The parent was referring to a single machine though.
Anyone using AWS and potentially spinning up N instances should absolutely be using configure management software, or at least professionally contract devops.
> The agents and parties affected in the two settings, London and S.F., could indeed be different. Nonetheless, the theme remains the same.
Not really. The OP's theme is simply culture-shock and coming to terms.
Your linked piece is xenophobia and anti-immigration, the complete opposite of views held by most technologist in San Francisco and the wider Silicon Valley.
I'm struggling to find what this has to do with San Francisco? Are you saying SF has been taken over by hipsters and is no longer recognizable as it once were?
I think this is intended to be comforting, especially for corporate entities as they feel scrapegoated into bad light by the government, but there's very little for the public to acknowledge these numbers. I'm not saying Facebook is lying, I'm saying the people giving Facebook the numbers are probably lying. There's no way to tell.
Here we go again. Not to be cynical, but that's just unfair. Apple has plenty of time improve their icons before iOS 7 releases to the public, assuming they acknowledge it wasn't a brilliant idea to outsource design to the local children's art school.
Statically-typed and speed aren't necessarily correlated. If you want a framework faster than Go, dynamically-typed and rivaling Ruby's development speed, have a look at OpenResty+Lua+LuaJit (And MoonScript if you really want to code fast).
HEY GUYZ, how about posting Facebook alternatives? Didn't you hear, NSA is all over them too? Oh, what's that? Hating Facebook doesn't get your circlejerking karma like hating Google? That's a crying shame. Really.
Funny, I think people who LIKE this design are nuts. People are nuts indeed!
> How are the new gradients any different than the old gradients?!
OMG?!?111 Well, it's not that the gradients are different, it's that the colors are bright and vivid and each icon has little distinction from the next. Oh, and it looks like something my 6-year-old nephew would draw with his colored pencil set.