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by powdahound 15y ago
Native apps are definitely in our future. :)
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by powdahound 15y ago
Garret from HipChat here - We obviously agree that lots of apps have used chat bubbles in logos over the years. In fact, probably way too many. The only reason its an issue this time around is that our users are genuinely confused when they
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by powdahound 15y ago
It's surprising how often chat services get compared to Yammer which has no IM functionality.
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Now that's how you handle a pricing change(fortyagency.com)
4 points by powdahound 15y ago|0 comments
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by powdahound 15y ago
Just because you can set something up yourself doesn't mean you should. You'll take on the burden of maintenance, support, and teaching people how to use the system. We could all be running git on our own servers instead of using GitHub, ou
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by powdahound 15y ago
Good point. It also means that it's not a repeatable marketing angle for us.
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by powdahound 15y ago
It'd be interesting to see how the domain shown next to the title factors into this too. Seems like everything from GitHub always does very well.
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by powdahound 15y ago
Feels like they're providing canary builds in a backwards order. First Windows, now Mac, and hopefully Linux soon. Seems like Linux users would be the most tolerant of failures and most likely to report issues accurately. Maybe Chrome has s
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by powdahound 15y ago
The site is hosted on S3 so that type of configuration isn't an option. More details: http://powdahound.com/2011/03/hosting-a-static-site-on-amazo...
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by powdahound 15y ago
Added to my todo list. Didn't even realize there were special SUSE types. :)
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by powdahound 15y ago
I just used a jQuery plugin called tablesorter: http://tablesorter.com/docs/
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by powdahound 15y ago
You bet - I'm hoping to add more regions and data once I have some free time. Still putting out some EC2 fires from yesterday.
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by powdahound 15y ago
That's a great idea. Just hooked it up.
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by powdahound 15y ago
Totally agree. Would love to add all this data once I have some free time. Some basic performance data could be cool too...
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by powdahound 16y ago
Made this a while back because I was sick of the way Amazon's instance info ( http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/ ) and pricing info ( http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ ) were on different pages in a hard-to-browse format. Hoping thi
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Show HN: Amazon EC2 instance comparison table(ec2instances.info)
122 points by powdahound 16y ago|33 comments
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by powdahound 16y ago
I'm seeing 1 EBS server out of 9 having issues (5 in one availability zone, 4 in another). CPU wait time on the instance is stuck at 100% on all cores since the disk isn't responding. Sounds like others are having much more trouble.
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by powdahound 16y ago
Shirts are also great PR, prize rewards, and 'thank you' gifts for users who run into nasty bugs. We've had a lot of success and fun with our HipChat shirts. Our tips for others: 1. Buy high-quality shirts (American Apparel) 2. Bu
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by powdahound 16y ago
Even easier: Just do it in a Chrome incognito window
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by powdahound 16y ago
We have been converting a lot of groups from Skype to HipChat [1] lately and I'm surprised how many of them cite the UI craziness as a major reason for wanting to leave the platform. Obviously good, consistent UI is important but it always
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by powdahound 16y ago
Awesome! We've had support for this in HipChat rooms for a long time and I find myself using this syntax all over the place only to be disappointed when it doesn't actually notify people. Hopefully more apps will follow along.
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by powdahound 16y ago
Well, a single character change + a developer not testing their code locally + not running high level unit tests + deploying untested code to production.
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by powdahound 16y ago
We use PagerDuty ( http://pagerduty.com ) at HipChat and while I absolutely loathe being woken up by it, it's helped us identify issues during off-peak hours much more quickly. But no matter what systems you have in place or how many hundre
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by powdahound 16y ago
I've heard that the server it runs on is the most powerful machine Google owns. Perforce can't be distributed and has to keep track of all the files that are opened by every user (p4 edit). Must be quite a beast.
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by powdahound 16y ago
I'd like to second this. Although Twisted's documentation and 5-year-old bugs will have you cursing the libraries name at times it really does perform well once you figure it all out. We're using Python + Twisted for our XMPP servers at Hip
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by powdahound 16y ago
So that we have a successful business. This is a tool for business productivity. It helps companies be more productive and they have no problem paying for it. In fact, they all say we should charge more. :)
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by powdahound 16y ago
[Repost from our blog comments] We're definitely competing with Campfire. They were one of the first tools to focus on providing group chat to businesses but unfortunately didn't go much further. It's only group chat and it's only in the br
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Services, software, and languages used by our startup(blog.hipchat.com)
4 points by powdahound 16y ago|0 comments
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by powdahound 16y ago
The Command-T plugin [1] was a big help in switching from TextMate to vim. I have no idea how anyone can be productive in vim without it (assuming you're working on a multi-file project). 1. https://wincent.com/products/command-t
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Happy 1st birthday HipChat – A year in review(blog.hipchat.com)
3 points by powdahound 16y ago|0 comments

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