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for those who don't know, typescript gives you static typechecking and builds to JS. http://www.typescriptlang.org/

That said, node.js can be embraced by being used in places where it's strongest, like packaging web assets, front end builds, package managing js libraries, websocket stuff.

While the company selling the stuff doesn't go into much detail on how node.js is used - when bugs happen - and they will, node enthusiasts are going to get a bad rep for thinking they can use JS everywhere. Not a good idea

Love node.js and happy to see it succeed. I'm not sure if I'm a big fan of seeing it used in places where it's not, because it gives the wrong impression.

I wouldn't use node.js everywhere. I'd say python can wear more hats, but if it came down to something you can't update regularly and would cause big ramification if it'd fail. You're just making a gamble.

If you have a JS bug which wasn't caught, which could have been caught via static analysis, you're going to either go into flight with broken entertainment or wait for a mechanic to update the system.

So to reiterate. Happy for node.js, I don't think I agree with where you applied it. I hope that customers, the airline companies and node.js doesn't suffer unduly because the wrong tool was picked for the job.

The author of the blog post, who wrote a tutorial on how to create SAAS platforms, then complained about the SAAS service he used.

I find that contradictory. I gave an opinion. I don't understand why that makes me the subject.

> HN is a pretty smart bunch I don't think we need you to interpret the message for us, we're quite capable of thinking for ourselves here.

"We?"

> He just might, time will tell. But at least he gave Udemy the benefit of his experience for which they are no doubt grateful.

An instructor's goal to teach his students and be able to pay his bills.

He spent considerable amount of time which, in my opinion, would be better spent creating something superior.

To reiterate, I empathize with his grievances. Outlining them doesn't serve to bolster the legitimacy of his brand or sell videos.

If the intention is to get the pitchforks and sick them on Udemy, I also think I'm correct in pouring cold water on that too.

I truly see things differently, I don't want an end game where mobbing and shaming - I want to key people coding and making things.

He says he creates tutorials on SAAS platforms, yet he himself gives a critique to udemy on their site's performance and practices? To people's perceptions, that may send a conflicting message.

Let's see this another way, author launches his own video website using his SAAS Flask skills and talents.

In any event, men tend to be the pursuers on dating websites. It sounds a lot like bragplaining. Except normally females do it, and they're a lot likely to see you as creepy because numbers are lopsided in their favor.

Not saying you're creepy - but the reason dating websites are a time sink is everyone's ecstatic about telling their story - no one's interested in yours. Even if they were very humble, you'd be competing against 10's to 100's of pastes.

I'd be a little concerned of the culture at Mozilla though.

Mozilla's current board considers pandering to external forces more important than the old ways - merit, the hacker ethic, professionalism.

I can confirm they have vacant positions, I talked to a few who found work elsewhere after coup removed Eich.

It's sad when a company loses its way, but thankfully chromium is much faster.

If you google around for dark matter, you'll find sources, including nasa.gov saying "direct proof" of dark matter has been found already. This was back in 2006.

Theoretical physicists: disprove MOND, TeVeS, Mass in other dimensions, Scale relativity, or better yet, get better data before throwing around theoretical speculation with such confidence?

http://www.foodnotbombs.net/elle_anna.pdf

Very interesting read.

Anybody can be mobbed or subjected to unfair circumstances in the workplace.

While some take such critical offense to things on the micro level, there are thousands of men in the valley who sacrificed so much, tolerated unfair circumstances, and never opted to view themselves as the victim. They grew to be stronger people because of it.

It may come as a surprise, the feelings you're experiencing don't represent what me and my colleagues are seeing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKsOwJ8AGWo

https://github.com/Automattic/wp-calypso/blob/master/LICENSE...

I don't have anything against GPL. It just closes a lot of doors for no real reason.

He may only have one employer before, and it could have ended not so well.

OP: Clarify your situation for us.

Just like Ashley Madison's male to female and bot to human ratio, we'll never get honest stats on this - but it's really easy to bot twitter. There is no mobile phone verification. The amount of computerized accounts on twitter is huge.

From Twitter's SEC filing [1]:

In a new filing, the company said that “up to approximately 8.5%” of the accounts it considers active are automatically updated “without any discernible additional user-initiated action.”

Even that is quite a qualifier. You could have a discernible user-initiated action, then leave it to a bot.

I won't deny that twitter is a great way to get inbound traffic, and lots of it. But your followers, shares, etc. are still hugely inflated. It's really easy to game Twitter. The signal:noise ratio on there is critical.

[1]: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/000156459014...

I always found Gawker's site and comment system to be quite nice. Though I miss the "old days" back in say 2011.

Who is the competition?

Does anyone know what platform runs sites like Breitbart.com and US Today? I see similar layouts on other websitse.

http://wp-cli.org/

There are solutions catering to SAAS/application-specific hosting for both. Wordpress.com / Drupal Gardens as well as containers and configurations scripts you can use to get a jump start.

Both have similar philosophies in the sense you can login and immediately start switching on modules/extensions you want to use. Both are CMS.

Do you have any blog posts on how you manage to scale with drupal? Have you considered alternative solutions?

From my view in using BSD, it's like Linux's universe doesn't even care for its' developers time and sacrifice. Distributions lax on standards, throw out the baby with the bath water whenever a new system comes on the block and leaves upstream and vendors to clean up the mess.

Keep in mind - no one can read every developer mailing list for every project, let alone participate when these things turn into politics. You may see things that are critical of the architecture of a new technology, and then opposing criticism that the legacy systems are outdated and hard for new engineers to understand. Both may be valid, but they conceal something deeper, an outsider comes out of nowhere calling the shots and want to rip up a lot of stuff that works.

All I know is that developers who invest their time maintaining these systems get a raw deal. Maybe the new system, be it mir, systemd, etc. really improves the experience and will work out "long term". But developers are already jaded and heard this too many times.

No need nowadays.

pkg(1) works out of the box now. It's faster and way simpler than apt-get/yum.

> * lack of support for hardware (Linux has gotten really good at having drivers for hardware)

I recommend sticking with commodity hardware and making sure your chipset is supported before hand.

> * ports of desktop applications were not always available, and the POSIX shim to use Linux applications didnt always work without some hacking

Also happens. If only more applications made themselves POSIX compliant.

Normally though, just patching a few things in /files in the port is enough. Sometimes all it takes to port an app from Linux to FreeBSD is just fixes to makefile/automake/cmake files.

> * On the server side, Linux pretty much caught up on performance

Can you elaborate more on what you mean?

> * As the Linux community has grown, the resources available to Linux users are amazing. FreeBSD feels like Linux used to - always having to hack around and try to research how to make it work and nothing quite working smoothly (on the desktop - less of an issue for servers, where FreeBSD has always shined). Linux has reached a point where I use Linux as my primary desktop OS, and it works great. FreeBSD for the desktop feels like a step backwards.

Some things in FreeBSD are painful. I can use both FreeBSD and linux pretty efficiently and get done what I want.

That said, I have the opposite impression you have. To me, Linux seems like a hack and a step backwards.

For one, since linux as a kernel only covers so much area, distributions are left to curate how many of the design decisions go down.

Put yourself in the shoes of a developer who goes out of his or her way to learn upstart, for instance. You invest a good part of your time into the codebase, with a sense of confidence you're going to be able to utilize this onward in your career and future projects.

Then you find, this system you spent time learning is now obsolete and you have to relearn everything, There's systemd.

Imagine if this were to happen every few years with a new piece of software. You want to know why it feels useless to learn Xorg? Because they're trying to phase it out for mir. Well, mir isn't "done" yet, and even if it was ready, other software has to integrate with it. There is a huge collaboration that has to take place between developers learning how mir works, and keep in mind, they're getting exacerbated having a new system replace the old every couple of years. Then you have to manage the snafu of packaging it and how you engineer a switch like mir into the release.

Linux may seem more bleeding edge than BSD, but this is only a veneer. To developers, it's hell having your investment in learning something dashed away and having your time put into some venture you may or may not agree with.

BSD drastically simplifies these pains for devs. There is something called the "principle of least surprise". As well, freebsd's base system includes tools like rc(8), package management, etc. which in turns gives a vastly more cohesive experience.

I appreciate the work of both systems greatly - but few give a really care to the real reason you see drama over things like systemd. From my view in using BSD, it's like Linux's universe doesn't even care for its' developers time and sacrifice.

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I'm all for abstracting the userland out into different languages.

I wish systems like Debian / Ubuntu / Fedora had clear specifications of how they want the interface of their OS to work. Then people could choose to rewrite package managers and other userland utilities in languages they see fit.

Not for real usage, of course, but I always wondered what it'd be like if apt-get we rewritten in rust/golang.