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schneidon Uber hit with preliminary injunction to stop service in Berlin

Fair enough, but I wasn't arguing any such thing.

Just giving my opinion that I find taxis far more expensive in Germany than I did when living in the UK.

schneidon Uber hit with preliminary injunction to stop service in Berlin

Those prices look suspicious indeed. Most of my experience is from Glasgow around 2010.

I just entered a journey I made often (home in north-west Glasgow to the central station) and that website came up with £13.50. I clearly remember paying £5 with tip for that journey from a local taxi company.

Even with the dominant black cab company, I don't remember going home from the city centre late night for as much as that.

In Paisley, which is a bit smaller, I took taxis to the airport for £3 or £4.

schneidon Tear Apart My Consulting Page, Part 2

Spelling: "continously" isn't a word :)

schneidon Uber hit with preliminary injunction to stop service in Berlin

Compared to Britain (not London; I have no experience there), I find taxis in Germany very expensive.

I would often take a taxi for £3 or £4 half way across a city in the UK, which would cost more like 15€ in Germany.

schneidon Microsoft chops the price of custom Windows XP patches

It was nice of Microsoft to admit that their customers are moving to Linux:

"We’ve been working with customers and partners on the migration from Windows XP since we announced in September 2007 that support for Windows XP would end on April 8. 2014. As part of this effort, we’ve made custom support more affordable so large enterprise organizations could have temporary support in place while they migrate to a more modern and secure operating system."

schneidon Atlassian Valued at $3.3 Billion

To be fair, Atlassian bought HipChat :)

schneidon What I Would Do If I Ran Tarsnap

Well, obviously it's not open source, but GH Enterprise is delivered as a running Ruby app, so you can take a look. Of course the TOS says you shouldn't read or reverse engineer or whatever.

But I know people fix bugs that GitHub won't fix in their enterprise product by patching the Ruby source after each new update.

schneidon XEP-0280: Message Carbons (2013)

Cool, thanks for the link. I knew about MAM, but hadn't seen the push stuff.

schneidon XEP-0280: Message Carbons (2013)

Though as described here: http://op-co.de/blog/posts/mobile_xmpp_in_2014/#index2h2 -- Message Carbons don't help if your phone is out of coverage for a few minutes, as your desktop client will get the carbons, but when you come back online, you'll be oblivious to any messages sent during that time.

schneidon Need for Speed: How Groupon Migrated to Node.js

On the plus side, making trivial changes now only takes a week!

"It took three months just to change the color appearing across the website, he said. “After we moved to Node.js, it took us literally a week.”" - http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/12/04/paypa...