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They told me the same thing.

Blog post: https://getfinal.com/company-news/2017/12/06/a-final-farewel...

This is such a shock to me! I've been a Final customer for a year or so now, and I have absolutely loved their product. I told all of my friends about it. I'm so sad to hear they'r…

For me, the real draw was how easy it is to setup a cluster with high availability and automatic failover. Having used MySQL in production on a mission critical web app for years, …

FYI, emails to oss@rethinkdb.com are bouncing back. That email is listed on https://rethinkdb.com/contribute . Bounceback message: Hello REDACTED, We're writing to let you know tha…

+1 for using a mix of two providers. That's what we do at my startup. Never had a problem since (knock on wood).

I'm no stranger to Node.js. We use it in production for all of our real-time/async stuff. The new ES6 features async/await are cool and all, but it's a late addition to a language …

Job server + reasonable timeout/retry limits

My company's product backend is written in PHP. I'm currently rewriting it, and when I started the process, I tried doing it in Node.js because 1) the possibility of client/server …

>completing people's sentences or not allowing someone to finish talking before I say something That used to be me too. After I started taking medication, I was a little surprised …

If you have difficulty concentrating, are easily distracted, impulsive (i.e. checks Hacker News a lot), are irritable, etc, you might look into whether you have ADD/ADHD. I had all…

>The police does have a vested interest in making the public think that turning the phone off is pointless. An interesting point, but... If I were a criminal (I am not), and I were…

>and even law enforcement cannot look up the cell tower logs to see where it's been. I'm not so sure about that... I worked at a TV news station in a major city where police told u…

I don't know why that would make you happy. My comment was not positive.

This is great. I'm sorry to say that my startup was guilty of this as well. Not anymore though. Thanks for your article.

I, too, am getting really tired of this. It's not just Microsoft though. It's a lot of different companies. Right now, I'm in the middle of an epic battle with Adobe to get a refun…

"I have always been annoyed about the privacy complaints I've seen about them, but never cared enough to switch. Now I do care enough to switch, thanks." +1. GoDaddy, you lost a cu…

I think they're helpful too! Just use isset() to check whether variables exist, and you shouldn't get any errors unless you make a mistake (in which case, wouldn't it be nice to kn…

The problem is that the reporter doesn't know that the details of the breach mentioned in this article are facts. The figures, that there were 6,480 files totaling 300 GB of data l…