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I think I can confidently say that we will never offer that. The engineering costs are prohibitive and not cost-effective, even if you can charge the companies that need it.

That said, if there are things that we can do to increase privacy while still hosting Trello on our own servers, we'll certainly consider those. I never want to commit to any particular feature, but it is not impossible that one day we will provide IP whitelisting (so a given board is only available from approved IPs) or even client-side encryption. I should reiterate that neither of those features are in our near-term plans, but at least they are not completely out of the question. Having been in the downloaded software business for ten years, I can safely say though, that we are never doing that again.
The damage has been done. The major labels (major now only in terms of increasingly dubious marketing clout) now spend most of their 'creative' energy scouting do-it-yourself musicians rather than producing great music...which was, initially, what distinguished them from the little guys.

This leveling of the playing field was supposed to be a great thing for everyone except the majors.

But as a listener, I bemoan that the output quality of the majors has dropped so much (especially in classical music). In order to get access to first class, interesting music, it is becoming increasingly necessary to do tons of research.

The bigger picture is this: would you invest in a business that celebrated not losing revenue for the first time in over a decade? I wouldn't.

Edit: thank you, pgsandstrom
> For some reason start-ups are a magnet for people that suffer from depression.

I posit: it's hard to hold a steady job while suffering from untreated depression. (Or ADD. Or social anxiety. Or any number of other things.)

Between your (inevitably short) periods of employment, you tinker. Tinkering leads to projects, projects become startups, and--if you're good at what you do--before you know it, you're under a ton of stress.

I don't know what the solution is, but just telling people who have mental illnesses not to start start-ups isn't it. Frequently, a startup is their option of last resort--since the working world has already failed them.
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Agreed to develop a system for a startup at hourly rate. After first week, company asked to hold of getting payment until company had customers, in lie of more work. Agreed to this thinking it would be a few months. It's been 9 mos and they keep looking closer to getting a billable customer, but haven't yet. Meanwhile the system I started has become very robust as I have put in 100hr weeks since the start. My unpaid bill is over $60k now and I'm begining to feel like a fool for having trusted these folks as long as I have. I signed an NDA before starting, otherwise have nothing in writing. Startup is in CA, I'm not. I've pretty much stopped going forward until I can get our details put on paper. Could use some advice...
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Never heard of that dude
The two datastores even have the same API. As long as your app doesn't depend on the exact performance characteristics of the old one, the migration is very straightforward. I did it for one of my apps in a morning and was done well before lunch.
Yes, I should have mentioned that only articles that are shared (public) and that have extended description text are processed by my script. That way I don't wind up with any articles that have no body content and just a title and tags.
It's created by Fog Creek and I believe their other products bring in enough money to keep Trello free.
If I could upvote this a hundred times, I would.

I left a startup I co-founded after almost two years of engagement that was becoming increasingly half-hearted -- with symptoms of a mental health problem already showing and just in time to prevent the effects from being devastating. I did learn a lot, but in retrospect the decision to leave was good both for me and for the startup.
oh crap.. not this liar again... he's gonna say "they recognize me"!! NOOOO!!! NOOOOOOO!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
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Our team was about to migrated to Trello from Asana, but somehow we kept using Asana. I've heard similar stories recently where Trello is not that useful for startups but excellent for large corporations. One can expect what could be there future business model.

P.S We're team of 5 idiots looking for one more :)
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I partially agree with Pytrin. While its true not everyone quits their job to dive into a startup immediately, its arguable whether or not those are even startups yet or just projects.

That said, if you aren't at the stage where you can commit to doing a startup, you probably shouldn't be applying to YC.
Wow, that's crazy, I didn't even have to accept the download, it must think I instated it as if I pressed Save on it. Bad, bad, bad practise.
Overall good advice, but I don't know if completely dissuading someone with a history of depression from founding a startup works. There's no reason you can't succeed, it's just that the risk of failure (or runaway success) can be dangerous without support.

The main point people miss when someone goes about with a startup idea is that most of the time, it's just you.

There's rarely a saftey net, often no co-founders, and sometimes not even anyone else to confide in. Well, not if you want to show weakness and still have any investors left. That's an awfully lonely and frightening place to be for someone who doesn't have a history of depression, so the condition will only compound the problem.

And a startup need not fail either for all of this turmoil to kick in. Often times, success has very similar consequences.
I see it the other way around. Creating a start-up is supposed to be fun and exciting as well as challenging. Someone suffering from depression starting a start-up could be a great way to get over their depression by working on something their passionate about.

I suppose there are many sides to this debate but that's just how I see it.
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I agree in principle, but for some of us working startups is just too much engrained in our fibres. I love it, but its hard work. We would do much better as a collective community work on removing the stigma of depression rather so people can work around it (if possible).
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Both you and the TV industry are ignoring a huge market, one that can only be served by torrents. I'm in that market.

I would gladly pay for my favorite shows, but I'm not allowed to. And when they finally do make it to my artificially enforced zone of the world, it'll be 1 or 2 years later, and chances are I'll be forced to watch them with the atrocious dubbing that is mandatory in my corner of the world, and the only option would be to stream the files packed to the max full of DRM.

So, yeah, I'm looking forward to the day when torrenting becomes obsolete but as long as the content industry has their heads in their asses that won't happen. They simply prefer to lose money. I have my wallet right here, waving bank notes around, but they won't take them. From this one can only deduce that they're either pathologically stupid or that power is much more important to them than money.
if needs_seo_friendly {
use_server_side_view();
}
else {
use_client_side_mvc();
}

Server-side views are good for content-oriented websites,
while client-side MVC's are good for function-oriented webapps that needs clean architecture.

PS, I like AngularJS as the client-side MVC framework,
and I'm trying to find a way to better support it in my current project (http://liveditor.com).
Perhaps a better way of phrasing this is: suffering from depression? Don't do that startup unless you have a safety net (of course, that could apply to people without depression too). Hell, I'd say that applies to doing a PhD (I'm in one right now) or anything that does mean you have to deal with a lot of ambiguity on your own. In those situations it's all too easy for even the most mentally secure person to start neglecting themselves in the service of the work (mentally, emotionally, psychologically, physically), potentially to disastrous effects.
Start-ups are only 'fun and exciting' the first 90 days (if you last that long) before your first major crisis will hit. If it isn't like that you are not trying hard enough.

Side projects can be fun and exciting as long as you stay the hell away from success. There are not 'many sides' to this debate, people prone to heart failure should not be trying to set world records, people that suffer from depression should not do start-ups. It's simply asking for trouble.
Coding is an incredibly frustrating and hard path and I doubt that coding will become more popular on a professional level. There probably can be more hobby programmers that code some simple stuff but there is NO WAY coding can become some kind of popular mainstream hobby.
That's cool. I hadn't thought of using a tag for this. As I said below in another reply, I just don't fill in the extended text or I mark an article as private in order to keep it out of the feed. A tag seems like it might be better though. Thanks for the comment.
Totally.

I was in first year of engineering when this guy (then in high school) walks in and gives a talk filled with such obvious bull and then gets a standing ovation from the faculty, most of whom weren't too knowledgeable either.
I consider him a genius because of his ability to fool people, just like all the Indian godmen who have a great time cheating the Indian populace.
> The statistics being what they are

What statistics? You occasionally read about startup employees or (co-)founders killing themselves, that's not a statistic. What's the rate compared to non-startup jobs? Suicide is a problem across the board.

If someone is suffering from depression but has even a weak desire to do a startup, I'm not so sure encouraging them to take that job at BigCo is really good advice. A lot of people found or work for startups or small companies simply because they can't stand the corporate dynamics at BigCo, whether it's not being responsible for enough things and feeling like you have no impact, or doing boring things day after day, or bad management and bosses, or something else--if you feel like you wouldn't like a corporate job and you're already depressed, getting that job at a stable company is just going to aggravate you further. The academic world isn't necessarily better; if the games you need to play as a funded researcher aren't to your taste, that too will aggravate you.

Maybe instead of saying "stay away from startups" I'd argue "stay away from startups with an explicit goal of getting big or really rich fast", or more simply "stay away from Extreme Startups". Perhaps encouraging a focus on lifestyle businesses is a better approach?
> For some reason start-ups are a magnet for people that suffer from depression.

Hmm, I don't know if this is true. Maybe we just see it that way because of the vocal minority effect? Bluntly put: We don't see many 'hey, Joe didn't kill himself/isn't depressive' posts being written.
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I thought I made it clear that this market is simply every TV viewer who does not have a US IP address and credit card.
> What statistics?

The statistics of start-up failure, which is pretty much a given, success is the exception.
I am somone with a very low understanding of Video compression, who (working in a small company) had to create a "simple video compression system" for the dozen of videos we put online everyday.

I'm saying that becaouse I'm probably someone that may be interested in Beamr technology since my "video compression system" is mostly a bad mash up of mencoder and handbrake with a few tweaks that is used for automatically convert all our videos for the different bitrate/devices we stream to.

The problem is that most of what you find in your website or your comment is marketing enhanced technical dumbed down mumbo jumbo.

What someone with a little (very little) understanding of video compression would like to see is an example of Beamr working it's "magic" and see if it's really effective.

A simple test would be to take a random sizable selection (at least 5/600) of different videos from different sources encoded with Beamr or with a vanilla version of x264 or others encoders tools.

Then show us a chart (geeks love charts) of the difference in compression and (some examples of) the difference in quality to let us see how amazing Beamr actually is.
By the way, are there any plans to integrate Mozilla Persona on your sites? I much prefer it to all the other alternatives, including OpenID.
I can't say I'd use any of these but I must say that using the colorscheme of each site is brilliant. Good job!
On the back of writing some fairly solid workaday code in C that was very MS-DOS specific and publishing several books about it he had the unmitigated gall to dare write an annotated guide to The C Language Standard in which he got a fair bit of detail about C the language of the C Virtual machine wrong.

The first level of being a C Guru is an intimate understanding of Your C Compiler on Your OS using Your Hardware. The second level is the self realisation that everything you thought you knew was wrong.

Poor old Herb positioned himself as an expert, wrote a book on that basis, angered the Gods who counter attacked with an annotated guide to what he got wrong and rubbed salt in by coining the term Bull Schildt.

Frankly he did a service by taking a bullet like that as there now exists a kind of Platonic dialogue in which you can read the C Standard, read what someone thought it meant, and then read a commentary on that.

Those C chaps can be a prickly bunch :/
Call them up, say enough is enough and you want to start seeing some cash. You've put in 60k worth of work, surely they can pay SOMETHING. If they can't pay anything at all right now, I'd be scared about getting paid in the future, and I wouldn't be doing any extra work.
Why would that be desirable? (I'm not a Ruby developer, so I have no idea)
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> I'm not interested in logical fallacies.

Careful. That may make you vulnerable to them.

> I don't think this is a particularly logical subject.

Are you sure advocating a solution that's not based on logic is the right thing to do?

> When you say "people" should learn to code, do you mean everyone?

First we must define what "learning to code" is. I (and, certainly, most others) do not advocate kids should learn Java (or Python). But I think kids should learn how to decompose complicated problems into simpler parts. I also think kids would gain a lot if they could make computers do what they want (going beyond "start WoW", for instance).

As for drawing, you can always draw with a pen and paper. I prefer to do it that way. However, if I decided to draw a fractal curve, I'd probably do a few sketches on paper, to grasp the ideas, then fire Emacs and write code to actually draw it.
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Is it me or is this a pointless app? Seems like they are just wasting development time :)
Are you serious?

Just off the top of my head, how about...

- Simplifying the initial setup?

- Making the default configuration simpler to understand?

- Dialing up logging to make your initial configuration easier to monitor / debug?

- Performance options with security implications (e.g. ok if other parts of your infrastructure are up-to-snuff, but otherwise...)?

The default configuration should be tuned to the needs of whoever is most likely to be using it. I have a hunch that's far more likely to be people using an Apache server (maybe even a web server) for the first time than people with extreme performance requirements.
On reddit someone mentioned this is one of many directors of the show and certainly isn't an HBO's spokeman or anything like that. It's just one man's opinion.
Really excited to see a platform that works on Linux... eventually.
He was kicked off box.sk (hackingtruths.box.sk) back in mid-2002 for plagiarizing directly from other box.sk sites at the time. I haven't heard anything about him since, but this is mildly hilarious. Stanford? Really?
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D'oh, sorry, I misread that as statistics of suicide in startups. Maybe if the "or" later on in the sentence was replaced by "and" it would be clearer, but that narrows your statement.
> With some regularity I read articles about some amiable, accomplished and brilliant young kid that decides to end their life in the start-up scene

This is confirmation bias. You don't hear about all the other people completing suicide.

> If a start-up fails, then to some degree it may feel like you yourself have failed, even if that is absolutely not the case.

There's a risk that this is extended to everything. "If a new job fails"; "If a new relationship fails"; etc.

Really, the article could be saying "Get treatment for your depression" (which is important whether you're doing a start up or not) and "Develop some tools for resilience, learn some techniques to help you cope with life".
Oh, I believe you can pay and get support

What I don't believe is that the support provided by Google is good or sufficient. Based on experiences with paying Google Apps, I'd say it's not.
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We have been using Trello for about two months and it is amazing how even the non-technical users could now finally "visualize" the project life cycle.

Trello is disarmingly simple and like (early) Twitter, does one thing and it does it really well. This leads to users invent all sorts of use cases for it (again like Twitter).

Trello, if it becomes wildly popular, can finally pull companies from the "Gantt chart" mindset we borrowed from Manufacturing to a more collaborative model. Plus with all the cards being visible to everyone by default, the unproductive role-based access measures will be also rid off for good.
I believe there are different types of depression, with different causes and different solutions. Poverty leads to one type, boredom another, stress, uncertainty, loneliness. This list has not been checked for completeness.

A startup, especially if it's your first, contains nearly every trigger listed above. but many who are already depressed see it as a way out of depression. Since if successful, it also covers nearly all solutions.

For some then, a startup is not a choice, it's the only visible way out.
> No, they didn't. Theater plays were staged publicly until at least 5th century B.C.

Yes. There were public stagings, no arguing about that. And private performances at home were popular in e.g. the 19th century as a family entertainment.

Optimism is the prevalent emotion, now. Just do not restrict yourself to judging by youtube comments. Go to any emerging country (where the majority of earth's population live nowadays).

I would guess that non-optimism about the future was the prevalent emotion for most of history. But I would have to dig up some sources for that.
I find this crazy. You don't start something because you want to. You start because you feel you have to.

I don't feel like I could last more than 3 months at bigco, that is if my lack of degree, and my full startup career, and "no-nonsense" attitude woud not block me at the recruitment process.

When you need control of your office life, when you have to be able to make a better expense report system if you see a problem, when you want to impact the end product in a major way, when you want to select the people you will work with, then you have to go for small and young companies.
The US is a subset of the world. Am I to be expected to move to the US and buy a TV subscription to watch the show when it airs?

I would really quite gladly pay to get it at the same time as the US. They've lost a customer, but apparently they don't care.
Seriously, do you think inspiring the students with the amount of money, 'they' earned with code is a good idea?
I assume you mean this thread

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/python-virtualenv/XzI8GStv...
Problem, basically is.

1. Many folks are really computer illiterate beyond internet surfing and basic computer usage. If you show them a few tricks- you create the same effect a magician has on kids. People get mesmerized.

2. You can really fool people by marketing campaigns. "Best selling author" , "Helps crack emails for intelligence agencies" etc kind of campaign forces people to ask "Why would so many people buy his books, unless he has something genuine to write" - Hence increasing the books sales in this cycle.

A relative of mine did a ethical hacking certification from this guy. He showed it to all other relatives like waving a flag out of pride. Nothing that I told convinced the audience as to why the certification wasn't even worth the paper it was printed on. It was all like they were asking me to shut up and stop spewing negativity about it. They were like "At least he learned something through the certification".

3. Job promises and resume decoration, If you tell some one your are a certified ethical hacker. Ordinary joe, who knows nothing of the topic will not only believe you but rather offer you job over say an actual ethical hacker.

4. We like degrees, certificates and titles next to our names.

And lastly we just love famous people. Even if all they do is nothing. Bollywood is full of such examples.
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You know what, I'm outta here. This article is messing with my head, and that is the only solution to it.
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Our startup team migrated from Asana to Trello. The main problem with Asana was that it worked well write only - ie it was easy to get lots of stuff in there, but things never got (re)organized to reflect reality which was probably a side effect of things rarely got read. Trello makes it considerably easier to see what is going on and to rearrange.

(That all said, Asana may have updated their interface since we left.)
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Completely off topic:

That header image: Is it animated when window.onscroll() is fired? I find one reference in the code to e.addEventListener("scroll", v, !1) which I guess then fires the function v which does:

v = function() {
var t = parseInt(e.pageYOffset, 10);
t = Math.min(u, t), t !== d && (d = t, t > 0 ? f(t * m, 1) : f(t / -6, -1 * t / u + 1), t >= u - 35 ? s(p, E) : i(p, E))

Could someone point me to some unminimized version of this code, I really like it?
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The same physical quadcopters available online are perfectly capable of flying autonomously beyond line of sight (for example, following preset GPS-waypoints) - some may need extra software for that, some can do it out of the box.

De facto, many people are already flying "true drones" without any authorization, as it's practically available not to "major universities and government contractors" but as a hobby for a teenager.

What is their crime and the currently prescribed punishment for doing this without government authorization?
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Cool, wasn't even aware of MindMup. I'm using Freemind+local storage but a cloud based solution has some potential advantages. Looks pretty cool, too and there's a Freemind import..nice.

I usually keep programming related stuff in mind maps (how to do X,Y,Z in language A). Cloud+share might be interesting to collaborate when learning a new language etc.

I'll give it a try this week. Good luck :)

p.s.: The logo looks adorable :D