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Why would you take them seriously if they fire someone senior just to respond to the public outcry but did nothing when this wasn't public?

I never said that. If you want to learn to manage servers, by all means. The industry needs more good people!

But to suggest that everyone should do (or will do it, as some people are commenting here) it is bananas.

I do the same. And some times it goes down and I'm busy so it stays down for a day. And I never find time to keep everything updated to the latest security patches, etc. Fun hobby, but I wouldn't trust that as my only repository of data.

Sure. And that's called a hobby. You can do whatever you want, but the point here is this is not what the masses are going to do. Or should do, for that matter.

You lost me on how you went from "They find bigger and better and stealthier ways to learn about us" (which I agree with) to "move against us in the future". Care to elaborate?

I own my phone, but the data is still in the cloud.

I'm not sure I agree with your version of the future. People don't know enough ( and don't want to) about security, scalability, availability, etc.

Do you homeschool your kids? Grow your own produce? Kill your own cows?

I mean, why don't you let experts do what they do and you spend your time doing what you do?

Unless you do servers. In that case, sure. Whatever.

I was expecting the list of sources at the bottom of the article to be a mile long. Not a single one. Hot damn, so much broscience and red herrings.

Allow me to be skeptical when your first quoted source is Gladwell.

I'm confused about what the goal of this is. The best thing about PHP is its dynamic nature, and the fact that any new page load is a completely new universe. Why would you want to loose that and compile it to a, well, compiled language?

I totally empathize with people that are truly affected by words or ideas. What I can't tolerate is people trying to impose me what I should be offended by.

Oh my god the tone of the article is exasperating. We get it, you think she'd dumb or something, but you need to relax a bit.

He was a great person, a great developer and a great businessmen.

And fun piece of trivia, he invented the share icon http://alexking.org/project/share-icon

The unnecessary bashing of PHP, the lame justification for a sloppy architecture, the immense ego... I don't think hack culture should be used to justify asshole-ery.

We have a pretty functional distributed organization and Slack has been a godsend for us. We totally love it.

If you have two external monitors you are not the target market for this machine. At least not as your primary machine. I'm planning to buy one for when I'm out to meetings or traveling. Still keeping my bigger and more connected MBP 15'' for my desk.

This one is really cool http://tri.be/update-the-shane-peter-inc-contract/

I'm a foreign (from your standpoint) remote developer working for an american company. I make average salary for a developer (in the U.S.) because my company understands that the fact that I'm working from my home in south america doesn't make me less qualified that someone working from his home in Minnesota or Florida.

My point being, skill level != physical location. My even more tl;dr: find a better company to work for.

I think the reason we focus on the 'what' is our own fear of death. We ask to check in our heads how likely it is for that thing to happen to us.

we just landed a friggin' robot into a friggin' commet

mind blowing

Why the 'Ex-Googlers' in the title. Is it like a seal of approval or something?

Searchability is a huge + from me for using Slack. That's hard on email + IM. Specially if you were not in the original loop.

I'm so happy for them. Great team and great product.

Didn't he do just that by making it public on his twitter?

Out Of all the noise, this is the only comment he should be paying attention to.

adds no value??

It's not in wikipedia. It's his personal blog.

THIS. Stop trying to fix what's not (completely) broken.

It also depends what features do you expect from the watch. I have a Pebble. It does everything I want on a "smart" watch, and the battery lasts from 7 to 10 days. Which is obviously worst than a year, but it's good enough that it doesn't become a PITA for me.

Some tech companies here (in Argentina) are implementing implementing 9-2 or 3 on fridays. It's a nice touch.