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So to be clear: you care more about the integrity of exercising Arc via HN than you care about your users. Because we both know that writing HN correctly would reduce latency drama…

Please list your assumptions about what ideas I have - since you're clearly assuming I don't work for a company that knows how to write websites that scale. Edit: I find it adorabl…

Based on replies, it seems like you may not have done a better job than eBay. What data do you have to support your belief that you're doing a better job?

Yeah... writing a site as simple as HN that doesn't fall over in a week isn't rocket science.

> We restart HN every 5 or 6 days, or it gets slow (memory leaks). Because competence wasn't worth it a few hundred restarts ago and isn't worth it now.

> Consider everyone who lives in an apartment who doesn't have the option of replacing their lock I've lived in apartments. Giving other people access to your apartment is - in gen…

If you keep your landlord out, you're violating your lease. At least under any sane lease.

MongoDB is considered a complete joke by most who've programmed a distributed system. So.... poor example.

> What an embarrassing post to be occupying the top of this thread. Blaming Markdown.pl for security flaws? I believe markdown.pl is being blamed for over 100 bugs. Not just securi…

> But there are problems --- like, backend processing, or proxies, or routers and transformers, or feed processors --- where event loops are the most natural way to express a perfo…

Your more general adage is useless. The one you responded to is useful. A more useful, also general adage would be "the more choice in selecting parameters to an API, the more like…

Exactly. Money exists to be extracted from fools at their expense, whether those fools are your investors, employees, customers, or all 3. That's real value in the market at work.

If you aren't being DDOSed, you aren't an interesting service.

Google. Amazon. Microsoft. Apple. Facebook. Most startups.

Because high availability is for legacy waterfall chumps. Github's too busy being rockstars.

If you want to make a service worth a damn to the world, you should expect regular DDOS.

Nearly every reasonably popular site on the internet gets DDoSed. It's embarrassing that Github goes down every time they're targeted. Honestly, grow a pair, fellas. It's part of d…

That would suggest people in charge know what they're doing.

This is correct. They needed ~90 dynos to keep up with about 500 qps on their status page in the last outage. Source: http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=4524489

You originally wrote: > Freedom of speech is lagging behind: a company cannot fire you for being black, but can fire you for saying "vile" things online under a pseudonym. You chan…

> You may call it FUD if you wish, but I would either have to be logged out when making Google searches or risk having some of my e-mail with senders and subject lines revealed to …

Engineers have responsibility. Otherwise you're just throwing shit at a wall and seeing what sticks.

I don't think WoW is inherently evil - were you referring to your parent poster, or me? I just think nearly everyone in this addiction subthread is woefully underinformed about the…

Do you actually think Ken disagrees with me? Hint: he doesn't. He wouldn't accept a line of code starting with "rm -rf $VAR" in ~30 minutes on a Sunday morning.