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This is awesome, thanks! I wanted an alternative to HN anyway. :)

Most middlemen arise out of a need for capital, in this case, advances on books and publication costs. There's a legitimate purpose to them until the technology arrives to displace…

Doing something that makes money out of pleasure, when you are otherwise independently wealthy is pretty clearly a fair definition of "retired" even if the census considers him wha…

Typical dumb web benchmark ricing, (cf. wildly different concurrency parameters). The usage of apachebench in general is unwise to begin with, but if you're going to use it, at lea…

Young(er) dev here: It still is. It's the first, foremost, and only recommendation we give for a C book on Freenode among the veterans. K&R is how I initially learned of Ritchie, a…

What differentiates this from ZeroCater?

My company, in the midst of what could only be called a hiring crisis in which we're in desperate need of actual programmers, chose to hire a VP of Eng when we already had a PM tha…

Solr or ElasticSearch are the best options, depending on your specific needs. ES if you need horizontal scaling, Solr if you need a specific and technical feature.

Seconding what Ericb said, also personal experience. Harming you hasn't amused one of them yet. If you come into a moment of weakness, it would be inadvisable to let them see it.

Ever heard of "boiling the ocean"?

It would mean you can't take anything he says in a presentation too seriously because he doesn't touch the actual code. Then he would have to designate the CTO or somebody in some …

To be applicable, you'd have to be as dumb as the average rider.

You're correct, but Google isn't in the business of providing useful services/code for non-frontend programmers. Cf. Them not open sourcing anything remotely useful outside of thei…

If this means "auto-scaling" SQL database-to-go then they've made it back on my list for that reason as well.

Support people don't get asked to write code on a whiteboard, how can you evaluate this scenario when you're not a coder?

Someone in serious trouble doesn't have time to throw a digital hissyfit. They're too busy humping it down to Mexico. White people problems, pffft. Edit: Besides, I did some good h…

KKKKKKKARMABREAKER Give me the golden shower of downvotes!

Come on guys, 0 points (2334 EDT)? You can do better than that. Lets set a 24 hour record for downvotes.

ROUND THREE: KARMALITY. One disadvantage to downvoting me, you have to get down from your high horse to reach the touchpad of your macbooks.

I think Zed lucky-stiff'd him. Which is the proper punitive measure for anybody that actually teaches the usage of JDBC.

Commenting here to increase the surface area for you to register your displeasure with my commentary. I'll pass along details of the monastery of the Holier-Than-Thou upon request …

He's making recompense for making JDBC part of the first exercise in a Python book. He'll return from the self-flagellation in two years after some time spent at a monastery. I ful…

Verizon has HSDPA service? I thought their "4G" equivalent was LTE and that HSDPA was for the GSM carriers.

But is the 4g support included with Verizon service? 3G is my main dislike of my iPhone 4.

The 10,000 hours meme is something a bad author made up to fit his pile of anecdotes. It's not a fact, it's a number he pulled out of his ass. He never made it about deliberate pra…