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I'm not saying this is because of energy independence.

It's just that the best way to put pressure on a country like Russia, is by affecting the GDP. Unfortunately for Russia this has proven pretty easy since a big chunk of the GDP comes from oil and gas.

Your theory sounds logical, and that action by OPEC would also seem logical.

... but the numbers suggest otherwise. The last few years there is no increase in production by OPEC countries: http://www.eia.gov/cfapps/ipdbproject/iedindex3.cfm?tid=5&pi...

To be honest Putin is correct, it are outside factors that are contributing to the decline. For example the US has drastically increased oil production the last few years[1] in order to drop oil prices. Around the end of 2011 oil production really went up, and tensions began to form between the countries. My guess is the US saw the approaching re-election[2] of Putin as a bad move and decided to take action.

Of course I'm not pointing fingers or blaming any side, it's just strange to see history is repeating itself all over again. The news about the NASA budget increase was no surprise for me anyway...

[1] http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=MC... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia–United_States_relations#...

Well, it's possible if you're somewhat interested in linux in general.

I'm a webdeveloper, mainly doing php, and I found a use case for php-fpm and systemd thanks to a blogpost of a friend. Its php-fpm pools ondemand, if you're interested I've written a blogpost about it here: http://thanatos.be/2014/04/12/php-fpm-ondemand.html

I guess It all depends on what your goal is or what you like achieving with your code, but imho systemd has some nice features for developers (and doing fun stuff in general). Also have a look at Joey Hess his blogpost about his systemd alarmclock: http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/a_programmable_alarm_clock_usin...

I had the same moral objections as you and I've been using btsync (http://www.bittorrent.com/sync) and must admit it works great. My archive is not that big tough, ymmv.

To be honest I won't use dropbox again, even if Rice quits, since btsync is vastly superior for my use cases.

I noticed that when using ghostery you can't do anything; clicking login doesn't do anything, neither does clicking sign up.

Well, pointing out what is wrong with systemd proves to be very easy for some people, but fixing the issues pointed out or even start building something different that doesn't have these flaws and still can innovate, is quite another story. There is definitely a lot of hate towards systemd (ignore the justified or not argument), but a complete lack of equally innovative alternatives.

Imho this is the semi-religious 'vim vs emacs' debate all over again, except this time it's not between equally good pieces of software but a 'systemd is garbage' group against the rest...

Aah, Ralph Brown's interrupt list, that takes me back a long time. I used to write assembler quite a lot when I was ~14year old. Now I'm a webdeveloper mainly doing php and some basic sysadmin stuff and it strikes me how far apart those things are. Assembler needs a different mindset and it's quite hard to get into it again.

The people at Google are really pushing for broad adoption of G+. If you think about it, it's pretty logical as they know Facebook is only going downhill and they are trying to get everybody onboard. The reaction I'm hearing a lot however, is they are being too pushy.

I've even had a few people who accidentally signed up for a G+ account ask me how to delete it because they kept receiving 'Top X posts on G+' mails without knowing what it is. I don't think a lot of good things come with this kind of tactic.

Well, to be honest, every setup has serious problems, it just depends how far you want it to go. 100% Secure doesn't exist and while it may look like bad service from your point of view, truth is I've seen other vps solutions do the same thing. The issue here is that people with experience in system administration change the default password and set up key based authentication and try not to rely on password management from others. It's a shame your box got hacked, but immediately jumping to the conclusion the whole of digitalocean has a root exploit in the wild is a bit much imho...

Too bad the author makes it sound like digitalocean has severe problems while his setup was clearly flawed. The really sad part is that this kind problem will unfortunately only grow as vps systems become cheaper and cheaper. People with less knowledge will set up their own stack and not think of the consequences... I wonder what hosting providers will come up with to tackle this problem.

Yes, a led that lights up does sound pretty suspicious to you and me, but if you don't know anything about computers and you see it on all the time it becomes natural. The same phenomena as clicking 'yes' and 'ok' buttons without reading anything.

I'm using a non-us keyboard layout and unfortunately that doesn't work...

I'm sticking with firefox for most of the same reasons as the author notes, but I do wish the mozilla team used some common sense when they think of new features.

A good example of the lack of common sense (imho) is the addon bar. Why do I want an extra bar with 2 or 3 icons? Most people will probably remember the status bar in browsers and they ditched that because it was not needed and you lost valuable screen estate. What was the best solution mozilla could come up with to handle the extension icons? An extra bar in the bottom of your browser. Just implement an omnibar already and put those things there...

If anyone from mozilla is reading this: you've done a great (GREAT!) job at making firefox faster and use less memory, and if you're ever in the neighbourhood I'll buy you a beer. Now please also start thinking about those little things that just don't make any sense.

Well, you always have time to change. Thinking you can't gets you into a negative spiral downwards, and to be honest is also false. When I was starting to run I talked with a 55year old guy who ran a marathon once a year about it being difficult for me to start since I didn't have any experience. He casually told me it was hard for him too when he started 5years ago. He never did any sports prior and had to start from scratch at 50... I realize now 'not being able to' is actually 99% of the time all in your head. Just find a way to start easy and keep going...

I said goodbye too recently. After dealing with slow performance, a lot of crashes and high memory usage on my machines I started looking around for other options. That also took care of the worries I had about the very questionable choices Ubuntu/Canonical made the last few years, but it's still quite sad to see it driving towards a cliff.

I have arch linux running now and while arch is not known for it's stability, I have far fewer applications crashing nowadays.

Whenever this issue pops up I always imagine Fabien Potencier (while he's no dictator, he has a very clear path) taking over the php source and change it according to his vision. Then I imagine going back to the first php script I ever wrote and how if I would have been able to create it with the changes. I can honestly say I can imagine it would have been a lot harder to do and there is a big chance that I would have given up because I can imagine him going into full OO mode. Don't think I don't like Fabien, for me personally his php version would probably be a lot better, but also a lot harder for new users.

This is one of the best things of php: it's easy enough for new developers and you can grow into the OO aspects of it. While I must admit I would also like a big cleanup to make the function names and arguments more uniform, I don't hope they change anything that makes it harder to begin with php or limit the possibilities to grow.

This is the difference between a regular company and a company with a great atmosphere. It might seem a waste to some people but building an atmosphere like this makes me want to work at github. And that's a very big advantage in the tech industry.

It's quite shocking how little you _have_ to give employees, but in the end people will not be very happy if you only care about the number of hours spend at the office and not about the person spending them there. Also; things like this are a great way to encourage your employees to think differently and get their creative juices flowing.

Just a minor point of criticism; require and include are statements, not functions. Not that it's a big deal or something, but I just thought I would let you know.

Most of the comments seem so negative... When I was 16 I was also interested in OS development and actually wrote a bootsector, a very small kernel and support for fat12 in assembler. Previous experience? Basic and QBasic. It's quite a good way to learn and it is possible when you take one step at a time and are willing to spend some time reading... Your mind is a great tool, have some faith in it.

The most interesting fact for this swing is that it's not only software that is changing...

As noted in the article: if you wanted a computer in the old days, you put it together yourself. That changed and putting together a new computer yourself is unimaginable (I'm not speaking about assembly of components, but soldering the whole thing). Recently cheap(er) 3D printing, Arduino and the Raspberry Pi put hardware on the table again and I think very interesting times are coming. Think about it, even 2 or 3 years ago 'innovation' on the internet was synonym with software, now it's changing again to hard- and software.

My first thoughts:

+ nice website

+ app in the screenshot looks nice

? does it show up in the menubar or...? (maybe add a couple of screenshots)

- I can't try before I buy (yes, I've read the 30days/money back but it's still a barrier for most people)

Very nice, my initial impression was this is a service I want to use and I hope people will use.

The only problem I see is signup with facebook, to be perfectly honest that's the reason you don't have a user extra (mine). While I do understand the choice, I think you should provide an alternative signup option.

It's also a bit unclear how much I get to keep when a user pays 25cents and how/when the money will reach me, if I would be implementing minno as a payment option I'd like to know...

As an Ubuntu user since day one I don't like the way the distro is going. As some other users said before, the UI is not that great and lately I've seen ridiculous 'fixes' for bad decisions. For example: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/notify-osd/+bug/46...

This is seen as a feature, it's basically a top right growl style notification bubble, but they added an 100px top offset so it wouldn't interfere with other applications. Why? Because the user can not click the notifications away, they have a delay and waiting is the only way to remove those bubbles. This has to be one of the worst decisions ever. Look at growl/OSX, it works. In this case it's fine to copy a feature and not try to be different.

Another thing I absolutely don't understand is all the media/audio frameworks there have been since 4.10 (not really an Ubuntu only problem), why not stick with one that just works? IMHO, Ubuntu should experiment all they want with unity, notify-osd, placing window buttons to the left, ... but please, just provide a basic install option that just works without all the fancy new stuff (that is probably thrown out soon anyway because something else comes up).

Just make it work. Steve Jobs seems to be able to impose decisions on a large group of people, but he also seems to have thought about most things really really well. Lately Ubuntu seems to adopt everything as long as it doesn't look like something everybody else has.

Sorry if I'm ranting, but as an Ubuntu lover the last few years have been a serious disappointment.

I hope they do change their general approach and not just the update mechanism. I have been using chrome for a couple of months now and just switched back to firefox to see what the evolution is during my time 'away'.

It's quite a mess, from my point of view... As a webdeveloper the browser is my toolbox and while I do find firebug superior to the chrome development tools, the other things that caught my attention where not so positive... It feels sluggisch, was using 1.3gig of memory with 6tabs open and crashes frequently. But I do admit it feels like coming home a bit so I'm sticking with it and hoping things will be better in the future. I just hope this will end well for firefox.

If not they can always start developing another lean and fast new browser that will rock our worlds and gain populairy fast and change names a few times... (anyone remember phoenix and firebird?)

They where having some issues with their billing pages it said for some time. You can always email them and ask to keep you updated when you can place an order again. Even tough they seem to cut costs by not having a regular helpdesk, they are very fast responders and seem to know their bussiness very well.

I'm a new customer of their service and very happy with the price/quality, but you do have to have a technical background.

Try to look at it this way: You're a user and your resume/suspend on your laptop doesn't work, you file a bug report and are mad it wasn't fixed ASAP. If I was a sysadmin and there was a bug in Ubuntu that would crash apache every 3 nights, I would file a bug report and be mad if it wasn't fixed ASAP. If I was a designer and I found the colors on the screen where totally off, I would file a bug report and be mad if it wasn't fixed ASAP.

I hope you see the point.

Everybody's problem is 'critical', but you just have to accept it doesn't work that way. Everything depends on context, but please think a moment about this: resources are limited, time is precious and getting 'fed up with things' rarely helps. Want to change things? Feel free to look at other issues and see if you find a solution, if you do, fix it and be part of the people who change stuff for the better.

I use dropbox and LAMP together to 'distribute' small projects.

Basically I install dropbox on a linux box, and use apache's mod_vhost_alias to automatically map incoming requests to the correct folder. Most of the time I use sqlite as DB storage so the file stays in the dropbox folder.

When I want to put changes online I just copy/paste the files. Of course this is no way of working when you have bigger sites or sites that have a lot of db changes, but when you get there you better find more suitable hosting then the one I have anyway.

I like this way because the dropbox folder is synced with my netbook and macbook as well, so my setup is quite portable!

It's unbelievable how broken online RTE's are. I'm building websites for quite some time now and I never figured out why browser makers are neglecting such a basic feature, it should not be that hard to implement a basic RTE.

It's nice to see Google is trying to do something about it and making it easier to implement an RTE with projects like this, but it would be nicer if they would push other browser builders to standardise.

It's true in some cases the name of the product is far less important, but in my point of view it's only true for more or less traditional products and doesn't apply to new, innovative products (and even then).

Some people may like to push a product without giving proper tought to the name/branding but I'm sure it will decrease their chances of success, maybe not a lot, but still. As I see it, today everything is getting more and more connected, a product without a twitter account or facebook page is possible, but imho you're missing out on a great chance to market your product.

After you're done with development, it's getting users/attention that counts, and as it's already pretty hard to do that it's best you take every chance you get, even if it's not much.