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tftfmacedoon Portugal Bans Use of DRM to Limit Access to Public Domain Works

The right wing party (actually a coalition of 2 right wing "mainstream" parties) was the most voted party but fell way short of a majority (they control 102 seats out of 230) and failed to get parliamentary support.

tftfmacedoon An Estonian Startup With €25 Million Turnover

As I'm sure you know, VAT is paid by the customer and you're simply collecting it, it's never your money to begin with. And if you are selling to businesses, they can rebate all or part of it.

tftfmacedoon Why Germany seems not to want a quick fix for the euro crisis

Regarding Turkey negotiations, I guess you know why.

Human rights issues ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Turkey ), Cyprus, death penalty.

tftfmacedoon Call Someone Who Cares

[Honest question] By doing that aren't you allowing any app that uses the Twilio API to open your mic/camera without permission?

tftfmacedoon I Spent A Coin (And I Liked It) — How I Bought Lunch in Manhattan with Bitcoins

You should try living a country with high inflation. People lookup exchange rates every single day.

tftfmacedoon Apple’s Magnum Opus

You could also use something like http://www.soocial.com/

Disclaimer: I used to work there and they're working really hard on solving this kind of issues.

tftfmacedoon Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (June 2011)

Barcelona, Spain

3scale Networks is looking for Ruby + Rails developers and a UI designer.

Ruby: http://www.3scale.net/jobs/ruby-on-rails-developer/ UI: http://www.3scale.net/jobs/webux-designer/

Feel free to contact me (or the email mentioned in the listing) if you're interested.

tftfmacedoon "I trust Redis-on-disk every day less." --Salvatore

Yes. As the GP stated, all data added/updated/deleted since last snapshot will be lost. If your data is that critical you can use AOF with "appendfsync always" which will fsync every write operation into a log that will replayed on startup (at a speed cost). Setting it to fsync every second (instead of always) is a good compromise.

tftfmacedoon Guy Asks For Software Crack, Creator Provides Free App Instead

and Spain

tftfmacedoon Must Read CS Books For Self Self-Taught Programmers

I'd recommend this one on architecture:

Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach - Hennessy and Patterson

tftfmacedoon Mac App Store: Open for Business

I agree with you and I think all your points are valid but the GP specifically mentioned statically compiling dependencies, not using only what is already provided.

Something else that helps with Apple's way of doing things is their reasonably slow release cycle (when compared to most Linux distributions).

tftfmacedoon Mac App Store: Open for Business

It's also a security nightmare.