When I first got to Europe, I was *shocked* to see a spreadsheet on a network share that everyone could access, that listed everyone and their salary, vacation, the works. I mean, ZOMGWTFROFLBBQ!!1!

After I settled down and removed my underwear from my head, it started to not be such a total freak-out.

By the time I returned to the US, I thought it was really shady and lame for folks to be kept in the dark, never knowing for sure if they were getting what they were worth.

In the end I actually preferred being out in the open, that also sparked honest and frank discussions about who was worth what, why so-and-so got more, etc. If you're at the bottom of the ladder, you deserve to know if you're getting screwed... And if you're a seven-figure exec, you better demonstrate your value or you got some unhappy staff on your hands. I really, _really_ wish we could adopt a modern approach and shed the whole "Ebenezer Scrooge" hush hush system that clearly was designed to benefit only those at the top.

My favorite is when my allegedly >100MB line is so slow loading web content (not streaming, just web content) that when I go to SpeedTest.net it immediately says "dude you're great at more than 100MB!" but the test results come back before the logo for the page downloads... Essentially I am getting canned results before a 64k graphic can download. Should be called SpeedFraud.net.

Every ISP I've used for the past twenty years have been doing this kind of game. Just like how the airlines oversell capacity. Totally unethical? Absolutely. Illegal? Not really.

Net neutrality is all we got to keep these companies honest, and even that isn't enough anymore.

Stopped reading as soon as I saw the part about Apple being a great company that just makes great products.

This is a killer for me, I just have too many apps to deal with multiple copies of my creds scattered all about my laptop. It's also craptastic for managing access to said creds, too.

I know there are plugins "coming out soon!" and that soooo reminds me of the Windows 95 launch. In the most impolite way, that is! :-)

Also forgot to mention that my primary reason to switch wasn't performance but privacy. *Maybe* Opera can claim that, but being closed source means we will never know for sure...

Brave does their code out in the open, they encourage pull requests, and more. To me that's hugely compelling.

Back on topic - after the switch I was blown away by the raw speed, probably similar with Opera with blockers native (and not waiting for an API hook to fire and instantiate plugin, blah blah). Definitely a fan of browsers with those controls built in as part of the core.

An honest question - I switched to Brave a few months ago and it's now my go-to browser on everything, from MBPs and smartphones to gaming PCs. It is also a truly FOSS browser (see https://github.com/brave) which should ring true to this crowd.

That's one that's not mentioned and really hard to deal with. Found common in startups, the Hurricane Boss is a brutiful combination of all of the above, cranked up to eleven.

I had one, a precocious Frenchman, who once walked back to my team's area, clapped his hands (in a way only a precocious Frenchman can), and commanded, "I want rounded corners and dropshadows. On everything." And then left. Fifteen nerds stopped dead in their tracks, concentration broken, pulled out of the zone. For rounded corners and dropshadows.

I moved my team as far away from the windows as possible as that was where he liked to loiter, but I never could protect them from the Hurricane. Productivity? Focus? Not here, my friend.

I'm a Joomla! founder and I won't ever say it is the best, and anyone who claims Drupal/Wordpress/Whatever is "best" would be talking out of their backside.

Forget about the tech - *WHO* is going to be publishing content for this website? The reason there are so many CMS offerings is because there are so many different mindsets and working styles of content publishers (and so many different coders who program without bothering to ask people what they want). Please please please don't pick the tool based on a techie's input! Ask the humans that are responsible for managing and providing content for the website.

For example: My default choice is Hugo (http://gohugo.io/), fantastic for simple sites that are all about content (and not dynamic doodads and whoo-hah of dubious value). Essentially blogging with a static server, relegating scale, cost and security to relatively low-impact issues. If you want a WYSIWYG environment and lots of gizmos, or are not into writing markdown then this is absolutely not the setup for you.

Pick the tool based on who is maintaining the website/content. The tech under the hood is generally irrelevant, it's about the content, silly! :-)

She needs to love herself, first and foremost. If she cannot pull that off then all the other lessons in life are just going through the motions.

She will try to be a good person, push herself to be a great person, and beat herself up when she comes short. She needs to learn to accept who she is, see her strengths and flaws for what they really are, and *then* find her path.

She will need to be able to forgive herself when she fails, accept and learn from that failure, and try to better herself in the areas that she chooses to focus on.

She cannot let the rest of the world or society tell her what she needs to focus on - this is HUGE. The last thing this world needs more at this point is another sheep. She finds her own path, accepts her decisions, and does the best she can; and most importantly she needs to take the time to enjoy the trip! You only get to do this once, right?

For me life is about collecting stories, not toys, wealth or fame. I'd try to pass that value on to her as well, but I'm biased.

Why not just use docker containers? You can then save the docker image and replicate as many instances as you want, across machines. You can also fire up different versions of the same container on your local machine for different projects (so you don't have to worry about config file stomping across different software stacks).

Yes you have to do the initial setup, but every place I've worked always had the 'magic script' or whatnot that everyone used to pull down needed libs, link files, set environment variables, and so on. Do it once, save the image, and boom! Finish line.

You have a couple issues that you mention - but without knowing the software this advice is all I got for you...

• Hosting: Ultimately you should move your codebase to GitHub where it can be hosted (with documentation and static website for free).
• Contributors / maintainers: GitHub gives you the biggest shot at exposure to the developer community. On top of that, you need to ask yourself who is using this software, and if it is useful to anyone who codes for a living. Again without knowing what software you're talking about, all I can say is either nobody will care when it dies off, or someone will volunteer in the future if access is open and the need is there.

Waaay back to the very firstest of all Browser Wars, when a "web page" was considered sexy if it managed to have an image in it somewhere, I gave up on javascript. This is bollocks, I said, and stomped off to the server in a huff.

Fast-forward to today, and we got javascript in the browser, javascript in the database (MongoDB), and javascript on the server (Node.js). If you really want someone to tell you what to get your hands dirty with over the summer, that'd be my recommendation.

If I were using a standard "desktop" system I'd be running debian, or maybe a debian-derivative like ubuntu or mint. However I'm a laptop guy, and always on the move. My thinkpad (circa-2002) never suspended, resume was just a vague dream, and wifi chipset support was nil.

What is the current experience of linux on a laptop? And I mean, a normal laptop like a store-bought system? Can you just slap it closed and go, and always awaken upon opening? Is wandering between different wireless access points an easy thing, or a major, manual chore? Do you still have to kneel and pray to the xconfig gods when you have to connect to a projector? I've given up on audio, won't even bother with that for now...

These are the things that led me to the MacBook, then MBP - and honestly the only reason I'm not looking seriously at going back to linux is that I'd have to erase a system and lose about a day of productivity just to find out if it was worth it. I'm fine with the window managers and apps so "just boot from a livecd and see which one you want" doesn't really answer my questions. For me it is totally the operational aspect of having a linux laptop: suspend, resume, displays, wifi.

Can anyone vouch for the current state of laptop living in the linux world?

I remember reading that advertisers and brands were getting a paltry 5% return on Facebook campaigns. I cannot take that any further without more data, but it would appear to me that "facebook for business" is no better than groupon (and should be avoided unless you like getting bulldozed by a short-lived stampede of cheapskates).

That said, YMMV obviously based on your revenue model, which is what should be driving your decision making process when it comes to business development.

Missed the question submission thanks to work travel, but would have brought up something that is an ever-growing fear of mine: That the biggest threat to our rights cannot be defeated with clever code and honest marketing, but constant, unrelenting political maneuvering.

If you look around, what shuts out individual rights is achieved through Capitol Hill. Not just in an election year either ;-)

When forming Open Source Matters (and thereafter Joomla) I was grateful to Eben Moglen and crew at the SFLC and think they have other great ideas in the making that will benefit us all. This is a very project-centric view however, and is all about the software for the most part.

That's all well and good, but what is out there to help change policy, and protect (and unfortunately reclaim) our rights to code and hack? Do you know of any efforts that use politics instead of emacs/vim to further this goal?