rabino

Why would you take them seriously if they fire someone senior just to respond to the public outcry but did nothing when this wasn't public?

I never said that. If you want to learn to manage servers, by all means. The industry needs more good people!

But to suggest that everyone should do (or will do it, as some people are commenting here) it is bananas.

I do the same. And some times it goes down and I'm busy so it stays down for a day. And I never find time to keep everything updated to the latest security patches, etc. Fun hobby, but I wouldn't trust that as my only repository of data.

Sure. And that's called a hobby. You can do whatever you want, but the point here is this is not what the masses are going to do. Or should do, for that matter.

You lost me on how you went from "They find bigger and better and stealthier ways to learn about us" (which I agree with) to "move against us in the future". Care to elaborate?

I own my phone, but the data is still in the cloud.

I'm not sure I agree with your version of the future. People don't know enough ( and don't want to) about security, scalability, availability, etc.

Do you homeschool your kids? Grow your own produce? Kill your own cows?

I mean, why don't you let experts do what they do and you spend your time doing what you do?

Unless you do servers. In that case, sure. Whatever.

I was expecting the list of sources at the bottom of the article to be a mile long. Not a single one. Hot damn, so much broscience and red herrings.

Allow me to be skeptical when your first quoted source is Gladwell.

I'm confused about what the goal of this is. The best thing about PHP is its dynamic nature, and the fact that any new page load is a completely new universe. Why would you want to loose that and compile it to a, well, compiled language?

I totally empathize with people that are truly affected by words or ideas. What I can't tolerate is people trying to impose me what I should be offended by.

Oh my god the tone of the article is exasperating. We get it, you think she'd dumb or something, but you need to relax a bit.

The unnecessary bashing of PHP, the lame justification for a sloppy architecture, the immense ego... I don't think hack culture should be used to justify asshole-ery.

We have a pretty functional distributed organization and Slack has been a godsend for us. We totally love it.