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My wife says: "they probably ran out of space on their server"

Please. There was no reason to bring up JIRA. Uncalled for by any sane man's standards.

The article reads as a perceived straw man attack against PWA idea, but the author really captured the heart of the issue right here: Google is, by far, the most aggressive in adop…

Facebook is AOL. We didn't like AOL for _reasons_. Can we just keep finding those reasons valid, please?

I'll say what I've said in another thread on this matter, which is, no one outside of this bubble buys this shit. There are global supply-chain networks that move millions of produ…

You're making a stretch, here. The difference between 100 to 500 or 1000 is exponentially different than the difference of 100 to 3,700. They don't need this many people. Period. T…

I guess I would just point to GitHub, Shopify, Pandora, Spotify, Snapchat, LinkedIn, MailChimp, WordPress.Com, (insert everyone else basically here).

I think you're making a few assertions that would be more honestly served if you conceded as assumptions. Twitter validated it's own employee count with an absurd overhead. It has …

Twitter's biggest mistake was hiring thousands of people when they only needed 30. It doesn't need thousands of people. It doesn't even need 100. Twitter is not a technological mar…

Steve Gutenberg would differ in opinion.

It's important to understand that Facebook is incredibly large, and the fact that any software scaled with them to the point they are presently at, is a "on the shoulders of giants…

I love things like this, but I find I have about 30 of these sorts of things bookmarked, and I never think to pull them up when I'm in need – I immediately go to Google and find so…

>> Were those not acquisitions that withered as opposed to Dropbox new product ventures? This is one of those distinctions without a difference.

When Obama says that Snowden created serious security implications, do you think that's from a point of privilege, or simply placing ideology over practicality? Based on everything…

"Crazy cat lady" is possibly more than just a term of endearment.

I really don't know how you got here. BMI has been raked over the coals (new and old methods) for being wildly inaccurate for anyone outside of a conditional range. IQ does not pre…

I agree that it's like blood sugar/pressure, but that's sort of my point. I think if you used blood pressure to judge some one's physical capabilities like you would use IQ to judg…

My argument is that no one can claim BMI or IQ is a scientific form of measurement.

I hate to say this, but IQ tests are BMI tests for the brain, and about as accurate. If a coffee, bad sleep, or a dose of Ritalin can change the result – at its very nature – it is…

Twitter lost me when they dumped on their ecosystem. The changes made to the platform in recent years are obvious grasp at straws rather than anything revolutionary. It's clear tha…

> Who knows what they will spend the extra money on, could be healthcare, boats, TVs, whatever. But new jobs will be created in these expanded industries. > It really, really bothe…

I agree with that (technical person's) perspective, but that was not the mainline argument. Steve Jobs got on stage and said it was a hunk of battery wasting crap that invaded your…

Ahhh. Remember when this was just a Flash problem, and getting rid of Flash was going to rid the world of evil? Spoiler: that didn't happen.

And if something is patently false I shouldn't be able to point to hundreds of examples where you're wrong.