...and you know what they say about premature optimization; "if you write something that people want to read and your site is down, you will look like an idiot"
wait, no, wait, that's not right at all. Maybe:
"W3 Total Cache will save your site and takes all of 5 minutes to configure"
Hmm, nope. Perhaps:
"Cloudflare is free and you can probably sweet talk your webhost into setting up the whole thing for you"
I'd argue that it still matters tremendously due to scalability concerns. Check out stuff like Sproutcore which moves things that were previously done in PHP to Javascript. That will make a huge difference if you have thousands of users for your application...PHP might require a cluster with a few application server nodes if the data is pretty cachable, while SproutCore might only require a single server if it's just doing JSON API calls or something.
>"I've often thought that combining hacker/maker spaces, good digital libraries and some communal living would make an excellent, low-cost fellowship for people looking to experiment for a couple of years. Related as I characterize the arrangement as monastic."
/WHEN/ I move out to SF and /when/ I have lots of cash this is exactly what I'm going to do.
>"How start doing technical hires?"
You could start by not scaring off any technical people with your improper grammar.
>"applicatns"
If you can't even take the time to write a proper title and use ASpell to check spelling errors, how do you ever expect that any good technical person will want to join you?
fscking $60 for a damn serial cable? WTF? It's not even the awesome "it-breaks-when-my-cat-chews-it-too-much" white cable with the "it-breaks-when-you-look-at-it-funny" excuse for a strain relief that Apple industrial design insisted on.
That, or they're just locked into an Oracle product that Oracle can change the price on whenever it wants. Ever try migrating Oracle Database <-> anything else? They have most customers over a barrel.
#$%^@#*&$%&@#^$ I hate that term when referring to code. Code is not art. Code is science. In a given language, there might only be one way that makes sense to do something. Software patents are awful.
We use KSplice in production deployed to ~1400 servers. It works great. Never had any trouble with it, although they did have to roll back a patch a while back.
Unfortunately for us, we're a CentOS shop (which KSplice supports). The "unfortunate" part comes from Oracle (who only supports Oracle "Unbreakable" Linux [which is 99% RHEL, BTW]).
TL;DR KSplice is about to lose us as a client once they drop support for CentOS (which will happen when the Oracle takeover is done).
This. I've been downvoted so many times for EXPLAINING why something is (stupid,silly,useless). Want to offer a counterpoint? How about REPLY instead of just downvote (which doesn't add anything to the conversation, as has been mentioned already).
Dude, have you ever talked to a comcast rep? One dude told me that I needed to get access to my apartment telco room because it was MY fault that the apartments were mislabelled (presumably done by one of THEIR techs). The problem was that they unplugged my internet when my neghibor didn't pay. No credit given to me for the time I was down or anything either, and dood wouldn't let me talk to a supervisor. Supervisor called back 5 hours later in the middle of the night (~3AM) and I was sleeping. WTF.
Bandwidth isn't like other resources; when you stop using it, it's (near) instantly available again for someone else to use, and doesn't cost anything to produce.
Yes, it routes via other Tier-1 ISPs, but comcast undoubtedly has route-exchange arrangements with them so that it ends up costing them a net of nothing.
wait, no, wait, that's not right at all. Maybe: "W3 Total Cache will save your site and takes all of 5 minutes to configure"
Hmm, nope. Perhaps: "Cloudflare is free and you can probably sweet talk your webhost into setting up the whole thing for you"
No, no, no, no. Wait, what were we talking about?