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bombson 37signals suite: All 37signals apps for one price

It's strange that pricing is only available to customers (for now?). There are three plans, starter, pro and elite and they all include Basecamp, Highrise, Backpack, Campfire, unlimited employees (users) and e-mail support.

  Starter - $99/month
  * 35GB of file storage
  * 35 Basecamp projects
  * 20,000 Highrise contacts

  Pro - $149/month
  * 100GB of file storage
  * 100 Basecamp projects
  * 50,000 Highrise contacts

  Elite - $249/month
  * 300GB of file storage
  * Unlimited Basecamp projects
  * 100,000 Highrise contacts

There's no mention that I can see whether Basecamp includes time tracking (available only on the $49 and higher Basecamp plans) or how much, if any, conference call minutes are included with Campfire.

bombson We're moving. Goodbye Rackspace.

Are you confusing Linode with Slicehost? Slicehost was acquired by Rackspace.

bombson Offer HN: Handbook Freemium

quite |kwʌɪt|

adverb [usu. as submodifier ]

1. to the utmost or most absolute extent or degree; absolutely; completely : it's quite out of the question | are you quite certain about this? | this is quite a different problem | I quite agree | quite frankly, I don't blame you. • very; really (used as an intensifier) : “You've no intention of coming back?” “I'm quite sorry, but no, I have not.”

2. to a certain or fairly significant extent or degree; fairly : it's quite warm outside | I was quite embarrassed, actually | she did quite well at school | he's quite an attractive man.

bombson Qantas keeps A380s grounded over engine 'anomalies'

In this case, the Germans. The engines were maintained by Rolls-Royce Deutschland.

bombson Apple Discontinues Xserve, Only Available Until January 31st

It'd be great to see an Xserve-inspired 1U kit that'd let you mount a couple of Mac minis side by side (or a 5U kit that let you mount a dozen Mac minis Xserve RAID style).

bombson Apple Discontinues Xserve, Only Available Until January 31st

There's also the Mac Mini! The missing piece is something more powerful than the Mini, but more efficient than the Pro.

bombson What fragmentation? 77% of devices run Android 2.1 or 2.2

I know that Android's OS versions are more fragmented, because they're controlled by Google, handset manufacturers AND carriers (in contrast to the iPhone being solely controlled by Apple), but I always thought hardware, not software, fragmentation was the big issue.

There are about 80 different Android smartphones that have been released according to Wikipedia. That is more than what RIM have released in the last 15 years, including their pagers and carrier-specific versions, and a lot more than the 4 iPhones and 5 webOS smartphones.

I can't speak much about consumer-side of things, but as a developer, I can tell you that developing for iOS and webOS is easier and cheaper because there are less devices. I test on every iOS and webOS device, but on less than 10% of the available Android devices, because of the cost caused by so many devices.

bombson Ask HN: Review my startup, ActiveInbox (GTD Gmail plugin w/ $20k donations)

I'd like to use ActiveInbox for Gmail with Internet Explorer/Google/Outlook/Lotus Notes

What about Safari and Mail?

bombson The Asian domain-name extortion scam

ICANN don't maintain the .cn TLD. If China's attitude to copyright, trademark and other IP infringement is anything to go by, I don't think CNNIC is going to do much.

bombson The 727 that Vanished

I'd say it's like searching in a needle in a needle stack. The amount of unidentifiable junk that ends up in ocean gyres from planes, boats and cars (!) is astounding.

bombson Apple Relaxes iOS Restrictions On Development Tools, Publishes Review Guidelines

"This is a living document, and new apps presenting new questions may result in new rules at any time. Perhaps your app will trigger this."

They're not limited to rejecting you for only the things that are in the guidelines. The guidelines say this.

bombson Ask HN: Are there any good self development/hacking books out there

eHow have a book called How To Do Just About Everything. http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Just-About-Everything-Ehow/dp/00...

Lifehacker have Upgrade Your Life. http://lifehackerbook.com/

They seem to be collections of articles from their websites.

bombson The $131M Ford Rollover Death Verdict That Twitter Broke

I read over some of the coverage and it stipulates that Cole was wearing a seatbelt, but due to the give of the seatbelt, he was still ejected.

The Explorer is unsafe, because if it does roll, it will be crushed by its own weight, regardless of speed. 1 in 2,700 Explorers manufactured between 1990 and 2001, has been involved in a fatal rollover. The numbers are worse for its predecessor, the Bronco II, where it is 1 in 500.

I couldn't find a source of truth for Cole's speed at the time, but by all accounts, it didn't sound like he did anything else wrong (he swerved to avoid a car driving on the wrong side of the road).

bombson WebOS 2.0 will include node.js

How does Apple feel about WebKit being used in their competitors' phones?

bombson How bathroom posture affects your health.

The ruins of Leptis Magna, Roman ruins dating from 1100 BCE–650 CE, features sit-down toilets.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/libyan_soup/650693182/

bombson Apple's attention to detail

I dont think so. The ambient light sensor is next to the iSight camera. I'd wager the indicator light is most oft on when the lid is closed and the sensor unexposed to ambient light. It's just dimmer.

bombson How did non US citizen founders funded by YC get allowed to work in the US?

Adioso (YC W09), originally Australian, "re-incorporated" in the US.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1605659

bombson Apple-Centric Observers Get the Facts Wrong: H.264 Still Ain’t Free

OS X and Windows have licensed encoders, right? Is it possible for Firefox and others to use those on OS X and Windows and use a less-than-legal decoder on Linux as is, AFAIK, done for MP3s and DVDs?

bombson The story of round rectangles

It's also available in book form as Revolution in the Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made. It's always better to step away from the computer for a quick, inspirational read!

bombson Apple's attention to detail

They did. It's visible, but toned down just enough that I can fall asleep without having to cover it.

bombson We Had No Idea (the first digital camera)

Your comparison between CD and digital sales isn't perfect, because most of the digital music out there is pirated, not purchased. How is that eating into CD sales?

bombson My OCD co-founder never stops tweaking the front page

The designs are each unique enough that I wouldn't call them iterations or tweaking, but exploration of different ideas, which — especially for mockups — is normal in design.

bombson [dead]

Independent invention (i.e. clean room) isn't a defence against patents.

bombson Ruby on Ramen?

No, profitable ramen.

bombson Don't Hire That Developer

There have been times where my longer term contractings jobs were normal jobs, except I had to pay for my own benefits. I think the government now frowns upon this practice though.

bombson Don't Hire That Developer

To you or to management?

bombson PatentGate — Apple responded, resolved amicably

If they had contacted their patent lawyer earlier than they had, they might have avoided jumping the gun with their first blog post and their only blog post might have been explaining why the twittersphere and blogosphere were overreacting.

bombson Guy Kawasaki offers Designers an opportunity, they get pissed

The spec work of this sort is not a proposal; it is the actual work. Your analogies in other fields break down, because for the designers, this work is like the lawyer's case (not a consultation) and like the consultants "large project".

bombson Typecasting: The Use (and Misuse) of Period Typography in Movies

Typesetters aren't the ones that concern themselves with the content of the newspaper.