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Of course they do. In the sense that a smartphone app competes with a printed book.

While they are completely different things, for many users in many circumstances they are substitutes.

I worked for a startup that got into the rackspace program and had several thousand $/month free in rackspace services. The same amount of raw power on DO would have cost 200$/month, but a couple of 20$/month DO VMs would have been ample.

And for prototyping you usually don't need anything more sophisticated than a VM (or a free heroku account for that matter ...)

Sorry guys, but there is no excuse not to use https at this day and age. No SSL no dice.

Other than that I'd be super interested in your site :)

While these incidents are tragic, two incidents in the span 50 years of passenger aviation since WW2 don't seem like a big problem.

More people have been killed by lunatics while going to church without churches imposing a security theatre on attendees.

Very often ZIP code is used as alias for postal code even in international context. I see "zip code" more often than "postal code" on international address forms.

I like these projects to get more children interested in hacking!

That is not true.

If you expose an service based on AGPL licensed service, you have to make the source code available to the services that use it.

For example you could modify WordPress (which is GPL licensed), put it on your server and let it serve pages without providing your modified source code to anyone.

If WordPress was AGPL licensed you would have to provide your modified source code to anyone using the system.

This also effects services that use libraries that are AGPL licensed (like newer versions of iText), but not services, that use other services.

The point is AGPL only adds that if you consume it over the network, you have the right to the source code. If you use it as a network service, for your webapp, your webapp is the consumer.

MongoDB has the same licensing model, and nobody sued Foursquare for the source code, so I guess this is legally tested ;)

And you know what:

That would be absolutely fine.

It would create a huge incentive for companies to develop at least parts of their software as open source. Think of how much reinventions of the wheel we could avoid if run of the mill components for companies would be in the open.

The IBM case is unrealistic because IBM would still need to make profits for it's shareholders. If IBM was to transform into a huge non for profit that uses consultants' fees to develop open source software (think of open source Watson), That would definitely a net plus for society that would outweigh the loss of double dutch diminished corporate taxes by several orders of magnitude.

You are right, I should not have used many but the nondescript "some". However my argument that this problem would be lessened by decriminalization does not depend on a specific percentage.

> turning sex into a commodity has real implications for the status of women in society as a whole

In a society in which a hefty part of the male population thinks that buying a woman drinks or even dinner entitles them to have a happy ending, this statement is very cynical.

Au contraire, I think that allowing people to pay for sex might actually de-blur some lines here. If you want quick sex for money go to a prostitute. If you want companionship that at some point get intimate enough to end in sex, date someone. If you buy someone dinner do that because you want to and not with an implicit expectation of getting something in return. Jeez.

There is the troubling fact that many prostitutes are not in the business of their own free will. Of course if you analyze the incentives and option of everybody involved, it is clear that the criminalization of it compounds the problem.

What puzzles me immensely is that in progressive countries like Sweden the push against prostitution is almost worse (although with the angle that the buyers are criminalized), and that feminist women don't see that decriminalization would have a mostly empowering fact for the prostitutes (who are mostly female).

I can see that it is an icky subject for many and how people who fight against the objectification of women might fall in the trap of thinking that selling your time for a fee might contribute to that.

However pimping out my brain for trying to make people spend their money on ingame purchases is way ickier to me.

Don't change the airframe and the engines at the same time ;)

You might want to have something as a grid with three columns on the desktop but as full width boxes on a phone.

Then using another size as xs let's you define the grid for bigger sreens while on small screens the content is just stacked vertically.

How do you argue that running a TOR exit node is not compatible with Austrian law while running an ISP is?

A couple of questions:

- Where do you plan to place the infrastructure of the cooperative?

- What is your expected timeline to issue Browser accepted certificates?

- Are you planning to provide an API for signing CSRs?

I am currently working on a solution for self hosted messaging and file synchronization, and your project would complement our efforts to give people the possibility to self-host securely.

I don't like borders. Maybe it is because I come from a small country (of almost exactly the blessed size mentioned in the article) and perceived borders mostly as an impediment to exploring the world.

In my opinion the one great thing the European Union brought to us is to tear down these pesky border stations where people insist on checking your passport and exact medieval tolls on goods that are transported a few miles just because the few miles cross a mostly imagined line.

However borders can be removed by implosion, too. If you assign more and more rights to smaller and smaller units borders will get less and less important.

The Seven Kingdoms of Anglia will probably join the Schengen treaty as they don't have a common big external border to protect.

That way we get all benefits: Decisions are made closer at the people and the number of borders that impede our movements will be reduced.

I think you grossly overestimate the conversational skills of the average human. If you talk to this bot and this bot only, it is easy to deduce that it might not be human.

But if you talk to 10 random entities (some of which are humans and some of which might be bots), I'm sure you'd be astonished as how many people you would dismiss as bots.

There is one major reason why PHP is so popular:

The step from HTML only to a slightly enhanced webpage with dynamic elements is easier than with any other language (JS included).

Combine that with the simplicity of mod_apache (that is available on almost every web host) and it is the easiest way into programming.

Create a mod_[ruby|python] that just evaluates ERB/Jinja templates and is as simple to integrate into apache and you might be able to do something good.

Both, I guess ;)

But it is easier to switch to Heroku for the IBM customer than to become Heroku for IBM. I wouldn't bet on IBM.

I recently was told a story by an internal developer who works for a company that outsourced their IT infrastructure to IBM.

Their deployment process for a business critical java application is as follows:

- Someone calls IBM to alert the person (resource) responsible that they want to do a new deployment. If this person is sick or on vacation, try again later.

- Then they send over a jar file with the compiled application.

- The responsible person copies the jar file to the appropriate location and restarts the server.

I rest my case.

What's the technology stack? Would there be a way to persuade you to opensource it?

Well the threat model would rather be that Google is forced to serve a version of JavaScript to you that leaks your private key. Which is a concern and a reason why you should rather use a self hosted email client like Mailpile.

If you are concerned about someone hijacking the gmail session you have lost anyway, as the decrypted (or not-yet-encrypted) text surely has to hit the dom at some point.

This is really great news. But even better would it be if they'd incorporate it directly in gmail with a polished user interface.

Sad but the brain tumour could still be the reason for his behaviour.

We don't know nearly enough about the brain to argue that the removal must restore the previous personality.

I'm anxiously waiting for it to come to DigitalOcean. But the momentum they built now seems to be really strong.

I don't think risking url rendered as unicode boxes justifies the reduction of the url by 2 or 3 characters.

Nice proof of concept though.

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It might be just me but I'm really annoyed by sites that do not have a easily discoverable pricing page. I would probably take a look at the product if you tell me what paid plan you offer.

Without this information I don't bother.

I'd love this as my primary monitor for work. Finally the perfect Monitor for a tiling window manager.

Try http://substance.io/composer/