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The whole thing reeked of wrongdoings and corruption from the start.

There are video and image recordings of the raid, but guess what, the crown wants to suppress those.[1]

[1]http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/dotcom-kicked-kneed-in-polic...

This is exactly what I need for an upcoming project of mine.

So clean, with amazing features and best of all in Python, this will be fun.

I agree with most of the article, but the "The Ubuntu Unity failure" was only a temporary one.

The author says it got better, but in reality Unity already overtook Windows' UI and it will overtake Apples UI with one of its next iterations.

As a younger (though not that young) developer I have to agree that using MS developer tools is the wrong way of doing things for most new software, not all of them though, it sure has its uses. But I am strongly against proprietary software that only runs on one OS as that will only lose you business. Even the game platform Steam seems to have gotten to that point, a Linux port is on its way.

As long as Microsoft will not implement the same features, in a similar time frame and in a compatible way as the other browser vendors they should be blamed and shamed.

The article says IE9 is a damn good browser without qualifying why they think that it is, I respectfully disagree.

Here is a list with party and country:

1 Magdi Cristiano ALLAM EFD Italy

2 Jean-Pierre AUDY EPP France

3 Bendt BENDTSEN EPP Denmark

4 Nora BERRA EPP France

5 Alain CADEC EPP France

6 Carlo CASINI EPP Italy

7 Michel DANTIN EPP France

8 Rachida DATI EPP France

9 Albert DESS EPP Germany

10 Karl-Heinz FLORENZ EPP Germany

11 Michael GAHLER EPP Germany

12 Marielle GALLO EPP France

13 Jean-Paul GAUZÈS EPP France

14 Françoise GROSSETÊTE EPP France

15 Brice HORTEFEUX EPP France

16 Philippe JUVIN EPP France

17 Alain LAMASSOURE EPP France

18 Werner LANGEN EPP Germany

19 Agnès LE BRUN EPP France

20 Constance LE GRIP EPP France

21 Klaus-Heiner LEHNE EPP Germany

22 Véronique MATHIEU EPP France

23 Vital MOREIRA S&D Portugal

24 Elisabeth MORIN-CHARTIER EPP France

25 Tiziano MOTTI EPP Italy

26 Bill NEWTON DUNN ALDE/ADLE United Kingdom

27 Maurice PONGA EPP France

28 Bernd POSSELT EPP Germany

29 Franck PROUST EPP France

30 Fiorello PROVERA EFD Italy

31 Godelieve QUISTHOUDT-ROWOHL EPP Germany

32 Dominique RIQUET EPP France

33 Crescenzio RIVELLINI EPP Italy

34 Jean ROATTA EPP France

35 Marie-Thérèse SANCHEZ-SCHMID EPP France

36 Hannu TAKKULA ALDE/ADLE Finland

37 Niki TZAVELA EFD Greece

38 Dominique VLASTO EPP France

39 Manfred WEBER EPP Germany

If lawyers are reading this, a question:

Our governments are treating our emails more and more like real mail (aka. letters).

Is there not a law prohibiting third party people or companies to mess with(fake) my mail addresses?

Fact is, I do not want a facebook email address. And I have given no consent for my email address to be changed.

Well you don't get compilation to machine code with Python, but you won't get that with many languages. And the ones that do compile are often a pain to write in.

So, I for one always go with "Always use the right tool for the problem at hand.", which means I use Python for most things and something like C for the few things that have to be faster.

To answer your question: Python is fast enough for most things. It depends on how and what you are using it for though.

Yes!

Every developer should know one of the very helpful and working ways of doing things in open source software development: "Stop complaining, fix it."

It's one thing to complain about closed source software that you have to use and probably paid for as well. But a very different one to complain about free and open source software that you want to use.

Stop the bickering, start the work on fixing the problem instead.

Bittorrent is probably one of the best methods for this kind of thing.

Agreed.

It seems to me that especially American and British led news agencies seem to deliberately try to undermine the Euro zone with anti-Euro-propaganda. I'm sick of hearing how bad it all is, while it isn't, and it's much worse elsewhere.

I'm from Austria, and we are doing just fine, with low unemployment numbers, a growing economy and general optimism for the future. The Euro helped us a lot, and we are able to help other EU states through it.

Stop listening to entities like "Bloomberg", they seem to be wrong a lot.

It might not be their fault, but it sure is their responsibility now.

Well this is scary for Skype users and very embarrassing for Skype developers/owners aka. Microsoft.

I sure hope they fix this before they get sued into oblivion for this blatant privacy breach.

The IT guy has last looked at Ubuntu a couple years ago, he was surprised how far it had come. He is working a Windows domain at the job.

No, style has nothing to do with superficial looks.

I have been at a clients location with my Ubuntu 12.04 laptop today.

The "IT guy" there and all the other (non IT) office staff asked me what this is and how they could get it. I had to do a full 15 minutes of explanations about Ubuntu. You cannot imagine the looks after I told them it is free.

I prefer the style of Python to the ones of Ruby anyday.

I also prefer the style of Hackernews/Reddit to the one of Digg. Digg may look better, but its style and content is what i don't like.

Censorship reflects society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime. ~Potter Stewart

It seems to me that some Microsoft (and maybe Apple) marketing people are hard at work at every discussion about this topic, even here.

No, it is not.

What prevents them from being anywhere near "hip" is their past/present actions and our memory.

There is no good way of "drilling down" when browsing the jobs. Meaning I cannot look for existing locations and then by language etc.

Also, where are all the tags? I can see the popular ones, but none of the others.

These are the major problems that I see standing out.

Personally I really hate these "follow us on twitter and like us on facebook" kind of things. Be your own company.

If you ever implement a login system do not make it "connect with facebook" or similar, as people looking for or posting jobs deserve their privacy.

I find it hilarious how some of the mentioned bloggers have 0 sense of humor. Why so serious?

Until someone can prove a negative impact of piracy on the copyright holders all you say is rubbish and plain wrong.

No company should be allowed to hinder my free speech.

And no worries, I do not use any Microsoft products, but I can IM people who do use live messenger from Linux IM apps. I am guessing I will be censored anyway, which is just horrible and outrageous.

No, this nick is private and privacy is what i want to keep in this case.

I am a musician who would never deal with RIAA, instead we put both our albums on The Pirate Bay to download and spread for free.

Now I cannot link to those albums in Microsoft software because they censor all links?

That my friend is as anti free speech as it gets, and this censorship really erodes society not the sharing and copying of files.

The real beauty of Python is the fact that it is easy for beginning programmers, yes, but it has also a lot to offer for experienced coders concerning all the advanced things they might need.

It's no accident that services like Dropbox[1] or YouTube[2], both arguably very complex systems, are relying on Python as their language of choice.

[1] http://blip.tv/pycon-us-videos-2009-2010-2011/pycon-2011-how...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-lGCC4KKok

Why is the US such a prude country?

They show people blowing their head off with a gun in the afternoon news while children are watching, but omg, a boob or even worse a nipple they go crazy!

This ban has to be taken back, or all other means to browse reddit must be banned as well, including all google browsers, etc. I see a lawsuit coming otherwise.

So Python is a scripting language and not a "real programming language"? - What a stupid comment.

Python is a full and mature programming language, lots of software you probably use every day is written in it, like dropbox, calibre, miro or websites like Reddit and YouTube for example.

You'll find a longer list here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Python_software

Sure you can use Python for scripting, but that doesn't mean it isn't a real programming language. It just makes it more versatile than other languages.

You are using words like "blatantly", "profiteering" and lump all of HN together, saying that all of HN supports MU and its bosses and that you don't understand this at all.

This smells all too much of a biased statement without any depth in order to influence the public opinion of MU negatively. But I'll bite anyway.

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The thing is that you are missing the point completely:

Copyright infringement on MU was apparently only committed by third parties (aka The Internet), as is done on sites like YouTube, every other file sharing site, video, audio and similar sites.

Yet you don't see the Google bosses in jail and their houses raided and assets frozen do you? They are blatantly profiteering off of copyright infringing materials on YouTube as well, you know.

The DMCA regulates what these services have to do to protect copyrights and them selves. MU apparently did just that.

One other point I will make here is that studies have shown that pirating on the internet has no negative effect on the profits of the copyright holders. Explain to me why pirates are being hunted like the worst offenders anyway.

Now, do you still not understand why some people here seem to have a different stance on this topic than you?

He is even more prominent on TWiT (http://twit.tv/) doing shows like NSFW or GameOn etc.