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> Eclipse 3.x was a fast, native looking IDE

That is not how I recall it.

Rather than think of it as a feature that makes nationalization necessary, think of it like the center-left of the UK would:

Facebook's current shitshow is a market failure. Market failures can be addressed through nationalization. Ergo, Facebook should be nationalized.

It's not something I agree with, but that's the thought process distilled.

Of course no one "needs" Facebook. Or a cell phone. Or computers. Or coffee. But they're still of value.

The values of Facebook are varied. I'm a full-time traveler and it's easy to find an English-speaking Facebook group for any country I visit, which is of real value and note something I would otherwise find. Facebook is also useful for sharing photos with friends and family without necessarily sharing them with the world like you used to with Flickr or Smugmug.

Granted, there are other ways of having forums, or photo sharing, or anything else. But that misses the point. For whatever reason, Facebook became the de facto way to do certain things. And if you want to delete facebook, it's nice to have an alternative with some feasibility in reaching a critical mass.

In what respect is "tipping off" a crime? Is it a crime if, after seeing a speed trap, I flash my brights at the next motorist?

I'm not a lawyer, but unless there's a gag order, I don't think it's a crime to tell someone you're being raided by police, especially if that someone is your security or legal staff.

Assuming we're talking about product managers for software/app products:

I'd say the "junior product" position is probably a frontend developer. You're making a lot of small decisions developing a frontend, and you develop a taste for it. Once you have taste, you really start contributing to the overall thought behind the product. That's when you become a reasonable hire as product manager.

As for me? Well, I was hired as a product manager after being what amounted to a "full stack" developer for years and years at a small (still smallish) startup. Having said that, it really ended up being much more of a project management role than anything else.

I've had good experience with Fastmail.fm, moving for the same reason you did -- from gmail. It's an amazingly powerful system -- just check out the "advanced" configuration. As an added bonus, it has Dropbox integration, its own dropbox-like system, and a jabber server you can use for talk. The web interface is at least as good as gmail's; I would argue better.

Only downside: Even with a custom domain, you need a family/business plan to have jabber at your own domain instead of theirs.

So, to clarify...

socks=penis: funny

dongle=penis: ZOMG this is like LORD OF THE FLIES call the cops!

Link to primary source, not AppleInsider's regurgitation:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/10/net-us-apple-samsu...

The bad news for Microsoft isn't that Azure is down, it's that only a tiny number of people even noticed.

Yeah, and I noticed my paycheck arrived a day early.

GPL2 and GPL3 are compatible. You just can't make GPL2 derivatives of GPL3 software.

In terms of JavaScript, using it on a website almost certainly counts as distribution. Imagine if jquery were GPL.

I could see how the inclusion of BTFS in FreeBSD might promote free software, and its inclusion would not be prohibited by any version of the GPL.

But how does the use of GPL code in a proprietary project, as would be the case in your consulting example, benefit free software? The whole point of the GPL, any version, is to make sure that derivative work is itself free software. It's not that GPL "sounds good on paper" and in reality, it's totally different.

GPLv3 on paper: You can't use it to make proprietary software. You can't use it to take away users' freedom.

GPLv3 in reality: See above.