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There is also a dev-channel. Your installation is on the edge and with automatic updates so you don't have to manually check for nightly builds.

Link: http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel

Django at DISQUS.

IBM as a market leader, that missed the moment, Apple as, well, Apple—company that released cool Macintosh computer—and Microsoft, as a company who started by writing software for Macs (i.e. BASIC version for Mac) but eventually released their own OS.

And Microsoft was the winner at the time.

I wonder if the story Mac vs. PC will be all over again but in different market. We have one company with new, sexy and revolutionary device, we have another company—the market leader—that missed the moment and we have the third company that started by writing software for the sexy device and eventually released their own operating system: definitely not as polished but open so any number of hardware-oriented companies can release their devices with this new OS.

The weird thing is that the article was not behind a pay wall when I posted it.

It looks like the phone Google gave us on the I/O '09.

You may find interesting a web frameworks discussion started by Guido: http://www.artima.com/forums/threaded.jsp?forum=106&thre...

At work we use Django and somewhat happy with it. In past I used to use web.py and I liked it.

There is a very interesting book Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku (http://www.amazon.com/Physics-Impossible-Scientific-Explorat...). It is exactly about those questions.

Truth to tell, those complaints are mostly valid. However, you can always bring the second (third, fourth, etc.) battery with you.

I don't personally need open source blogging or news aggregator software. And that is why I use blogger, google reader, etc.

But I do need Django, I do need libraries like ipaddr.py from Google, I do need Linux kernel, I do need Webkit. One by one the majority of those libraries don't solve big problems. But combined they do.

And as for developers, they can stop worrying that somebody will take their open source code and clone their major project and start releasing chunks of code that is actually interesting. Let's be clear, most of the code is pretty much the same everywhere and is not interesting.

Just drop off.

I've solved that problem for me by configuring rawdog RSS reader. Now, it checks for update and generates a static HTML page. (if you are interested, here is the link: http://anton.kovalyov.net/tools/feeds/)

So I don't have to visit a website just to make sure that there are no updates and I also don't have to use some big RSS reader with a lot of unnecessary things (ajax, tags, stars, share with friend, etc.)

It depends. Unfortunately, we have a huge gap between poor people and those of us who can afford a little bit more.

So 2c per message is cheap and SMS is quite popular here. However, it is still cheaper to call than to have an SMS chat because, for example, I pay 2c per minute for both outgoing and incoming calls.

If you are interested, here is an information page from our biggest operator: http://www.mts.uz/eng/abonents/tarifs/

(I use another company but its website has no english version)

For comparison: in Uzbekistan, outgoing SMS message costs 2c and all incoming messages are free.

Grandfather paradox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfather_paradox

Opera for web browsing and Firefox 2 (with FireBug and Venkman, of course) for development tasks. Also, I have three virtual machines with FF3, IE6 and IE7 installed for testing.

But I am thinking about switching from second version of Firefox to the third for dev tasks. I just did not test FireBug there and have no idea about its reliability on that version.

And for sure, I will switch one of my virtual OSes from IE7 to IE8 after its next beta because it's IE7/IE8 rendering modes support will make possible to test webapps for both versions.