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4500 USD / month is great money for 18 year old in Russia. It's 10 times usual wage.

Doesn't help. https://www.google.com/search?q=internet&pws=0 returns only sites in local language. Zero English.

And nobody else uses &pws=0. Real Google isn't "&pws=0" Google.

There is no point of linking to google search results because it is personalized. Everyone sees different pages.

"Set up git" instructions tell this:

  git config --global user.name "Your Name"

  git config --global user.email [email protected]

You have to use same email as in registration or else it won't push.

Github is complicated. I tried to make account one time. I registered and an email address was required which they promised not to share with anyone. But then I found that that email address is shared to the whole world in git commit summary! Later I had bigger problem, with setting up public key in TortoiseGit. Instructions at http://help.github.com/win-set-up-git/ didn't work for me.

Github website also feels alien and weird, like Macintosh.

It's much easier to pass around git .patch files. Anyone can post anonymously (no email or account required) a .patch file on project's phpBB forum. Because it's usual phpBB, anyone can review anonymously and it's possible to post screenshots. It takes just 1-2 minutes to post a patch. Just select your commits in TortoiseGit and click "Create Patch Serial". There are graphical instructions for TortoiseGit in sticky thread on patches forum.

The best thing in this post was a link to http://idlewords.com/ . Very interesting blog.

Windows is fragmented? I use XP since 2002 and all programs are compatible.

Only very recently there are problems: DirectX10 doesn't work on XP and DOS programs don't work on Windows 7.

But still 99% of games and programs run on XP. Can you run a binary executable from 2002 on Linux or on Mac? How about binaries from 1995? On Windows they run just fine.