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by spolsky 14y ago
Even with one account, you can put all your work-related boards in an organization and keep them separate from your personal boards that way. It's not exactly the same as the way Google does it. I assume Dropbox doesn't allow multiple accou
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by spolsky 14y ago
I think I can confidently say that we will never offer that. The engineering costs are prohibitive and not cost-effective, even if you can charge the companies that need it. That said, if there are things that we can do to increase privacy
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by spolsky 14y ago
We plan to offer add-on and premium services that might be of use to people who are getting a lot of value out of Trello already. For example you could imagine that large corporations that already have Trello throughout their organization m
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by spolsky 14y ago
Keep in mind Ruby on Rails had been out for less than a year at the time I wrote that, and the only thing I said about it was that brand new frameworks are not the kind of thing that enterprises like to bet the farm on.
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by spolsky 14y ago
By way of background -- at the time that we created Wasabi's predecessor, Thistle, we had a large code base in VBScript that only ran on Windows, and almost no developers. Thistle was done by a summer intern in eight weeks and got us PHP Fo
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by spolsky 14y ago
Wow, ancient history, but this later became a standing joke, and Jeff mostly recanted. See http://pvm-professionalengineering.blogspot.com/2010/05/jump... (although why that site exists, I cannot say.)
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How (and why) to write a useful "About" page(blog.stackoverflow.com)
2 points by spolsky 14y ago|0 comments
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by spolsky 14y ago
It depends on what the options contract says, so read it and you'll see. Sometimes there is a provision for partial acceleration of vesting in the event of an acquisition.
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Why I Started OneID(skirsch.com)
2 points by spolsky 14y ago|0 comments
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by spolsky 14y ago
due to flooding in the basement and diesel fuel spilled everywhere, they wouldn't power up the elevators even if they could. The building's entire electrical system is under salt water/diesel mixture.
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by spolsky 14y ago
The bottom line is that people just don't plan for 100 year storms. I suspect that's because the number of things that go wrong once every 100 years is so large and the cost of handling each one is so disproportionate to the risk that it's
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by spolsky 14y ago
Let me update this: we've been working all day on moving Trello to AWS, a project which is now underway. If all goes well (fingers crossed, etc) we'll be up and running on AWS very soon. There are still other services in the flooded New Yor
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by spolsky 14y ago
I suspect that's for ventilation reasons
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by spolsky 14y ago
Last we heard it's a bucket brigade doing 5 gallons at a time. Fog Creek president Michael Pryor is participating but mostly it seems to be the crew from Peer 1 networks doing the hard work, we don't want to take too much credit.
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by spolsky 14y ago
Geo-redundancy is a tough engineering problem. We're building a long term solution but it's a lot of work and it's not in place today. If this is the kind of problem that excites you, we're hiring :-)
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by spolsky 14y ago
I'm kind of an optimist; I believe it'll only be a matter of hours total outage. The generator is fine, the equipment is fine, the internet connectivity is fine... the only problem is getting fuel up to the generator on the 17th floor, whil
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by spolsky 14y ago
I love that idea! Until that happens, we actually expect that companies in patent-happy industries will monitor filings by their competitors and spend some of their own money and resources blocking competitors from building bad patent portf
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by spolsky 14y ago
It is definitely true that a lot of companies over-protective legal departments have persuaded their engineers never to read patents. I don't think that you should optimize for the case where you've actually lost a patent suit. First of all
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by spolsky 14y ago
Al Pacino.
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by spolsky 14y ago
It's not weird, it's intentional, and desired. The short and to-the-point answer is marginally more helpful if it arrives sooner, because it solves the problem quickly, so it will tend to earn a little more reputation. Coming back later and
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by spolsky 14y ago
And yet, Stack Overflow gets 7000 questions a day, and manages to maintain a very high quality compared to sites with less moderation. The very moderation which detracts from the community feeling is what's keeping the quality of the site u
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by spolsky 14y ago
None of the actual metrics of the site bear this out. I don't know what "myspacing" is, and "floundering" is pretty subjective, but in terms of actual measurable things, we have more questions asked, more questions answered, more people act
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by spolsky 14y ago
although programmers.SE was originally meant to be the "anything goes" dumping ground for subjective conversations to get them off of Stack Overflow, that is not its current mission. See the FAQ ( http://programmers.stackexchange.com/faq )
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by spolsky 14y ago
This is a rambling discussion, which Stack Exchange is not really intended for. There are lots of good places to have rambling discussions. We focus on answerable questions with specific answers, not long-winded, open-ended conversation sta
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by spolsky 14y ago
Here ya go: http://www.fogcreek.com/careers.html (Scroll to the bottom of the page for a slideshow of Fog Creek's setup with individual private offices for developers)
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by spolsky 14y ago
Did you have a lawyer to represent you? That's their job... to make sure that the contract you're signing is OK. Actually reading a contract without knowledge of the law, case history, and background can get you into just as much trouble as
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by spolsky 15y ago
Press the TURBO button on the front of your PC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_button
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by spolsky 15y ago
Union Square Ventures, of which Fred Wilson ("the OP") is a partner, is an investor in my startup (Stack Exchange). They never put pressure on us to generate patents. They have been consistently anti-patent for quite some time. They have co
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by spolsky 15y ago
Is it possible that the TSA actually observed the metallic object at your side, but decided that it wasn't threatening based on its shape?
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by spolsky 15y ago
"Fix my code" questions are considered "too localized" and should be closed as such.

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