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Why? As the worlds leading contributor to open source and 40 years experience building development tools it is probably the best acquirer. Would you rather Oracle?

I would suggest the majority of the spike are just playing, will settle down to a small bump.

This is no surprise, virtual delete is common design pattern.

Don't confuse gun control with banning guns. If we look at Australia for example, a country often cited in regards to gun control (and I live there), guns are not banned. You can b…

I am an Azure user and love it, but these articles are comparing apples and oranges. Microsoft, IBM or Oracle include cloud software such as Office 365 or enterprise software such …

One thing people often forget when bagging IE6 is that all browsers were rubbish back then. None followed standards. IE6 was actually a better browser than Netscape and Netscape's …

According to the people who worked on IE that was never really the intention, it was just assumed from the outside. They intended to create this whole new "amazing" updated browser…

> You'll most likely end up implementing an ORM anyway, This is a really good point. Many people start with the "no ORM" philosophy, realize their application needs some way to map…

Because it is not included. You would purchase a base package for say $20 a month, then start adding the apps you want for another $5 a month each. $$profit$$

Product segmentation. Currently this is normally just done by speed or data limits. This gives another option to screw people out of money.

The percentage of businesses that have explosive growth is very small. Most have gradual growth and can easily be managed by just manual monitoring.

I agree with this. Trello could have added a lot more features, gone for Enterprise, but it would then have no longer been Trello.

I think this was the Holy Grail, a regular PC in a phone form factor. Of course you are left with the problem of needing a monitor and keyboard to plug it into when you want to do …

This is pretty much spot on, they get a commission because it is easy to work out, and has the added bonus of an easy to calculate monetary incentive.

I've always thought Oracle's primary goal was to keep Oracle engineers in employment.

They were talking about people.

Bootstrap is not about looks.

As an old Delphi developer myself I probably agree that if you are writing desktop apps Delphi is hard to beat. But less and less people are writing desktop apps now, and most apps…

Can't say I am an expert on the French system, but a quick Google says that the insurance is pretty tightly regulated by government.

This is what happens when you make the health care system capitalist. Despite rumours to the contrary, capitalism doesn't reduce prices, that would make no sense for a company tryi…

We would have people on Mars by the end of the year if that were the case!

> Dave behaves inappropriately sometimes", which may or may not be true He wrote a whole article where he admitted it was true.

I would suggest the main reason they leave is the US is the largest single country market that is accessible. China is probably a bigger market going forward but for western compan…

This is an interesting diagram and my initial thought is that they are all correct. For example the rich often have good education, capital and connections so for them hard work is…

Probably right, but as a male it is easier to ignore when you are not the target.