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I disagree. They shouldn't turn off the API access for payments because some people might use it incorrectly. Let's be honest, it takes a special kind of stupid to upload secret keys of any kind to their repos. And if they do, well, they deserve whatever happens to them.
Yes, please get back to us when you have verifiable proof of their security. This is Bitcoin we're talking about. It doesn't matter how "reputable" they appear to be.
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They had to abort for the day because of a premature detachment of an umbilical cord to the second stage. Damn.
I've had a good experience with Digital Ocean, although they did completely lose one of my snapshots last month.
Interesting. Great work guys!
A Minecraft MMO? Would Mojang allow you to do that? Would Redstone still be categorized within the scope of a mod at that point?
Either way, I logged on for a bit, and there was no lag whatsoever with a ton of players online. Fascinating stuff.
Based off the article, it would seem that the Department of Education is really just investigating him for having students write about An Inconvenient Truth, telling "inappropriate jokes" and showing a video of herpes on someone's junk.
Which isn't surprising at all.
I attended a talk given by Gabe Newell at my university back in January, and in it he mentioned that he wasn't satisfied with it and they might phase it out. So Greenlight may not always be there.
I think Adria should have responded in a different manner first (by just turning around and saying "Please stop."), but neither of them deserve to lose their jobs over this. Most of the blame lies on PlayHaven for firing the guy anyway.
I'd imagine the main reason is just to promote the idea so people with connections might ask their connections to do an AMA.
Saying that Open Office isn't as good as MS Office because it's trying to imitate them is a very ambitious statement. Especially considering that the developer base for the two are different in many respects.
More importantly, let's say that Open Office does try to blaze a trail to an extent that you mention. I would wager that it would probably come out like Blender, where Blender tried to make the ideal 3D creation toolkit (compared to say Maya). Blender's great! It's very powerful, it can do ALL kinds of things. However, before the v2.5 UI overhaul it was incredibly goddamn hard to learn and so it was only useful to a small section of their potential interested users.
By avoiding this, Open Office tries to cater to what people are familiar with so they can use it right after installing it. They don't have to waste time trying to adapt to a new piece of software.
(This should be obvious without saying it.)
As the first commend on /. mentions, there's no point in trying to make an accurate estimate of a free piece of software's worth because it's FREE. Everyone that is interested will download it, but you can't tack on a competitor's value to that download because they didn't pay for the download.
You make it sound like rewriting MS Office is a bad thing. At its core, MS Office is a very solid piece of software, so why spend resources and divert focus to try to improve on something Microsoft has already made near-perfect? And rewriting it under the GPL license (so it's free) adds value to the project as well. Not to mention that by rewriting it, you make it easy for people to pick up your project easily.