Great idea. This would be a good opportunity to experience and experiment in other technologies that don't get much spotlight. Will definitely try to get there this year!
I think this proves quite the opposite. As a developer, you can decide if you want to change your users' default search engine (which will probably annoy them a lot), or do anything you want. It's a platform.
Developers always faced the annoying decision of choosing a certain browser and losing a huge chunk of other browser-users, or maintaining several branches of code that is supposed to do the same thing.
Well done & Congrats!
The music also made a big difference. Listening to Infected Mushroom while high on Modafinil and coding up a storm made me feel like I was some kind of insane coding machine that could complete pretty much any coding task in record time.
Hilarious :)
On a more serious note - this sounds a lot like taking Ritalin. I was just as productive if I was well rested, ...and working on something I cared about. - this isn't always an option. Sure, heavy use of anything isn't good. Lest we forget it's a drug after all, even regular use might be too much for some.
I really liked the article and the approach on things.
CGI isn't fun. I understand legacy code that runs on it, I don't think developing new web apps with it is the right thing to do, there are plenty of amazing frameworks which make perl web programming fast, powerful and fun again:
You have Catalyst (full on MVC framework, you can compare it to Rails), Dancer* (micro-web inspired by Ruby's Sinatra) and Mojolicious to name a few.
You're right, but it means the project will (probably) become less stable. One less full time individual probably means less testing and might require you to use older packages or build them yourself.
It's always sad to see a project failing. There are other alternatives, both to a KDE linux distro (i.e: openSUSE) and gnome/ubuntu (mint being my favorite).
It's a business decision I understand, they want to shift focus completely to ubuntu, especially since they are losing a huge user-base over their last gnome3 releases.
Hilarious. I'm amazed by the fact that they didn't know what they were doing, their marketing dep. and "social media director" should have expected that.
Clearly this whole script kiddies war is doing more harm than good to either sides. It's not about skills or anything anymore and it doesn't matter if these credentials or the facebook credentials (posted earlier: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/israeli-hacker-posts-8216...) are even real.
I view harming innocent by-standers/civilians as a type of terrorism. Much like dropping a bomb in a populated area.