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YES. Everybody deserves this. As a manager, I try extremely hard to make sure this happens. The way I think of it is this. On the day you are fired, when you get called in a room, …

Thanks so much for replying. My concern wasn't about permission -- I'm far from protective of my talk; hey, more distribution is great! -- so much as it was the appearance of the s…

What rebelidealist said. In the talk, I try to be pretty clear about what kinds of data are a good case for this kind of storage and what aren't. (In short? Data you only ever retr…

Thanks for posting this. For what it's worth, I'm the author of this talk and the one pictured in the video. I'm flattered it's getting so much attention (I like having my ideas sp…

It's not Django, but I've built something quite similar for Rails, and have really loved using it. The combination of RDBMS stability and the flexibility of schemaless content is r…

I'm more than happy to answer any questions about this gem. It was built as the result of ~2+ years using Mixpanel intensely with Rails, seeing the scaling challenges that result, …

What, in particular, is problematic about them? Do you mean their particular implementation, the fact that they aren't also encrypted, or the general "password equivalent in a cook…

Nice! Thanks for turning me on to that -- I've been looking for something like that. I actually think they're pretty different problems. WebServerUid is about uniquely identifying …

Sure thing -- I built it because I needed it, but I'm really happy to be able to share it, too. You definitely could use this for trial/demo accounts, too. You'd want to think care…

Really good point. Even better, I'd really like these cookies to be digitally signed (like Rails' session cookies are by default), so that they're unforgeable. Seems like it wouldn…

I'm the author of this gem -- more than happy to help out with it. The problem it solves is small but important, and this is now the third company at which I've solved it...so I'm …

Nice, Steve! Always good to see validation of the idea in both directions. :)