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The activercord jdbc driver implementation is particularly problematic because it effectively keeps us from upgrading to Rails 5 (we use SQL Server as backend). There is also a lack of app server options. The Jruby app servers like Trinidad or Torquebox are not maintained. Warbler has issues, too.

Charles and the other devs can, of course, spend their time however they want, but from my perspective, having a well maintained software stack for production deployments is far more important than a further speed optimization.

Its really interesting, that SV VC seem to have forgotten that very basic question: why have the existing players not come up with something like that? Very often the answer is, they have and they tried and they figured out a long time ago, that it probably doesnt work well enough in the real world.

After we had some pretty horrendous experiences with several NoSQL dbs (mostly MongoDB, CouchDB) on client projects, we strongly urge all clients to just use Postgres. The only exceptions are redis (for caching, queues, etc.) and elasticsearch (for ... search), which are just very convenient complements to Postgres. We have never found a single instance where the postgres performance was not as good or better than the NoSQL alternative.

With JQuery and the cookies plugin its would probably have been something like 30 lines. Thats 10 times the code you have to write, debug and maintain.

So, of course, you don't NEED JQuery just like you don't NEED any means of transportation, you can walk everywhere after all. The question is, if you want to spend you whole life walking/writing verbose ugly JS code.

I really think that Apache should stop incubating projects which were essentially discarded by their corporate owners. Successful OSS projects are either community projects from day one (HTTPd etc) or require (at least initially) strong interest and involvement of the company that donates the code. How can you expect a community to magically develop around an abandoned project?

One common theme is completely exaggerated fines leveled against foreign companies. Look at the banks: while doing very little to punish U.S. banks (if you take net transfers into account) who where without a doubt the main culprits in the sub-prime crisis and thereby causing a global financial crisis, the U.S. almost exclusively punished foreign banks - and with that also foreign tax payers - for wrong doings like dealings with countries the U.S. dislikes, etc..

Another striking example is the fines imposed in Volkswagen. While it certainly was immensely stupid to cheat on the emission test, the fines are completely over the top: $16b and counting. After every state and agency is through with VW, it might be $30b or more. At the same time, U.S. car companies that caused actual casualties with there shoddy engineering are left of the hook with a slap in the wrist.

Some sources:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2014/12/22/isnt-it-s...

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/29/business/dealbook/volkswag...

Kinski was a very, shall we say, capricious actor (also, a psychopath and as, it turned out later, child molester) whose intense acting had a big part in the success of Herzog's earlier movies (Fitzcarraldo, Aguirre, Nosferatu). During the filming of Aguirre (in the middle of the jungle), Herzog supposedly forced Kinski to fulfill his contract at gun point. The natives which were hired to help and act in the film also offered to kill Kinski for Herzog because he was such a maniac.

Gives you a search which also tells you where the content is available. You will see, that Germany is hardly ever included. In my (subjective) view, Germany has one of the thinnest catalogs.

Their original content is getting more and more interesting but its just not enough to justify the price, IMHO. Maybe they should consider a package with only Netflix Originals for 50% off or something.

- Visiting a physician a lot? You future health insurance might wanna know.

- Spend a lot of time in the red light district? That must be worth a couple of bucks to your employer who wants to get rid of you.

You might think that this is far fetched and right now, it still is. But 20 years ago, most people would have considered it very implausible and offensive that their private conversations (emails) or library searches (web searches) are sold to advertisers. Well, lets see what (some) people find acceptable 20 years from now.

Concerning people not letting you in: In case of ending lanes (except ramps) you are obliged to let people in. There is always the occasional douchebag that doesnt but it almost never happend to me. At worst you have to wait for one car to pass.

Its 199 Euros which is really not a lot if you consider its 172 CDs. And its not just a cheaply thrown together compilation but it was curated (and in large parts conducted) by Helmuth Rilling who is one of the premier Bach experts of our day. The quality of performance and recording is very good throughout. You certainly find superior recordings for some of Bachs works but I have yet to find a real disappointment in the set (I'm only about half way through).

Many packages in npm are just code which has been around for quite some time before npm existed or it comes from the client and was repackaged for node (underscore, backbone, jquery ...). So to make the comparison fair, lets divide 26,966 by 18 years of JavaScript: 1496/year. Not bad, but certainly far from game changing considerin the inclusion of JS in all major browsers gave that language an initial boost that Ruby and Python never had...

I think, they should just leave it out (at least for now) and rather spend some more time on performance, stabilty and memory usage in MRI...

IMHO, Oracle is certainly the LAST company you should use any product from unless you are absolutlely forced to (like Java, unfortunately, or their bloated DB if your are in the financial industry). Once you are dependent on them, no matter if you are a partner or customer, they will definitely find a way to screw you over. If you want supported Red Hat linux, just buy it from Red Hat.

[UPDATE]: Also, how nice of the to mention Ksplice in the announcement as a quick reminder how they like to screw existing user bases of their products.