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Did you read the article? They are literally responding to this study.

Amazon employees are encouraged to patent basically anything, at least in AWS. Validity of content or relevance to future business plans isn't really a factor.

I think you're misunderstanding - GNU/Linux is a multi-user OS regardless of if it is run in a kvm/xen/etc container or on bare metal.

Even if only one person (or no persons) ever log in, the machine is capable of running processes under multiple users and it is best practice to maintain this so that all users do not share the same level of privilege.

A move away from having man pages isn't necessarily a thing to be celebrated - a well-written man page is an extremely useful thing.

In the ideal case, you might have a quality man page that provides usage information and links to more detailed documentation (that would include tutorials, implementation info, etc.) on the web somewhere.

Jawbone has a competing product, and even Samsung Galaxy S4's latest phone includes some of the functionality (ie: a pedometer) people look to Fitbit for.

My anecdotal experiences with GS4 vs my Fitbit One shows the Fitbit One to be superior, but I'm more likely to forget my Fitbit than I am to forget my phone.

How so?

> Please, if you find an issue like this, be nice. Tell the maintainers privately. Don't post to Reddit, HN, or a public Gist. RubyGems.org is completely volunteer run. No one gets paid to work on it. Thanks for your patience everyone.

It'd probably go a long way if you guys considered making an easily-discoverable security page with information on who to contact, how you prefer that contact to take place and how long they should expect to have to wait to hear back from you.

I'm honestly curious - what's a use case for scripting the editing of files that's not better satisfied by using a scripting language? I see the value of Arch's focus on minimalism more than keeping ed around in this case, but I'm happy to be wrong.

If your terminal is broken, there are plenty of ways (reset, stty sane, whatever) to fix that. I'm also not sure why having an extra binary on my system is a good safety guard against a broken keyboard.

The ajax term case is valid I guess, though I'm not sure how common that is. I was in a case like that a year or so ago and ended up using cat and sed to get the thing back on the network.

Why? We have better alternatives, and clearly things can work without it.

Are you sure that's a reasonable comparison?

I'm not sure they deserve to be called 'shitheads' either - I do like the service - but I'm still disappointed in how poorly they've handled their security issues, particularly the one back in June.

I think I'd have a different opinion if they'd bothered to reply to any of my multiple emails to them at the time.