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This sounds like it's ripe for spammers, and given the recent article on the Pinterest spammer, and the current winner tweeting about her "lipob fat loss shots", I don't think it will get any traction. (Or at least it won't be abused).

From reading that article, it looks like TradeHill claims they are missing about $100k in revenue, and maybe up to $200k. Why are they suing for $2MM? Even treble damages (x3) plus lawyer costs wouldn't add up to 2MM in the most optimistic case. Can anyone explain the discrepancy?

When will we see this in NYC (or other markets)?

If you are approved, why is there a stackoverflow question asking if this is ok? http://facebook.stackoverflow.com/questions/9364501/released...

That's not actually what's happening. Just a 3rd party dev thing implemented using open graph actions. In face it's not even clear (contrary to what they say on their blog post) that they cleared this with Facebook. See http://facebook.stackoverflow.com/questions/9364501/released...

Which is why most people buying funds should buy their index funds through Vanguard. It's not a sales pitch. This company, owned by the fund holders, is the lowest cost way to buy index funds. Probably the only lower cost way to own stocks is to buy them directly through the company via their dividend reinvestment programs, but then you aren't buying an index and you are wasting your time.

If you have two windows open, the changes DO sync between them. That's actually the whole point of Trello.

"Well this has to be a first for a software company"

I'll just leave this here: http://training.fogcreek.com

Could you please make it look a bit more unique (i.e. different than stackoverflow and the other stackexchange sites)? Most people won't bother changing the default template, and most people who end up on a hosted version of this software will then think it's run by Stack Exchange Inc. I'd like to avoid that situation as it causes us a bunch of administrative busywork and confusion to the interneters.

No, they are in Maryland. I don't care about naming the company. I care about putting the kid in a bad position.

This is absolutely ludicrous. Non-competes for interns? I hope the company he worked at isn't in California where their non compete would be void.

Joel is doing a live chat right now (11 AM EST) at http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/1293/onstartups

Agree on line breaks. And also on labels.

RE: onboarding, we want to do something like we did with webputty.net using Optimizely's Guider https://github.com/jeff-optimizely/Guiders-JS

This should be fixed now (11:45 AM EST Wed Sep 14)

Harumph, grouchy pants. Well, one of the designer/UI peeps at 37signals liked it! so there! http://twitter.com/#!/rjs/status/113751685091950592

But in typical usenet style, I will engage each of your points directly and anxiously await your rebuttal.

- "The UI stinks." I think this is the number one thing we've gotten praise for. It's hard to please everyone, but overwhelmingly people have told us the opposite of what you are saying.

- "The video is too long / The app isn't simple enough." I sort of agree with this. The video is kind of long for an app this simple. I got a bit bored in the middle (and I'm the Fog Creek co-founder). But if you wait until the Jello line at the end, it's totally worth it!

- "People already solved this problem." Right and wrong. I think there are a few other solutions which are pretty close to this idea (some of them are even posted here in the comments, and we've since discovered more as people tweeted them to us) but I think we'll get more traction because we aren't building a software dev tool. We're trying to build a horizontal tool, and our future releases will reflect that focus. The majority of the existing tools are aimed at developers.

- "Joel pronounces lemur incorrectly." I'm pretty sure he did that just to annoy you. It apparently succeeded.

Its a bit tricky because while your board is public, we can all see it but not edit anything.

One of the devs whipped the iPhone app up in essentially 2 weeks after some of our earlier plans with a contractor fell through. It was literally meant to be there on launch read-only. We know it's got a ways to go, but given the time constraints it was the best we could do (IMHO it was better than anything I thought we'd be able to do... Justin really cranked on it)

Close == Delete (kind of, in that it will do what you want but you can undo it later if you really need to)

I think #2 problem was related to this by looking at your comment timing: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2993983

TCP queue connection problems. We had a load balancer configuration issue. We're watching closely.

Peldi, I think you're trying to do the right thing by treating people with respect and allowing them the freedom to make their own choices, BUT I think you are ignoring simple human nature and actually making their vacation time worse for them.

As others have said in the comments, in systems like this, people will take less vacation than if there were a defined plan. Because there is no defined plan, one is set by example. They look to you and to their peers. I suspect strongly that you will take less vacation than them being the CEO of the company. I also suspect that their peers will gravitate toward taking less vacation, and human guilt will be the guide.

I urge you to reconsider. Instead give them a very generous vacation policy (20 days! a whole month!) and then MAKE THEM TAKE IT! You can do that by simply telling them 'You need to take a vacation' or just have a max cap on vacation (say 40 days) or have vacation expire after 2 years (time enough to build up a nice sabbatical).

Is there a way to verify the billing credit after making a budget change? I think this $50 credit will mean webputty.net can run for a few months for free, but I can't figure out where to find the credit after I made the change.

Why not just have all companies pledge not to settle frivolous patent suits? The way the trolls make their money is by realizing that its cheaper for these companies to settle than to duke it out in court. The lawyers don't even care if you aren't infringing because it really doesn't matter. The trolls survive because people aren't willing to fight it out against them and they can pick on the weaker and smaller companies. If everyone said at the outset, "I will fight to the death a frivolous patent suit with all of my resources" the trolls would run out of easy targets.

Conference calling yet? I guess not yet, but this is a good start.

Is this pretty much the same thing as Rhapsody, or am I missing the significant difference?

on the banking video: go to feefighters.com - save yourself a ton of money by making payment processors compete for your business. Almost all of them integrate with authorize.net which does what ryan was talking about with recurring subscriptions and storing cc's on their servers (so you don't have to be PCI compliant).

on the accounting video: ryan is wrong about quickbooks only working on one machine. It is designed to live on a fileshare and have multiple clients connecting to it on your network. They also have an online version, however almost ALL US accountants will know what to do with a quickbooks file.

I'm happy about this, and let me clarify that I love shopify and their product. However, I think they might not be aware of a disconnect in their support offering (which hopefully this would make more obvious). I've had multiple weeks go by without any response to my emails and posts on their forums. (Other times, I've gotten responses in 24 hours, so it's not consistent). I hope it's because they are so successful that their support team is being crushed under the weight of their growth.

Youtube gives it to you for free but you have to have enough views. It's under "Insights" on the video and then "Hotspots".

We believe the problem is actually Keep-Alives on Apache plus the cache. Keep-alives are now off. Cache on. Everything seems peachy.

I think its WP Super Cache