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by Jgrubb 11y ago
My own anecdotal evidence - I couldn't believe how fast our Drupal 7 websites were, and they only threw a couple of deprecation notices. They definitely felt 100% faster. We will be upgrading soon.
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Thank you very much!
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I'm an extremely occasional nmap user, what benefits would being async provide?
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Constellation to Buy Ballast Point Brewing for $1B(bloomberg.com)
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I was thinking about this on the way home. Regardless of what has become of Google they started off with "don't be evil", whereas Facebook has basically been "by any means necessary" from day 1.
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Totally upsupported supposition - maybe because Zuck basically is in the same age bracket as a lot of the population on here, whereas Larry and Sergey are a bit older?
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Irony is http://imgur.com/mivdSRC
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Paying user for 2 years now. Never had a single complaint.
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There was one once, a long time ago. Alas, they don't seem to have made it to the table in this current generation of large internet players.
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> While the votes are good news for muni Internet proponents, Community Broadband Networks pointed out that the state law forces communities to "spend precious public dollars" on referenda. This is the most they could come up w
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Exactly. My first thought was "that's all?".
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We're relatively new to the GitLab game, but it has vastly improved the overall transparency into our codebase and the work that's going into it. The ability to put comments in the diffs as code reviews is something that a lot of
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So basically the beginning of Old Boy?
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The author was also the subject of an episode of This American Life - http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/463/m...
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I think what you're witnessing here is people and corporations realizing just that.
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I'm the lead dev at a company that ten years ago was a B2B publishing company. We published trade magazines for a variety of technical and R&D type fields. We're now in online publishing (obviously) and just finished tagging s
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First kid - "be careful he doesn't trip and fall" Second kid - "Oh, he tripped and fell. are you ok?" Third kid - (BAM CRASH Cry from upstairs) - "oh, he's fine. crying means he's fine."
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Hey if you're still paying attention to this thread I'd love to pick your brain about this topic. contact in my profile if you don't mind. Thanks.
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On the one hand, you're totally right about the annoucements. On the other hand, the names they give their AWS products are pretty mystifying. AWS Snowball?
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I'm sorry to tell you this, but your sarcasm sensors are way out of spec.
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I agree. I remember seeing some chart laying out the ROI of lobbying and how campaign contributions can be more or less directly connected to future government contracts worth 1000x of what they "contributed". Seems pretty logic
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by Jgrubb 11y ago
It's a thread about PHP on Hacker News. Even if there were no comments at all it would still reek of negativity.
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Well that's a tiny bit annoying, since I just set up our own cluster 3 days ago to centralize all our logging...
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Just wanted to say thanks for this writeup. I read it the last time on here and it was definitely inspirational.
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Hopefully so, but it seems like a very large gamble to take to basically invalidate the entire community's knowledge base on how to write code for Drupal. On the one hand, if there's not a large market uptake of Drupal 8, there wo
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by Jgrubb 11y ago
Dude, you and me bump into each other all over the place. I just tweeted you a couple days ago about the Drupal Assoc job board. Used to run into you on r/drupal agreeing on how there will be no Drupal 9, etc. I mostly just do everyt
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I actually disagree. There's a big difference between reinventing the wheel - which happens because you didn't know that somebody else had thought of this before and already solved the problem - and building your own wheel becaus
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by Jgrubb 11y ago
Currently working for a company that has all of it's websites in Drupal, so my team is versed in PHP. I've been working with Drupal for 7 straight years. I have this dream of not having to work with Drupal ever again, so I often
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by Jgrubb 11y ago
Shorter lines are easier to read. Not like this -- https://aws.amazon.com/message/5467D2/ -- which is impossible to read without narrowing your browser.
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by Jgrubb 11y ago
I don't think they rely on Dynamo, they rely on an internal metadata service that Dynamo just happened to overwhelm with too many large requests.

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