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Heh, funnily enough, it scrolls with one finger on the beta iOS. Although, I think they may have changed that in a previous safari update.

"Just stop" sounds like a warning to me.

Olav's comment about google plus and mailing lists suggest to me that Felipe has been on a crusade about this topic and using and soap box he could find. As any sort of community or project admin, the behavior of being told no and the constantly raising the issue and trying to drum up support is really annoying and likely to result in this type of situation.

I mean, I haven't used gnome in years or followed the community, but just reading the OP's post defending himself made me want to ban him. We can argue all day about a platonic world of argument and enlightenment where tone doesn't matter... But we live in the real world with real people.

Hmm. I also took from it that the man should just go spend time doing something other than gossiping. Say a task that would take a long time, like gathering the feathers.

(ie. you can be less transparent by spending your time doing rather than talking.)

> "give me the money and trust me"

That's basically the inverse of my attitude when I back a kickstarter. I generally support what they're doing, believe that they are going to try and make the thing they said, and then just trust that they'll eventually deliver something.

I think that there were a lot of players that were frustrated when they made a character offline, and then got invited to play with a friend on battle.net and had to start from scratch. I assume that frustration was part of the reason (among others) that they made all characters online/battle.net characters.

I believe it. All it takes is one higher up executive to pick a launch date and mandate that it happens, damn the torpedoes. This says nothing about the competence of the engineers and their managers in the trenches.

I mean, you could question their willingness to work at the company. But, working on the latest sim city sounds like a fun project and people like paychecks.

I tend to think that better discussion in a forum like this comes about with less back and forth. That's not to say that alternating comments on opposite sides of a viewpoint can't be enlightening, but I think it's stronger if those viewpoints come from multiple people on both sides.

> We're all past the age of getting bullied and we can >understand that nobody can make us feel inferior without >our consent. Now we have to remember to raise our kids >properly, so that they never become victims.

I don't think there is an age limit on being bullied. And while nobody can make us feel a certain way, they can certainly create an environment where it's an uphill struggle to remain positive.

You know, I went to look at a new project on sourceforge, thinking I'd quickly prove you wrong. (I don't know why I still have any faith in sourceforge.)

Guess what happened? I clicked on TWO SEPARATE ADS with a download now image in them.

I captured it because I assume the ads change, but wow, terrible: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s3/sh/78c81dc2-0a90-4e0a-8676...

I eventually found the files link, and then clicked a download. And was taken to download page where I had to wait for my download to start, with some more ads.

Yeah, screw that.

The point isn't to replace X. It's to learn more about X and Y.

I think the part where your stylist first tries to talk you out of the (in their opinion) bad idea is the important part.

I've built plenty of things for clients that I thought were of dubious value, but I always tell them my concerns and push them to iterate through the project to avoid getting in too deep.

Sometimes, I've been wrong about the value.

And sometimes, as the post suggests, I've said no.

I don't think either is a wrong, as long as you are honest from the get go.

This is going to really depend on your state and your needs.

Many states add some rules to the providers, often to your benefit.

If you have any pre-existing conditions, having continuos coverage is really important in many states, as it prevents companies from denying coverage for those conditions... in many states even if you change providers, as long as you have some coverage.

In New York, where I am, after a lot of research, I ended up joining a chamber of commerce with my company and enrolling my company (me) in a group HMO plan.

This cost me 1535 a month last year, and will cost 1680 a month this year. This covers basically everything, most prescriptions, numerous tests and treatments my family has needed because of pre-existing conditions. (I pay $300 a year to be in the chamber, as well.)

Note: If my company had an employee and I wasn't a sole proprietor, these rates would be 10-15% less.

If I didn't know we would hit the deductible, I would have been on a high deductible plan. If you hit the 10k deductible on the plans I looked at, it costs the same as the plan we are on, you just may end up paying the whole thing up-front.

So, in short, New York, family comprehensive co-pay plan, 20k a year.

(Do COBRA as long as you can, first, if you can. COBRA will almost always be cheaper because your former employer will be a group and have better rates.)

Yeah. We use google apps, dropbox, unfuddle, GitHub, hipchat, Linode and amazon. Basically, we're pretty comfortable trusting our business with these companies. We're not in a space where we have secrets that really would give someone a competitive advantage. A few things like security credentials are shared offline or in a truecrypt volume.

I mean. If that's truly a concern, it seems like you need to own and configure your own physical hardware and require VPN access to all of them. For us/me, the cost and inconvenience isn't worth it, considering the basically valueless data to an outsider.

That's not to say that everyone decision matrix is the same or should be... As you mention.

On the mac, at least, I've found the AIR client is really, really good. I haven't really run into any of the issues you mentioned and have been using it daily for several months.

And my coworkers really love the web client. And some use xmpp. Many of us regularly use the iOS app. I guess that's one of the strength's of hipchat, the variety of access methods that all feel basically first-class. (and one person on our team even uses the SMS integration.)

I mean, I can give you the reasons that I have a hipchat account which I use with my coworkers, even though a good 50% of us are also on IRC for other purposes.

1) It proved to be a pain supporting the non-techies using IRC

2) Nobody wanted to maintain the IRC server and set up logging. (And, if you add up the couple hours to do so and maintain it in a year, hipchat ends up being a good deal)

3) Some of our people use the SMS and xmpp integration, which makes it easily fit into their existing communications.

4) The API, web based search, gui admin, github integration, unfuddle integration, etc are already setup and/or written (an extension of #2)

5) Nice handling of large chunks of pasted text. (The web and desktop clients format them in fixed width properly and limit the size but provide and expand link.) This is more convenient than pasting a pastebin link, and works better than irc because of line breaks.

I mean, basic economics as well. If someone spends an hour a year maintaining the IRC server, helping non-tech people get onto IRC, etc, then paying for hipchat instead, for 4-8 people is well worth it each year.

(This is all after having used a channel on a public irc server, then someone set up IRC on a vps, then we used grove , and ended up on hipchat for the past year.)

I was coming here to say this as well. Made me think this was just a poorly written plugin that didn't work in my browser.

Huh. What am I missing. I see a bunch of sfw images. Unless... Colors are not safe at your work.

At least one feature is still locked out in the betas. ;). And it's pretty cool. Zack is going to give me a heart attack with the design though.

Silly or not, it's the only search engine name other than google or bing that sticks in my head as being memorable. Probably because it is silly and different.

I guess my only complaint would be that it feels long to type because it is three words. (Even though the are short words.)

> Oh a 15 year old, how cute.

> I don't mean to discourage you at all, just let the product speak and not your age.

C'mon, really?

I'm much more interested in the story of a 15-year old developer creating and publishing something, than I am in yet another node module.

> Imagine someone of 36 made this module and included his age.

Yes, that would probably be dumb. But 15 is not 36. Lots of people write programs at a young age. Not many publish them on the internet, at least historically. I was writing programs at that age, but I wasn't publishing them.

Heck, even just from the "hack the social system of hacker news by including age" angle this fits with many posts we see here regularly.

They said it doesn't improve between releases. As opposed from from release to release.

Interesting. I've done a fair amount of coding without syntax highlighting, particularly on live web servers (gasp) without my vimrc.

What I find is that I don't really rely on syntax highlighting for find my way around the code or understanding it. I rely on it to tell me when I didn't properly close a string literal, or a comment, or fat-fingered a keyword. So, I generally enable it when I can, and find that it makes me more productive.

They decide that the cost is not worth the benefit.

Excluding back-seat systems engineers on sites like this, I suspect that most of their customers will be a bit upset, but give them the benefit of the doubt and be glad to pay slightly less monthly (or nothing for Trello) and suffer a short outage.

This would be a lot stronger argument without the ad hominem bits. He's obviously not so terrible if he created this thing that has people so up in arms.

I think there's something to your post, but the tone makes me want to dismiss it. I know, stupid emotions.

This internet lynch mob mentality... I wonder how much this discourages people from releasing things. So, Gruber releases markdown.pl. People like it. People love it. People use it, people reuse it, people rewrite it. Next think you know, he's being insulted on the internet because he released something he wrote to serve his needs and not passing on some sort of figurative mantle or blessing.

I got an email a few days ago from Amazon suggesting that I should upgrade my code if I was using one of their several payment code examples. I'm assuming this is in response to some responsible disclosure having happened.

Sent me to: https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/about?nodeId=201033780...

It's definition 2a[1] on merriam-webster.com.

  a : to obtain by energetic activity <hustle up new customers>

Seems like a pretty common use of the term in the sense of "that scrappy start-up showed quite a bit of hustle to pull it off."

[1] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hustle

I suspect that for most people in the US their first meal at McDonalds was purchased by their parents. And they probably know quite a few people in real life that would endorse McDonalds.

Can you define "here on HN"? Are you suggesting that the submitter is a shill for patio11? Or that a community member can't sell anything? Or if it a product makes it onto the HN front page, the seller needs to remove the price?

Yeah, the premise about user behavior in this post feels wrong. I never browse the app store by searching. I search for a specific thing by name and it's normally a top result.

I browse by category.

See my post above though, even Kickstarter's Guidelines say there is a legal obligation to deliver.