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But that's impossible(bitquabit.com)
5 points by gecko 14y ago|0 comments
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by gecko 14y ago
As of today, there is no plan to kill FogBugz for your server. That's about as clear as I can make it.
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by gecko 14y ago
What was new in the compiler?
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by gecko 14y ago
In some sense, it "matters" as much as dozens of other "fringe" language projects (Ceylon, F#, Kotlin, etc.). It brings a different way of thinking to the table. If that way of thinking is one you like, great. If not, move onto the next
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by gecko 14y ago
Seaside is still developed, but if I were writing a website in Smalltalk right now, I'd be using one of the REST frameworks along with Amber Smalltalk, not Seaside. IMHO, Seaside is an amazing and beautiful piece of technology whose time h
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by gecko 14y ago
We are not killing off FogBugz, I promise. There's a new major release that should come out very soon.
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by gecko 14y ago
I'm actually really happy with the workflow we came up with; that's something we've been using for months now at Fog Creek with no real issues. The above is a list of data format issues , which your team doesn't have to deal with.
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by gecko 14y ago
If it were single-user, that'd be one thing, but given that the whole shtick with Trello is that it's collaborative, you find really fast that there are almost zero real-world situations where you can actually do something sane when actions
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by gecko 14y ago
Kiln Harmony is a little bit different than that. We are aiming that you can push a Git repo to Kiln, clone out an Hg repo, push that back to Kiln in an empty repo, and get back exactly the same Git repo you started with. This means tha
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by gecko 14y ago
That's pretty radically different. A closer analog might be hg-git, but the moment you say that you want the entire process to cleanly round-trip, you have to preserve all kinds of weird and corrupt data that the modern incarnations of the
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by gecko 14y ago
We have a fairly robust test-suite that covers all the corner cases we were able to find by trawling old/major Git repos, and then we have a Jenkins-powered server that does functional tests on a pile of major projects (Python, Ruby, PyPy,
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by gecko 14y ago
Git is certainly much more widely used in general for open-source, but there are plenty of major projects that are on Mercurial. Python, Vim, Mozilla, dovecot, Go, NetBeans, and mutt all come to mind really quickly. Something like Kiln
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by gecko 14y ago
Kiln Harmony is complicated, and has lots of edge-cases it needs to handle. We'll be publishing a whole series of blog posts that explore exactly how Kiln Harmony works. In the mean time, though, just because I think it might spawn some i
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by gecko 14y ago
I'll be publishing a series of articles that dive into the nitty-gritty of how Harmony works in the coming days, so I don't want to answer every single "How do you?..." question in this thread, but since you're the first one: Git octopus me
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by gecko 14y ago
We do. Accounts with two users or fewer are free ( http://www.fogcreek.com/kiln/StudentAndStartup.html ), and established open-source projects are free (contact us).
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by gecko 14y ago
That's not quite what we have in mind, but it's close. Basically, any features that are currently free, stay free. Some new features in the pipe will not be.
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by gecko 14y ago
That would better be phrased as, "any features that are currently free, stay free." Of course we're working on adding paid features to Trello; see spolsky's replies elsewhere in this thread, or my comment history, for more details.
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by gecko 14y ago
Wasabi nowadays uses Mono, and until very recently, whether it was legitimately viable was a matter of opinion. Technically speaking, its garbage collector made it ill-suited to long-running processes (such as web servers), and its perform
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by gecko 14y ago
I'm not clear where people get this idea from. In the case of Wasabi specifically, it uses Code DOM, which can generate IL, C#, and VB.NET out-of-the-box, and can be extended fairly easily to target other platforms as well.
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by gecko 14y ago
You're a bit misinformed. Both Joel on Software and Coding Horror readers formed the initial audience. While Jeff wrote code for StackOverflow, and Joel did not, Joel provided and acquired the initial funding to pay for Jeff's work, and hir
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by gecko 14y ago
In the beginning, there was Thistle. Thistle was, at best, a glorified regex that converted ASP to PHP. It was written by an intern, and it showed. Later, Thistle was broadened out into an ASP to PHP compiler. Compiler was still a loose
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by gecko 14y ago
FogBugz' core is still in Wasabi, but nearly all new code, including one hell of a release coming out soon, is in C#. The Wasabi core is gradually dwindling into an API shell, which will itself probably disappear at some point in the futur
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by gecko 14y ago
I'm no MS fanboy. I have eight computers in my apartment. Exactly one runs a Microsoft OS, and it has an XBOX logo on its DVD drive. OpenOffice and LibreOffice come absolutely nowhere close to Microsoft Office in functionality, speed, U
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by gecko 14y ago
You're going to have to explain what on Earth you mean. PowerShell just reads (and writes) like someone forced Perl and .NET to have a child. AppleScript, Inform 7, Smalltalk-72, and other "English" languages dream of being in the same bo
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by gecko 14y ago
I'd assume he's referencing the "apt-add-repository" with ppm support, which automatically takes care of editing sources, adding GPG keys to sign the downloads, and rebuilding the repo list, in one shot. It's not dramatically different tha
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by gecko 14y ago
I work on Kiln, not Trello, and I don't feel comfortable ripping numbers off their dashboard and posting them onto HN. Simple as that. For all I know, they plan on announcing those numbers themselves soon, and I don't want to get in their
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by gecko 14y ago
I don't feel comfortable providing that number, but I can talk a bit about how the Trello team would answer it. The concept of "active" isn't really a cut-and-dried thing. Do you count people who merely look at Trello, or do they have to d
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by gecko 14y ago
That may be fair. In this particular case, I can tell you we respond to Trello outages the same we'd respond to FogBugz or Kiln outages, so your concern should be minimal.
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by gecko 14y ago
One thing I think people don't appreciate is that Trello isn't really competing with Basecamp/Jira/FogBugz. Those tools are all really well designed for fine-grained project development. Trello is beautifully designed for a much higher-le
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by gecko 14y ago
You know, I've had a fair number of services that I'm paying for just vanish out from under me, too (e.g., eWorld, iTools, Grove.io, the original Siri). Sometimes the wind-down is longer, sometime it isn't. And, conversely, some things I

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