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IE will lose at least another 10-15% market share this year BECAUSE of the fact that they decide not to support WebRTC.

I think the future is in this TYPE of currency, but I think the premise that bitcoin is using to "generate" through mining is the wrong approach. I've had in the back of my mind an…

To put this into perspective, the universe is only approximately: 13.798±0.037×10e9 years old http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_the_universe

I'm sorry, I misspoke. Not centuries. 1.2239x10e60 millennia.

Some basic calculations (based on creating 30000 bitcoin keys per second) tell me it would take you approximately 1.2239x10e60 centuries just to get through 1% of all possible addr…

Java's demise was ensured when Oracle bought it.

Don't believe me? Have a look for yourselves. https://www.healthcare.gov/

Ruby is not web scale. Period.

Does anyone else read this and wonder whether anyone competent is handling this project? Even the commentators from this article don't seem to understand how to scale a website.

Why haven't they been able to scale this thing so users can sign up? Was Ruby the right choice here?

Is anyone else astonished at the scalability issues they're having? It appears they're using Ruby on the backend. I had no idea Ruby was so difficult to scale...

ruby fan boys couldn't be happy that their programming language is at the core of a huge scalability nightmare that is happening before our eyes.

I totally get the argument. But in my experience it's rarely the first idea that you end up running with, or that will work on the market. It's generally significantly different pr…

As a web developer / consultant, I have to say the number of crippled businesses I have encountered over the years you would think some of these decision makers would've learned by…

tl;dr flamers > "PHP Sucks!" php developers > no. really. trust us. it doesn't.

To all the PHP haters. Feel free to bask in the glory of knowing pointers and monads like the back of your hand, and leave making useful apps and making money to PHP developers. Th…

I wouldn't advocate the use of antiquated technologies to accomplish this. The idea here is currency-free communities who live just as efficiently as currency-rich communities. But…

I think the only way this system can start to equalize itself is if people start to learn how to live off the land again. Once we have self-sustaining (properly nourished, educated…