Ask HN: What's the mission of your company and why does it matter?

I believe that the development of the scientific method and evidence-based decision making is the most important development in human history. It's not universal, and it's a lot of work. We want to motivate more people to come over that way of thinking and make it easier for them to do so.

www.stitchdata.com

It's important because climate change is one of the biggest problems of our age, and by helping our guests foster a sense of connection to an amazing (and vulnerable) place, we can produce what thousands of news articles cannot: people who care.

https://www.kayakak.com/

(Apologies if this is considered "off topic" for HN, I've been a lurker for a while but this is my first post.)

1) fostering interest on Computer Science among young adults and curious people, especially those on third-world countries that have no chance of going to college

2) bringing people to the FOSS world by having a low-barrier to entry project where they can contribute directly (not necessarily with code). That kind of experience - seeing their contribution being rolled out worldwide to a game they love - must be life changer.

3) raising privacy awareness and let people know about encryption and VPNs

4) and why not, create a fun, interactive and highly strategic game :)

After 4 years of development, I'm still nowhere close to reaching any of them (not yet released). But if my game can motivate and change the life of a single kid, all that trouble will be well worth it.

Here's to another 4 years! For people out there in similar situation, the urge to quit may be high, but try not to give up. E-mail is on profile in case anyone wants to talk.

Can you tell more? That's 45K pages per second, and assuming that each page load on average takes 1 second you already need 45K workers. Are you talking requests or really loading web pages and evaluating them?