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Everything you just stated is gimmick. Physical keyboards are over.

And the "true multitasking" sort of works (pretty much as well as Anroid) only because they bolted 2GB of RAM onto the thing.

BlackBerry are dead. The OS looks like amateur hour, the icons look inspired by Windows XP, and even their default font is badly rendered everywhere. The Android emulator is unusably slow (nothing like what it was in the desktop simulator) and pointless. It should be removed.

It's a decent beta, but that's about it. They're done.

Except they're both clueless about battery use in planes.

Anyone know why?

What does this comment have to do with the linked article?

They didn't think that far ahead. :)

There are features that are worth shipping, and there are "look at me" features. This the latter.

Welcome to HN. Where we state opinions as fact and anecdotes as truth, usually with some hand wavey out in case we're called on BS. :)

You don't know how pricing infrastructure works.

Just because Utah doesn't know how to run public transit doesn't mean no one else can and do so with decent financials.

Please.

We've tried switching from GH Enterprise to Stash (because of the $5000 thing, which pisses me off and makes me feel like I'm being ripped off at the same time!), but it's really "not there yet".

The file browser sucks, the repo management doesn't make sense (repos live in projects, instead of organization/project or person/project), you can't run git via ssh on port 22, no activity stream (so you need to combine it with Fisheye), etc.

The price of Stash is really the price of Stash + Fisheye. At that point you're only looking at $2500, but still. Unfortunately for us, GitHub issue tracking and wiki suck compared to Jira/Confluence. So we run GH Enterprise + JIRA + Confluence. :)

Please don't listen to the idiots telling you to charge a one-off fee for SaaS.

You're not 37signals and unless you have a couple of million burning a hole in your pocket, you should be charging reasonable subscription fees.

There's nothing innovative about a bad business model.

One-time forever pricing for a service which costs you ongoing money to run is suicide unless you're subsidizing it somehow.

You have to have a subscription Basecamp account to buy the $25 one-off thing. So you're essentially paying a fee to hide projects that you don't want in your company Basecamp.

This is essentially a free tier with a one off filter.

You missed the obvious reason:

Money.

Lots and lots of money.

Safari 6 is excellent. Faster than Chrome on OS X.

"Her prospects look grim. Rep. Darrell Issa (R., Calif.)"...

And that's when everyone should stop reading. Issa is a tea party loon.

This isn't Fox News. Please go away.

Boeing would be over if they decided to kill the 787 -- there's literally no way that's going to happen.

Why would they kill it? The problems really aren't that bad and are being blown way out of proportion.

They'll have a fix for this within a couple of weeks, tops.

The problem is that this is a link to DataStax. :)

I don't know if this is heretical to say, but when I think about services that people should look up to in terms of architecture, I don't think of Netflix.

See all the downtime they have despite the 1000 posts on their blog about how wonderfully available their architecture is.

I can point to 10 other sites running on a boring LAMP stack with similar availability.

Yes, then you start thinking about the workload of the average webapp...

Sigh. Let's blame video games and mental illness instead of tackling the real problem. This is going to work out great.

Article is full of misinformation and not facts.

The problem with covering engineering issues in planes is that journalists have no idea what the hell they're writing about.

I don't know how you can say it's "performant as hell" when it's actually slower than even MySQL for simple selects.

Serious question: are people really still using Cassandra?

I've only ever heard horror stories about big deployments, and the only posts about it come from DataStax.

Needs support for a list of items (like PayPal shopping cart API functionality), not just one item.

Wow. You're making your company look like complete idiots here, to be honest.

"cant replicate it" directly to the customer in a 3 word non-sentence from the co-founder? Really? From what's supposed to be a "customer service" company? WTF?

This should have been handled by competent support stuff who know how to talk to users. You should be apologizing for whatever it is and telling them that while you have not been able to reproduce it after many many hours of testing, you'd really like to the bottom of this mysterious issue, and then go on to suggest some steps to try and track the issue down.

... WTF.

While I agree with you in that San Francisco is nowhere near "global city" status (I don't know what people are thinking when they say stuff like this), unfortunately this is where most of the tech world is. So you're going to get articles like this.

The funny thing is, the food here really isn't that great, the coffee is also average at best, but these are all relative to the rest of the US.

The problem is that the article isn't worth even reading because of the source.

It's like linking to the AEI or Heritage Foundation or some US Chamber of Commerce stuff. You know what you're going to get, and there's no point wasting cycles.

Living in Oakland is popular.

Yay for generalization!