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> phone/TI-83 is doing the crypto

Phone? Can we remotely trust nowadays smartphones not to have a number of backdoors?

Indexing for search != parsing for advertisement.

And it is about time! This crazy fuel-consumerism is simply unsustainable.

"Decentralised"? How is this different from a static site generator and an RSS reader?

Indeed.

> Go's runtime makes no provision for interfacing to code that doesn't play by its own

This alone makes Go really unfit for developing system libraries.

>People who retire earlier die sooner

some people. Do not generalize.

At least bencoding has dictionaries.

> proxies (haproxy), routers, forwarders, web servers (nginx)

...all stuff that people should not implement in javascript in the first place.

$2000? That's it? Not surprising that "Less than 2% of all prospective employees end up accepting the offer."

I've yet to see any organization that is planning to be around for more that 10 years buying into this.

> all my apps are dockerized

That might be true in a 2-years old startup with 5 employees. Technologies change every few years. Linux distributions managed has been providing upgrade paths for software for two decades by unbundling components and tracking dependencies.

Bugs Everywhere was one of the leading distributed bug trackers. They don't seem to be gaining any traction unfortunately.

http://www.bugseverywhere.org/

It should have been named All Jazz Era. What? People like Jazz.

> Apart from the fact that it's browser Javascript

Huge red flag.

> TOR

"Tor"

> If your peers are trusted

Trust is never a boolean thing - and always a liability.

Why no 0mq? :)

false dichotomy, again.

You are (incorrectly) implying that the only choices are calling 911 or "being locked in a room with police officers".

You are essentially claiming that mental illness is less respectable than physical illness.

(BTW, much has been said about Jobs refusing standard cancer treatment and choosing a potentially less effective one.)

Therefore, HN does not really represent the development community. More like javascript hipsters.

You clearly don't understand the meaning of "sociopathic"

>capitalism >fair

No, FreedomBox is Debian rather than a derivative.

> Since it's now clear that "many eyes makes all bugs shallow" is patently false

"patently false". Proof needed, please, we have enough FUD.

> defense of laws which guarantee freedom

Some powerful organizations are doing a lot of illegal surveillance for decades despite of those laws.

Shall we stop using HTTPS in the meantime?

> How many so-called "engineers" are afraid to write small, trivial programs lest they be laughed at?

Very few. Engineers love simple and reliable stuff. You might be thinking CS graduates.

> A strong culture can bind a team together in fantastically productive ways. However, a strong culture can also lead to groupthink and exclude voices that would help build an even better team.

You are conflating "strong" with "exclusionary".

>The exclusionary aspect can also be seen as sexist/racist/bigoted from an outside perspective even though it is doubtful that the team intends it that way.

Team members have to be very callous not to realize that an exclusionary culture is, well, excluding people.

Tor, not TOR

> Not all projects are about being sensible. This is "hacker" News after all.

Problem is: people in the node.js community have a pattern of going from the "weekend hack" to the "production" stage in weeks. Code maturity has no meaning to some.