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There's a clear explanation for that: Quote from their blog post:

"Why We Make You Type “$0” We want users to understand that paying for software is important and not paying for it is an active choice. We didn’t exclude a $0 button to deceive you; we believe our software really is worth something. And it’s not an attempt to get rich quick; currently the only people who have received money for working on elementary OS have been community members through our bounty program.

It’s about asking a fair price to offset the costs of development. It’s about securing the future of elementary OS to ensure we can keep making software that millions of people love and use every day."

You mean this post [1] ? I find their reasoning quite logical.

[1] http://blog.elementaryos.org/post/110645528530/payments

I actually find window management not that bad, it's similar to OS X in that matter.

Plus a new Beta site: http://beta.elementaryos.org/

It is a good dev environment, but you shouldn't just install server stuff on your mac, that's what the VMs are for (so that all developers would have identical server setup).

I would like to repost a comment from reddit[1] that makes some good points:

"That title is pretty laughable.

Enterprise E-Mail Encryption solutions do NOT use gnupg, and most enterprise customers do not even use openpgp, they use X.509/SMIME. I know the world top 10 server side enterprise e-mail encryption solutions and the majority uses java with either bouncycastle or ajak encryption, for PGP or openssl/bouncycastle for SMIME. There are some solutions that use gnupg but those are very small and again - most people do not use openpgp in the business world. Mostly automotive uses it like Porsche, VW etc. for encrypting e-mail traffic. Gnupg is mostly used for e-mail by your skilled engineers in private or while communicating with kernel developers etc. Either by using enigmail/mutt/command line whatever.

Nothing based on e-mail would "break" if gnupg went missing.

Now lets get back to Mr. Koch - gnupg was sponsored by the German Government - in all these years - Mr. Koch tried to build a consulting company/enterprise solution out of it - but he failed because there were already existing solutions that were far better than anything he could come up with. Moreover asking Mr. Koch to fix specific bugs in gnupg which was as i said sponsored resulted in simply "pay me XXX amount or i wont do it" - thats how Mr. Koch worked.

Ask any code auditor/reviewer worth his salt and he will tell you gnupg is a mess, it is worse than openssl in most cases - why ? Ask Mr. Koch.

I just want to remind everyone carefully judge, before thinking about donating to Mr. Koch or his company. I already noticed he received well over 50k today just because of this false article.

This guy got funding multiple times from the german government for implementing and maintaing gnupg. This was never a fulltime job - adding patches and a few features is what any open source developer does in his free time. Mr. Koch tried to build a business upon this government funded software, and it failed. He already had multiple fundraisers in his careers to keep his company going. Does he deserve your money ? It is not like gnupg would be dead without him - he is not the only one doing anything - there are many developers in the community who are doing their share too.

Arent there other things more deserving of funding than the failed economical existence of one guy ? An open source developer that wants to contribute free software does not need your money to survive! Did Mr. Richard Stallman or Linus Torvalds ever beg people for money because they cant buy their next meal ? Did the BSD Foundation plea to you they cant make days end ? No - they never did - and they still were able to produce free open source software.

Mr. Koch does not deserve your money, if anything successors of him should receive funding if they need to - but not to survive - because they most likely got a real job already and doing this in their free time. "

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2uw2gt/the_worl...

Source: https://twitter.com/gnupg/status/563456662024228865

I would disagree, Calculus and Linear Algebra ist only the first semester usually, then it gets harder (Analysis, Statistics, Crypto)

I always thought that being an Engineer assumes you have knowledge of mathematics. The way this word is being used in Software ist kind of strange. "I built a blog in php, I'm a Software Engineer" - this feels kind of awkward to me.

Correct link: http://www.ams.org/notices/200708/tx070800972p.pdf

You should consider that most other messengers offer no such promises, even vague ones.

Thanks! I will definitely take a look at those.

Thanks for advice!

Thanks for the advice!

There's a demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iyeqh9zHf8

It's hard to analyse this kind of information considering that 100% of information on the site is pro-ukraine and mostly with citation of Ukrainian sources.

It may or may not be propaganda, but I don't feel like trusting the site.

Linux standard debugger is gdb.

How did this jump to top of HN in 30 minutes? The article is not of much use since it's just a marketing piece.

I don't really understand the need to create a women only workshop. Why is there such a need for this?

>Or of course you can merge the commit from the web. Seriously, you can merge it, without even getting it on your machine (to, you know, test it, read it, etc.), from your web browser. That’s stupid, right?

I don't agree with this. It's actually quite useful. Each time a pull request is opened Travis CI runs the tests and shows green or red for passed/failed tests. So you don't even have to fetch from remote and run tests locally.

I'm not a native English speaker but I find the construct of this sentence "Did you ever wanted to crowdfund your idea but don't know how" false. Maybe I'm wrong.

I wrote a similar library a while back (https://github.com/bndr/node-read), but without the command line tool. This seems cool.

This is amazing. Just reading the code makes my head hurt, but you implemented a language with it.

There's not much information about the company, and according to wikipedia: "The company has been secretive about its plans and operations in order to maintain confidentiality - “operating deeply in ‘stealth mode’” - and has rarely spoken to the media."

Can someone explain why "Items moved from /12345 to /12/34/12345. HN now starts in one fifth the time" that increases performance? why is it better?

The problem I have with elementaryOS is that there is no defined release schedule (like e.g Ubuntu or Fedora). So there's no ETAs or anything.

On their website it says: "Go™ is officially Open Source" [1]. So maybe they trademarked it?

[1] http://www.thoughtworks.com/

Sadly, no dynamic js is being executed.

Thanks! It may be encoding problem, I'll take a look at it today.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean with "that hits the user's npm"