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Looking forward to node 6 being put in LTS later next month, we'll consider moving from node 4 then.

Really wish Jon Stokes had not left Ars. His articles were my introduction to hardware, and even though this article is from 2002 it still very much applies to every CPU.

We will definitely be checking this out. Our experience with another vendor and ES has not been great. From having the whole cluster come down when we're doing batch inserts for in…

Unrelated to the TI-83 calculator MirageOS - http://www.detachedsolutions.com/mirageos/ Would be quite the feat to do IP networking on that hardware..

Under OSX it seems that DTrace support is incomplete thanks to OSX' dtrace implementation [1]. [1] https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/3617 I think only Solaris has full support?…

Homebrew can "bottle" binary packages and "pour" them on install also. https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/share/doc/h...

I was wondering why the author mentioned _.partial after a sections about Function.prototype.bind. Wouldn't : _.partial(_.merge, {}).apply(this, confs); Be the same as: _.merge.bin…

Not directly related to the tech, but "sealing in the juices" with a sear is broscience. [1] http://www.seriouseats.com/2009/12/the-food-lab-how-to-cook-...

I've been on an H1B visa before. This has been my experience. You forgot to mention it's a tether to keep talent in a given company also.

This is very similar to my experience. I'm from a south american country so I get the "do you feel safe?" and the "what was like to grow up in poverty?" - not to mention the 'la ra…

They changed their pricing for the crossword subscription too, limiting the back catalog and forcing an upgrade to iOS 7. They lost a long time subscriber, who will probably be swi…

I had amazing "fun" with Amazon's marketplace API. Highlights include: - rejection without error messages - multiple hours before the successful call showed up as successful - brok…

As a backend engineer, this is fantastic. Thank you!