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All European government websites are also built on Drupal.

It has become the defacto standard. Unfortunately, because it's a big mess indeed.

Right, I mean there is something dubious too all this. Both Microsoft and Facebook did and are actually practicing enough shady business tactics. Internet explorer, tax evasion, privacy issues, you name it, they are all guilty of this kind of stuff. But then now, we should glorify them once they give away the money they earned this way.

It's not that he made Office overpriced, just to eradicate polio.

I've been going through the same motions. You end up with Thinkpads as the only viable alternative (esp with the numeric keyboards, which I like); but once if you get decent specs, they become as pricey as mbp's, plus there is the lottery of quality you randomly get. I'll wait a month, see if Apple does an event.

I wonder why, all these billionaires first want to make billions, and then do philanthropy. How about making their services/business/products more affordable with which they are making all this money with in the first place?

For example: MS Office used to cost 4-500 euro for the average home user a few years ago. That was ridiculous.

If you have a small shop and 2000 Facebook page likes, Facebook rips you off each time you want to reach them.

Maybe market dictates these prices but then again, they would be in the position to dictate the prices in the first place.

MultiEdit DOS version was a great tool indeed. looking at the activity of their forum, things are not very lively.

Right, the war efficiency and quality car production sure created this stereotypes. It is quite amusing when you see how poorly things are ran in Germany irl. Like road works taking 10 years. Or the Berlin Airport debacle, which can teach Italian Mafia a lesson or two:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Brandenburg_Airport

And also: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36185194

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Acquiring wealth is certainly a crucial attribute on making a city "livable", and it's completely left out here.

Just because ISIS mentions a cities name, does not really mean it makes the city less livable. This article isn't Economist worthy.

Ok, just a FaceTime clone. When Apple added it to iOS it seemed redudant initially (because of Skype etc), but now everyone is using it all the time, because it's phone number based: It's a success.

So the real question is, if they wanted to make this, what the hell took them so long?

It really smells like a mistake, and catch-up, almost pitiful at this point.

All this attention to "self driving cars" makes news look pretty poor. It'll take years for them to become reliable.

Theoretically, that makes sense. But I'm pretty sure you didn't try to customize one of these themes, if you write that. So..

The only truth about Wordpress being so successful is its theme availability. Envato can for sure be responsible partially for its success.

It's not that Wordpress is good, or great or that much extensible. One could easily look for ExpressionEngine or Craft, if that would be the case.

But if you want a 1-click install, plus slap a 50$ theme on it, and your stuff to look pretty good, Wordpress is a viable solution.

However, if you want to customise stuff yourself, things become really dreadful very quickly. Anyone saying otherwise, hasn't done so.

All the other stuff, about any of its "goodness" as addressed here in the article, is basically the author doesn't knowing any better, what a real CMS is supposed to do.

Apple in 2 years

Most of it seems far-fetched and conspiracy theorylike. Also, it seems this is the only topic this blogger is writing about? Talk about a niche.

Would I be able to run Sublime there?

It would be nice to see some stats from more vpn providers since Netflix started blocking efficiently.

Would be good to add some of these typical code samples on that page. Good vs bad.

And crappy documentation, too.

I wonder how coders can work on any 15 inch laptop in the first place.

I wonder how much theyll charge with their gnip rip-off company for us to query these long tweets.

Anyone Remember Neonem on Windows? Well, that was really good for organising personal info in a structured way. Discussion here seems too broad: comparing Evernote (which is basically losely structured), wiki's etc to real classic outliners that once were thriving on Windows in he old days but kind of have of have been forgotten the past years. If you search for "outliner" you'll find some good all abandoned Windows projects.

Interesting, right didn't think of that. Any services you recommend?

Isn't this phone verification for all new accounts anyway these days? Regardless of your ip/tor/vpn? For sure it is when you want to get an api key - boohoo.

Hmm, very interesting, someone should summarize this, put things into context. Would be a great book.

Twice? Well....

Yeah great game. Wonder how much nostalgia is part of my mindfak.

right but also, one thing to remember is, an old domainname; depends on the extension, but some of them were not cheap as in these days. maybe it was my inexperience, but I have some domains I paid 50$ for back in the days/year. so, in 10 years time you get to the point of: should I let it go, or am I already too deep in? But letting it go for $100, well, just would be a big loss. In that regard, letting it go for say 100-200, for an old domain, is just breaking even or even making a loss. though it's likely not to be perceived like that. some of us are just too deep in, and just would like to break even..

I've also been sitting on a bunch of domainnames; all with the interest of "maybe some day" projects. One can hardly call that cybersquatting. It is, however very frustrating these days, .com is still king and for example I had whole dictionaries running for my keyword*.com -- and surprisingly enough, even the most insane combinations were taken. Ofcourse, selling a premium domain once in a while for 15k, makes it possible to hog 100's of other domains. Regardless of this frustrating setup, as it is now, I still prefer it over some kind of regulated way where people can just steal away your side-project's old domainname, just because they trademarked it. It's the wild west, yes for sure, but often, still it's better then an over-regulated state.

Yeah, I didn't mean you were in the real of spam, neither was I. But you were addressing "Chomp" update, hurting your sales, no idea what "Chomp" was but with simple websites it happened the same, Google "improved" their search, but while also hurting bonafide smaller websites, just seeing them as collateral damage along the way to keep the real nasty stuff out.

Besides that, these days one needs to setup social media presence, monitor that, be active there as well. And the whole thing of coding, design, marketing... Is these days alot to handle as a one-man-band, doing this on several projects. So yeah, focus, and go for 1-2 projects and develop those really well, and hope for the best. But, I totally understand where you're coming from.