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ludooon Apple Developer Center still down

Given that iOS users worldwide are less than 1/3 of Android users, ignoring Gingerbread would still leave you with roughly double the userbase...

I completely agree with all your other points though. :)

ludooon Ubuntu 13.10 to ship with Mir instead of X

ludooon Git for the masses

Re: enterprise vc, I am still horrified whenever I think about the "diff tool" one of our top consultants from Big Blue used when coding in Java: copy code from IDE into Word, copy the Word file across systems, reverse the process...

As for what you guys are doing, it's fantastic and it was high time someone decided to tackle the problem. Another huge market opportunity is an editor tailored for writers (academia, fiction, etc), with vc embedded and an open format behind the scenes (HTML maybe).

ludooon Priced out of Paris

OMG a Le Corbusier nephew. Right, let's raze all historical cities, and build stell and glass cubes. And while we're at it, let's burn a few books and paintings too...

ludooon I Knew a Programmer Who Went Completely Insane

I knew a .* that went completely insane. Ok, so what?

ludooon The PyCon Incident

I totally agree. It was a private conversation, a maybe gross but not offending remark, it should have been treated as such. Most women I know here (Italy), if offended -- very ulikely -- would have risen to the occasion and destroyed the guy with a casual joke. :)

ludooon Inappropriate comments at pycon 2013 called out

In most EU countries she would have commited a serious penal offense.

ludooon Toshiba laptop service manuals and the sorry state of copyright law

That's why I've been buying Thinkpads for years and I will probably keep buying them: IBM's (now Lenovo) service manuals are public, and incredibly detailed.

Disassembling a Thinkpad is just a matter of following simple step-by-step instructions on a PDF. Thinkpads are also very well designed, with less screws and more accessible components than most other makers.