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Looks like the "Regulate Uber everywhere" trend is confirmed. Edit: I did not mean this as a bad thing, but as something that's normal and welcomed.

Probably best thing to do would be to talk about it with your employer and ask for a written agreement. If it's not conflicting in any way most employers will accept.

Worth mentioning: 1. Ready Player One 2. On The Road (re-read)

"powerful", "really slick", "awesome". For a tool aimed at developers, I'd surely enjoy more technical terms.

A company that does not trust the employees and tracks them is a company that runs by all the wrong principles. And most likely one in which you don't really want to work in. Also, is it just me or that "friend that is tracked" story sounds a bit manufactured?

Awesome share!

iRoot. uRoot. Everybody Root.

Even if it's not > 10k on all markets it's gonna get there in the next hours

That's most likely the case. There's even no need for bots or automated ways, the ruling party has a lot of followers which are know to follow orders. Plus, there's been plenty of times when they bought votes and people support.

No, no chance Firefox could get back to owning 20% or 30% again. Just look around you, how many of the people you know made the switch? Most of the people I know gave the new FF a try, concluded that it's fine and got back to Chrome. Right now, there's just no reason to switch. Also, everybody's going about FF consuming less memory than Chrome, but in my short personal test there was no real difference.

yes, yes, yes.

Uhmm, the article actually contained the phrases "Don't use Mongo" and "pick PostgreSQL" so it's kinda asking for a duel between the two in the comments.

Agree, the mantra of success is: GET SHIT DONE! Customers do not care what's your code coverage or how maintainable is your code. Or if it's Mongo or Postgres. They want features, they want it now, and if you can't deliver that because you are too busy refactoring that's bad.

Well, this discussion here is now about Mongo

TL;DR: Trust me. I should know.

that is tomorrow's rant.

Yup, people stuck on optimising (or overthinking which datastore to use) before actually having a business are missing the point.

MongoDB/NoSQL is deployed and used at large scale by companies like Facebook, Ebay and many others. That's quite far from "no one is actually making that choice nowadays".

Wasn't really aware about MoCo and their deals with all major search engines.

One thing that troubles me is why does a non profit open source browser buy premium offline ad space to promote itself? There's a huge "The new Firefox" ad in down-town Berlin.

Was fighting with the idea that I'll have to constantly keep an eye on TechCrunch's Twitter account, waiting for "The Tweet", where tickets are being made available. But, in the tradition of a hackathon, why not hack it ?! So I made myself a bot that streams in all TC Twitter activity and emails/texts me when tickets are available. That went out pretty smoothly, so why not make it public, for other to use too. The final result it's what you now see at https://getmetothehackathon.co/ Feel free to use it and join me at the Disrupt Berlin Hackathon.

A couple of months ago, I've started using AWS Lambda for a side project. The actual functions were pretty easy to code using `nodejs` and deploying them with `serverless` but the boilerplate to opening them via an http API was the real bummer. IAMs, routing and all kind of other little things standing in the way of actual productive work. Some time after that I tried to setup GCloud Functions and to my surprise that boilerplate was minimal! Write your function and have accessible with just a couple of commands. IMHO GCloud Functions is way more developer friendly and AWS Lambda.

A couple of days ago I created “jazzup” a fun cli utility that adds a soundtrack and movie quotes to your long running boring commands. Check it out on npm : https://www.npmjs.com/package/jazzup