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There are a few interesting choices in your comment that make it appear to be an Astroturf: 1. You state that it is "your experience" that "all" recent Netflix slowness is a result…

What bay area do you live in and who is your ISP?

Ask them to write an essay.

Can we just delete this entire meme before it gets started? This is pathetic. Edit: To clarify, I mean everything said by ESR here. Yes Turings accomplishments are great. However, …

I can confirm that my profile was modified to hide my real email address without permission. This appears to be more than a hype piece.

Please profile tricks like this, as they may actually be significantly slower than their naive counterparts on modern hardware. The prefetcher knows what a linked list looks like, …

This was pretty painful to watch as a gay technologist.

Why wouldn't universities just rase rates 10% to cover their projected liability? This would obviously only exacerbate the problem and hasten the fall, but that does appear to be h…

This is true until you realize you'll need to support keepalive and chunked encoding to write a reasonbly good driver. Two things that often require significant effort, if not cust…

How could it not be?

I note that you call gevent.monkey.patch_all() in async. I'm still fairly new to gevent and I'm curious if others consider this good style for a library?

Yes, not yielding control from a function in any evented framework will block the main event loop. In programming languages that support coroutines, yielding a sleep every few loop…

You should pay more attention. Most middle age men on tv are fat. Zero middle age women on tv are fat. Super models aren't the role model. Raymond is.

Sure. It's been more than a generation since women started making more money than men in some households due to increases in equality between the sexes. The phrasing and positionin…

"or getting by on the paychecks of wives" This is pretty rampant sexism for 2011. Don't want it to go unnoticed.

The limit justifications are fairly simple, you've already listed a dozen things you don't do that you know would take you over the limit. In the presence of no limit, you, and mos…

This is an honest question: When did "liberal" come to mean "who think that human wellbeing consists in the consumption of goods and services" I presume this is a new political mem…

Sorry for the slow reply. I can't speak about mongo's user base, but it does appear larger than CouchDB's. Both of them are several orders of magnitude less mature / well understoo…