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> Are VCs geeks, fans, MOPS or sociopaths?

You really need to ask?

I guess their plan is to convince third parties that this is a great idea? Lazy businesses wanting to get into Bitcoin can be immensely more profitable than Bitcoin itself.

> And I never said MySQL was a good idea. You did. I am saying that to claim it is not robust flies in the face of available evidence.

I am glad you mention the word "evidence", since you have provided none so far. An assorted selection of popular, buzz-worthy sites does not qualify as evidence (or lack thereof) of the validity of the technologies they use and endorse.

For contrast, I linked to a really nice post that explains thoroughly why MySQL is not a good idea in the slightest. I would encourage you to read it.

It took me a while to realise the thing you referred to had changed, which led me to google "Crocs experts".

> And if MySQL wasn't robust then YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Alibaba, LinkedIn etc wouldn't be using it for core parts of their infrastructure. It's definitely robust.

Popularity is not an argument for quality. See: crocs, Justin Bieber, PHP.

Those companies you mentioned, like many others, probably use it because they're locked in that technology, not because it's a superior one. Just like banks still use COBOL.

If you're interested on knowing why using MySQL isn't a good idea, there's this (highly opinionated, obviously) post about it: http://grimoire.ca/mysql/choose-something-else

Looks like Amy's Baking Company has branched into coding bootcamps.

After reading your responses on this thread, I just hope your bootcamp does not teach PR disaster prevention. Or, uh, grammar.

It does streaming. You can pass a stream of JSON objects through standard input and jq will process them on stream.

The master branch also has experimental support for JSON sequences.

Indeed, no one with half a clue what they're doing uses PHP.

Never heard about it before, it looks interesting.

  > Tarantool combines the network programming power of Node.JS with data persitence capabilities of Redis.

Is that sarcasm? I can't tell.

Hmm. Point taken, but this is more of a WSDL thing than an XML thing, is it?

TOML and YAML are nice as human-readable configuration formats; Protocol Buffers/Cap'n Proto are really good if the schema of your data is strongly defined.

Thankfully, no.

XML, as a medium of transmission of structured data, pales when compared to basically any other commonly used alternative in 2015, in ease of use, readability and available tooling.

Now, I enthusiastically agree with the underlying ideal of having programs communicate on the shell through data structures instead of through eight-bit bytes. Let's do that, be it XML or anything else.

If you interpret this to be about "avoiding criticism" instead of as a counter-reaction to meddling, clueless middle management eager to justify their job position at a cost on employee time and product quality, then you're likely to be part of the very problem ducks fix.

Hi!

We launched one of those landing-only email-catching product pitches on Product Hunt and Designer News. It went amazing. We never even topped #1, yet we got lots of useful feedback and more than five hundred emails of potential customers, some of them high-profile (think @google.com or @abc.com)

> chemists experimenting at a nuclear accelerator in Vancouver observed that a reaction between bromine and muonium—a hydrogen isotope—slowed down when they increased the temperature

Isn't saying muonium is "a hydrogen isotope" sort of like saying a car is "a horse isotope"?

Because of course it does.

Well, no, but it would be a nice-to-have.

✓ STEM master race

✗ "mangina"

✓ GamerGate

✓ "female"

✗ Ethics in gaming journalism

✗ Literally Who

✓ "politically correct"

Meh. You can do better.

Yes, there is an overarching conspiracy by the Apple cabal, led by Jobs' reanimated corpse, to bury your comments and keep The Truth away from HN.

Your comment being factually incorrect does not come into this issue at all.

You say that as if it were a bad thing...

I'm pretty sure the algorithm for Metaphone is not theirs, just this particular implementation. Which means there's nothing they can do here.

The SOAP dream is alive, after all!

Yet Elon Musk is remembered is remembered and regarded as an entrepreneur, not as as a physically attractive person. Contrast this with women who are regarded as "sex symbols" and you'll see that their physical appearance is used to overshadow and demean their achievements.

> It's not sexist when it's equally balanced to men and women.

If only our society, in which the original comment appeared, were equally balanced to men and women...

Sure, but we men already have plenty of computing role models. This is a welcome change.

What would be the point of blaming Matz for that?

So creepy, yet so cool.

Meh. I wouldn't try to sway them away from PHP, but I'd try to get them to try something else as soon as possible, and make the introduction to the language an overview of harmful PHP-isms (i.e. explaining the difference between arrays and objects, how equality works on a non-fucked language, showcasing a standard library that isn't a minefield, etc)

Completely agreed. I'm very vocal about PHP's flaws, but I try to keep my hate away from beginners. When you're starting, the important part is getting shit done. The language doesn't matter.

(However, as soon as the chance presents itself, I'd try to get said beginner away from PHP. That shit melts your brain.)