muzmath

Angular is actually way more widespread than React but nice snarky comment regardless

That's partially true, but it does seem to find it's way in production on lots of low traffic sites.

The only reason I brought it up is that there is a myth that many developers believe SQLlite is only useful as a dev enviroment database

The use case for SQLite isn't high traffic public facing webpages. Here is their own list of 'famous' users: https://www.sqlite.org/famous.html

Every iPhone, and Android phone have SQLite running on them, which easily makes it the most used production database. It's use case is typically very low traffic websites or as client side storage.

It's actually commonly used in production for certain types of databases. SQLite is not a replacement for something such as postgresql but it certainly has it's use cases.

Case sensitivity i'm assuming you mean the automatic semi-colon insertion due to a line break after a return statement? I have a hard time seeing this as being a reason to dislike an entire language.

Most languages have features to avoid, JavaScript is no different. Many JavaScript developers use linters to avoid the poor `==` feature. I'm unfamiliar with the argument of the `Map` datastructure implementation being broken. Do you have a reference to that claim?

I'm not talking about what the author wrote, I'm talking about the 500 posts which entire take away was 'mongo is retarded'. Reread what I wrote.

Unfortunately that's not how your article has been interpreted, especially not in the reddit thread which has (predictably) divulged into an incoherent MongoDB hate-fest.

Hastily designed for version 0.0.1, this is simply not the case if you are using modern EMCAScript

You criticize people for _premature optimization_ while in the same breath advocating rolling your own, shitting implementation for page views? Right...

Clearly this is a long game play.

This is typical programmer attitude. Standard estimates go like this:

When trying to make themselves look good on online developer forums: 1/100th real development time

When estimating time involved for co-worker: 1/10th real development time

When estimating time involved for themselves at work: 1/2 real development time

Even more so, an the relative difference of |70% - 50%| / |%50| = 40% is gigantic. A very misleading statement.

Very true. The fact is, even very intelligent people tend to stick with ideas that were popular as they 'grew' into their position.

Programming is young, but if you look at the history of more developed fields such as physics and mathematics, there is a very long history of extremely respected scientists out right rejecting new theories for being outlandish and ridiculous that we now accept as the bedrock of scientific theory.

The truth is, just as with physics and mathematics, in computer science new ideas do form, but older generations rarely adapt, and it's only with death of the old, and the growth of a new generation do ideas become accepted.

It was a great talk and his high-energy delivery I think is a well welcomed change of pace compared to many tech conference speakers

This thread has been stormed by people who work in the sys admin space and either don't care to learn the technology, have used it unsuccessfully while it was young, or see it as harmful to their career.

Here you go: `docker run ubuntu:14.04 /bin/echo 'Hello world'`

Care to explain what issues you have ran into and how recent it was?

His incoherent rant is only motivated by a threat to his career

Where are these magically difficult to maintain containers? I regularly deploy stuff via containers and moving my github repo to a container to being deployed is very simple.

well, each and every single one of them has to be maintained, updated for security fixes...

Then you patch it by redeploying it.

Not to mention the likely possibility of breaking API changes in the container version. vagrant/puppet I'm looking at you, nothing is worse than having to figure out which ancient version of vagrant and puppet was used at creation in order to get the system running again

Is this a real issue that people run into? I've never had any issues with this.

Or, well, look five years in the future, and hope today's hyped container solution will still be present then.

Good thing the real work essentially boils down to some scripts which can be easily translated into any new technology

Fuck containers, get a properly managed ordinary Debian server and save yourself a lot of headaches.

Spotted the Debian sys admin!

These are pretty high standards for the coveted position of tree ownership.

Destabilizing countries with mass murder turns citizens into terrorist sympathizers.

I haven't died yet, hoping to disprove that hypothesis (I avoid all trees)

Agreed. This is what is called an 'act of god' in the insurance world. OSHA reports that over 100 people a year are killed by trees each year. Should we regulate trees with overhanging branches in all areas zoned as commercial or residential areas? Every year people die from falling trees onto the sidewalk.

DISCLAIMER: Living life has incurs a small risk of death.

If you ever do consulting, you will run into your fair share of 'great social networking' ideas :)

You are moving the goal posts here quite a bit. Do I think that facebook will forever be a giant, without question? Of course not. What I disagree with is that all it takes is a good idea.

I believe that the more likely course of action, as others have stated, is facebook will make mistakes which will be capitalized upon. Large organizations gain cruft, slow down, choose the wrong direction. Many things can happen.

While it's a nice thought that 'it just takes a good idea' but that's patently false. Social networks are heavily effected by network effects (what a surprise?). Additionally, while I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but an idea without execution is beyond worthless. Social networks are extra difficult because there isn't much to drive most people off of one unless all their friends also move.

In what way is yahoo a zombie? Yahoo offers many products that are very competitive in their respective spaces (as well as having a 33 billion market cap)

This just reeks of no-true-scottsman. Many engineers with the approved title 'professional engineer' do not build anything at all.

By PE I mean: http://www.nspe.org/resources/licensure/what-pe