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Actually, we aggressively cached, which led to weird things happening. I posted a follow up about this explaining more context - I hope it gets voted up.

I was on the team at LinkedIn when we first wrote the thing on Ruby on Rails. Here's my writeup containing some more context:

http://ikaisays.com/2012/10/04/clearing-up-some-things-about...

While I'll freely admit v8 is much faster than MRI Ruby, the efficiency gains are likely more related to 1) the rewrite factor 2) moving to non-blocking 3) the fact that the original server ... um, needed love

I think it's one thing to overly minimize risk, it's another entirely to take stupid risks where the payoff doesn't match the risk. I play sports and get injured from time to time (I am still healing from an ankle injury sustained months ago), but it's worth it given how much fun I have - but I still bought shin guards because getting taken out for a week because of a bad kick just isn't worth it (that's more time I could be playing soccer, for instance). It's the same thinking with bike helmets. I want to be around to bike more.

There's an earlier comment about how this makes you a danger to OTHERS. If you're just a danger to yourself, that's that.

Oh, okay, I can buy that. Guess I'm thinking like a city rider. I used to read a lot of bike blogs in SF and in almost every case where the biker was seriously injured, they were not wearing a helmet.

Food is so delicious after a long ride. This is true in general of strenuous exercise. You've earned it!

What's the benefit of not wearing a helmet when biking?

Agree with the headphones bit. I can't believe it when people bike in a city with headphones and no helmet on.

I agree with almost everything said here. When I was living in San Francisco, though, my bike commute was only slightly longer than my bus commute (not because I am that fit, only because buses in San Francisco are terrible). SO MUCH less stressful! I did notice one thing, though: I wasn't reading as much or listening to podcasts as much anymore.

I live in NYC now and fortunately I'm a very short walk to work. I can't wait to buy a bike and start riding again, though I'll need to figure out how to fit one into my tiny apartment ...

I don't think Zynga and Groupon are tech darlings ...

(I noticed that this was posted by Sean)

Congrats to Sean! For people that aren't aware, for a long time, Sean was the lone product manager on Google App Engine, and he played a significant role in helping that product scale.

While Python is a sizeable part of App Engine (SDK, admin console, tooling .. some other things I can't remember right now), the majority of the code is Java and C++. It's one of the reasons Python isn't listed as one of the top needs (http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2011/07/wanted-app-engin...) over C++ and Java.

That being said, it's a very Python friendly team. Guido's on it (HI GUIDO).