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It depends on what you need, but I'd say yes, as long as they natively support whatever language and database you're using. I usually use Lighttpd for specific (non-general) projects requiring lighter implementations. Actually, I think that the more specific your requirement is you may switch to more tailored solutions. One examples are WAF's like Rails or Play!, they use non-LAMP components like SQLite, Ruby or Java in addition to using their own webservers.

From how I see it they're suing Apple for not reducing investors risk: if they have a lot of money now why don't give away some of it a make investors feel less afraid of future losses, specially when there's the sensation that the Apple's iPhone business may have already peaked.

Excellent! so far my only reliable source was hackathon.io and it´s kind of messy.

I don´t think that Dropbox is intended to work as a substitute to Git, I know I´d never use it like that. Nevertheless, I developed my own version of Github using Box (http://bit.ly/yZvl2a) just for the fun of it, because I think that Github sometimes gets a little complex for simple projects.

The idea is to drag-and-drop instead of using the console and the app to be smart enough to recognize that you´re doing and update, and instead of forks it just creates another folder for the same project. It also reduce the hassle of the SSL keys.

So far, so good. Even though I don´t know if under Box terms it´d be feasible as a business, I haven´t checked out the Dropbox API but I guess it´d be easy to implement, and I´m also cheking the Mega API (Kim Dotcom new cloud storage)s since it seems to be a little less restrictive about what you can or can´t do with the API.

There was a confidential paper a few years ago called "Red Flags of Market Manipulation Causing a Collapse of the U.S. Economy" that stated the possibilities of the 2008 being a product of financial terrorism, and there is also a public paper requested by the congress.

Isn't Lillyhammer a Netflix TV series, how come that “House of Cards” is the first show made specifically for Netflix?

I learned Haskell in my first algorithm course in the University, mine was the last class ever to do it in that university, the following semester they switched completely to Pascal and later to Java.

These are good news, I just can't wait to see that IDE.

That day will come the day we can install and run XCode at the same time we create an Excel Macro, all in an iPad.

I like the charts but they doesn't seem to include the L-1 Visa path. Anyway it seems to me that this new reform rewards illegal immigration and doesn't do much to improve the chances of those applying for green cards through regular channels.

Also the travel restrictions for those with L-1 visas need to be reviewed, it doesn't makes sense that one you're approved with a L-1 visa in the US you need to go through another approval process in your home country if you want to travel outside the US.

No Radim, you had the whole thing wrong, is not Mark Angela going into the gaming industry list, is Steve Jobs being among the most important people for the Pizza Industry.

Back in day PC's were a bigger platform and Mr. Gates name is not in the list.

There's a lot of truth in this article but that didn't surprised me at all.

What did surprise me was the arguments against the author, specially those who said that Steve Jobs was more known that other options in the list. Under that -and many of the other- premises the top spot would definitively belong to Bill Gates, since for a long time the best games ran almost exclusively in PC, or because BASIC -that had the snake game or the one with the gorillas throwing bananas- came with MS-DOS and was the first development environment offered free for anyone who bought a PC, with no $100 annual fee and no big-brother curation.

Also I can argue against the notion that the future of gaming is mobile, I've been in the (mobile) industry for many years and I came to the conclusion that mobile gaming will always be a niche for a casual gamers, but heavy gaming, the one that pushes the technology to its limit, will be for a long time the realm of the consoles and PC's. The future of gaming is virtual reality, EEG controlling and motion sensors, not virtual potatoes spamming people's email.

And this illustrates very much the reality of Mr. Jobs, his products were in many cases very innovative from the consumer electronics point of view, but not necessarily from the technological point-of-view, even the iPod, by far his most breakthrough product, was developed from parts he bought off-the-shelf somewhere.

Saying that mobile is the future of gaming is like saying that the iPad is the future of computing.

It's an important omission not to mention that Android-based phones prices are declining at a much faster pace than iOS based phones. This is important because in many cases updating from one android to the next version (and sometimes to the next next version) is less expensive than buying a simple iPhone, rendering the need for further support unnecessary.

It'd be interesting to see what happens next: will investors flee from Europe? Will the banks have enough to resist the loss? Must the ECB and the stability fund support banks holding greek debt? Will fear about default spread to Italy or Spain?

This is the correct link.

http://blogs.plos.org/mitsciwrite/

Lets pray to St. Stephen Jobs protector of the Media Moguls and lonely subway users who need portable music.

This is not a political article nor is intended to create a discussion about media and politics, is just another "Steve Jobs was my leader" article.

I'm not sure if they write this article because they really think that Mr. Jobs is the greatest human being ever or to please those who think that Mr. Jobs is the greatest human being ever.Well, we got it! They Loved Mr. Jobs and they wish turtle-neck would become mandatory. I'd be happy if they'd just spare us from your messianic mambo-jambo, but since they'll be keep doing it anyway, I'd be nice if at least they'd find something of their own and stop quoting the freaking book.

I had heard about mr Myhrvold exploits but I had no idea they were so enthusiastic about hating him or that his position was such a threat to the innovators community. I thought his more dangeorus idea was a $600 cookbook.

Check Quora's discussion on this subject with excellent insights from John Burgess a former US Foreign services officer.

http://www.quora.com/Venture-Capital/What-are-the-potential-...

The Economist makes a great point in noting the over-simplification of macro-economic policies and the danger of populism, fears that seems justified when you read people saying that "society can afford a hell of a lot if managed correctly": what does exactly means "afford"? Must the society write a check to anyone who needs it? is the objective of the protest to create spaces where people can work and get themselves out of the whole or is to get the government to bail everyone out? Are western citizens entitled to more and more benefits that will definitively be paid by our sons or grandsons, or are we entitled to clean governments and smart politics?

I agree with the fact that Square numbers are not as impressive they seem, but I keep reading bloggers that suggest that the current Square model is enough to attract high volume merchants, and I can't see that happening: If having an iPhone in the cashier stays as a requisite to use the Square PoS it'll be a long shot to get those kind of merchants.

In the current state it's hard to see how an SmartPhone based product can handle merchants with multiple cashiers or those with ERP integration.

I also support the idea that a really disruptive payment instrument must include an alternative to big card processors (i.e. VISA. MC, AMEX, etc), until then you'll just have a very cute PoS machine.

The main problem with bitcoin is that it seems to be more wishful thinking than a serious currency ruled by macro economic factors. There's not a clear correspondence about how the wealth is created and the demand for currency, not to mention that its deflational nature - i.e. its value is always expected to grow- leave serious questions about who'd you invest it, since its value is expected to increase in relation to the investment instrument, so why bother to invest?

I accept that the general idea is not bad, but it'd need to follow some basic standards in order to be attractive to regular people, you don't have to put your son college fund in a currency with no central authority and no convertibility, you can't expect any currency to always perform well so you need options, in case BitCoin start to lose it's value and there's no way to convert that money into Dollars or Euros you'll be stuck with a lots of worthless bits that won't let you buy not even Lehman Bros. junk bonds.