jackbravo

What you said can be applied backwards. How can you expect people from Africa to join events in Asia or North America?

Hosting open source events in places like Nicaragua and South Africa is a great way to introduce more people to the community, that otherwise would be very difficult for them to join.

Google Play Store requires the developer to sign the program with their private key, and only the developer can provide future versions of the program. Moxie from whisper systems seems to trust this system (decentralized signing of binaries) more than the f-droid one (centralized signing of binaries).

There is a very interesting discussion about this on the TextSecure issue queue: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/127

Because open source guys value having more people using your code, and using AGPL discourages some people from using it because they can't keep their modifications private?

It's already happening. I for example, consider myself a kind of atheist-catholic, and I'm not the first one. I go to church (not every sunday, but now and then), go on missionary trips and participate in a local community. It is not easy, as almost everyone does believe in God. But my friends are supportive, and I do get to debate once in a while and is all fun. Plus, I really dig Jesus ethics.

Wow, didn't know about that =). Although, it does say that:

> no one is known to have been killed by the militia or anyone else specifically because of it. There were, however, other associated deaths: the militia and other state authorities used Boggs' Executive Order as a pretext to expel the Mormons from their lands in the state, and force them to migrate to Illinois.

I'm pretty sure many muslims countries suffer much worse violence than that, over many more years.

Mormons don't live with the same fear for their lives as muslims. I guess if mormonism had originated in a more violent country it would be encouraging a little more violence. So I don't think the difference is just the ideology but also the cultural background. And western civilization has some blame (some, not all) for the instability and violence lived in middle east.

@Mikeal has a couple of posts on the subject:

- https://medium.com/@mikeal/on-corporate-ownership-of-open-so... - https://medium.com/node-js-javascript/fragmentation-7e87d28f...

In a similar vein, there is http://agaric.com/about which is also a software cooperative (or collective? are those the same in the US?) doing Drupal work.

Monty Widenius published the http://hackingbusinessmodel.info/ which they were using at MySQL AB (before Sun I think). I don't think they use this at MariaDB Corporation. We try to use this at http://axai.com.mx, a small company I belong to in Mexico.

There's gcoop (http://gcoop.coop/). A software cooperative in argentina. I think they have around 20 people working on a cooperative model.

TLDR. Well, not so short description, but I think this is the gist of the talk. This is a very thoughtful talk, from the creator of one of the most active open source projects today: Drupal. Love it or hate it, Drupal attracts a very big community, and in growing it has also accumulated a lot of complexity that it is now a challenge to contribute. Dries compares Drupal and other open source software projects to "public good" following very closely the Wikipedia article about it, and using that analogy tries to map some of the solutions found to take care of public good and apply them to Drupal. I'm not 100% in agreement with Dries proposed solution, but the talk is very interesting.

Why can't both be part of the reason? You experience a scarcity event, and driven by it you try to find a logical reason so you can have a better response next time. I think the response to his scarcity event is great!

There are good replies to this question in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8173019

I don't think spying and disrupting communications on a country you are not at war at, and that is going through a civil war (putting the lives of innocent people on the edge), is the type of things the NSA should be doing.

This is very well discussed in Erich Fromm's book "The art of loving". He proposed that in today's society we put too much value on the object of love, and too little in learning how to love. Thus we look intensely for the best possible partner and we may have second thoughts even once we reach a decision, instead of learning how to love and enjoy life.

both lessons are valuable and complementary. If I have kids I'll try to teach both.

Hack is nice. But right now is only backed by Facebook. PHP is backed by a bigger community.

The errors are not produced by using excel, according at lest to the financial times. But to manipulation of data.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/e1f343ca-e281-11e3-89fd-00144feabd...

Other people have praised the statistical work done on the book:

- http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/24/opinion/krugman-wealth-ove... - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/1081616...

So given the controversial nature of the subject, I wonder if we could point to an objective analysis of the work.

Christian philosophy is a monotheistic philosophy. There is only one god. That is why Jesus being god and human is part of the larger paradox of the holy trinity.

Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal. Those 3 CMSs run more than 50% of all the CMS powered websites on the entire Internet (http://trends.builtwith.com/cms), all written in PHP.

I live in Mexico and it is somewhat the same. When you get a job as a waitress you are told that your salary is X + tips, so they usually pay less than other kind of jobs, but it is expected to be compensated with the tips. So the only wining person is the employer.

One that generates revenue?

I second the Karamazov suggestion, and would say also War & Peace by the other great Russian, Tolstoi. One of the bests books I've read.

Osama Bin Laden? Hugo Chavez? Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?

for a personal server, maybe try http://www.citadel.org/. One app that runs email, xmpp, calendar, contacts and notes, written in C++. I've installed just on one machine. The interface is awful, but the rest seems to work pretty well.

Sounds to me like the same thing happens in politics. At least in Mexico it seems only the greedy and self-interested people get involved in politics, when in fact politics should be an area where people with more interest in the public wellness than their own should be.

Strange that pyCharm does have a community edition (http://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/download/index.html) but phpStorm doesn't (http://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/download/index.html)

Then put a minimum fine, that covers the safe issue, and if your earnings go above a certain amount then you pay a percentage.

Or it's equivalent to saying that design students would rather use Apple products.

So, universities using proprietary formats (Power Point instead of Libre/Open Office) encourage students to buy Microsoft products. Times have not changed as much as we'd like to think.

Hehe. Listen to yourself. So a plane crashing somewhere in the building, with a little help from gravity, can do the same as a prepared detonation that takes one month to plan, with carefully synchronized explosives around multiple central supports... Twice in a day.