I'd just use something like ProxMate, I use it from Argentina and it works wonders. I'd use a VPN por privacy reasons but for now i just enable the extension when I want to use it.
If you have the means to buy Bitcoins i feel there are better ways to get into this money loop, specially the last few months with the recent capital repatriation tax amnesty.
The main advantage of using common table expressions is the improved readability and ease in maintenance of complex queries, after a while using them coming up with a solution for a complex query is quite easy.
Regarding the performance of them, it depends on what you are trying to accomplish, some times theres some performance penalties but in my personal experience (using them in SQL Server) I have never run into a case where the performance isn't good, well that's not entirely true, in cases where you need to return large datasets CTE are never the best solution.
I am like this to, something that really help me overcome this shortcoming of mine was start solving problems from http://www.spoj.pl/ and http://uva.onlinejudge.org. After solving a few hundred problems coming up with basic algorithms became a trivial task.
As another spanish speaker I have to say that the name isn't a problem at all. But I must acknowledge that for the majority of people the name sounds stupid, I wonder how many will get used to it.
I'm stil having the same issue, on the first run it never finishes the 'checking for dinosaurs' part, after a while a warning appears telling me to check if my computer is connected to the internet.
Hey Brian, thank you for explaining the reasons of why the Linux version hasn't seen the light yet, I have been keeping an eye on Backblaze since this blog entry you wrote http://blog.backblaze.com/2008/12/15/10-rules-for-how-to-wri..., quite a while now, and it sucks that there's still no Linux version available, so as others have mention please consider releasing something.
PS: I'm already one of your costumers and I'd love to be able to use your service in my linux machines.
Does anyone know if Backblaze will ever support Linux? I've wanted to use their service for a while now, but their lack of Linux support has being a big turn down, and I don't think they have made any change in their statements regarding this 'issue'.
Wow.. I'm really impressed. Later I'll try it at home to see if it looks this good under KDE to.
Although the price is a bit steep for me (given that I live in Argentina, 59$ represents ~7% of my monthly income), any chance the price is going to go down in the future?. How does this product's price compare with similar ones in the market?, maybe I'm a bit disappointed because of my low income.