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Do you recommend any particular alternative to New Relic? In particular, I'd be interested in something that helps answer the questions "How much memory am I using, and what's usin…

I think most people would be OK with an additional flat fee so long as the notice is clear and conspicuous. For example, if I were renting a space daily and had to tack on a flat c…

Hypothetically, what if you actually believed it in every instance? That is, what if you genuinely felt (as I do) that nearly all jobs are hard. Granted, some may be harder than ot…

> common tooling like benchmarking and profiling tools And might I add: A debugger! For both shaders and the entire GL state. Yes, 3rd party tools exist. But more often than not, I…

> I really liked the modified Platinum UI from MacOS X DR2 code named Rhapsody, though it could have used some polish Interesting. I feel like the current OS X UI is just that: Rha…

Which one is your favorite? Googling turned up several.

> but they don't age well...In general, a flat icon tends to age better and reduce "eye exhaustion" Two thoughts on that: 1) Is that just an opinion? (If so, there's obviously noth…

Philosophically or practically: What's the justification for nearly everyone switching to flat design? Is there any articulable reason it's "better" than the rich, three-dimensiona…

> I can't think of any better way of describing black. That's probably the most precise and scientific definition of true black, but it's not how most people imagine a black materi…

It's not a Rails vs Django feature comparison that gives Rails the edge. Convergent evolution means they're pretty much on par with each other all the time. The difference is in th…

I think we have almost the same opinion, actually. I said Ruby's " web dev ecosystem ...feels much larger to me." I agree that Ruby's strongest niche is web dev. And I think it has…

> Silencing the ongoing debate, even if one side or the other is obviously delusional, is completely contrary to the spirit of science. A news outfit does not have the power to sil…

Other than the scientific method, how would you propose humankind gather the information needed to make important decisions?

> Climate change scepticism is not a fringe view, but moderately widely held Amongst 1) the general public, 2) scientists in general, or 3) climate scientists specifically?

My take on Ruby vs Python is this: While Python has a healthy web dev ecosystem, Ruby's feels much larger to me. That's almost certainly because Rails is so wildly popular. And Rai…

For any given fringe view that the media properly marginalizes, some people will go on believing it. But that doesn't mean the number of believers (or undecided people) will stay t…

Apparently it's being used at Facebook. If they actively injected life into the D ecosystem to the same extent Google does with Go, the momentum might pick up substantially. Look a…

True--in principle any language can be executed in the JS runtime. A lot of them can even be executed reasonably quickly. Though I suppose the parent comment was asking whether a m…

> Most of this frameworks enable sessions by default True, but in my experience, the major frameworks don't automatically lock out users with cookies disabled. For example, on a Ra…

I understood this to be something different from what Schneier describes. (Though I could be mistaken.) I took this to be primarily an API for Internet applications to verify an en…

There are a few scenarios where I, as a developer, would find it very helpful to be able to verify real-world identities. For example, I've worked on applications where there were …

Depending on the implementation, it would be possible to limit the government's collection of data to the following: 1) The underlying identity info such as SSN, photo, name, birth…

Good to know. In that case, probably the biggest distinction between HuffPo and HN is that HuffPo displays the content on their own site. For some writers, that might be a plus. Fo…

What are Huffington Post's intellectual property terms? That could be a big distinction between Huffington Post and HN. On HN, nobody signs over any IP, nor does the copyright hold…

Oh yeah, absolutely! I didn't mean to imply you should never ask "How can I get this code to run." I meant that you shouldn't stop there. And it sounds like you're not stopping the…