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> There exist plenty of genuine windows devs out there that use git, or devs that switch between OS'es for different tasks (myself included, I'd boot up windows to work on graphics/games)

Yes, but you probably shouldn't be running a code hosting platform on one of your developer workstations. I'm pretty sure it would work from a client point of view (it's still git after all), just that they won't support you running their web app on windows.

See also RhodeCode, which is more of a BitBucket clone (supports git & mercurial).

http://rhodecode.org/

If you are looking for something a bit different, there's also fossil.

http://www.fossil-scm.org/

Nope.

The vast majority of libraries won't work with the new Due, and some older shields (like expansion cards you put on top) won't either.

The ATMega based boards are cheaper & are easier to get hold of.

Additionally, the Cortex I/O is 3.3V, not 5V tolerant which makes it easier to accidentally fry.

It's exciting stuff for experienced arduino users who like the ecosystem, but if you really want it I'd wait perhaps another hardware revision so the hardware & software stuff is properly in shape. I've been using arduino since the early days and, trust me, you don't want to be the first one hitting obscure preprocessor/compile bugs. You will also be amazed at the amount of performance you can get out of the little ATMegas when you don't have operating systems sucking up all your cycles!

http://www.fzt.haw-hamburg.de/pers/Scholz/Airport2030/Airpor... reckons a ~10% efficiency increase, but the wing is twice as heavy!

Given current technology, airships are slow, and suck at handling high winds. Ballistic transport would cost a lot more fuel than current methods, as you need huge amounts of energy to escape gravity.

If you are going for crazy, why not use a nuclear reactor? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_X-6

Reducing lift-to-drag ratio (for sailplanes for example) boils down to increasing the aspect ratio (the ratio between the width of the wing and the wingspan) and selecting an airfoil with a high coefficient of lift over coefficient of drag (wings generate drag through flying, and the wings which generate the most lift aren't necessarily efficient, which is why planes have flaps).

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Drag.jpg for the different types of drag on an aircraft (the 'pushing stuff through the air' drag is called parasitic, and the 'side-effect of lift generation' drag is induced).

The problem is that by doing this, you increase the structural mass of the wing for a given lift as you need a longer wing. There is a point on the optimisation curve between increase in efficiency from AR & the increase in structural weight from longer wings. Boeing and Airbus have teams of people who do this stuff for a living.

There are also human factors involved, like airports being set up for a maximum wingspan, and people being unlikely to choose an airline with slower flights.

> you accuse someone of being sent by the company

> I work for to discredit you personally

If this refers to me, I was not attempting to discredit anyone.

I wanted to ensure people didn't think this was another "they store passwords in plain text because they don't know what a hash function is" stories we see every few days.

If you are interested in password security, why not write an article about Tesco?

That's a value judgement you have to make, similarly to using any service hosted by someone else.

1) Is the potential loss of privacy worth the advantages of the service?

2) Do you trust the company providing the service?

3) Could you do a more secure job of it than the company?

It's not a service I would personally use, but I have no reason to think the company providing the service doesn't know what they are doing.

> The app downloads your emails into their server.

They need to do that to back up the emails. The product may not be something you are interested in, but it doesn't mean the execution is flawed.

> Yes, they store that actual password. Which is ridiculous.

They have to in order to retrieve the emails. Blame the standards!

> Yes, good for them for that, but still there are others where they store passwords. And that is not acceptable.

See above

> But that also means that they outsource the security part of things.

> Which doesn't lend faith to the idea that they know about security.

> And if someone realises how to control their application, all the passwords will be hacked.

This isn't something with a black and white answer and I respect your opinion on this. I personally feel that they may know plenty about security and have decided that this is the most secure option. For example, I wouldn't write my own crypto, because I know enough about security to know how hard it is to do right.

I don't post on HN often, and forgot the username I used last time I posted. I don't work for them.

Personally, I don't see a strong use-case for the product and it wouldn't be something I'd be interested in.

If I did work for them, I would happily mention it in a post.

Wow, either the author has a serious grudge against them, or isn't willing to at least fact-check their response.

- The app checks your email on your behalf.

- You need the actual password to log into an IMAP server (android also stores your email passwords in clear text if you aren't using gmail http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=10809).

- They clearly state this in their response, which the article completely ignores. They try to use OAuth where possible.

- They store the passwords encrypted via S3. Personally, I'd prefer that to MySQL on a VPS somewhere.

- See also: https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/PlainTextPasswords