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> They seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding in that they (apparently) believe their problem in the market is price when it's actually something much more basic: trust.

Trust is not the issue. Google wants to sell "management" while AWS (et al) are selling raw resources. To use Google Cloud you have to change or build your system for it, using new APIs, configuration systems, other managed services and even programming languages. Todays announcement was: you can have raw VM control with our management too! I don't see it being any easier now (even MORE options!) but I think they're on the right track. They need to make it simpler rather than cheaper.

Ximarin exposed native phone options in C#. They didn't make a compatibility layer to ease development. As you said, build your UI twice, then get native tools to compile. Now with Windows Phone we'll either have three UIs to build, or a generic abstraction layer (that Apple will reject.)

Unity would have to fork Mono, as would Gnome and Canonical and Redhat, etc... The comments here seem very trusting of Microsoft. If it was Oracle a fork would be a given.

Apparently having _no liability_ is no longer enough and we need to call stock holders victims.

Having this for Monodevelop and Unity3d would be great. Even better if we have community curated suggestions.

Yes, for the same reasons that Credit Unions are better than Banks. Watching out for the customer, in a principled way, is a great selling point. But it would also need to be stable, for the long term, which means profitable and large enough to survive the bad times.

DNS + simple hosting + support, is an ideal market for a non-profit focused on free speech and democratic participation.

Use the website the college has provided. This isn't about your convenience or technical judgement (about a system you don't maintain). It's about the students and the rest of the college.

That said, encrypt the each grade with a key derived from the students ID (which is privileged information) and make a webpage to do the decryption for the students. SHA256 ( ID + Salt ) == Key for symmetric encryption.

--former IT college staffer

Distributions include src packages separate from compiled code, so why couldn't the Apple Store (or any store) do that? This isn't a legal issue; Google allows GPL code on it's app store.

Complaint<generics>("write a bunch of extra boilerplate functions in order to sort a list");

Why aren't you asking for read-receipts if that's what's desired? If it's because people wouldn't send them, shouldn't that be their choice?

Interesting that this type of story has the opposite effect from old to new media. In the past only one side of the story would be promoted, no discussion. Now this type story commonly appears in discussions as a foil or straw-man, with facts and reasoning that clearly show the opposing view is right.

This has been asked and answered many ways over the last decade: large wealthy companies are protected, individual TOR users are not. If you doubt this, consider which group operates in the open and which pins its hopes on anonymity and not getting caught.

US supreme court finalizes gift of immunity to the telecom giants http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/oct/10/supreme...

Tor operator charged for child porn transmitted over his servers http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/tor-operator-char...

Or just a single transaction with synchronous_commit!

> Specifies whether transaction commit will wait for WAL records to be written to disk before the command returns a "success" indication to the client.

> This parameter can be changed at any time; the behavior for any one transaction is determined by the setting in effect when it commits.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/runtime-config-wal...

> I would love to run mono in production, it's just so slow and buggy that this isn't possible.

Is that the general opinion? I've never seen a consensus on mono for MVC.

It's less informative to say 'Power is its own end' than to explain why people try to acquire power, what they do with it, and what they do to keep it. Since we're doing quotes:

"As if giving grounds did not come to an end sometime. But the end is not an ungrounded presupposition: it is an ungrounded way of acting."

Themes should be a collection of template/css/whatever files that can be unzipped to the right location and used by Hugo. That would need standards for the file types and directory structure, config settings for which themes to use, or which parts of the theme to use.

I was thinking about a WordPress replacement in Golang. WordPress themes can be zipped and shared as a bundle, which has made a large variety of themes freely available.

This looks great, nice work! A few things I'd recommend for the future:

- Theme plugins; text based as input to Hugo, not golang packages that would have to be compiled.

- Editor integration so others can make a WordPress-style site editor. Just conventions about layout, I think?

We should add query parameters onto RSS requests, and gradually upgrade while remaining backwards compatible. Create clients and server features that are compelling enough, and people will update their server code.

Abortion protesters used to write down the license plates... just some publicly available meta-data, right?

Bernard: But surely the citizens of a democracy have a right to know.

Sir Humphrey Appleby: No. They have a right to be ignorant. Knowledge only means complicity in guilt; ignorance has a certain dignity.

What's more important is that Microsoft can, like Darth Vader, alter the deal.

They haven't been clear, but even if they were clear, the "facts" of how it works will remain uncertain, simply because it's remote controlled DRM and that's what DRM does.

The golang website supports other versions; to see the docs for tip go to http://tip.golang.org/