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> This article is a load of bullshit.

Me and most people on the comments seem to agree, makes me wonder why is it on the top of the frontpage.

which word would you use instead in that context?

I think you are seeing it from the strongly-VC-backed startup perspective. In any company I've worked for that kind of expense needs to be justified. Sure, that's a small fraction compared to salaries, but there will be many such "needs" for many small fractions, and if they are not watched after they add up pretty quickly.

Really? that's cheap for you? that's some thousands a year for any mid-size company. I always saw them as really expensive for something I'm used to get for free. And the paid alternatives like hipchat are like $2/month. I guess it's all a matter of perception.

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/09/23/442921757/episo...

Hi Ben,

First of all, congrats for shipping, and thank you for your work. I'm currently hacking something based on your inbox-scaffold-html5 project. You're clearly very talented, but I have one question. Is there any chance of you ditching coffee script for something more sane like plan ES6 or even better TypeScript? Aside from Github and you guys I don't know anyone still backing that horse. There's just too much people (myself included) that consider it unreadable.

That might be it, but by "on-call engineer" I understood it was someone else.

> At 00:08 UTC, our on-call engineer had been paged and had responded. At 00:10 UTC, we linked the API degradation to the removal of the index.

I'm sure stripe has very good metrics of all their systems, nonetheless that's some rockstar level debugging skills.

Yes, we moved to galera cluster. Even with its random node shutdowns, from my second-hand impressions it's still better than dealing with the pgpool, slony, et al.

> I think there is only one place where RethinkDB is better then PostgreSQL: replication + automatic failover.

I was about to ask. Are you guys running a single server deployment? Because, while I haven't used RethinkDB yet, it appeals to me precisely because PostgreSQL is an absolute pain to operate beyond single node setups. I've heard citusdb tries to tackle this, I don't know if they succeeded but still it doesn't look nearly as friendly as RethinkDB.

PHP wasn't always what it is now, that's OPs point. They are where they chose to go. Probably in the search of legitimacy, they chose to follow the most enterprisey language.

Being laid off and being fired are not the same thing.

If you are talking single server solutions, then https://github.com/progrium/dokku

nice trick!

   traceroute to bad.horse (162.252.205.157), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
    1  hitronhub.home (192.168.0.1)  1.297 ms  4.735 ms  1.239 ms
    ...
   15  sandwichnet.dmarc.lga1.atlanticmetro.net (208.68.168.214)  135.798 ms  140.562 ms  143.798 ms
   16  bad.horse (162.252.205.130)  146.156 ms  142.317 ms  144.713 ms
   17  bad.horse (162.252.205.131)  151.452 ms  141.565 ms  147.824 ms
   18  bad.horse (162.252.205.132)  150.282 ms  151.902 ms  147.301 ms
   19  bad.horse (162.252.205.133)  156.142 ms  159.470 ms  154.836 ms
   20  he.rides.across.the.nation (162.252.205.134)  160.041 ms  161.434 ms  159.902 ms
   21  the.thoroughbred.of.sin (162.252.205.135)  164.983 ms  167.041 ms  165.494 ms
   22  he.got.the.application (162.252.205.136)  171.734 ms  177.575 ms  174.984 ms
   23  that.you.just.sent.in (162.252.205.137)  171.570 ms  175.279 ms *
   24  it.needs.evaluation (162.252.205.138)  174.902 ms  179.621 ms  184.773 ms
   25  so.let.the.games.begin (162.252.205.139)  187.524 ms  194.978 ms  194.625 ms
   26  a.heinous.crime (162.252.205.140)  190.320 ms  193.910 ms  189.847 ms
   27  a.show.of.force (162.252.205.141)  200.079 ms  200.243 ms  200.161 ms
   28  a.murder.would.be.nice.of.course (162.252.205.142)  209.217 ms  200.395 ms  198.943 ms
   29  bad.horse (162.252.205.143)  204.872 ms  200.588 ms  199.948 ms
   30  bad.horse (162.252.205.144)  208.942 ms  210.275 ms  213.851 ms
   31  bad.horse (162.252.205.145)  214.864 ms  215.249 ms  218.883 ms
   32  he-s.bad (162.252.205.146)  225.302 ms  231.934 ms  219.798 ms
   33  the.evil.league.of.evil (162.252.205.147)  224.996 ms  230.585 ms  233.917 ms
   34  is.watching.so.beware (162.252.205.148)  229.773 ms  239.485 ms  229.975 ms
   35  the.grade.that.you.receive (162.252.205.149)  235.012 ms  236.729 ms *
   36  will.be.your.last.we.swear (162.252.205.150)  256.679 ms  239.715 ms  244.775 ms
   37  so.make.the.bad.horse.gleeful (162.252.205.151)  245.136 ms  245.206 ms  244.009 ms
   38  or.he-ll.make.you.his.mare (162.252.205.152)  249.784 ms  250.375 ms  254.393 ms
   39  o_o (162.252.205.153)  258.573 ms  254.211 ms  255.209 ms
   40  you-re.saddled.up (162.252.205.154)  260.841 ms  268.941 ms  265.509 ms
   41  there-s.no.recourse (162.252.205.155)  264.965 ms  264.412 ms  259.975 ms
   42  it-s.hi-ho.silver (162.252.205.156)  269.809 ms  264.429 ms  272.851 ms
   43  signed.bad.horse (162.252.205.157)  273.429 ms  269.227 ms  270.123 ms

What's your opinion on their network? Back in the day they had poor interconnectivity reputation. Do you have any experience about responsiveness to hardware problems?

> Maybe people running those websites want to know that, but as a visitor, I might not want that. Being ablet o tell "how many unique visitors you got today" implies that you can group actions by unique visitors, and thus tell e.g. exactly what I was doing on your website over the course of days. If I'm not logged in, I might not want that.

That's like asking the guy behind the counter in a shop to not look at you because as long as you are not buying anything you don't want him to know you are there. You are entitled to your feelings but if you don't want to be seen don't go there, or care enough to open an incognito window.

> But while in theory there's nothing wrong in tracking unique visits, we all know that the primary use of this is to manipulate users and shit ads on them, nowadays mostly cross-site.

No, primary use is regular analytics. 99.9% of websites on the internet are not amazon. And if the law was for cross-site information sharing cookies then this would be a totally different debate, but it is not.

Without cookies you can not measure anything but IPs, and IPs are meaningless. You can not count unique users because in a given office you get 50 people/IP. You can not count new/recurrent users because most ISPs don't offer fixed IPs.

me neither but, assuming that you _had_ to choose, why not? As a user: you get a single standard non-intrusive message you can disable (like remember password). As a website you have one less problem.

No it's neither straightforward nor fair. Because it's a whitelist (and a short one), not a blacklist. You can not legislate like that, making potentially illegal any use case that you could have missed or any future use case.

And there is plenty of legitimate usages that are not whitelisted. The most notorious is non-shared traffic analysis. Meaning what basic google-analytics offers and half of the internet uses. There is absolutely nothing wrong with knowing how many unique visitors you got today, and everyone with a website wants to know that.

No, I can see that you are not familiar with the law, I don't blame you because nobody is, since it's incredibly vague about when applies and AFAIK nobody has yet been fined. There are hundreds of companies doing wrong things, no doubt. The "millions" are collateral damage.

Even assuming that law was necessary (debatable), the idiotic thing was asking millions of websites to do this, instead of automatically in a handful of browsers. Not to mention absurdities like the fact that you need cookies to remember that the user doesn't want cookies, or even worse: https://twitter.com/jgrahamc/status/633551359774691328

This is great not just from a user's perspective, also the fact that it exists helps pointing out the stupidity of the law.

May I ask at which scale do you operate? Keep in mind that is not necessary (and I believe not advised[1]) to keep all your infrastructure in one kubernetes cluster.

[1] https://youtu.be/-8aUxpVrD40?t=3105

I'm very aware, my point is being an endorsement collector will put you in the group filtered out, at least if I'm doing the filtering, but perhaps I'm the minority.

> get a great looking but professional profile pic up there, get kudos from friends

Really? as a CEO those are signals for you? the profile picture is debatable but the endorsements are just a joke and everyone knows it, people just exchange them like they do with twitter follows. If anything, too many of them would be a negative signal for me.

Completely agree with the rest of your comment though.

the first few links are just mostly references, you need to look a bit deeper. Like: https://python4astronomers.github.io/astropy/fits.html

> I'd guess the IDE have now reached this "fully featured" milestone where most developers don't care to upgrade. So IntelliJ has to switch to a subscription model to survive.

Sorry but this doesn't make any sense to me and I doubt IntelliJ's sales are putting the company in any danger.

Even if they couldn't come up with new features, the programming languages and frameworks keep evolving and the tooling needs to catch up with that. But I can come up with a hundred things to improve from the top of my head, so I'm sure they can too.

> it abandons the original idea of the World Wide Web where a single content resource was expected to be used by humans and computers alike using a unified, simple syntax.

I believe we are long past that idea, it's just too much of a restriction for the web in order to compete for audience with other technologies (meaning apps).

With a little bit of editing Brad could have made a fantastic terror short film out of that video.

I see, thanks for the clarification.

Honest question, how do these companies use OpenBSD? I can totally understand the security benefits of OpenBSD, but it's also my understanding that it's very "unstable", in the sense that they constantly introduce breaking changes. So I don't understand which company would put their "extra-secure" data in such system.