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Finding directions (parking or public transportation from your current location) to events is another good application.

Also, I wish sites had a link to google maps from their directions page.

However, if that idea is worth selling, you will be ahead in the market. Microsoft will need to catch up. They may buy you out. Software typically goes obsolete for reasons other than the "need" for protection.

Besides, by the time Microsoft does that, some other algorithm could quite possibly be created by somebody else.

I think the Diaspora just worked in the SF office. I don't believe it was a project out of Pivotal.

Humans don't judge probability and risk very well. It's hard to forsee the future and problems. Hindsight is 20/20. My bag of cliches is exhausted.

Maybe there were other things the engineers were working on that brought definite (as in 100%) benefit. Maybe there's a good product/consulting opportunity here. Everybody needs monitoring, but it takes time and resources.

I agree, that they are focusing on it now, because it happened.

The FBI probably has a spider bot which searches for keywords. Ooh, they are high-tech. Too bad they don't review the effectiveness of the "threat" detection.

Our tax dollars being put to good use.

Gah, this whole article is really nit-picky. The author sounds like some sort of perfectionistic, elitist prick. Definitely a Type A and way too focused on the minutia.

Unfortunately, the blog post author is lots of peoples' first exposure to the Clojure community. Not a great first impression.

Other things get prioritized.

Gah, that is stressful.

The premise of patents is that Facebook would not have done this innovation if it was not protected by patents. I highly doubt that is the case.

Danm, I was hoping he wrote a virus that upgrades IE.

Btw, if you login on another site using Google or Yahoo, you are using OpenID.

Something that doesn't require you to be a techie to understand. OpenID is a bit advanced for many users.

FB Connect actually does a pretty good job at being "easy to use". Just log into your FB account and you are set. I know it's not fair, but most people havn't posted anything to that openid website.

Google or Yahoo logins would work, since there's a recognizable brand name and there's a good chance that the user has an account on those sites.

Smiling makes a huge difference. People see you as friendly and react positively toward you.

I wasn't disappointed by meeting DHH. In fact, it led me to respect him even more.

> Krugman believes that the government can, and will, spend money in a way that benefits society as a whole more than the people who earned it would if they were allowed to keep it. The rich disagree.

Except the government tends to heavily subsidize the rich. I'd be happy to get rid of taxes, earmarks, bailouts, pork, etc. I don't expect that to happen without the aid of a collapse, though.

My pleasure...

For some reason it took me a while to get that the stories were draggable. I understand you are going for a clean look, but maybe a handle would also communicate it it draggable?

Also, push the mobile aspect. The site makes sense on the ipad or a smart phone. Unfortunately, I cannot open the story data overlay from the ipad.

Also, try to have the overlays somehow originate (using animation) from the store or backlog or finished button.

Also, you might want to try a dotted border to separate the phases (not sure about the terminology).

I'm glad somebody made some Kanban planning software. Nice and simple UI which brings focus on the features.

Also, what is your vision of SproutCore in the next three years?

People shouldn't get too angry over the burning. Sure it's a rallying cry for some of the more violent minded clerics, but it's not like they need much of an excuse to incite violence.

Sometimes sacred cows need to be eaten before people realize that religious bullshit is the root of many of the world's problems.

> If all you've seen is succesful projects, you can only guess why failed ones fail.

True. The project I have been a part of do have problems though. Sometimes the problems get resolved quickly and sometimes it takes a while or never happens.

Failure comes in many forms. I'm not pretending to have encyclopedic knowledge over the various ways projects fail. I do know that issues arise on the team and good communication often helps resolve these issues.

Also, having a good attitude is important. It's easy to be negative to your teammates (I have this problem), but it's also harmful and inappropriate at times.

In my experience, the biggest issues (or the largest cause of my stress) were often issues within the team.

Agile does not require perfect implementation.

I have yet to see an "unsuccessful" project using agile, as in the customer and team was not happy with the conclusion (I've been involved with > 10). Usually things change before that point is reached.

If the team cannot change when things start sucking, then things will continue to suck, regardless of methodology or lack of. Most teams can adjust (at least the ones I want to be a part of).

It's also an arguably necessary way to change processes in (largish) organizations who do not have good practices. Sometimes it's necessary to be a highly paid consultant to be taken seriously.

Yep, big bang rewrites are always scary. Doing something more incremental would have been safer.

One way to "safely" do a big-bang change would have been to use both architectures in parallel and sync back and forth. That way, if the new architecture fails, you still have the old one.

Of course, that is lots of effort, and restricts new features (which may be a good thing anyway).

Ironically, the comment above is an accidental implementation of this feature. It is currently at 0 points, and has a link to the HN policy as a link.

Not sure if I'm following, but if that method is never called, then does it apply to the system?

A tag feedback is more gratifying to the person getting downvoted. That person is less likely to be upset and produce a "boring discussion".

How about this for a HN feature.

If your post is < 1, add a link to a page about downvoted comments.

That way, the person who was downvoted has an opportunity to read about some common reasons why a post was downvoted, read tips on making better comments, and has more time to emotionally process being downvoted.

I like /.'s tagging of comments. It's good feedback on why something was up or down modded.

It also forces a downvoter to justify why something is getting downvoted.

Haha, How the hell do software developers get groupies?