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I really do think that, as time wears on, we will see more of these incidents of people switching from Node to another, more familiar development environment. It seems to me that a…

My apologies. I never intended anyone to take the Discovery Institute paper as anything more than just a casual study of the subject (by a biased party). I certainly did not want t…

"I understand that sheltering them from the real world is not your motivation for this opinion, but it is the reality of what will happen. Your kids will miss out on a huge period …

Every day, I start up a computer running OS X. Then, I proceed to fire up virtual machines for two Linux distributions, Windows XP, and Windows 7. I occasionally play around with a…

This graph is completely useless. It is looking at relative Google search query volume. Of course Node.js search queries are rising. There is a lot of noise being made about the pl…

I have to apologize. I fat-fingered the down vote when I originally meant to up vote your original comment. I think that my mistaken down vote was the one that initially sent your …

Maybe I'm just weird, but all of this drama around a database does not make much sense to me. To me, it is simple. Do your research: * Go to https://jira.mongodb.org/ and look at t…

At the risk of losing karma, I have to say that I think this entire thread has really gone way too far. Guys, this is HACKER NEWS. I thought we were supposed to hold ourselves to a…

Overpopulation is a hard problem. There are complex socioeconomic reasons for why some countries have higher fertility rates than others. This is a heavily studied topic in health …

It's gotta be a slow day on hacker news when this is at the top page. (Or, is this being upvoted because it is Cringely.) An entire article about web development past, present, and…

The link in the parent is https, try this regular http link if you can't read the article: http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/6/317

Am I the only one that considers all of this ranting about Nodejs to be a little bit strange? I would have never expected a post that was obviously a troll to prompt this much of a…

This is a good presentation. It is a good demonstration that there is no magic bullet for database scalability problems. I love NoSQL as much as the next person, but turning straig…

I started with Drupal around the time version 4.7 came out, and I always thought that the project would have done better for itself by focusing more on its potential as a framework…

Since this is Hacker News, and there are a lot of really smart, numbers-oriented people here, I just thought I'd provide a link to a dataset that looks at income distributions with…

The problem the USPS is having is not about prefunding pensions and pension plans. Their problem is that they are required to fund future employee health care benefits. No other co…

> "means that they're the only govt institution that isn't a timebomb of future obligations" This was the spirit in which the requirement was enacted. I completely agree with the i…

If you enjoyed reading that, then perhaps you would enjoy reading a book that has come to occupy a treasured space on my shelf: http://www.amazon.com/Science-Technology-World-Histo…

Why is this being upvoted? This article begins with a questionable premise and then descends straight into misinformation. The problems in the USPS did not begin with email. They b…

"Then go check the SEC filings." Which ones? There are quite a few companies in the finance industry. If we are going to paint them as good guys and bad guys, then it is important …

"Who gets to decide what the right outcomes are and whether they are efficient?" Whether or not an outcome is "right" is subjective, and is more in the field of law and philosophy …

The techniques in mobile web development are still young. A general knowledge of how to build a site for mobile interfaces has not come around yet. For now, it is understandable th…