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I believe it's actually $500/month for just this "Enterprise" subscription, which gives you some level of support and access to a bunch of themes and plugins. Seems like the VIP level is different, and includes 24/7 phone support.

Will be interesting to see how the support actually stacks up. My experience with another popular "enterprise" Wordpress platform was been shockingly subpar (bad enough that we just bailed out and ate the loss since we paid a year up-front).

Not true. The company site/blog may be the responsibility of a non-technical marketing person, for example. $500/month hosting plus some chunk of that person's time is much, much cheaper than hiring a PHP developer who must then work with the marketing person to implement the changes.

The premise of this article is that we'll all move back to the JVM because database access on spinning disks is slow, and when we all get SSDs then the speed difference between interpreted, dynamic languages (Ruby/Python) compared to anything on the JVM will become significant. Before it was insignificant because database access time dominated the duration of a request.

I completely disagree.

If equally slow database access makes the language comparison useless, then equally fast database access will be similarly pointless. The slow, dynamic language gets the same speedup, and now can return a page in 50ms instead of 300ms; the static language on the JVM returns the page in 30ms instead of 250ms -- that doesn't matter for serving pages to people.

Ruby and Python have become popular to use for writing web applications because the development process is pleasant and forgiving to newbies.

If you need to scale a site and really squeeze out performance, then you're already going to employ smart caching strategies and maybe move off the dynamic language as well (e.g. Twitter). If you get a "free" speedup from SSDs, you have even less need to switch off the slow, dynamic language.

Here's a gotcha related to Pingdom -- if your account isn't set up properly, you can run out of SMS credits which means you may not get that critical SMS alert!

I think tldr.io is neat, but repetitive self-promotion is really not appropriate here (not to mention that these self-promoting comments don't even disclose that you are one of the people behind tldr!). Most of your recent comments are the same type, and you even had a self-promoting submission killed already. Please stop. Thanks!

I'm not familiar with fish, but highlighting search phrases from grep is a standard grep option (`--color`, or `--color=auto`)

Open floor plans have been a common thread in my first- and second-hand startup experiences. However, I think this is more due to startups not spending money on office space than anything else. As a startup grows beyond a core group of hackers, the open floor plan stops being a nice thing and starts becoming a hindrance to productivity.

I like the idea of private offices that are shared among 2-3 people, as long as there is also ample lounging/social space. If the latter is not available, then open floor plan with headphones is preferable.

Are people really having such trouble with the context of this article? The author's name is in the headline (maybe it was modded in later, to be fair), but also there's an "author" link[0] in plain sight. PG's essay's don't have a "who am I" introduction, and if you didn't know who he was then you'd simply click on the obvious "bio" link.

[0] http://www.foundersatwork.com/author.html

There's an "author" link: http://www.foundersatwork.com/author.html

Don't become a slave to your lists, sure, but some basic organization can go a long way to increasing your productivity as well as giving you the ability to look back and review what you did.

I don't know why he was hellbanned; I was just explaining the purpose of hellbanning. FWIW after skimming through josephcooney's history, I am also mystified as to why it happened.

The purpose of hellbanning is precisely so the person in question doesn't know.

New York, NY -- Tapad -- fulltime backend developers/intelligent, motivated people

Tapad is a advertising technology company, specializing in real-time buying and making sense of the fragmented world where every user and household has multiple device, from smartphone and tablets to connected TVs and laptops.

On any given day, I might work on:

* scaling our 100% Scala-based infrastructure to handle billions of requests per day with 95th-percentile response times in the low 10s of milliseconds

* adding features to our back-office webapp (Play) to help our account team manage dozens of campaigns and hundreds of strategies.

* analyzing billions of rows of data to uncover performance anomalies

* testing machine learning algorithms on said data, to create models that improve performance

* practicing my foosball game to ensure foosball dominance in the office

Tapad is a fun, growing place to work on high-performance software with a bunch of great people. We just recently took over the office next door to get more space. The dev team is a lean, mean crew. Drop a note to toby at tapad dot com.

Do you mind saying roughly how much the IV subscription costs? All I could find was "email for quote".

Can we get a [2009] in the headline?

That they are from companies that were not represented in the first group.

New York, NY -- Tapad -- backend developers/intelligent, motivated people

Tapad is a advertising technology company, specializing in real-time buying and making sense of the fragmented world where every user and household has multiple device, from smartphone and tablets to connected TVs and laptops.

On any given day, I might work on

* scaling our 100% Scala-based infrastructure to handle billions of requests per day with 95th-percentile response times in the low 10s of milliseconds

* adding features to our back-office webapp (Play) to help our account team manage dozens of campaigns and hundreds of strategies.

* analyzing billions of rows of data to uncover performance anomalies

* testing machine learning algorithms on said data, to create models that improve performance

* practicing my foosball game to ensure foosball dominance in the office

Tapad is a fun, growing place to work on high-performance software with a bunch of great people. We just recently took over the office next door to get more space. The dev team is a lean, mean crew of five. Drop a note to toby at tapad dot com.

The point is that they cannot distinguish the encrypted partition from random garbage.

I'd appreciate an invite as well. Email in profile, along with submission and comment history of course.

You can use conditional breakpoints and watch expressions in gdb, too. It works how you would expect, not dissimilar to the GUI way.

One advantage is that gdb might be available in more environments.

In general, whatever you are more comfortable with is the better tool. I prefer command-line interfaces for most things, but find it easier to set breakpoints by clicking next to a line of code.

> If this is any indication of the future of software distribution in general, I think I’m going to just give up and go into farming. AFAIK there are no DRM or geolocation limitations on farming equipment yet.

It seems the author is not familiar with global biotech company Monsanto and its genetically restricted seeds.

Looks nice! Congratulations on moving forward with your project rather than letting it languish.

Quick feedback: there's a typo in "sign, sealed, delivered"; should be "signed" rather than "sign".

The money argument doesn't hold; it's $10/year for a domain name and hosting is free on github pages or heroku.

Modes and commands in vim are well designed and useable for an expert, which is the entire point.

Various media I've read makes the same claim that arresting Assange would violate the Vienna convention, including the linked article from GP. Seems like the main topic is this:

    Article 31. The host nation may not enter the consular premises, and must protect the premises from intrusion or damage. [0]

I don't really believe the UK is going to march into the embassy and take Assange; can you imagine the political fiasco that would arise? The letter was probably meant to add pressure to use as a negotiating tactic.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Convention_on_Consular_R...

The UK has asserted[0] that they have a legal basis for arresting Assange even while he is inside the Ecuadorian embassy. They cite the Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act 1987; the counterpoint is the Vienna convention and centuries worth of international law.

[0] http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/aug/16/julian-assange-e...

Effective use of macros or inlining could solve that problem.

My first thought is that there are too many options, and the privacy option should really be a user-controllable setting to begin with.

That is quite a savings. The Chinese-assembled boards can have a defect rate of up to 50% and still be competitive with the original price (ignoring time lost and extra shipping charges).

It's actually based on ScalaQuery (http://scalaquery.org/).