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Etsy does support rotations for engineers -- even our CEO does his share: https://twitter.com/chaddickerson/status/545313526626385920


This is what Trello organizations are designed for. An org is a collection of boards and a group of people, with permission control.

This is Fog Creek's org: https://trello.com/fogcreek

You'll just see our public boards, but we also have boards that are visible only to org members. Granting or restricting access to all of them is as simple as adding or removing a user. You can create and be a member of as many orgs as you want.


But that's not the issue. The problem is the inability to switch between identities without logging out and back in. Which is significantly harder on iOS than the desktop.

Not really a surprise. I'm having the same problem with a pile of services. The only thing I'm using that lets me switch easily is Gmail.

There was a post on here a month or so ago about a guy who lost his personal drop box because they do a bad job of understanding people have multiple personas.


Huh? That still means giving a personal account access to the org. (We use an org.) And also means that notifications etc would go to a personal email account, not a work one.

We use Google accounts for work and Trello. That means that disabling the Google account is sufficient to prevent logging in to Trello, which is a good thing.

It also means that none of us can practically use Trello for personal stuff.


The team wrote a blog post describing their tech stack last year: http://blog.fogcreek.com/the-trello-tech-stack/

The biggest change since then is that Trello now runs on AWS, rather than colocated servers in NYC. But the software is the same.


. . . and here's an example of an issue with scaling it up: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13770826/poorly-balanced-...


Shared file descriptors are bad mojo.


tl;dr: "different languages are appropriate for different uses"


or different habits, for that matter.


Fog Creek Software, New York, NY (on-site)

INTERNS

We're looking for interns to join the Trello, Kiln, and FogBugz dev teams here at the Creek in summer 2013. Our internship is paid ($5000/month) and includes private housing and awesome NYC experiences. You'll be working on shipping code alongside Fog Creek's fulltime developers. You will almost certainly not be required to carry buckets of diesel fuel.

Learn more and apply at http://www.fogcreek.com/Jobs/SummerIntern.html


Not interested, if I don't get a chance to carry some diesel! :-D


And we're back! All Fog Creek services are back on line. Our datacenter has enough fuel for several hours and is working on getting a delivery of more. We are hoping that Kiln, FogBugz, Trello, and all our services will remain up, though things are still a bit dicey.

The details are all here: http://status.fogcreek.com/2012/10/fog-creek-services-update...

Thanks everyone for your patience!


We've shut down all of our servers to protect data, except some of the outermost infrastructure and gateways. That 503 is coming from HAProxy, our load balancer -- it's unable to send your traffic to any of the (powered-down) servers.


Yes, we have multiple off-site backups (cloud as well as an offsite storage DC) for all customer data. All data is still safe in NYC -- we've just brought down service to prevent problems in case of an abrupt power failure.


We are beginning to bring down all Fog Creek services (FogBugz, Kiln, Trello, etc.) as our datacenter is shutting down.

fogcreekstatus.typepad.com and @fogcreekstatus on twitter will continue to have updates.

edit: All Fog Creek services have been shut down ahead of power failure. We'll update the status blog as we know more from our DC.


16 megapixels packed into a 1/2.3" sensor? Ouch. That's the smallest sensor size on this image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sensor_sizes_overlaid_ins...

I hope DPReview does a review on this camera -- I suspect it's going to produce extremely poor photos.


http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/digital-camera-se...

this page has a convenient calculator for diffraction limit of a sensor given it's MPix and dimensions. it shows that a 1/2" sensor with 16MPix becomes diffraction limited at f/2.7, so this slightly bigger one would be limited at around f/3. lens is specced at f/2.8-5.9. results out of anything more than the widest end might be less than spectacular...


>> I suspect it's going to produce extremely poor photos.

Relative to what? Compared to an SLR? Sony's RX100? The iPhone 4? Other 1/2.3" cameras?

Keep in mind that a 1/2.3" sensor is still significantly larger than something like, say the 1/3.2" sensor in the iPhone 4. Scaled to real-world image sizes (i.e. Facebook, etc.) the downsampled images will probably be good enough for most snapshots.


What's the point of 16MP if you're only concerned about scaling to Facebook?


What's the point of 16MP anyway? I've been very happy with my Nikon D40 shooting at 6BP.


There really isn't much of a point to 16MP, but seeing how the camera comes with it, and how people will practically use it (i.e. downsample), there's really nothing you can do but accept that it's there.


Exactly. Megapixels only really matter if you're doing photo-editing or photo-printing. If it's being down-scaled - and it is, if you are uploading it to whatever social media site - then a 5MP iPhone 4 camera will serve you just as well.


Well, except for the part where high density, low area sensors tend to have more noise and poorer sensitivity. If you were to assume that the iPhone and this device's sensors were the same size (they're probably not), then the iPhone's images would generally turn out better.


They also matter if you do a lot of "digital zoom". While I'm not a fan of digital zoom, people seem to use it.


But if you're not ready to make the smartphone/data-plan plunge, or your smartphone has a crap camera...


Yup, it's a real shame. Imagine if they made it 5 megapixels, with BSI and full well? You could still make 8x10 prints (if anyone still does that...), but you could also take photos of your friends in a dark bar with no flash at f4. It would be amazing. But no one is doing it, and I have no idea why. Even the SLRs are now up above 20 megapixels. Why? I'm really anxious to see if Apple has the balls to keep the next iPhone at 8, or if they bump it up to 13.


If you buy into the notion that the ideal sensor pixel size is around 6 microns, the megapixel count on a 1/2.3" sensor would only be around 0.8 megapixels.

On the other hand, I recall one of the leading sensor designers (Eric Fossum?) stating that high megapixel counts don't necessarily sacrifice image quality or sensitivity.


Because most consumers aren't well informed?


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