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My dad grew up in Roxborough, and always referred to it as a stoop.

I see your point, but don't necessarily agree 100%.

Regardless, I was calling it as I saw it at the time. Checking out the comment section of a few posts on PH's front page today, it looks like my evaluation still stands. Though my classification may be hyper-specific, my main point is it's a microcosm (stereotype?) of the echo chamber.

I agree-

I stopped going back after I realized it was a homogeneous group (read: white dudes connected to VCs) patting each other on the back for releasing half-baked MVPs. I was really turned-off by that.

That said, I think it's slowly changing for the better (rigging allegations aside) since I last took a look a year or so ago. I received a small amount of traction after submitting a stupid iMessage sticker pack I built. I was still pretty salty when I submitted it, but was curious to see if the exclusivity had loosened up a little bit. It had!

As someone who occasionally builds silly apps it's cool to share them with a community of makers, but I don't think PH fits the bill anymore. Maybe the acquisition will allow them to re-focus?

I'm at re:Invent currently, and this morning's keynote by the CEO has a superhero theme! :)

Have you used Tweetbot?

Yes, so the attack vector is still higher than other solutions outlined in the article, but we've managed to avoid installing stuff like gcc. It's also significantly cut down our deployment time, especially when updating libraries/requirements.

> "It remains virtually impossible to create a Ruby or Python web server virtual machine image that DOESN’T include build tools (gcc), ssh, and multiple latent shell executables."

At work, our tech team has found an interesting way around this for our Python app. We build out the virtualenv in the docker container, and then run our ansible-based deployments inside the same container. With that, our virtual environments are rsync'd to the app servers so we can avoid installing developer tools.

Or, you know, pay an extra $3 to Uber and avoid that situation all together.

It shouldn't matter, but it does.

It definitely is, but with any service the people you're following makes a huge difference.

I began to notice this when Instagram made it easy to post full-resolution pictures to Facebook.