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If you want to testify, asking them to subpoena you seems smart. I can't see how a subpoena could make testifying look worse, and yes, it just might alleviate some employers' conce…

Thanks for sharing the examples -- really appreciated. I'm not convinced that HTML is preferable to other representations of the DOM, particularly for representing UI's and applica…

Having a preference for reading HTML seems fair, though I prefer closing parens to closing tags for short bits, and the JS formatting problem is one you've already got in the rest …

Big fan of React. For others using it, why use JSX instead of just doing everything in js? In other words, why is HTML like this: Lorem ipsum... Preferable to something like this (…

Promises help with this quite a lot. http://promises-aplus.github.io/promises-spec/ What 3.2.6.2 means is that any thrown exception is caught and turned into a rejected promise whi…

Reliability is gold. Thanks for the pointers. I will read up on GIN and hstore. If nothing else, duplicating an element from a doc column to a first class field seems reasonable. A…

It's only one of several interesting comparisons in the slides, but I think we need more data points on the disk space to make use of the data. Does it grow linearly? probably, but…

Do you have any thoughts on expression indexes? Assumed I would have to pull out fields from the document to index reasonably on pgsql, but this presentation at least shows that si…

Thanks for writing this article! There's a lot here that seems to apply to equality in general, not just gender equality. I have two daughters, bi-racial. I struggle with what I th…

I think it's possible to get many of the benefits by decomposing your back end into logical subsystems (still running in the same process, etc.) or vertical slices from the get go,…

Ethics: +1

"Flaw" seems strong. If you have a small enough and strong enough team, the approach makes a lot of sense to me. I wonder how big the original Storm team was.

The article doesn't even speak to the obvious rebuttals: 1) the "touch screen" Android interface is mostly driven by buttons, 2) the iPhone was launched 11 months earlier, 3) the b…