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This, by the way, is a new normal. Organizations, teams and individuals within an organization, especially its buoracracy have self-preservation and keeping the

This, by the way, is a new normal. Organizations, teams and individuals within an organization, especially its buoracracy have self-preservation and keeping their status in mind rather than any engineering discipline, leave alone craftsmanship. Such is the nature of any bloated social formation, be it government, church, army or corporation. The very first person who suggested Node http server must be fired that very day for offensive incompetence. I could hardly imagine any more satirical example. Hypervisor in Java, perhaps. But idiots are bullshitting another idiots (PHP, Mongo, Node, Hadoop - you name it) whose only concern is to convince those one step higher in the hierarchy that they are still worth keeping, so any bizzare mix of trending [among idiots] memes would do. Hey, Bivis, Node is cool, huh huh. Single-threaded callback hell in a language with implicit coersion, without standard module system (leave alone versioning) as a yet another useless layer of complexity to utilize lots of man-hours for o e more year? Lol wut? Node is cool. So, all this is rather normal.

jwmerrill 11y ago
So what technologies do you actually like for writing web servers? I think this comment is a good example of "contempt culture," which we've probably all been guilty of, and which we should do less. http://blog.aurynn.com/86/contempt-culture http://blog.aurynn.com/86/contempt-culture
- dschiptsov 11y ago
  Considerable amount of intelligence is required to understand that nginx, due to its design choices and attention to implementation details (which are hallmarks of truly remarkable systems, such as Plan9/Inferno, Erlang, Smalltalk, etc) is more portable than Node (it runs on more architectures, including Windows) require order of magnitude less resources providing close to optimal effeciecy, could be easily extended via modules and scripted in Lua with less lines of code, less pain, less nonsense. BTW, contempt to incompetence or corruption is natural and healthy emotion. It is what contempt has been evolved for.
wmil 11y ago
> The very first person who suggested Node http server must be fired that very day for offensive incompetence. I'm suspicious that it was an MBA who wanted to use cheaper JS developers on the project.
aws_ls 11y ago
>I could hardly imagine any more satirical example. Hypervisor in Java, perhaps Nice imaginative example - hypervisor in Java. I almost get a panic attack launching Eclipse and then having to wait for it to appear. Contrast that with Chrome/FF launching with umpteen no. of tabs or a SublimeText. Clearly lots of people routinely get it wrong, in technology choice.

jwmerrill 11y ago

So what technologies do you actually like for writing web servers? I think this comment is a good example of "contempt culture," which we've probably all been guilty of, and which we should do less. http://blog.aurynn.com/86/contempt-culture http://blog.aurynn.com/86/contempt-culture

dschiptsov 11y ago
Considerable amount of intelligence is required to understand that nginx, due to its design choices and attention to implementation details (which are hallmarks of truly remarkable systems, such as Plan9/Inferno, Erlang, Smalltalk, etc) is more portable than Node (it runs on more architectures, including Windows) require order of magnitude less resources providing close to optimal effeciecy, could be easily extended via modules and scripted in Lua with less lines of code, less pain, less nonsense. BTW, contempt to incompetence or corruption is natural and healthy emotion. It is what contempt has been evolved for.

wmil 11y ago

> The very first person who suggested Node http server must be fired that very day for offensive incompetence. I'm suspicious that it was an MBA who wanted to use cheaper JS developers on the project.

aws_ls 11y ago

>I could hardly imagine any more satirical example. Hypervisor in Java, perhaps Nice imaginative example - hypervisor in Java. I almost get a panic attack launching Eclipse and then having to wait for it to appear. Contrast that with Chrome/FF launching with umpteen no. of tabs or a SublimeText. Clearly lots of people routinely get it wrong, in technology choice.