Replying to remove bad mod. When for 'insightful', hit 'redundant' instead. Sorry.

One of those typos makes me laugh, especially given the context.

Actually, I just recently started a new project and I'm coding it in Python 2.7 despite the fact that I much prefer Python 3 (byte/str makes sense in Python3, str/unicode in Python2 was and is a mess). The reason is that Python 3 does not have a decent MySQL connector. I hear complaints about thrid-party developers (mysqlf included) not supporting Python 3, but core Python language bindings that we depend upon don't yet even support Python 3. Here, let me quote to you directly from my project's FAQ:

Why no Python3 support?
There is no MySQL connector for Python3 yet.

According to `git blame` I added that entry on 2013-12-04, just about a month ago.

Here is the project for those interested in a database explorer with a focus on breadth, not depth:
https://github.com/dotancohen/squeal

I've seen a few Slashdot links to this "medium" website recently. I think it hosts single pages from different authors in a format that is supposed to be comfort able to read on a tablet computer. Just my guess, I don't have a tablet that will show this type of page (just a hacked e-ink Nook running Android).

I now check where the link leads before clicking it in the fine summary as well as the comments. If it leads to "medium" I don't even follow the link anymore.

That is my point. All projects start off this way.

At least your mom writes dates in her diary entries. None of the blog's posts have dates, so when you're reading them you have no idea if the info is one week new or ten years out of date.

I must say, though, that this thing is a bear to build on my Kubuntu 12.10 machine. I'm not done yet, and I don't see the end in site. It is _not_ a simple ./configure make make install make clean, and the engine that does the work is a separate package from the UI (which runs in a web broswer)!

Sure, Firefox never got widespread adoption. I happen to remember when we had to compile it (it was called Phoenix back then).

That's Newton.

With relativity things get hard, quick. Both time (thus, speed) and space (thus, speed and distance) dilate, mass changes (thus, the attractive forces between bodies and thus their acceleration, and thus their speed, and thus their location), and some other oddities.

I hate to be the one to tell you that it already exists:
http://www.fogcreek.com/kiln/

Actually, even two wheels has not been successfully accomplished yet. Though, to be fair, zero wheels has been done.

The entire thing is actually a reflection of the public's apathy. The real issue is now that the spying has been brought to the forefront of attention, the time has come for society to decide which fork in the road Western society will take: the ever-present surveillance route or the privacy-respecting route. The government agencies, and at their bidding the established media, are taking the stance that spying is the new norm. Twitter and Slashdot readers think that privacy should be the new norm. Arguably, neither have been a 'norm' until now.

Google already knew which emails you have or haven't read. So does every other email client, web-based or IMAP / POP3.

I second this. I've moved people from Windows to Kubuntu telling them that it is Windows [7|8|9] and they love it. Just don't tell them what it is called.

Tips: Firefox instead of Rekonq, Lancelot instead of the default KDE menu, remove all desktop widgets and 'lock' the desktop and panel.

And make no mistake: it will be elimination. Elimination of your software from many clients' servers / desktops.

People like me won't run your software anymore. I cannot risk having your developers changing code running on my critical systems without so much as telling me what they change. I can usually infer the 'why', but they must tell me the 'what'. You don't mention if your customers have access to the code source or not, but in either case a concise human-formatted changelog is such a basic requirement that I am actually disturbed about an upstream provider even considering removing it.