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That's an awesome idea, great work! I'm curious, any legal/copyright issues with making replacement products for existing IP?

That is the distinction that makes a 401k not a pension, in the traditional sense. The term "pension" implies something that is paid our after a worker leaves the company, rather than during their tenure.

The problem here is pensions that require future payout over an indeterminate length of time.

As soon as I saw it, I couldn't think of anything else...

Looks good! I've had DroidParts on my Stack O' Potential Coolness (TM) for a while, and it keeps sliding down - I think I'll bump it back to the top of the stack.

Even on the first intro page, I saw a bunch of crud I've written a dozen times code simplified.

That only half solves the problem. A lot of shops that want self-hosted literally want to host it themselves, to keep data in their datacenters. if you built something deployable to EC2, you could make sure it works on a local Eucalyptus/OpenStack deployment or something. Or you could try to build for OpenShift and tell clients them have to have their own OpenShift cloud. But there's no real easy solution.

I'd love to see your framework optimization index. Honestly, all of this would be a wonderful thing to automate and put in a web app - a readily-accessible, up-to-date measure of the current performance of the state of the art in languages and frameworks. I bet it would really change some of the technology choices made.

OpenShift (https://www.openshift.com/) is a PaaS, made by RedHat. OpenStack (http://www.openstack.org/) is an IaaS cloud platform, maintained as an open source offering by Rackspace, and originally created by a partnership between NASA and Rackspace.

OpenShift could theoretically run in an OpenStack cloud, as just about anything could, but the two products are in no way related to my knowledge.

And how do they plan on enforcing that?

Neat idea, but FYI the web version doesn't seem to work in Chrome.

> 3. Scaling remote working. No organisation seems to effectgively scale past the dunbar number - communication and collaboration drops alarmingly. (Its not intra-group comms that drops, its the inter-group comms.)

Do you have any data on this? What about organizations like Canonical who are almost all full remote workers? Surely Canonical cannot have less than 150 workers.

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Dev team looking for:

* A Frontend Web Developer

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* A Dev with some linux kernel Fu

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Things that are helpful:

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We currently have projects in Python/Django, Java/Spring, .NET, C++, and have a little Node sprinkled in. Always something new to learn, so you have to love the game. It's a great crew to work with - we have some really smart devs here. We're at a university, so its a pretty comfortable, academic environment - and ideal if you are interested in going back to school for a graduate degree. Our active development projects take more than two hands to count, so multitasking is necessary, but its hard to become bored.

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I think this is a great idea - making people aware of this assault on rights is the best possible course of action, at this point

Geddy (http://geddyjs.org/) also looks promising. MVC, generators, etc - RoR-ish. Haven't done more than play around with it, but it seems fairly comfortable. That said, also young and light on docs right now (though they have a decent intro tutorial).

So "RealComputerScience(TM)", then?

I refrained from audible laughter until:

"Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy, but I rewrote your bloom hashes, so merge me, maybe?"

Fun times were had by all.

Ya, I thought that was interesting too. You can basically tell which benchmarks are used as internal metrics by each dev team (which makes sense, since Google and Mozilla created their own benchmarks), but I wonder how much they look at performance in the others as well.

"it has to take into account the major design elements on a web page and make intelligent choices based on the user's tap target"

That's fine, so patent the _specific algorithm_ used to make that decision. Implementations are fine to patent, IMHO. Broad concepts, such as "it should zoom in when I tap twice" are not.

Nothing against learning new things, but why defend user interfaces or workflows that are needlessly complex or unintuitive? DCVS is certainly a significant advance over centralized VCS, but that doesn't mean Git couldn't be made significantly more accessible. More readable documentation alone would have made learning git a great deal easier for me.

Security cameras are not immediately posted on YouTube. People have become nonchalant about recording others and disseminating the footage, it'll be even weirder if you can't see that they have a camera. How would you ever be able to drop your guard?

This is a very good point, just beyond the level I have gone to with these tutorials thus far. When I first considered an example app, to do it "right" was a fairly large project that wasn't easily digestible in tutorial form. This is a limitation I plan to address in the future, though the whole progression of adding more and more code to take care of such things underscores the need for more comprehensive development frameworks for android.

I'm hoping to move towards using one of the better frameworks like DroidFu soon, and hopefully I will get most of this sort of functionality for free. If not, at least I can help contribute some code to the cause.