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They don't have anything to be asked, since they're bankrupt.

I can't agree with your last sentence. We've all had the profits of having banks providing liquidity (common, all that Russian money into the Cyprian economy has been great for all of Cyprus). Now that system has failed and the big guys aka the banks are just as clueless as the little guys.

Do we need to rethink how our economy works? Yes. Do we need to help Cyprus, Italy, Spain? Yes. Partially because it is in out best (Dutch) interests, but also because they are European brethren. Is it okay to ask the locals for a sacrifice themselves? Yes.

I know I'm living in one of the richest countries in the world. I don't mind helping another country. I understand that losing 6.75% of your savings hurts.

So what do you propose? We sit back and do nothing?

We're helping them and meeting our obligations. In what way are we punishing them? Yeah, it's not nice to lose 6.75% of what you have in savings (the 9.9% is only for those who have more than 100.000 euro in their bank account), but the alternative would be much worse for the Cyprians.

[edit] And yeah, this is a very crude way to raise the money. Given more time, a better way is probably possible. But I think time is at a premium now.

>> In case that you have not realized it, you are not paying any money.

O yes I am. I'm paying taxes here to keep your economy afloat. I don't mind that, but I'm not going to respond all of the rest you posted.

To quote the article: "This is why The IMF and the ECB has stepped in and bailed out the banks. Rumor has it that without the bailout Cyprus two largest banks would be bankrupt in a matter of days. A situation no economy can survive, especially not one with a disproportionally large banking sector."

I don't see the problem to be honest. We (I live in the Netherlands) are paying a lot of money to help them out, which is okay. But yeah we're asking the inhabitants of Cyprus for a sacrifice too. The 10% tax is a very crude way to implement this, but dire times need dire actions.

Best java ide out there imho.

Hmmm, after years of editing HTML and having lots of shortcuts in my muscle memory maybe I forgot that, so yeah that is a valid use case.

Looks nice, but why would I choose this over handlebars? Don't wanna sound negative but it looks like just another layer of indirection...

I've worked at a lot of for profit business (not banks though, i can understand that in those kind of business requirements are diferrent) and made live database updates in all of them. In 99% of the cases all goes well and in the remaining 1% you need to revert to your backup (always make backups before doing anything!) and have a couple of minutes of downtime.

It really depends on what kind of business you're in whether this is acceptable or not.

Pivotal: Horrible, abysmal tool. Hate it with a passion. No clear overview at all, UI is full of shiny colors but is messy as hell. I'm really glad we've switched to Jira[1] after fighting with pivotal for a couple of months. YMMV ofcourse :)

[1] http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/overview

> And with Stalin/Hitler, you'd also have to look at the neighboring historical eras. For all you know Germany historically was also very non-corrupt. (not a challenge, if you do know, please speak!)

Doesn't matter, this still refutes the original statement.

I just donated some euro's, and I truely believe those euro's will be well spend. But it feels wierd (and somehow wrong) to crowdfund someone's health. I'm not questioning watsi, they are in it for the right reasons. But is crowdfunding something important as health for poor people the solution?

I think everyone is trying to do good here, but nobody is solving the real problems.

Why not?

Hmmmm. Dunno. If you have baisc experience and a proper grasp of programming and live in the westeren world, you might not know beforehand if an employer had humor, but you can still choose your employer.

Well, then those people have no sense of humor. When people don't have any sense of humor, I'd rather not work with them.

So I'm not seeing any problem here.

But compared to notebooks, laptops, tablets and smartphones server will always remain a small market.

You mean the template pattern as described in GOF? Very nice nice and underused pattern, but sometimes it is better to use some event based system as mentioned in the article and sometimes it is better to just be rude and overwrite a method (very nice metaphore BTW).

More "traditional" OO like C++ or Java let the developer choose. The "traditional" way gives you more flexibility and more ways to shoot yourself in your foot.

In the long run, this is not a viable business model. Servers might get cheaper every day, but you're still going to have to pay for them every month your service is up and running.

I don't know where you live, but here in the Netherlands everybody is using it...

None of this will work in IE7, IE8, IE9 or IE10. This will transform absolutely nothing on the web for many years to come.

I can understand people getting hyped up about cool new tech like this, but the article has way too much hyperbole to take any of it seriously.

I didn't say it was working great in Bay Area, the person I responded to did... But apparently even that is not true.

Newsflash: A lot of people live in rural England, rural Ontario and Rural Holland. Besides, it can't find places like central station in Amsterdam (hardly rural). I don't care whether it's the app or the data, I don't care that it's working great in the bay area. What I do care about is that I had a perfectly working mapping solution, and now I have a second class thing that's just not working. I don't know about you, but IMHO having wrong directions is even worse than having no directions.

So they spent a lot of money and didn't change the overall outcome? Doesn't sound effective in any way to me.

Am I the only one seeing some kind of horrible speech-to-text subtitles that are really missing the point?

I think that we are entirely different types of developers (and that is fine, this is in no way meant as as being negative on the way you work), but I couldn't care less about the first 3 points you mention. They don't add anything to my productivity.

I do wonder though, if visual attraction is such an issue to you, why in the first place do you use Vim?

If the market would have acted rationally, FB would never have IPO'd at 38 per share given their profits. Being valued at 105 billion dollar when your profit is only around 1 billion a year is insane, especially when you also account for the highly volatile nature of social networking (FB might be replaced by something we've never heard about in a couple of years)

If every large IT project would be regarded as failed because it was delivered late, the chances of a successfull project would approach zero.

Makes me feel very small.

Even though I agree with your statement, do you truly believe that if a GUI had presented the options Yes/No/Cancel/Force or whatever, that less people would have suffered from issues like this? I probably would have used that --force flag on a non production system and a GUI would even make that decision more easy for me...