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Good point. And I think that is an important consideration.

However, to be clear, he does have smaller scale management experience - most likely consistently, but at the very least during the Trump campaign.

Perhaps he would be wrong for the job, but certainly there are examples of both experienced and less experienced/inexperienced persons doing awful jobs at the helm of agencies, companies, and even countries.

I would also add that being in charge of such a massive organization often means you do not get to make off the cuff or unilateral decisions so easily as you would, say, at a 50 person organization. You do certainly get to steer, but there are many other hands on the wheel.

As for you being CEO of MS, Satya is doing a decent enough job + I know nothing of your background and you come off as under confident in your ability to do the job. So I'll go with no :p

John Dunkin is the pilot you refer to. Do you think that he should be excluded from the job based on his Trump affiliation - or are there specific things he lacks that would mean he would be unsuitable for the job?

It appears that Mr. Dunkin has decades of experience as a pilot and has no previous affiliation with the FAA.

"You have what’s coming to you for the lies you have told to the public and investors"

For a hit piece on Musk, I don't think that's the most flattering quote for the victim in this story.

I think it makes sense to just stick with what you know, unless you have good reasons not to. But since you asked (and mentioned Elixir), Phoenix live view or https://github.com/grych/drab.

> the time frame involved is decades

Usually decades. For example, some early 2000s Ford GTs have appreciated to a multiple of their original selling price

> Every possible best pattern and practice (including the ones that were still a few years away) I'd already done them and perfected them.

Care to provide examples of the patterns? Genuinely curious

> I was so high up on the peak of the C# mountain that recruiters could no longer understand me, employers could no longer understand me, co-workers could no longer understand me

What sort of things were you saying that led to people not understanding you? I can't imagine knowing a language so well that others can no longer understand me

> his specialty is really C#

He used to (maybe still does) work for Google and write Java. Thus, likely making him adept at both languages. C#, from what I understand, is his passion though

FYI that’s a fork of the repo I posted. The fork hasn’t been updated in over 3 years

I fifth Heroku.

I would have said Heroku. But it doesn't appear its as straight forward for your stack as it is for others. However this looks promising: https://github.com/emk/heroku-buildpack-rust

I would have also suggested https://nanobox.io/ - but their pricing is no longer transparent (used to be pretty cheap). It would also involve dockerizing your app.

As for clever cloud, their Rust support is in beta...

I'd spend a short amount of time on Heroku though, if all goes well that's the best option for an MVP IMO

> At least LeBron didn’t demand special tax deals and non-public data from cities to bring his talents.

As is common with other, bigger ego, basketball players

Sometimes you can practice the wrong things, so I prefer:

Practice makes permanent.

So because Google Play Music is worse at X, that means Spotify's X can't be bad?

Or are you saying the bar is: "as long as there's something worse"

I think you need both.

You need to ask/provide a way for users to tell you what they want (fixing or features).

And you also need to observe users using the product.

I always wondered, back when zepto got some traction, if we'd see it become fully compatible with Bootstrap.

Then there's always: https://github.com/thednp/bootstrap.native/

(which I've not used), but appears to remove jQuery as a dependency

Perhaps there's a strategy to reducing debt in the long run that involves taking on more debt in the short term? Spend money to make money as they say.

Slightly off the beaten path, but:

IIRC, roughly, the U.S began transitioning from a creditor nation to a debtor nation around the time of the Nixon handshake. Some argue that period marked the beginning of the end for the U.S as a superpower. Of course, that result has not fully materialized yet - if it will at all.

> Stay tuned though for our completely rewritten release based on very recent technology

Nothing can possibli go wrong

> Which ones? Your repeated use of the word artificial is why I believe you are succumbing to the "artificial = bad" fallacy.

I opted to generalize in those instances. As there are a multitude of artificial colours/preservatives/sweeteners used in the soda industry.

Sure I could have said E150d/E102 instead of artificial colours. Or sodium benzoate/etda instead of artificial preservatives. Or acesulfame potassium/sucralose instead of artificial sweeteners.

However, someone could then point out "well X mainstream soda I drink doesn't have all those". Which could be accurate, as the formulas and ingredients of sodas vary.

However, the vast majority of mainstream sodas use at least one of those _types_ of ingredients.

Listing them all out felt unnecessary, I assumed the reader would have heard of or seen an example(s) of each/some and understand my point.

There are a few others per category that are widely used in the soda industry, so it would be a decently long list - to the point where such a list would likely detract from the point (or not, from your perspective)

Edit:

> "phosphoric acid" From Wikipedia: "Products such as soft drinks that contain phosphoric acid pose no threat to human health in general."

Phosphoric acid has been linked to kidney stones and osteoporosis. Does that mean everyone who drinks a coke will get a kidney stone and break their limbs? No.

If you could avoid drinking a coke/mountain dew every morning and have fruit juice instead, would you live a radically healthier life? Probably not, but it's healthier.

As I have mentioned earlier, it could just be marginally, but I think it's quite strange to suggest they are equally as heathy/bad as each other - which you appear to support

> You can't just list some stuff with chemically sounding names and say "look - scary bad chemicals!"

I didn't say "look - scary bad chemicals!", you did.

> What specifically are you claiming is bad?

I provided a non-exhaustive list of things previously. You seem aware of that, so I'm not quite sure what you're asking here. If the list isn't specific enough, what were you looking for?

> You went from "soda has other bad things in it" to "probably, possibly, maybe" as soon as you had to be more specific.

Sure. I usually don't speak in definite terms - especially when I haven't looked up things of this nature and studies of these particular ingredients for years - probably over a decade. So I'm going off memory.

Feel free to research various ingredients in soda that fall under the categories I've listed (and beyond) and refute them being bad with data. Otherwise, you just aren't being very specific

Edit:

> This is still just the Natural = Good, Artificial = Bad fallacy

To be clear, I am not making that argument. I do not believe this, and this is a miscategorization of my point.

Soda is not equally as healthy/the same as juice. Whether marginally, or not, my point is that juice is healthier than soda

> For most of us vitamins is rarely a problem.. so if we ignored that.

What are you basing that on?

> Then do we have any studies to suggest soda contains "bad" stuff that juice doesn't

Probably.

Look at a few labels of various sodas. You'll often find things like phosphoric acid, artificial colours, artificial preservatives, caffeine, artificial sweeteners etc.

Are these the worse things in the world? Probably not.

Are many of these things good for you? Probably not.

Do they do more harm than good? Possibly.

> I feel like we often associated natural things with being healthy

I feel like we often look at nutritional labels and draw conclusions based off of macronutrients/calories - without much contemplation of the ingredients

Except that soda has other things in it that are bad and aren't called sugar. And juice still has many vitamins and minerals retained.

I get what you're saying, and I'm not claiming juice is healthy. But it's certainly heathier than soda. Whole fruit is, of course, far healthier than juice

If you're in a niche where there are no freemium models/plans, is it still a good idea to offer one? It seems to me that many of the examples provided are of businesses in highly competitve spaces, where free alternatives likely already existed/were being offered by competitors already.

AdonisJs actually does look interesting.

As a side point though, it is much less mature than rails.

Just going off the age, and number of: commits/releases/contributors.

Its GitHub pulse is also obviously not as “rapid”

Rails also has a rich set of libraries in the form of gems - which AdonisJs most likely doesn’t rival

Rails is also used/has been used in production by some major companies. Perhaps AdonisJs has been too, but it can’t be as many

While I'm glad it works for you, this set up would definitely not work for me.

I prefer less ceremony, remote when I like, no open office, etc etc

You might have a viable saas there. Check out email octopus and moonmail (also open source)

Doesn’t sound like a very good metric to use. Ideally companies are actively talking to their users about the product

Users definitely care if an app gets slower every few weeks

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I have a feeling what you describe could be prevented and that if you wanted to load/unload modules the sum of the JS could still be limited to a certain size

> I'm guessing you've never written something that can, for example, dynamically generate XLSX files out of filtered datasets in the browser.

Guess again :)

> our users value fast and regular turnaround time on feature updates far, far more than the site loading a little slower

That might be acceptable, for a time. Particularly if you’re working on a product that doesn’t have many/any backend developers. Or a backend. Or a product where the developers are more specialized in frontend. Or a product where the backend does not have a mechanism for handling long running tasks

But at some point for features like various file exports in the browser, one might want to fix the “why can’t we build X feature and delight customers as quickly server side”

Or not ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

> This limit would break, nearly, all modern SAP apps

I presume you mean SPA, and you’re probably correct. What limits do you think are reasonable?

To me, if a SPA is > 500kb of JS my assumption is it’s unnecessarily bloated.

Gzipped aren’t most modern frameworks/libraries < 150kb? With many being considerably less

Perhaps the issue isn’t proposed limits, but instead the state of most modern SPAs