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Why? As the worlds leading contributor to open source and 40 years experience building development tools it is probably the best acquirer. Would you rather Oracle?

I would suggest the majority of the spike are just playing, will settle down to a small bump.

This is no surprise, virtual delete is common design pattern.

Don't confuse gun control with banning guns. If we look at Australia for example, a country often cited in regards to gun control (and I live there), guns are not banned. You can buy a gun, I have family with guns, there are gun shops. But there are restrictions on the type of gun you can buy, 12 gauge shotgun for duck shooting is ok, AR-15 for people shooting is a no go.

But the big difference is the culture, most people in Australia simply don't want to own a gun, it doesn't define who they are. They don't feel threatened or unsafe by not having one.

I am an Azure user and love it, but these articles are comparing apples and oranges. Microsoft, IBM or Oracle include cloud software such as Office 365 or enterprise software such as their ERP systems. Amazon doesn't really even sell comparable software.

One thing people often forget when bagging IE6 is that all browsers were rubbish back then. None followed standards. IE6 was actually a better browser than Netscape and Netscape's next gen browser was too late to be released due to development issues.

According to the people who worked on IE that was never really the intention, it was just assumed from the outside. They intended to create this whole new "amazing" updated browser all baked into Windows that would be maintained and updated. Anyone old enough to remember Windows 98 would remember things like active desktop which was a precursor to this. But legal and technical issues followed and before long they had gone years without a browser update.

> You'll most likely end up implementing an ORM anyway,

This is a really good point. Many people start with the "no ORM" philosophy, realize their application needs some way to map the SQL to the code, time passes..., they have implemented their own half-baked ORM.

Because it is not included. You would purchase a base package for say $20 a month, then start adding the apps you want for another $5 a month each. $$profit$$

Product segmentation. Currently this is normally just done by speed or data limits. This gives another option to screw people out of money.

The percentage of businesses that have explosive growth is very small. Most have gradual growth and can easily be managed by just manual monitoring.

I agree with this. Trello could have added a lot more features, gone for Enterprise, but it would then have no longer been Trello.

I think this was the Holy Grail, a regular PC in a phone form factor. Of course you are left with the problem of needing a monitor and keyboard to plug it into when you want to do any work.

This is pretty much spot on, they get a commission because it is easy to work out, and has the added bonus of an easy to calculate monetary incentive.

I've always thought Oracle's primary goal was to keep Oracle engineers in employment.

They were talking about people.

Bootstrap is not about looks.

As an old Delphi developer myself I probably agree that if you are writing desktop apps Delphi is hard to beat. But less and less people are writing desktop apps now, and most apps can be written as web apps which users prefer.

Can't say I am an expert on the French system, but a quick Google says that the insurance is pretty tightly regulated by government.

This is what happens when you make the health care system capitalist. Despite rumours to the contrary, capitalism doesn't reduce prices, that would make no sense for a company trying to make a profit.

We would have people on Mars by the end of the year if that were the case!

> Dave behaves inappropriately sometimes", which may or may not be true

He wrote a whole article where he admitted it was true.

I would suggest the main reason they leave is the US is the largest single country market that is accessible. China is probably a bigger market going forward but for western companies a bigger cultural change.

This is an interesting diagram and my initial thought is that they are all correct. For example the rich often have good education, capital and connections so for them hard work is most important. But for the poor no amount of hard work will turn them into Trump unless they somehow gain the education and connections first.

Probably right, but as a male it is easier to ignore when you are not the target.

Yeah, but his point still stands. :-)

> Social Security are all paid for ahead of time

What the hell are you talking about? Your taxes now are not to finance your future social security when you retire.

You're in dream land if you think you have no cost to society because you have a 401k to live on when retired.

Who do you think is going to pay the taxes and support your lifestyle when you are retired? The kids that you didn't want to help pay for.

Do you have children? Because this is the dumbest thing I have ever read.

>who meanwhile is crying his socks off, pretty convinced at that point that a 3-minute delay means eternal starvation for the rest of his short life

As an Australian, I think it can be summed up by two reasons.

1. All large scale infrastructure rollouts are difficult and subject to problems and blowouts.

2. It was made a political issue. New government decided to make major revamps for no reason other than it was different to the previous government so they could use it as an election issue.