pavelkaroukin

This article wasn't about equipment. It was about external signs about culture. You can use whatever you love, be it iPad, old MB or Dell workstation with Windows on it. Whatever get job done.

But if company not willing spend money (quite little in the long run) on equipment - this is a sign that this place is bad for engineers since management value engineers less than equipment.

you guys don't get it. if such a high profile hacks happens - it means it worth a lot!

His purpose - get as much money as possible here. And get it now, 'cos tomorrow it might not work, since someone can come up with same idea or bonus rules will change or something else.

He got to the CEO position not because he had a CS degree. So it is totally fair to get that kind of compensation.

On the other hand - it might be totally fair to be prosecuted for doing this... :)

I do not think it will work. If, just for example, Amazon decide to copyright their API and keep their business in USA for copyright protection, another company, who decides to replicate Amazon's API fully will just do it in Europe. Customers probably will not care, since it is internet. Only possible downside here - latency between USA and Europe.

I believe many here have some sort of VPS or dedicated server. Just setup VPN and use it. Just use it. Installing pptp server is very easy. And if you are more determined - install OpenVPN - it allows compression and better security.

i am not quite sure it is right fit. sql and nosql are so different, that "rewriting" module to connect to mongo will just give support, but not actual benefits, IMHO.

I see only one case where it might be beneficial - integrating with another app which already use mongodb. Otherwise it would make more sense to create new nosql based CMS leveraging all nosql features instead.

drupal already do it starting with version 5.x (current stable one - 7.x)

why this should cause any issues?

it is not easy and it is not in visible light specter.

I see this as valid reason. Although, did not see difference on ubuntu and windows. What browser + OS you use?

While this is a reasonable explanation, I see many cases where system fonts set wrong and as a result an unstyled page look terrible.

Fix your browser/OS default font settings. This page have 0 styling and page with 0 styling should look perfect on your screen if you have everything configured correctly.