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> "You have pictures in Facebook, Dropbox, Google Drive, Picasa. ... All kinds of stuff in different places. We didn’t want to build yet another cloud product where you store away your stuff ..."

So what did you build then? A community for balloon dancing?

The commercial was about the most stupid thing I've watched in a long time.

Pricing?

This is definitely out of the scope of their "bughunt", although I think the guy should be rewarded anyway.

But I'm also quite upset with the fact that OP is outing the dev. Everybody makes mistakes, no need to out any individual developer because OP is pissed at the company management.

Definitely stick with Rails, the framework will give you the training wheels you probably need. Switch to Node.js and you'll probably end up with bowl of noodle code soup.

Railscasts has a bunch of episodes covering performance related topics http://railscasts.com/?tag_id=1

I've upgraded several apps, I've been on the Rails train since 1.2, and each time there's been slight, and more often major, performance gains. Yes, some of these apps where big (Not Twitter big, but big enough. And no, they didn't need to do anything too crazy hardware wise.)

Almost all Rails apps that are slow on performance suffer from architectural flaws or oddities in the code. A lot of time Rails get a beating when it boils down to slow, illformed SQL queries. One time I had a customer who wanted me to rewrite their platform because "Rails was so slow", when in fact they did some heavy image processing and uploading to a cloud storage within the browser request. I'm not saying OP does any of this, but since I don't know any details about their codebase or infrastructure I'm making some general remarks that may or may not apply.

Ruby code can be written in so many ways, I guess that is its blessing and its curse. There are bad ways to do things, and there are good ways. With great freedom comes great responsibility.

I would encourage OP to push on and upgrade to Rails 4.0.1. The gap between Rails 3 and Rails 4 isn't that huge at all. I'm sure you'll be pleased.

And why not so?

That's not true. Take Sweden for example. Violent crime has plummeted there as well, and they are closing prisons because they are putting _less_ people in jail.

Get your facts straight. Miljöpartiet is NOT considered left-wing, but centre-left, closer to the conservative-liberal block than the labour part.

Vänstetpartiet is a classical leftist party, there's nothing "extremist" about them.

d-intl.com/Tryckfrihetssällskapet have on numerous occasions invited EDL (now former) leader Stephen "Tommy Robinson" Yaxley-Lennon to speech at rallies and meetings. That's a fact.

Your other statements are the typical Swedish right-wing conspiracy theory and slur that has no correlation with reality.

That's not true. There is a vivid debate around immigration and asylum issues in both old fashioned- and social media.

Sverigedemokraterna is big because a large slew of the Swedish population is slanting toward racism and are prone to accept simple "solutions".

d-intl.com is run by a bunch of paranoid and outright crazy neo-fascist. It's extremely racist and have close ties to the Norwegian terrorist Ander Bering Breivik as well as to the violent English Defence League(EDL). It's not by any means a decent source for anything.

No major Swedish news site is covering this. Interesting.

This the reason why I too hate Facebook. I've switched to Diaspora*, while being far from perfect it does at least not bury important stuff with some shady algorithm.

Rails 4.0.1

A brilliant idea, beautifully executed.

Build some community moderation tools and promote some trustworthy people.

This is great. I love Rails 4. It's mature and solid. It's pure bliss to work with it.

This says maybe says something about about GitHub's growing user base, if any, rather than anything about any language.

This idea has been debunked several times already. https://www.google.com/search?q=phonebloks+debunked

Have a look at Diaspora