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As the saying goes "Don't you get it? It doesn't matter who you vote for, Government always wins!"

We use Django, Linux (Ubuntu for both servers and developer machies), PostGIS database, memcache, Apache, etc. and of course Eclipse, Trac, etc. etc.

Haven't reached 1M hits per day yet, but I'm about to experience a bit of preemptive load testing to find out where the initial problem spots may be.

Warsaw Poland!

I live in San Francisco, but I have to say: Warsaw is a super cosmopolitan city (though half of that is Turks), still relatively affordable, very high level of education, and it's the fastest growing economy in Europe.

Not to mention, the amount of foreign investment pouring into Warsaw is just ridiculous.

Totally. I help out on the #ubuntu channel, and get help on the #python channel.

I avoid #politics

$1mm for software development, and servers, and bandwidth, and all that $9mm for marketing $10mm for sales and business development

That's a good summary. I'm going to encourage my competitors to keep thinking like that. If I'm lucky they'll be sufficiently slowed down, and kept out of touch with the market needs of most users (who will have kept upgrading) that it won't be hard for me to eat their lunch.

Thank you for posting this... I often ignore doing updates because they're just not as interesting as other things I'm doing. This kicked my butt into gear to install the updates.

Looks like a nice batch of new features added.

Seriously?

I hate trolls like you. A lot of us work really hard on making it the best damn platform ever, and it is, and then some quack who doesn't know anything says "it's just like Windows 95" which shows that they didn't even bother to try it out, or take the tour on ubuntu.com or even watch a recent video of the latest release on youtube. And that just sucks the fun out of life.

Please, actually take a look at it before saying something ridiculous.

Ditto. I do mostly Django development, so I'm tied to 2.6 for the moment, but I'll upgrade the second that I can.

Also, Ubuntu ships with 2.6 and I'm too lazy to switch

The entire "open source doesn't look as good" myth died a long time ago... at least 3 Ubuntu releases ago.

Do scheduling tools in a web framework protect you from having to write threading code yourself? Or is it for a completely separate kind of side-process than when I would want to write threads in my web app code?

Also, is that like Quarts in the Spring Framework?

Often it's the most obvious things that we most frequently fail to see....

Especially if we're actually looking for something different, like a raison d'être for social media in politics.

cool, will look for it there, and upvote. ;-) HTH

Is this your startup?

I would definitely upvote this on reddit or digg... but I don't think it fits in on hacker news.

While I agree that we should be skeptical towards the noise Wikileaks is making, we should always be skeptical towards the noise any government is making. Since Wikileaks is one of the best tools with which to take a skeptical look at the hype generated by a government's PR machine(s) I think it's great that news sources are rebroadcasting the noise being made by Wikileaks.

Have you tried the new Ubuntu One Music store? It's not bad to start with and is rapidly improving. Plus offers cool features like cloud storage of your music collection (ultra-portable, take your music wherever you go).

hey, OP here:

Can anybody confirm this? Even if it's not true, it's a brilliant idea for a business model to increase ad revenues of a service.

Also, Has anybody found the 10x figure for people clicking on pictures to be true?

While I agree that BBC is better, I find I've been reading Al Jazeera more than either CNN or BBC lately. The quality is close enough, and AJ has a very different view of the world, and I really enjoy that.

It's a complex system. A good gacker loves a complex system.

it's "microblogging"

Ah the Irony: a sarcastic comment about downvoting gets downvoted.

Is there an algorithm to figure out what will get downvoted? Or is it totally random?

Oh yeah, hilarious... In a very troubling kind of way.

lol, awesome!

It's refreshing to take polls on community-driven technology news sites that don't always have Cowboy Neal as an option.

Thank you for posting this. As a recent transplant to SF this warms my heart.

People still write desktop apps?

That part showing the submission was hilarious: "The government should never give you up, never let you down, never run around and desert you. Never make you cry, never say goodbye, never tell a lie and hurt you" I would upvote that on a gov 2.0 website.

In other news, water is wet, and Generalissimo Francisco Franco is STILL dead.

I would ask the opposite question. Why are y'all still using C++? C _is_ faster from what I understand, and Java is basically a better, safer replacement for C++ (and equally as fast on big enough applications).

Steve Yegge has some great thoughts about how C++ should die, in favor of Java (not that he likes Java either, though he loves the JVM).