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Apparently they should move their blog to Go. Site's been down a lot, and I'm not fond of the campaign tracking stuff in the original URL, so here's the text: Moving to Go Posted o…

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>Perhaps Go or D can fill that role Aha! A question I can answer. This one will be easy: No and No. In fact, I can go one stronger than that. Never and never (although they really …

Eh, you're right in theory, but in practice not really. There's on the order of a 1,000-1,000,000x difference or more between a Numpy version of what OkCupid does, and what their C…

Well. We can't all be generalists.

>maybe it is a very male worldview. or a nerdy male one. i don't know. It's a very open source/free software/bazaar-not-cathedral/nerdy worldview. I know female programmers willing…

I can just about guarantee you they're abusing lensing to make it viable. (Not that that's a bad thing, WoW is the same way.) More impressive is the fact that the server can suppor…

>But you wouldn't do that though, would you...? Right, which is why I also refuse to hand over control of my logging, database persistence, etc to third parties without some give-a…

I could see it being a lot like Palestine, with a one-state or two-state solution. The two-state solution would simply have "China Facebook" and "Rest of the world Facebook" with a…

>How do you know grove.io was dropped for the new hot thing? Because that's what happened to her last six projects? Are you completely incapable of inductive reasoning or are you b…

The track record of everyone else is very poor :)

Hosted IRC is an awkward place to be. Those that don't give a fuck are using Campfire/HipChat. Those that do give a fuck are usually hosting their own IRC. Find a way to squeeze ou…

>Sentry is also open source, but for very different reasons than what you describe. I treat it like part of the business value, but that also means that many people can simply run …

Only if they demand I make them my sole source of food and stop cooking for myself while I'm their customer.

Google is notoriously bad about this by now, though. There isn't much excuse anymore after the last 3-4 years.

What's with the hagiography? Culver made things people came to depend on, then those things disappeared. I don't see how this is any different than picking up women and telling the…

We should take bets on how far the, "we're gone, but here's our new thing!" chain will go.

>If they open sourced it, they'd likely feel obligated to support it. That's their psychological bugaboo, not mine.

The Google API I was using had a 6 month lead time, no recommendations for graceful transition, no offer of data dumps, and the final shutdown date was never communicated.

I don't demand anything of them, but they won't create a dependency where I previously had none and expect to be rewarded with money for it. I am making founders aware of this atti…

>I really meant my point to be a counter to its parent. I don't believe I've ever seen you do anything else on HN. I know you to be a reliable person, no reason to think you'd sudd…

I already have IRC for our company.

The fact that nobody's happy with a profitable, but modest bootstrapped company is causing them to abandon these smaller companies. The abandonment feeds into the consumer mistrust…

I am in the middle of moving an API over from a Google one that got shutdown recently. This has cost me a substantial chunk of time, more than it likely has cost you. I'm viscerall…