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BigCommerce is likely one of those. Our BigCommerce store was down for several hours today.

On the low end, it looks like they're saying the newer models predict 5-10m (15-30ft) tsunami waves on the East Coast.

Earlier models were predicting tsunami waves of 10m to 25m (30ft to 75ft), which would likely wipe out most large cities on the coast.

The breakdown in society's collective level of integrity likely will end up turning our capitalism into only crony capitalism.

Hopefully something changes.

Not sure what throwing coal in a furnace has to do with the mental exertion required to be a programmer, but maybe the point of being persistent makes sense.

I'm currently in the process of moving my family (including 6 kids) from a 1/3 acre lot in Utah (there really isn't much land here because it's a desert) to a 15-acre farm in Tennessee for these reasons exactly.

I have 6 kids. We don't allow video games in the house - except Tetris, since that seems to be good for developing intelligence.

It can be hard for them to relate to other kids, who only want to talk about Fortnite, which my kids know nothing about.

Did they send the check through USPS or UPS/FedEx?

In that situation, who's liable if the check doesn't show up?

Thank you for the compliment. Our next adventure involves starting a bluegrass band in Tennessee. We'll see how that goes.

Maybe you're just being sarcastic with the reinstitution of slavery remark?

If not, I'm interested in knowing how the idea of promoting racism and slavery could be connected to anything in this article.

I'm the author of this article on homeschooling, and I don't even recall having a thought about racism, slavery, etc. while writing the article.

If the idea is that anyone who respects and reveres the Founding Fathers must be racist, I don't see the connection, although I have seen enough revisionist historical writings that falsely paint them in a poor light (including making all of them racists because they allowed slavery) to discredit the system they set up.

For some examples of how modern historians have changed our view of the Founders, I'd recommend reading "The Jefferson Lies" by David Barton.

Can you provide some evidence that single payer works and that the government can get it right?

Maybe a country where that's working.

The article talks mostly about Wal-Mart, eBay, and other very large retailers, but I noticed that they also have options for small businesses.

A few observations about this "will the traditional college survive" situation, which I've been following for a long time.

The higher education market feels a bit like the healthcare market in that it's somewhat difficult for the consumer to tell what the actual cost will be prior to purchasing the product. Published tuition rates and other costs of attending school feel like they're abstracted until a long-term commitment has been made and it's too late to get a refund.

It may seem strange that, with the increasing debt being amassed by universities, record-breaking new salaries are being offered by many of these schools to football and basketball coaches. The 25 salaries for college football coaches range from $3.5M to over $11M per year. I'd assume that in each of those cases, the value received from the coaching hire contributes overall to the school's bottom line.

As much of the same information that is taught in college becomes more accessible for free on the internet, it's hard to see how colleges can compete with smaller, more agile competitors who don't have nearly the overhead that universities do. It feels a bit like retail stores trying to compete with Amazon.

This type of abuse happens with almost any kind of media platform.

Google for a long time was losing the battle with people gaming their search engine until they invested a ton of effort (around 2011) into shutting down the fakes, many of whom still succeed, but not enough to send people fleeing for Bing.

I suspect Instagram has shutting these bot accounts down as a top priority.

Does anyone know if this happened to affect Amazon's Seller Central?

Amazon sellers (including me) couldn't access their control panels for several hours last night.

What was it that started the fire in that particular instance? Did you find out?

If Benjamin Franklin were unfaithful to his wife (he claimed near the end of his life that he wasn't), it would make him a hypocrite and dishonest.

Sexual promiscuity was a serious thing in the United States until the 1960s. The lack of regard modern society has for being faithful doesn't diminish the importance of Benjamin Franklin being faithful to his wife.

He did admit in his writings that living up to those virtues, especially humility, was very difficult for him, as it would be for any of us.

The character of Benjamin Franklin is actually something that has some significance for me and my family. I named one of my boys after him. As a Latter-day Saint who believes that having a high commitment to sexual morality is integral to one's character, when my wife and I picked the name for our son, we were concerned about rumors we'd heard about the character of Benjamin Franklin, so we did extensive research.

I read through dozens of articles that had reached with confidence the conclusion that Benjamin Franklin was a ladies' man and sexually promiscuous, but I didn't find anything in his (nor among his contemporaries) letters and other communication with women in France or elsewhere that would lead to that conclusion except when authors made big leaps logically and inserted lots of their own bias.

One of quotes I found as I was researching Benjamin Franklin was this one from Ezra Taft Benson:

When one casts doubt about the character of these noble sons of God, I believe he or she will have to answer to the God of heaven for it.

Here is the whole speech for context: https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/ezra-taft-benson_gods-hand-na...

The biographical sketch you linked to references Benjamin Franklin's wife's name as Rebecca more than once. His wife was named Deborah.

Is it possible this biographer (and lots of others more concerned about gossip than reality) missed some other important facts about the man?

This kind of character bashing is not unique to Benjamin Franklin. Ty Cobb is another example that comes to mind: https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/who-was-ty-cobb-the-history-w...

I've done quite a bit of research on who Benjamin Franklin was and whether he was ultimately a moral character. His youth was documented as being tainted by sexual misconduct, but all the evidence I've seen shows that he intentionally matured morally as he aged.

Is there anyone who has more than hearsay regarding Benjamin Franklin being sexually permissive while he served as an ambassador or in other settings? I haven't seen anything more than opinionated reading into his letters and intentional character assassinations.

It's interesting that there are so many people accuse Benjamin Franklin of being a man who lacked moral values, but the evidence they provide doesn't really seem to support their conclusions about the man.

Over the past several months, I have had increasing difficulty communicating with suppliers and business partners in China, who have become very frustrated that they can only communicate via Skype. All of their VPNs seem to have been shut down. They can't access Facebook, YouTube, and now WhatsApp.

Does anyone know of a simple workaround that would allow someone inside of mainland China to regain access to what's been blocked recently?

As much as I loved playing football and now love watching, the risk/reward balance seems to be moving so much towards too much risk.

The backup plan for my five boys, for now, is to have them become really solid kickers so they can be part of the sport without having the risk of head, neck, knee, and other injuries I've had to deal with over the years.

But doesn't the word "smith" give more of an impression of doing grunt stuff?

Developers tend to be much more creative than that.

The main difference is that the Nanobox PaaS is portable, making it what's been termed a "micro-PaaS". You can host with whatever cloud provider (AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud) you want or set it up on-premise.

Businesses who want to (or have to for compliance reasons) use a different host (e.g. Vultr in Europe or Alibaba Cloud in Asia) can simply create their own adapters and deploy away: https://docs.nanobox.io/providers/create/

There hasn't been a security audit yet. Nanobox is still pretty new. We released publicly in February.

Those solutions work well if you have solid devops skills. Nanobox is built more to empower developers who want to focus on just coding and not deal with infrastructure.

Good point/question...

re: Nanobox vs. Vagrant, Nanobox is much easier to use than Vagrant, especially for the "common" web developer: https://nanobox.io/why-nanobox/nanobox-vs-vagrant/

Nanobox runs on top of Docker (see this explanation https://nanobox.io/why-nanobox/nanobox-vs-docker/), and uses Docker to create instant, isolated environments that are exactly the same, whether on your computer, your new devs computer, your outsourced contractor's computer on the other side of the world, in staging environments, and in production.

I hope that helps.

One of the engineers from my company, Nanobox (a micro-PaaS), compares a few of these tools and others in context of how well they cover the development to production workflow: https://content.nanobox.io/development-to-production-workflo...

Tools included on this chart include: - Heroku - Kubernetes - Flynn - Nanobox - Openshift - Dokku - Rancher - Convox - Mesosphere - Hyper.sh

I just came across another article that talks about alternatives for doing what Heroku does, and it's from a Heroku consulting company: https://semaphoreci.com/community/tutorials/creating-a-herok...

It seems like there's a lot of discussion recently about Heroku alternatives.

I wouldn't say those discussions have as much to do with Heroku's limitations as much as they have to do with all the details and complications technology companies encounter as the bulk of adopters continue moving to the cloud.