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Author, Do you really think Twitter's investors will accept taking a haircut and allow that company to go non profit ? That's a stupid assumption. Twitter has value, it is just over valuated right now.

lol, can someone write a generator that generates this kind of non sense ? This is the kind of bullshit statement that gets often upvoted on HN and I love it !

With neocons like Hillary Clinton who takes a lot of Saudi money anything is possible except bombing Saudi Arabia. And USA always needed a big bad enemy for fear mongering, Saddam, Bin Laden, Putin, US needs a "big baddy" to justify its insane military spendings.

Twitter is valuated $10B but it's hard to see Twitter selling for more than Yahoo. It's a tool that might be useful for a tiny part of internet users , marketers, journalists and drama kings/queens but frankly for most of us Twitter is useless, worse it is actually dangerous as it has ruined careers and was used to launch witch hunts or falsely accuse people of sexual crimes. I'm not touching that toxic platform with a ten foot pole.

Deluge is nice.

it's smeared all over the application

How about writing libraries with clean API and encapsulation ? because basically your argument is "Our developers aren't disciplined enough to write clean API, so we need to force it with http calls ...".

It doesn't matter what you think. I advise anybody not to give a cent to that campaign until it is made clear whether the original artist supports it, or not.

Don't worry, it will happen eventually, the Cyberpunk era is upon us.

I'd rather pay taxes to Apple, Tesla, and Google than the US government. At least they're competent.

Welcome to the Cyberpunk era, where nations are private entities ... I can't wait to play CD Project game by the way.

It's attribution

Give me a break, this campaign is misleading, on purpose, in order to get some money.

They don't need his blessing

They are putting his name everywhere in the campaign like he is involved or something. He is clearly not. That's misleading and can be potentially detrimental to the person's reputation if the campaign ends up being a scam.

Again they might have the right to use his assets, they don't have the right to use his name to get money from people like this. That's completely wrong.

Nice idea, I didn't find a good client on PC that does it.

But it shouldn't be up to you or your followers to sort the tweets, I don't understand why Twitter doesn't implement this basic feature. The hell it could be something done in the front-end with no server-side code involved at all.

It's not clear whether David is involved in this project. Nothing against it but if you're going to use someone else's assets make sure you get at least his blessing. The author of the campaign is NOT David Revoy but some unknown guy from Russia. I personnally would not give any money to this kind of project if the original author is not clearly involved, Creative Commons or not.

I wish Twitter really had a way to filter subscriptions by "channels". If you tweet about databases and I subscribe because you did, I don't want to get photos of your daughter's birthday, your wedding, your favorite gang-star rap music, or your opinion about Hillary or Trump. I ended up un-following a lot of prominent devs because of this.

If Twitter had a way to filter followed people messages by keyword or hashtag It would lead to a healthier environment on that platform. Unfortunately since Twitter basically locked access to its API, writing a fully featured client with that capability isn't even a viable alternative for the terrible UX ...

Isn't the photoshopped wire transfer literally outright criminal fraud? The government should move fast and break him.

Definitely fraudulent.

There is absolutely no gap in my logic. Tyrannies are often born from virtuous ideas and well intended people. The problem with concentration of power is that the people holding that power only care about insuring their own survival, not the good of the people they govern.

This is already true at the national level and even more true at the supra-national level in EU. I don't want to give more power to corrupt bureaucrates that are completely disconnected from national concerns.

the Eurosceptics have undermined at every opportunity

The Eurosceptics don't want a political union for good reasons. It would devolve into a soviet style dictatorship. People that different just can't live under the same government. Europe is not USA. The Eurosceptics are the ones that are grounded in reality here, the other camp is trying to push an utopia that already had horrible consequences.

I'm sure Rackspace is a great service for established companies and startups but for the rest they were always too expensive. I never felt like the premium paid made a difference.

They don't want students to have any spaces where they feel safe/accepted? That's weird.

Why would a student need a special space to feel safe/accepted? Doesn't the university already provide students basic safety?

AFAIK Erlang OTP makes the need for a specific distributed framework less relevant. And it's built with fault-tolerance in mind too.

While you do support the oppression of others,

I never said I supported anything. On the other hand you are quick at forgetting our own moral bankruptcy when it comes to the treatment of minorities in your own country,especially black people. It's easier to point fingers at France than to fix the situation in US. And we don't have the death penalty either. Only barbaric countries allow their states to put its citizens to death. You're not even the pot calling the kettle black, you're worse than that.

Most Chromebooks don't cost the same price as macs.

A good think we couldn't care less about what you think. Shame as much as you want, you have no say here.

Says the guy who has nothing relevant to say.

If we insist on 1 definition, we will have contradictions.

And if we keep on using catch-all buzzwords such as "serverless", it makes words void of any real meaning.

* if your test suite has 100% coverage of arguments/return-value and field usage, you have type checked your program.

The most horrible argument in favor dynamic typing in my opinion. Test suits shouldn't be about checking if a return value is of expected type, that's ridiculous. It's implementing a type checker manually.

There are a lot of things statically typed languages can do to make types painless :

- (global) type inference (Crystal does that)

- co and contravariance, it is not limited to dynamically typed language

- optional parameters

- adhoc type declaration like in C# (ex {x:1,y:"a"} is a type).

- contracts

- pattern matching

- generics

- ect ... etc ...

I just dislike dynamically typed languages. Even interpreted languages should be statically typed IMHO. Again, there are multiple ways to make statically typed language painless when it comes to types.

However, when someone says that they have a serverless system I immediately understand what they are trying to say.

Obviously we don't as I don't consider the expression "serverless" accurate in describing what is really happening. Call it what it really is : pubsub, calling it "serverless" is misleading marketing.

You don't need to scale the API Gateway

You still need API Gateway to communicate with the outside world, here is your server, you know exactly what I mean. What you call "serverless" didn't invent autoscaling in PAAS.

It's interesting by the way that you keep using product names "Lambda", "API Gateway" which aren't concepts but Amazon products. That's marketing. It's like calling all social networks "Facebooks". "Serverless" is a marketing device to sell Amazon services, I think people get it by now.

The wrapper to fit Lambda into a client-server synchronous-invocation world is API Gateway.

So yes, there is a server indeed. Why call it "serverless" then ? because one part of the stack uses pubsub ? then call that part a worker queue because that's what it is.

I guess it's like wireless... Something could be wireless from the perspective of the end user but there are still wires actually there.

It's a bad analogy. As a developer you are supposed to know they are wires somewhere. That's why all this marketing is dangerous. the obfuscation which makes everything sound like "voodoo and black magic".

The developer doesn't have to deal with servers/infrastructure so for them the system is serverless.

Yes he does, he has to configure and manage the whole thing on Amazon dashboard. Sure he doesn't have to spin upcontainers, but autoscaling doesn't make something "serverless". And again, you need API gateway to communicate with the outside world. So there is still a server fronting the whole thing.

The point of it is there are no servers to manage

If I deploy a PHP script on a shared host there is no server to manage either. My PHP script doesn't listen communications on a socket connection. It doesn't make it "serverless". At some point the stuff you deploy, on a server no matter what you think it is, needs to communicate with the outside world through a server. It is not "serverless".