'recalled' and the process moves onto other details, in this way hopefully producing a reasonable reproduction of the original memory. There is some experimental evidence of this theory, but as far as I understand it, the theory is not entirely accepted. In my opinion, it's probably part of the story but not all, perhaps as an 'error correction' mechanism that fills in gaps but not for producing the entire memory.

What you're referring to about false memories is somewhat different and much better accepted. There's a lot of evidence that shows that memory recall is a destructive process: after recall, a memory becomes labile and must be reconsolidated into long-term storage. Essentially, recalling a memory destroys it and it must be re-encoded as a new memory. In that time while it is labile, details can be added or removed and changes can creep into it from your own thoughts or the suggestions of others. The changed version is usually indistinguishable from the original.
I wonder if they're going to try a revenue model that doesn't use ads, I can't see ads fitting the flow of the site overly well if they do go for them.
OK, that's a good point. I got off track with my argument, and started talking about practical alternatives, when I should have focused on 1KB being too much input for a read operation.