If I had a dollar for every user that complained about my 15MB attachment restriction ...

I liked the configuration files myself ...

Yes, I'm sure this configuration file was violating Copyright https://github.com/CyanogenMod...

It takes N hours to develop and test a solution on platform X.

Given that the platform in question is working, easy to deploy, and fully tested, adding platform Y to the mix would require another investment of time and resources that are unnecessary when staying with platform X.

I understand fully why some people only develop Windows software for the same reason. In our case, we develop Linux-based servers, Android and WinMobile based handheld industrial software, and some basic Windows-based interface software for said database.

Deploying the database system on Windows would be a huge hassle and a totally unnecessary cost to clients.

Sure, maybe ... for the vast majority of cases, I'd rather users *never* send attachments by E-mail and instead use corporate web-based sharing for secure documents.

Attachments downloaded from servers can be verified as transmitted, and how many times, and by whom. E-mails cannot. You can't even guarantee a user received the E-mail.

I believe you. Its incredible to me what people put in E-mails.

I told a security contractor to call me once to get the new password and he replied "can't you just E-mail it to me?"

Basically you want Github hosted in Canada.

Good luck explaining this to companies ... I'm still working over people who insist on sending confidential Excel spreadsheets by E-mail.

People will find a way ... http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?Obfusca...

Sadly, I really enjoy writing code for Zope. ZPT is a great way to integrate functionality to legit HTML, writing Python modules for Zope is incredibly powerful and even without them, the Python scripts and SQL functions built-in are very nice and easy to use.

I said sadly because its not nearly as well supported as that bastard child of the web, PHP. Zope gives Python an API wrapper that makes it easier to write large applications in than pure Twisted for instance, or PERL CGI on Apache even IMHO but its hard to find others who are accustomed to it so it can't be recommended here.

Interesting response: http://blog.codinghorror.com/p...

Although personally I still avoid PHP whenever possible.

Better ... http://blog.codinghorror.com/p...

Oh, did the USA get rid of its right to secret trials and requests for information on citizens without court orders?

When your government watches everything you do, you act differently. Its repression of a different kind, but its certainly there.

You really are on a crusade with those links, aren't you? You're not aware that the US violates more citizen's rights than Cuba ever could? Incarcerates more of its citizens? Denies more of its citizens access to decent health care or education?

Cuba could certainly improve, but the USA is not in a position of moral authority to dictate such improvements.

If its about communism, why does the US not have these restrictions on China?