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We use Hipchat at work at the moment and while I like it overall there are some issues that they need to address.

The Air app for desktop can sometimes have performance issues for no particular reason. They're about to release a native OS X app though so that should solve this for a large amount of users.

The android application in woeful. It consistently logs me out and forgets my password which means that it's totally unusable for out of office notifications from people. I've had to rely more on their email notifications for unread personal messages than their Android app. It's a real shame because I could see myself getting a lot more use out of Hipchat if it worked well enough.

IRC was, at least for me, one of the main reasons that I pursued tech and started programming at a young age. A friend of mine introduced me to a local Irish group of Linux enthusiasts/sysadmins/engineers who put up with my foolish questions long enough for me to learn something. While some channels are very quiet now I still find it one of the best resources when I'm troubleshooting a problem.

The on-campus limitation would also be a bit much for me. I'm living in Downtown Menlo Park which means that I'd have to go onto Stanford campus to rent a car. Think I'll just have to wait until I'm 21 :)

I'd love to use Zipcar but the under-21 filter for non-students means it's out of reach at the moment. If I could avoid buying a car in the bay area I would

I'm sure the guys at MongoHQ.com would be able to provide you with better examples of "at-scale" setups.

I seem to remember Google offering something very similar to this that relied on scanning a QR-code on a known device? (I could be mixing stories though)

I believe the table at the end deals with a subsection of the 3d graph, but I could be wrong.

AFAIK they block installation from the Play store.

I thought it was proven that previous reports of "private messages" showing up on poeples' Timelines were false and were down to user confusion?

As far as I know it works perfectly but Wallet will complain about the security implications of the phone being rooted.

Surely this can be said of any application that you give such permissions to with OAauth? We've already seen cases of people selling the information they gathered.

I had originally planned to try and integrate the Facebook gifts product into this but unfortunately it's not yet mature enough to do so.

We make it easy to facilitate the creation and organising of Secret Santa groups, not the actual gift exchange itself. That's up to users to figure out.

How do you find the network performance with that wireless adapter? I've been tempted to buy something similar to use with my own.

Looks like it's not active for everyone yet. I'm getting redirected to the usual download screen. Nice to see that Spotify are filling out their offering in terms of platforms.

Such a great use of SMS. Brilliant article too. Really enjoyed reading through your thought process.

I believe that ITA software is owned by Google. They license it to others as well.

If you're looking to use Graphite but don't want to manage it yourself then I highly recommend hostedgraphite.com. I and many friends at other companies use them and are very happy with the service. They're smart guys.

Having attended 28C3 last December I'm really disappointed I'll not be able to make it this year. These events are always incredibly interesting and packed with great people and ideas.

https://events.ccc.de/congress/2012/wiki/Main_Page The conference is held every year between Christmas and New Years. The dates this year are the 27th to the 30th of December.

There is no technical barrier stopping facebook from doing this, however Facebook stands to gain much much more in promoting an ecosystem for companies such as ourselves to exist. They traditionally haven't encroached on this space.

Even though I own a Kindle I really like to browse and read through print copies of technical books. Not quite able to pin what exactly I like about it.

Can't wait to get a print copy of this. I've been looking forward to seeing this Kickstarter realized for some time now.

Anyone have a mirror? GitHub has stopped serving this as it's over their rate limit.

I don't understand why British news outlets have started to try and "shame" certain corporations over their tax returns. The practice has been known and used for many years, yet it's suddenly deemed newsworthy. I'm really surprised the BBC felt the need to report on this.

I used it to hack together a small app for background data collection a while ago. The only problem was instability. I gave the script to family and friends to run on their phones and collect more data but it was a pain teaching them how to restart it when it died which it frequently did. Not sure if this has been resolved in the last 18 months.

I imagine they have a higher density of virtual machines per host meaning that you're competing / sharing physical resources with many more people.

As someone who recently started using 2 machines on a daily basis Dropbox and git repos for code are more than enough to solve this for me. Anything I need I have on either machine. It's perfect.

They're giving you enough information to get the itinerary through the website no? If so then I see no reason why I wouldn't just forward the email for the sake of convenience.

I'm not sure the cost of printer ink is due to the difficulty in manufacturing. I would hope that 3D printer resins do not follow the same business model

Or are we facing into another printer ink situation?