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six··on Show HN: WhatStats - A chat analytics service for WhatsApp
We've just launched into public beta, please give it a try and let me know how it goes. Bugs are being ironed out as we discover them!
six··on Programmer Competency Matrix
Not to start another flame war on (T|B)DD, but (T|B)DD does not guarantee competence in any way, and I wouldn't force it on any of the engineers who work for me.
six··on Facebook tries Google's WebP image format; users squawk
The funniest thing about this article was the image comparison between JPG and WebP, saved as JPEG-vs-WebP.jpg. Nice one CNET.
six··on Live map of London Underground Trains
Good luck getting access to it though (especially the National Rail one), I tried and failed.
six··on MongoDB writes to be safe/verified by default
Sadly it seems that the "ubuntu generation" of people who don't RTFM have won out.

The sheer amount of recent MongoDB hate has been extremely annoying, not to mention the half-assed reasons for justifying it - we've learned a lot of things from running MongoDB at scale, and none of them are what the haters usually whine about.