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hamidpaloon Introducing Trello Business Class

Trello does not support offline operation. It may work sometimes but offline sync is not a feature of any of the official clients.

hamidpaloon Trello for iPad is Here

The iPad app is fully native, just like all our other apps. Hacking together a WebView app that is the same across platforms would have taken less effort but the end result would have been mediocre at best.

I think actually that at this point Trello has much more Obj-C, Java and C# than CoffeeScript.

hamidpaloon Trello for iPad is Here

Trello Android dev here.

A tablet Android version is planned, but no specific date to announce.

hamidpaloon Reddit Starts Accepting Bitcoin for Reddit Gold Purchases via Coinbase

As a merchant, it could hypothetically be easier or cheaper to deal with Bitcoin than other currencies online. (For example, note how aggravating/risky PayPal is.)

It's not. Given the volatility of bitcoin you're taking on a lot of currency risk since the value of the bitcoins you just got for your widget can change a lot in a few days. The extra cost of conversion and/or hedging is not worth it.

Especially when you consider all the other problems that bitcoin has.

hamidpaloon Crashlytics Enterprise Is Now Free

Boy does this look like the beginnings of an ad network.

hamidpaloon Moving from Trello to Blimp

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hamidpaloon Microsoft looking to release Office for Linux in 2014

Having looked at parts of the Office source I would be extremely surprised if this is anything but a statement to placate OSS devs. The sheer amount of effort required to port Office to Linux would be a few orders of magnitude greater than any sales that could possibly be achieved from Linux users.

hamidpaloon Basecamp Personal

We are -- new version of Trello for Android is coming out very soon.

hamidpaloon An Interview Question that Actually Works

My 2 cents: This is a horrible interview question. It tests arcane knowledge that takes about 15 seconds of googling, kind of like the varchar2 question in this blog post: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000073.html .

It doesn't really tell you if the interviewee can code, and it probably doesn't tell you much about how they think. Developers should be asked to write code and design systems, whether large scale services or libraries.

hamidpaloon Trello celebrates One Million Users

You can view board activity which shows everything done recently.

The other alternative is to use the API, which is full read/write: trello.com/docs

hamidpaloon Trello celebrates One Million Users

We don't hear many complaints about speed. What kind of speed issues are you experiencing?

hamidpaloon JetBrains Doomsday Sale - 75% off for 24 hours only

Using IntelliJ 12 with Darcula enabled with with a custom dark scheme, looks very nice actually.

hamidpaloon BlackBerry 10 is Going to Have the Best Web Browser of Any Mobile Platform

Passing benchmark suites doesn't matter. User experience does, and that is still very much an unknown.

hamidpaloon Show HN: A simple library for saving JS objects in Windows 8

Console2 + Unix Utils + Cygwin

hamidpaloon Why Windows Just Can’t Win

So Windows can't succeed because they've announced their products and aren't spacing the announcement and the codename used for the design language is actually a trademark owned by someone else?

I'm sure that people are buying the new BMW 5 series because they like the name of the design language (Flame Surfacing) and because it was launched in Hong Kong. The actual quality of the product doesn't matter.

hamidpaloon Adobe's Source Code Pro Font

I love Inconsolata as well -- it's the only font on OS X that comes close to Consolas on Windows. For some reason though IntelliJ cannot render it well at all, so I've resorted to using Droid Sans Mono [1], which is awesome as well.

[1]: http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Droid+Sans+Mono

hamidpaloon 5 Things You Should Know About Refactoring in C#

#6. Get yourself Resharper.

hamidpaloon Microsoft reveals Windows RT OEMs, device specs, battery life

What else would you run on it? Android? Why not just buy an Android tablet then?

hamidpaloon Trello Android App Available for Download

I worked on this app and that is the same device and OS that I used, and I am in agreement with you. I think there still might be some performance wins here to make the scrolling smoother, so future releases should be better.

hamidpaloon Trello Android App Available for Download

We haven't added board creation yet, but it is very high up on our next up list.

hamidpaloon Trello Android App Available for Download

I worked on this app. We picked a minimum level that seemed to make sense after looking at usage data. We have gotten some feedback that people want support for older devices and we might do that, depending on the development and testing effort.

hamidpaloon Trello Android App Available for Download

Trello dev here. The iOS version will let you pinch to zoom to view lists in a board.

hamidpaloon The New York Times Is Now Supported by Readers, Not Advertisers

Not a fair comparison IMHO. NYT delivers mostly news, and despite their quality, there plenty of other substitutable sources of news.

The Economist on the other hand is mostly analysis, and have extremely dedicated readers who gladly pay the premium.

hamidpaloon Xamarin raises $12M to help you make better apps faster

Not just that, but at $1500 per seat for MonoTouch and MonoDroid it is way too expensive.

hamidpaloon Microsoft changes skype supernodes architecture to support wiretapping

Windows Server powers Messenger and the upcoming notification service, which do exactly the same thing as Skype: messaging and video.

Moving an entire service to a different OS isn't quite that simple, so the simplest thing was to just add capacity using whatever was running at the moment.

hamidpaloon Trello is now half million strong

You can export data very easily, either using the Trello API or just by appending ".json" to pretty much any URL. For example to get a JSON dump of the resources board: https://trello.com/board/trello-resources/4f84a60f0cbdcb7e7d... (note the .json).

Disclaimer: I'm a developer on Trello.

hamidpaloon Testing 3 million hyperlinks, lessons learned

I didn't even notice the stuff variable, but the lock(this) really irked me.

hamidpaloon Samsung invests $500K in Linux Foundation to battle iOS

This is my thinking too. $500k would cover about 2-2.5 developers at Apple/MSFT, and they have many many thousands working on their OSs.

hamidpaloon Anders Hejlsberg: You Can't Maintain Large Programs in JavaScript.

It's about the type system.

Dynamic, weak typing makes writing static analysis/refactoring/etc tools extremely hard, but more importantly makes nearly any compile-time guarantees impossible. Having your app crash because of a small typo of a member name is impossible in C++/C#/Java. It happens to me almost once a day with Node/JS.