mmilano

Haven't been here a while and the first 2 links I clicked are walled. Seems like shilling sites to the front-page of HN might be a decent business.

Firefox is my primary browser, so it doesn't affect me, however this has already caused confusion within the web agency world I work in, both with technical staff and clients.

If we were living in the colonial days, only the British would be calling them "radical" or "extremists". :D

Men of authority pledging not to bow to unconstitutional orders against citizens. Actually seems noble.

I suspect they get the "radical" and "extremist" label from our culture where those who aren't on the "correct" political side are labeled a Nazi or Communist.

FWIW, I knew it was a clever reference to the GOT sword after reading the title. It's obvious the project isn't based on or associated with a group using the same common words. Whether they are actually "extremist" is a different matter.

Like the Stack Overflow survey, this one does not distinguish server-side/client-side JavaScript, making it look far more popular than it actually is when considering the data in context of server-side technologies.

If 100% of the servers were running PHP, the results would likely be 50% PHP, 50% JavaScript.

These survey writers need to modify their question, or add another one specifically requesting server-side tech so JS can be accurately compared with server-side only languages.

Boycott all AT&T services we can if they are blocking. Mobile + DirecTV too.

Paywall, from the US at least.

The word research is pretty vague in comparison to the context the author interprets its meaning. He over-reaches on his explanation of what a researcher is, and leaves too much of a gap between researcher and tinkerer.

I agree, the unfortunately clever/punny name will detract from potential consideration based on illogical human subconscious thinking.

I really meant a 'cataclysmic astroid hit', one we could do nothing about... but fascinating point none the less.

Maybe it's from living in CA all my life, but having ridden many out many quakes, my concern for 'The Big One' is a little less than my concern is for an astroid hit... which isn't much.

Ads that auto pay audio on a developer blog, really?

New success quickly becomes the new baseline and a personality that chases success will continue to pursue greater success.

I watched the announcement w/o knowing much about it. He justified the decision by saying:

- We're paying 100b/year when other developed countries do not have to. - Spending on that is unaccounted for. - The impact will be (only) a 2/10 Celcius reduction in temperature by 2100 - The positive impact by 2030 is the equivalent of what China pollutes in 14 days.

Just stating what was said. I don't know which are facts.

Front page worthy, really?

Forget about the skills you need to become a better CTO, I think the headline here is how to successfully stroke the ego of your interviewer.

So you are defending them (at least in the first sentence)from your speculation based on what you heard around town, that customers were simply not sustainable fits... Wouldn't it make sense they not offer a service package that is unsustainable in the first place? The clients myself and many others put on Mandrill were certainly not free tier anything, and they still offer the service, just under he Mailchimp name. (point being it can't be too unsustainable if they still offer it)

Customers I know who were ultimately stuck by being heavily integrated in the Mandrill API still suffered issues and downtime with the flawed account migration process. Just about every paying (and non paying) Mandrill customer got screwed in one way or another.

Are you sure the assessment web programming being a series of hacks on hacks isn't an artifact of inheriting a fairly long-lived and large code base?

I don't think I've touched a large codebase that has been around for a long time which didn't feel hackish.

I'd make the evaluation of web programming based on a language and framework that feels most proper to you, and based on the use of it with a brand new app.

Why are links to hidden/payed content allowed here?

I can't say I'd want my family's food traveling in a car used to haul the public around when it's not delivering food.

+1 for SparkPost as well. They increased their free tier to 100k along with a commitment from the CEO to honor it for the life of the account. https://www.sparkpost.com/blog/my-promise-to-developers-spar...

Signed up for a couple services to check them out... sparkpost is looking like a top candidate so far.

Yeah, I saw your other post... same boat. It was so nice to confirm emails were sent/received while testing.

There's one project we integrated a private messaging system deeply into their APIs. There's not gonna be a choice on moving that one, but all others will move.

Not sure if it's more greed or incompetence behind the flippant decision.

This is too bad. Mandrill was a great product I've put several clients and my own apps on. None of these have any use for Mailchimp integration.

In December, they began to require the more strict DNS configs for new accounts... that was fine, but this latest change is horrendous in that it's giving business' who've used this service for years, an ultimatum... one that favors finding a new service.

It's going to be work one way or another so I guess I'll be moving mine and client apps over to a more stable provider.

Noble thought, but I don't think it's that simple. When users aren't using a service, in most cases, there are still resources being used. I'm thinking of data/file storage and infrastructure to provide reliable availability, security, and backups. Perhaps in some cases it may make sense, but certainly not most.