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>My own view is that the rest of Europe is acting to protect those who made the risky loans to Greece

The loans haven't been held by private banks since the bailout started (who took a 50% write down in the process). The debt is now mostly held by the Eurozone states, and to lesser degree the ECB and IMF. The debt, by the way, is about 3% of the European GDP, and Greece's yearly interest payments are below many other Eurozone countries, and the maturity on the bailout funds is long (starting in 2030).

The competing argument from the beginning was that the Eurozone governments should have just bailed out their own banks directly, and let Greece default. In hindsight that might have been the better solution, for the Eurozone at least. When you bailout a bank, you get control and you can sell your stake in the market later (for profit or loss). When you bailout a state, you have very little leverage and are exposed to the whims of the voters and politicians in a volatile situation, as shown by Greece.

The argument that won in the end was to keep Greece afloat by a joint bailout by the Institutions (which goes against the no-bailout clause of the Eurozone treaties).
It doesn't seem to have much to do with the eldery age, or even (physical) sickness. None of the people described have been at very old age, or terminally sick. This is just an illustration of how limited is society based on collectivism, obedience and hard work. It helped them out a great lot in the industrial age, and even then made many of them mentally broken, or outright sick, and completely stopped working in the post-industrial era.
I share your confusion over that assertion. I actually miss Perl's excellent block scope capabilities when working in almost every other similar language. I imagine most other languages have gotten it, by now, but a few years ago when I was using Python for a few years for a client it didn't have block scope and I missed it. A brief googling actually hints that maybe Python still doesn't have block scope, which is pretty weird, so I assume I'm googling wrong.

But, perhaps discussion of scope problems in Perl is just when talking about very old code. Perl had some scope atrocities back in Perl 4 and some weirdness in early Perl 5 days. But, for the past 15 years or so, it's been very predictable and has improved (like the syntactic sugar of "my" declarations in foreach or while expressions).
Einstein vs. Bergson, science vs. philosophy and the meaning of time
Stackoverflow logo honors USA decision about same-sex marriage
Linux and LLVM have no merged pull requests on Github. And a lot of these "Awesome x" (Node.js, Rust, Go, React, etc) will merge just about anything.

Also, I know of several project that fix tons of issues, but are relatively unpopular (perhaps because they have so many issues?).

I think the bottom line is there are no perfect indicators of open source project popularity.
It's easy to loose sight of the fact that we are talking about 64bit OS X here... The diff between ir that targeted x86-64 and arm64 and so on is something Apple has some control over.

I know, I play with a hobby llvm backend that retargets.
That "threat" didn't come out of the blue.

It was made as a in-joke on a IRC chat dedicated to a mobile distro that has already adopted systemd.

The person making the joke did so after he and others had spent the day fixing stuff that the then latest systemd release broke in said distro.

So it was more a case of "can we get some more sane leadership on this project?" than "lets rid the world of systemd!".

IRC as a medium is more a conversation than anything else, and spur of the moment tasteless lines do happen.
That is also what I find the worst. Everything else, that can be seen in the disturbing pictures of the place seems to me as merely surface and materialization of the inner despair and suffering that one has to go through in a such situation.
I also had the same idea a while back except that I didn't have perspiration likes you guys: congrats to you and masterpasswordapp.com for going all the way!

I didn't go past proof-of-concept: https://github.com/ixio/e64-bcrypt
He's now known as Archchancellor Henry, you know...
So letting the public decide their own fate is now called "shifting blame"?
As far as I can tell, on a societal level incremental change is the only sort of change that tends to happen. On a larger time-frame bigger shifts tends to come about as the result of lots of incremental changes.
Because she is incompetent, indecisive, keep the Eurozone stagnating because of her "austerity" politics, have no idea what "foreign politics" means.
In a civil ceremony you're married in the eyes of your state, and religious communities don't have to recognize it.

In a religious ceremony you're married in the eyes of your god, and states don't have to recognize it.

They serve a different purpose, and it makes no sense for a social contract in one community to carry weight in the other.
Thank you, really good advice in there, particularly the emotional aspects of this kind of pursuit (ie, pissing lots of people off).
Yep. And if you look back you find that GNU have a tool called Stow that do pretty much the same thing to compiled code.

Gobolinux started out as a tool for managing user compiled code inside said users home directory. And a variant of that still exist in the form of Rootless, but i can't comment on how well maintained the tool is.

BTW the first few releases of Gobolinux used a different distro as a base, and overlaid the Gobo tree on top.
Given that he and his entire party are loudly supporting a "no" vote, I don't think this is the case. Their position is clear.

They simply don't have a democratic mandate to accept continued, worsened austerity. Everyone basically agrees that if the vote is "yes", that will be the end of the Syriza government. If it's "no", well, then they have the support to continue rejecting austerity.
It's completely feasible, but you're playing on hard mode when you keep the software open source. If you've got good business sense and are willing to hustle you'll find a way to succeed. If your only strong suit is software, however, you're setting yourself up for failure.

Would you rather make $300k a year writing and selling proprietary software or fail/make $20k a year providing value-added services for an open-source project? This isn't a tough choice for me, but for some people the ideal of open source trumps all.

It's much easier to write software that fits a simple business model, than to figure out how to shoehorn a business model onto an open source project. You can tell which route is the pragmatic one: start from scratch, optimize for easy monetization.

That said, don't let any of this discourage you. It's absolutely possible to create a cool lifestyle business based on an open source project (or anything really). The only way to know if you can do this is to seriously commit to it. If you don't have to support a family it's probably a risk you can take.
The Netflix startup story
Thanks, unfortunately I was away/asleep and missed this one as well.

HOWEVER, bought a copy after reading through the comments / MAS reviews - it's pretty neat!

I'm generally working full-screen, but for the few times when not it'll be a life-saver. I lost so much productive time recently getting distracted by IRC in the background :P
Interesting to hear from someone both brave enough to bet on webmin, and lived to tell the tale! :-) I'm afraid I don't have the best impression from webmin etc - but then again I'm not the target customer.

Having had a look at your product page it strikes me that you seem to be under pricing though? $99 seems way cheap if you add any value at all. I suppose it's a though market, but $500 or even $1000 sounds more reasonable. Loose half customers, make more money, have fewer to support?

I'm guessing you've gone back and forth on this a lot; just hoping a completely outside perspective might help - even if you end up going with your current pricing model.

Best of luck!
JPL Ephemerides is one of the most complex equations: 1TB of polynoms and still growing :-)
I made a simple bot plugins based in Node.js.
https://github.com/dlion/smagenBot
The Indian software dream
They had ample time to put up a public vote weeks or months ago. Their deadline for submitting a proposal or accepting the terms given to them passed five days ago. They initially sent "wrong papers" to the participants of the EU ministers' meetings. Now the referendum. At this point, they are just playing time.
Something similar is NixOS (uses systemd) and Guix (uses DMD).

Edit: note that Gobolinux came to be without demanding that everything in the Linux ecosystem danced to their pipe.
> They simply don't have a democratic mandate

they were elected this January (democratically)
If most men had many wives, there must have been a lot less men than women, and/or a lot of men with no wife at all. Or perhaps wife sharing would account for it.
> I have turned it into 6 figure a year business.

> While I haven't sold a single theme yet

What?
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And then spend a minute watching the unresponsive desktop because all the deferred daemons being started?
I also use hackernews in this way. My solution:
bookmark this url:
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=android&sort=byDate&prefix=fal...

and when you open it in Chrome-Android use the 'save to homescreen' option so that Chrome adds an icon on your homescreen, which opens the specific page
Germany really really doesn't want to leave the Eurozone. A strong Deutschmark would tank their export economy.
Remarry, duh.
Well, this is going badly; lots of grey top-level comments.

The real underlying issue is: who has budgetary authority in Greece, and what does that mean?

State debt does not usually come with strings attached. Even if the repayments cannot be made, debtors don't get to make policy. The big exception is the IMF. The ECB is now also trying to take on that role.

The ECB is trying to run Greece like a chapter 11 bankruptcy. Not only a repayment plan, but dictating who wins and who loses in Greek society. The critical issue is pensions, which are considered "high" despite that not really being true: http://blogs.wsj.com/brussels/2015/02/27/greeces-pension-sys...

There is an extra factor in the pension system that out-of-work benefits are really not generous or even functioning at all: http://greece.greekreporter.com/2014/06/16/85-in-100-unemplo... So it has become common for elderly people to support younger ones. Cutting pensions too deeply will blow up the unemployment problem.

The question is really poverty+independence vs vassal status. Quite a lot of people are saying they are willing to put up with poverty to preseve their dignity.
If it makes you feel better, most of those financial benefits disappear once you cross a certain income threshold, as I so unexpectedly found out post-marriage.
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It's a sign of a honest leader, given that he was elected on a promise of reducing austerity while keeping Greece in the EU/Eurozone, which right now seems impossible.
He has very popular themes that he gives away, and then advertises for paid products on his theme's download pages (presumably).
They were elected based on their promise not to accept more austerity. I would agree with parent that they don't have a democratic mandate to do the opposite now, even if they could legally do it.
Does your landlord or local supermarket accept stars on github as payment?

There's your answer

You need to provide a service connected to your project, this is regardless of how many people use your project.
When you realised that Python had extremely similar problems to Perl but hadn't even managed things like Unicode support in 2015, what did you do?
Being in the eurozone means that they get to tank the Greek economy instead.

(It doesn't have to be zero-sum, but it is in the current setup! It's not possible for all EU countries to run trade surpluses with one another)
Haven't heard anyone calling it ridiculous before, but that might be our individual Facebook bubbles in action. The reaction to the slippery slope argument I've seen has always been more of a "Sure, why not? But let's fix the same sex marriage first."
nope, no local bank supported by paypal to get verified account
Arguments usually reinforce delusion.
I created Open Exchange Rates[0] as an open source project four years ago, publishing free currency data into a GitHub repository.

It was launched alongside money.js[1] (a minimal JavaScript currency conversion library), designed to work seamlessly together and both found a brilliant response and grew an organic community.

Hundreds of tutorials and thousands of posts and mentions later, GitHub eventually contacted me and politely asked me to take down the exchange rates repository, because they were being hammered by people requesting the data - only at this point did it occur to me that I'd created something of genuine value, and (6 months of fretting and tail-chasing later) I opened up a paid option.

For me the key thing was: I never intended to create a business. It was (and is) a labour of love. We've since grown to be the industry-leader for our area - "good enough data" for the startup and SME market - and count Etsy, KickStarter, WordPress and Lonely Planet among our clients.

Although it's no longer truly open source, 98% of our users are still on the Free plan, which will very soon be expanding to include all features (so, no more limiting by price tiers) - this is how I still feel so passionate about it.

I can't wait to publish the next steps in our journey - where we're opening everything up to the community and marketplace. I don't like where the industry is heading (competitive, closed, secretive) and we've chosen to move towards transparency and sharing.

I like businesses built on a core of open source community, because they're in service to the people who are actually building the products, rather than those in the traditional 'upper levels'. This means there's really no "sales process" (which I'm massively allergic to) - apart from the occasional grilling from the accounting department, who may find it hard to trust a business based on open source principles.

Good luck!

[0] https://openexchangerates.org

[1] https://github.com/openexchangerates/money.js
> Should the germans and the french follow suit with a referendum whether they should bail out greece again?

Yes, and they should have done so much earlier. If the other Eurozone governments would have listened to popular demand, Greece would not have been bailed out, and the default would not affect their taxpayers as much as it does now. The whole bailout programme was hubris, and it is time to call the bluff.
As others have said, the number of stars is irrelevant. The most important factor for success is not the popularity of your project, but the problem it solves, and whether there's a way to monetize it.

I started making money in 2011 with a GUI for an open source command line tool. The open source software was available completely for free, but compiling it was a hassle, using it was annoying because of a few serious bugs, and you had to use it from the command line.

I made money by making an existing, free tool available to people who didn't want to use the command line or compile their own software. I charged a modest fee (initially just $5), and people gladly bought my app to solve their problem. Nobody cared about the fact that it was open source and they could have solved their problem for free; they just considered my app a fair deal.

(I still sell this app, MDB Viewer for Mac, but I've since completely rewritten the open source library it depended on)
For Unsplash, could we get soft-links (i.e. https://unsplash.com/photo/1 would always link to photo 1 of the set of 10 for that week)?
Then I could set up a script to update my wallpaper weekly, because these are gorgeous! :)
We're experimenting with lower pricing, at the request (demands) of a handful of loud users. It has, so far, been a mistake. Revenue is down despite increased sales...sales didn't increase enough to make up for the lower prices.

Our previous pricing was $139 up to $499 for the first year of Virtualmin Professional, depending on number of domains hosted, and renewals costing about 1/3 that. Current prices are $99 to $249, I think. So, it is significantly discounted.

This is also a bit of a stop gap while we rewrite our store and license manager to accommodate monthly subscriptions and to better handle reseller accounts (users who are hosting providers that buy many licenses and expect steep discounts because our competitors provide steep discounts to hosting providers). This all coincides with a migration from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7, which has been a nightmare and has taken longer than every previous website migration we've done, including two migrations from completely unrelated content management systems and shopping carts.

Anyway, you're probably right about pricing. We'll decide after we launch the new site and have ways to provide more flexibility in purchasing to our various types of customer.

I'd like to hear about your poor impression of Webmin. What, specifically, makes Webmin not something you would consider for your servers? I know about some of the persistent myths that follow Webmin around: Insecure, breaks things, incompatible with my favorite distro, ugly code (this is kinda true). But, many of those come from grumpy hard-line command line administrators that think no one should be allowed to be a system administrator if they can't do it all in a shell...we'll never win those folks over. But, I still like to know what negative things people think of Webmin and why they think it. I've pretty much devoted my entire professional career to Webmin and things related to it (my previous company also was based heavily on Webmin, and I wrote a book about it). It matters a lot to me that it always gets better; and, it matters to me that people are judging it on its actual merits (and flaws) rather than inaccurate beliefs.
It's not totally a bad thing though is it? Seems almost natural for a social network to start with a sort of single focus
>The real solution is a united states of Europe

If the goal is to make the Euro work, then yes. More realistic it would be better to roll back parts of the EU, and strengthen other. Environmental policies and free trade is really the stuff the EU needs to focus on and leave the rest to the individual countries.

I'm a big supporter of the idea of a European community and the ideas behind the EU, but I'm very much against what the EU has become. We also need to accept that many Europeans want small, more homogenous states and less EU interference.

It makes sense for Alexis Tsipras to call for a referendum, because on the one hand they don't want to fulfill the requirement from the ECB, EU and IMF, on the other they also don't want to leave the Euro. If those two options being mutually Tsipras can't win, and if they public believe that those two options are bad, they should get to pick which of those options they believe to be the lesser evil.

Greece can't stay in this perpetual economical limbo. There needs to be a plan that doesn't require the EU top politicians to meet every year and which let the Greek businesses know what to expect for the next 10 years.
"Japan is incredibly stubborn and ignorant when it comes to addressing core social and psychological problems in their society."

Not just Japan

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-33...

Politicians in the UK talk about community this and community that but in practice we are losing the ties between neighbours/families.
Sorry, I accidentally upvoted your comment. I don't get why you aren't more outraged by the abundance of "bailout" in your arguments. If a man makes a bad investment it's a tragedy, if a million men make it, it's statistics but if a bunch of banks do it, it's politics ? I want to be able to lend money like a bank and if my debtors want to default, I want the state to give me at least 50% of my money back first and then to squeeze the last penny from the debtor in a long process of negotiations and black mailing paid by everybody's money, because it's for a common good right ?
I picture a visual picture of Newtons falling apple towards the ground with gravity as the rising debt in comparison with Greece ability to pay those debts. It is certain that the apple will fall to the ground its just a matter of time vs distance until it gets there analogy with the ability to pay of the debt. The Greece debt default are inevitable unless the Greece people suddenly behave like German productivity wise which is quite unlikely. The latest wording was that Greece needed the new loan to be able to pay off the old the old IMF loan payment which is coming up end of June. That to me sounds very much like something similar to a Charles Ponzi scheme, you need new participants in the scheme in this case a new loan to keep it rolling.

A programmer spelled it out on a blog entry, its the same currency the Euro, German productivity is rising with x percent per year versus the Greece are falling in comparison with Germany. Combine that with unwillingness to pay taxes in Greece and you have bad funding, non efficient government with high debt.

My suggestion, let the Greece people default on their debts, let the original bond holders take their investment losses on the investment. Give the Greece people back their local currency the Drachma it will then become a cheap country to have a vacation in and people will go there instead of other countries.
Thats exactly what I was thinking after reading this article. If you don't want to make it awkward to explain to your future wife who this girl that you married 10 years ago is, just marry a guy instead.
I've heard directly from an Uber's exec himself that he does not feel safe getting into a driver-less car.
> What is actually happening here is that Tsipras is simply trying to save face.

I disagree with you. He was democratically voted into power 5 months ago to end austerity, but NOT to leave the Euro currency or the EU.

Now that he came to the conclusion that leaving the Euro currency is inevitable if Greece wants to end austerity he does the right thing any person in power should do:

He lets the population decide thereby giving him a mandate to either continue austerity or leave the Euro currency, both of which he didn't get the mandate for when he was voted into power.
Thank you for your input, it's sobering, yet encouraging :).

> It's much easier to write software that fits a simple business model

Everyone talks about this, but how do I find this business model? Is there some methodical way to uncover needed software?

I mean, everyone talks about having industry expertise, but I actually do have industry expertise in a non-software-related industry (I only returned to software development after a 10+ year hiatus). But my industry expertise is worthless for this particular task, since this industry is absolutely flooded with software, mostly low quality but also some high quality stuff. The last thing people in the industry need is another software package (and they even say this).

So how do I find these vaunted "business models" for paid software?
Is your goal to be paid to write your software? Have you considered looking for a job where you would be paid to develop this software by a company that needs it?

How do you envision your open source lifestyle business once it is up and running? (do you want to be paid to develop software or are you hoping to make a business that "runs itself"?)
My mum (b 1933) did that as well. Either my sister or I had to be there when the doctors came round. Nurses were observant as well and kept records.
What about those who have multiple accounts on one site...?
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