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.
Yes, but he's noting that a younger engineer may have never encountered a system with multiple users, so wouldn't think that being able to open a privileged port is more terrifying than being able to spin up netcat on 10032.
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.
That's too bad. When I was getting started, the best documentation available to me was the man pages (this was before I had an "always-on" broadband connection) and TLDP's "Linux HOWTO's". I printed many of them and took them with me to high school to study in class.
It's great that we have blogs and such nowadays where anyone and everyone can contribute their own documentation, guides, tutorials, etc., but there was something awesome about having a single, centralized, authoritative HOWTO covering a particular topic.
I have gotten so used to just googling for information that when I'm working on OpenBSD I have to consciously remind myself that the best, most useful, and authoritative references are already installed locally. And all ad- and tracking-free.
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.
iPhone has an app called Moves which is remarkably accurate (http://www.moves-app.com/). I'm getting fairly similar results from my jawbone. I believe the discrepancy is due to the fact that I don't have the phone on me when I'm at home.
> 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.
