throwawaysnipe

قبل 13 سنةdiscuss

Did Heroku make a mistake? Yes. Did they mislead and lie to their customers? Yes. But is it worth pursuing a class action lawsuit that could ultimately ruin them - if not financially, but force their mgmt team to focus on this damn suit rather than fixing the damn problems? Hells no.

Nice template for an emotional appeal you've got there, dawg (seriously, wtf are you going for with the vernacular embellishments)

Your argument justifies malfeasance without penalty for any entity. Swap out 'Heroku' for Monsanto, Microsoft, or banks that launder money for drug cartels and read it again. See if you still buy the reasoning. If misleading and lying to customers (your words) isn't enough for a lawsuit, what is?

(Not saying Heroku is equivalent to any of the above companies, just illustrating the lack of reason in parent post).

throwawaysnipe

قبل 13 سنةdiscuss

Some replies to parent dispute the 'police state' moniker. Decide for yourself:

(Source: http://www.hrw.org/world-report/2013/country-chapters/singap... . Points below are all direct quotes)

* Singapore's Internal Security Act (ISA) and Criminal Law (Temporary Provisions) Act permit the authorities to arrest and detain suspects for virtually unlimited periods of time without charge or judicial review.

* The Misuse of Drugs Act permits the authorities to confine suspected drug users in "rehabilitation" centers for up to three years without trial.

* Outdoor gatherings of five or more persons still require police permits. The city-state's Speakers Corner -- where people may demonstrate, perform, and hold exhibitions -- remains the only outdoor space where uncensored speech is allowed in the country.

* The Singaporean government and senior government officials have frequently brought charges of "scandalizing the court," criminal and civil defamation, and sedition to silence and even bankrupt its critics.

* Singapore's 208,000 foreign domestic workers are still excluded from the Employment Act and key labor protections, such as limits on daily work hours.

* Human rights defenders in Singapore risk being fined, imprisoned, bankrupted, and banned from traveling outside the country without government approval.

throwawaysnipe

قبل 14 سنةdiscuss

That OP is cherrypicking is obvious, but his web shop example is particularly brazen.

Google for 'django consulting' also turns up on first page:

http://www.comfychairconsulting.com/

http://tivix.com/

http://www.caktusgroup.com/

throwawaysnipe

قبل 14 سنةdiscuss

Linkbait with a main course of generalization and ample sides of selection bias. OP is a Python/Django shop -- if this is intended as a call to arms it is severely misguided.

What does web design have to do with the actual languages? All you've proven is that Ruby developers spend more time on HTML and CSS.

With regard to docs, as of May 2011

  "With revision 31499 of trunk RDoc reports that just 
  under half of ruby has not even a single character of
  comments with over half of the classes and modules
  missing documentation"

Source: http://blog.segment7.net/2011/05/09/ruby-1-9-3-documentation...

Given finite developer resources, I'd rather have docs over shiny. The Python community has its priorities straight.

throwawaysnipe

قبل 14 سنةdiscuss

My bad, just realized you aren't e-mail writer or npm admin. Thrown off by gist author.

Deliberately exposing anything to the web should come with lots of... wait for it... deliberation. The npm guy is a core community member; this incident shows a lot of sloppiness and doesn't inspire faith.

throwawaysnipe

قبل 14 سنةdiscuss

The e-mail heavily implies that the security breach was CouchDB's fault instead of those who were administering that Couch server.

Deliberate passing the buck or accidental bad choice of words?

throwawaysnipe

قبل 14 سنةdiscuss

"Humans weren't meant to do that."

You sound rather defeatist for someone who's on Hacker News. Here's a tip. Create a pattern of sorts, example follows:

    1. Choose a keyboard sequence: say qwerhjkl
    2. Pick 1 < 5 < N.  Use the first N characters of the site/service, followed by N.  npm3qwerhjkl

You now have multiple passwords with an easy mnemonic. The above example may be too obvious a pattern to crack, so come up with a better one.

throwawaysnipe

قبل 14 سنةdiscuss

"Your posts in support of Apple are so breathless. I don't want to go all ad hom, but this is a little...much."

At the time of writing, nirvana has written comments on this post totalling 3931 words, most of which defend either Apple or Jobs. Don't play chess with pigeons.

throwawaysnipe

قبل 14 سنةdiscuss

A biography is not a hagiography. If Gruber wants the latter, he can write one. He already has a lot of material for it.

throwawaysnipe

قبل 15 سنةdiscuss

You can watch The Daily Show on the site proper by setting the X-Forwarded-For header you send to '12.13.14.15'. For more details see http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/onath/stephen_colber...

throwawaysnipe

قبل 15 سنةdiscuss

You're right, and the name has already been chosen: Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:HR01981:@@@L...;

throwawaysnipe

قبل 15 سنةdiscuss

And your vacuous optimism is any better?

throwawaysnipe

قبل 15 سنةdiscuss

Don't encourage the laziness of those who ask for tldrs. While your intentions are good, ultimately you're still an enabler.

throwawaysnipe

قبل 15 سنةdiscuss

Tools are just means to an end. The OpenBSD devs can write better software with punch cards than you can with a modern language. Take your hipsterer-than-thou attitude and shove it.

tl;dr fed the troll.

throwawaysnipe

قبل 15 سنةdiscuss

note: submitter != OP