jmcnevin

We've been using Temporal for the past year and have found it to be an absolute joy.

Being able to model business processes--some of which may take multiple _years_, and require human approval/rejection steps--using procedural go/java/js, and knowing that once that function starts executing, it is basically indestructible (barring the complete destruction of temporal's backend database), is just really cool. Being able to outsource a lot of the complexity involved in using event sourcing to manage distributed transactions frees up our developers to worry about just the high-end business logic.

Congrats to the team! I'm excited to see Temporal gaining some more traction.

Would you ever want autocomplete on, say, a field where you're inputting a 2FA response? Probably not, since any suggestions would be useless.

I find the workaround of "just put some other random bullshit for the value" hilarious. And once developers start over-abusing that as well (they will), then what's the plan?

I find this story highly suspect, unless the writer happened to find a company run primarily by sociopaths.

I've used Uber dozens of times, but stories like this really make me think I should give Lyft a shot. After all, if this company is operating in such an underhanded manner this early in the game, it's troubling to consider what they'd be capable of down the line.

I'm not sure why MS decided that the release of a free upgrade of their product that's trying to address pain points with Metro would be great opportunity to shove the Windows Store down users' throats. I can't even open Windows Store on my media center PC (hooked up to a 720p television) without increasing my screen resolution past native. That's just irritating.

Do you realize that your Windows 8 license key will not allow you to download and do a clean install of 8.1? You need to download 8.0, install 64 or so important updates, and only then are you deemed worthy of being eligible to download 8.1 through the Windows Store. Who thought this up?

I went the clean install route after my upgrade from 8.1 preview stalled out on the "Almost There" screen for 15 minutes. I rebooted, and all references to my installed applications were gone.

All in all, the 8.1 upgrade wasn't a pleasant experience.

What does this have to do with client trust? They're expecting the client to access their API a certain way, and the client is sending what is arguably a malformed request. This is, surprise, causing an error to occur.

This (mass-assignment) is fairly standard Rails-fu, so its fair to assume that this could affect a lot of apps out there.

What the hey... I'd love to see support added for the Minneapolis/St. Paul area.

Rackspace customers can use SendGrid to send up to 40K emails a month for free. I wonder how this might impact that deal.