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Bummer. I loved his read of the news segments during Morning Edition. So much so that I asked he record the voicemail message doing a similarly styled opening.

Yep https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/python/appl...

Shameless self promotion - I just wrote up a little doc [1] on using Locust and Kubernetes to run and scale distributed load tests along with some sample code [2].

I looked at JMeter and Gatling as alternatives but they were either a bit clunky (JMeter) or not distributed out of the box (Gatling). Late in the game I did discover Tsung (Erlang) but didn't get time to try it out - looks pretty powerful though.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/solutions/distributed-load-testing-...

[2] https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/distributed-load-test...

While this generally works best for larger code bases, I tend to start reading through open bugs/tickets and find things that appear easy. Then I will assign them to myself and do what I can to fix it or at least track it down.

Generally I find it hard to just start reading through packages, source, functions, etc. and find it much easier to try and solve some sort of problem. By tracking and debugging a particular issue through to the end, I find a learn a lot about the codebase.

Perhaps I'm missing something. It appears that the author is recommending against using Hadoop (and related tools) for processing 3.5GB of data. Who in the world thought that would be a good idea to begin with?

The underlying problem here isn't unique to Hadoop. People who are minimally familiar with how technology works and who are very much into BuzzWords™ will always throw around the wrong tool for the job so they can sound intelligent with a certain segment of the population.

That said, I like seeing how people put together their own CLI-based processing pipelines.

Totally agree. It's usually pretty clear who has taken the time out to read about your background and who hasn't. I like responding and connecting with the ones that do their research.

How do you know that Apple didn't prove their efficacy to the city?

You're comment comes off as incredibly naive - why should Apple have to foot the cost? Are you suggesting that all technology products should be given for free to educational institutions unless they're educational efficacy can be proven?

I fail to see how this is different from schools buying desktop or laptop computers. They're still computers running applications - which is where the true educational component comes into play. If the software is worthless than sure, it's probably pointless but with a working software solution than why can't this be effective?

Wow, there are a lot of issues with this article.

First off, startups don't represent all of Silicon Valley so to say this is a valley problem by using startup-only-centric data is disingenuous at best.

I'll admit that I find the lack of diversity amongst founding teams problematic but this article doesn't raise any kind of awareness to the source of the diversity breakdown. The author just jumps to a broad, unsupported conclusion so quickly that it undermines any actual rational, legitimate discussion of the topic.

"There is nothing special in Go that makes it particularly well suited to video games, but on the other hand there is nothing inherent in the language that makes it a bad choice, except for the fact that it's new and not well supported."

I would say that "new and not well supported" makes this a potentially bad choice for shipping code. Not to say that it can't be used but the problem with new technologies is that not all warts have been properly exposed and you can open yourself up to major headaches.

A screenshot is a nice to have, or something that qualifies as a legitimate request, but it's not critical nor would I expect it to be off putting if not provided.

Hrmph. Not according to my mother-in-law. As a father I'll never understand the bond between mother and child.

I'd be curious to hear about their backup/restore procedures with just ephemeral storage.

As I understand it, those 4 still think there are 5 nodes in the set (just that one is down) so you can still establish majority voting because the set size is 5.

"Basically we felt that we wanted to prove you don’t have to charge $600 to deliver a phone that has the latest-generation technologies."

That's disingenuous. Without LTE this phone does not have the latest generation technologies. I think Google screwed up with the Nexus 4. The previous Nexus phones were definitely flagship, top of the line devices. This one is already obsolete before it even ships.

Maybe I'm just naive but it seems that if the TSA were significantly more transparent about how they deploy new screening procedures, US travelers would hate them a little less.

Why not just say safety testing results were inconclusive and in the best interests of passengers we'd prefer a more efficient alternative?

Meh, whatever. I'm still going to opt-out until I'm required by law to go through whatever contraption they have deployed.

I disagree. Given what the app is about, I don't care about the UI. In fact, I'd rather they spend more time on the backend than on the website - at least to get started. Bootstrap is familiar, it's not bad - there's a difference.

Once the service is proven to work and they've got customers, I'm sure a UI refresh would happen. At this stage it's probably more important to worry about the things that matter most to the longevity of the project.

You're totally right by the way. My initial reaction was so annoyed that the whole thing even happened the way that it did.

It's not like I know the guy but you listen to enough podcasts and read enough blog posts that you feel like you sort of understand the person.

Ultimately I was just very surprised.

Marco should definitely have known better and not involved his paying customers in a squabble between himself and a publisher (who in turn didn't have a problem with the service itself).

I'm glad he admitted fault and has corrected the issue but I'm left with less confidence in the service. He needs to separate his defense of Instapaper/himself from impacting his user base. Regardless of 9to5Mac's actions here, Marco went overboard in censoring their content.

Good point, I should have been more specific and not say "personal hygiene" across the board.

My problem is when people cut their nails in the office let them fly all over the place without cleaning them up. That's the image that came to mind in the parent's comment and it grossed me out.

Essentially, if whatever you're doing involves leaving visible bits of you behind (e.g. nail cutting) please do it at home or in the bathroom at work.

Good god that's a serious nay. Do that in your own home not at the office (unless you have a private office where I can't see it). Personal hygiene should be taken care of before coming to work.

I'm not trolling you when I ask this, I'm simply curious.

Of the open source projects you follow, how many still do builds for Solaris? How often do you have to build them yourself?

What's the overlap of users who (a) have trouble with login forms and (b) leave their email open all the time (whether browser or dedicated app)? This relies on a very high level of comfort with email and context switching.

This could potentially introduce an increase in spam if users are now instructed to click on links in emails blindly as long as they match a site that they're familiar with.

Leaving one app/tab for another seems like bad UX to me. This doesn't seem any better than the OAuth dance, even if it uses a much more seemingly familiar mechanism.

I'm wondering (aloud, I suppose) if it would make sense to support keyboard navigation. From a lazy perspective it would be nice not to have to mouse to each popover and hit "next" but then you might lose the "tour" feeling with people just moving on indiscriminately. Any folks who actually study/do UX care to comment?

You put a lot of work into this article and wrote quite a few great tips when looking for a place to live in SF.

Unfortunately you undermined the entire post with your "immigrants" comment. In fact you made yourself look like a huge bigot. That sucks because it was otherwise well written and useful.

It's sad that this is going largely unnoticed by the rest of the comments on this post.

People conveniently forget that multiple flops also happened on Jobs' watch. For all the talk of his ability to say "no", maintain focus and never sacrifice UX they still produced the G4 Cube and iTunes Ping, among others.

Interesting perspective but I have to say there are quite a few companies working the whole "open source the code, charge for consulting, etc." thing. Just in data alone, Cloudera, Data Stax, Basho, 10gen and Hortonworks come to mind.

My point is that thousands of people get paid to work on open source projects. The project might not be their original creation but they still get to give back by producing something that everyone can use. Isn't that really the point anyway?

EDIT: added a missing 'not'

The app looks promising but you'd have to show a bit more before I create yet a other account.

How much research/interviewing did you do before building the UI/UX? I ask because I'm curious to know your findings, e.g. an outline style expandable list of stories performed better than the magazine style that was popularized by Flipboard.

Also, is there an easy way to collapse similar stories. I hate reading the same story about Apple 10 times from different news sources (not picking on Apple, just as an example).

For the folks out there using Tornado in production, what database (if any) are you using it with? Are you using an async interface to your database (assuming one is available)?

The best part? There's no one "right way", each one has it own ups and downs. Too few authors do this these days and think they have all the answers to everyone's problems.

Not necessarily trying to take anything away from Mr. Chopra here, but the article is (unfortunately, amazingly) light on noting his accomplishments. They didn't even try to summarize or link to news stories documenting what he accomplished as CTO.

What is the function of this role? Is it to define the administration's technology strategy? Is the CTO involved in policy and legislative discussions?