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Congratulations on the launch! I'm curious to understand, in your experience, what was the most challenging part of building a realtime voice AI app was? Naively, assumed that this would be a solved problem.
I'd say the model is most comparable to Dropbox in that it passively syncs your work in the background. The check-in, check-out approach works for developers but we found it to be too confusing for our target audience of designers. It's a bit of cognitive overhead to remember to constantly check-in, especially when using Photoshop, which crashes quite frequently.
Every save forms a new version online, but you can go back and retroactively mark certain versions as major milestones. Milestones are roughly equivalent to commits in Git.
Since we're primarily focused on graphic design formats, we don't attempt to do any merging of files since it's unclear that the end product would make much sense. We don't lock files either. If two users simultaneously edit the same file, one of them "loses" and shows up as a Conflicted copy that you can visually resolve in the Comparison view online.
Nop, it's a reference to Photoshop's Large Document Format. [1]
[1] http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/file-formats.html#lar...
Hey, one of the founders of Pixelapse here. For context, our target demographic is graphic designers.
We initially started out with tiered pricing based on storage. However, based on usage, we actually found that people rarely hit their storage caps. A better barometer for us is the number of people working together, which we approximate with projects. In that regard, our pricing plans are similar to Github's. Public projects are free and unlimited. Private projects are paid.
For comparison.
Old design: http://bit.ly/1nyPUCL New design: http://bit.ly/1rEA7FE
Request queueing on New Relic is going haywire on our app right now.
If you look at the Safari traffic light icons, the spacing above them is narrower than the spacing below. It's a bit hard to see immediately but it's highlighted with red lines in that section.
Discussed earlier here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6918343
Original post: http://www.jayhuang.org/blog/pushing-code-to-github-as-linus...
Bar graph visualization of the poll: http://hnlike.com/hncharts/chart/?id=7791612
Very cool visualization. It appears as though this buffers events if you leave the page. So leaving the page and tabbing back to it results in a flurry of activity.
On the topic of reasonable alternative tools, Sketch[1] has started to gain a tremendous amount of traction within a short amount of time within the web design community.
This is a biased question, because the people who chose not to go to college are not likely to have a clear understanding of what the experience is like.
College for me personally had little to do with academics and much more to do with the people I met once there. When I was leaving high school, I had little idea that this would be the case.
I'm sad to see Kippt go. I've been an avid user for about a year now.
Can you comment on what led to this change? Inbound traffic looks like it's still pretty solid. Was it just that not enough people were converting to paid plans?
This is a great marketing move. Honestly, this is the first time I've signed up for a service immediately after seeing how it works live.
Somewhat tangential to this story, but we recently moved our team over from HipChat to Slack [1]. I initially thought that we'd miss the sheer number of integrations HipChat offers, but Slack seems to cover almost all of the ones we use regularly and some HipChat doesn't yet offer, like Asana.
Thanks for the question! Unfortunately, we only offer a hosted service at the moment.
This isn't actually an internal call. Sounds like a standard investor conference call.[1]
[1] http://investor.fb.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=835447
No surprise that SF is the most expensive.
Their actual URL is http://getpopcornti.me/, which still appears to be up and running.
Wasn't this the same idea that made George a millionaire on the reunion episode of Seinfeld?
Heads up - the first link to Sendwithus is broken.
For reference, the old design [1] vs the new [2].
[1] https://www.dropbox.com/s/7f6x473a6qaw4vi/Screenshot%202014-... [2]: https://www.dropbox.com/s/70zjz7x4tjh3u0k/Screenshot%202014-...
I'm terribly sad about this. I was eagerly anticipating their rollout to my market and would've happily paid more than the $5/month charge for the benefit of never opening another piece of junk mail again.
Does this mean we're any closer to New Relic support for Tornado's async api? Thus far, New Relic has only supported WSGI apps. [1]
[1] https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/python/python-agent-and-torna...
Consider Google Chrome as an example. The title bar is customized to allow for their tabs at the same height as the close, minimize etc. buttons.
In effect, we have exactly this if your acquaintance's contact information is on Facebook and you link your phone's address book with them. You don't need to keep track of constantly changing information since it's all centralized in one location. The "spheres" you reference are akin to Google+ circles or Facebook's lists. You can set the visibility of your contact info to achieve something pretty close to what was described.
The upside of such an approach is that there is one central point of truth for everyone's info. Conversely, the downside is there's also one central point of failure.
This appears to be a way to gauge public reactions to different logo iterations, without actually committing to one. Smart.
How are you able to tell whether you've been hellbanned or not? Have I, for instance?
Heads up - I can't click any of the links in the header to learn about what Streak does.