Look into NationBuilder - they are exactly what you are looking for. http://nationbuilder.com/

Don't pay for web development of a one-off app.

I think the idea is "Why C++?" - you can write all of the numerical crunching routines in Fortran and continue to use Python to wrap them all together. In fact, you probably didn't have to rewrite any of the Fortran code into C++ at all.

You already seem to use Python, so the question is why is there a C++ middle layer?

The name of the algorithm is called 'affine reconstruction' and is a fairly well studied algorithm in computer vision. It is great that Disney and co. are releasing software to semi-automate the data input and reconstruction.

What he's saying is that in 5 years, you don't know the type of programming that will be in the most demand. Web development can be seen as the current state of the software evolution, which is very dependent on which field of interest.

If D-WAVE and whoever else is making adibiatic quantum machines which need to be programmed a specific way to solve their non-polynomial reduced problems, then you can bet that there will be a neccesary segment of academic and commercial programmers that start to program using that methodolgy (which will defintely be different than any type of progamming seen to date).

They are paying ~$1.10 per subscriber to Viacom, and they want to increase it to a little above $2.

Yeah, I'm wondering how all of this boils down to how much Bell Labs (or Lucent or IBM or whoever owns the Unix copyrights) is going to start suing for using stdio.h, stdlib.h and string.h!

Those header files are the same as the Java API; and if this is a copyright issue then the authors of those works can still claim it (Life+70 years!).

Did it get hacked into before or after you added the two step auth?

Also, are you using Google Account Reports? It now tells you exactly where and how you've logged into your Google Accounts; I think the SMS that you get are actually from this, not the two-step auth.

I feel much safer with the application one-time passwords and two-step hardware keycodes than any other service.

Does your Linode Server have two step auth to access email? And can you do that on your phone?

I believe that Instagram is 100% hosted on AWS EC2 instances and S3. We'll see if they move to Facebook's data centers.

The $1B valuation of that company would not have been possible without using Amazon as their provider. Amazon is definitely doing something right.

Its not a chatterbot. Its CALO. http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/projects/calo/

Is this the type of crap we can come to expect now that CmdrTaco is gone?

No. If it makes me feel superior to IE users, the story must run.

How appropriate. You post like a cow.

Your definition of "troll" is astoundingly wrong.

People who suffer from Aspergers or Autism (like many Slashdot users) are unable to read those cues in real life, much less on the internet. They are victims of a disease, but your definition lumps them in with people who try to raise the hackles of others on purpose.

If someone does not understand the nuance of your post, it does not mean they are a troll. The inability to read such nuance over the internet is very much akin to Aspergers and Autism. The person on the other end is working at a disadvantage.

It isn't nice to mock the mentally disabled, but you seem to think it's fine. You, sir, are the exact kind of person this story was written about.