Very good question, I thought many times about this and could think that probably the beginning or how you start the day determines the rest of the day.
Finally, a nice piece on Zuck in Berlin, Axel Springer's CEO is quite a smart guy turned that dino corporation into something digital in few years.
There was another public thing on Facebook (Q&A town hall Berlin) where the German questioners had a) so-so questions b) some really, really bad English skills and c) just felt like backwoodsmen, all paired by Facebook's European head who is also German and must be in love with Zuck (he interviewed Zuck few times on the trip and asked odd questions—why does an FB employee interview Zuck??). Absolutely nothing against Germans, nice people, but especially this town hall speak was a bit embarrassing and gave a slightly wrong picture of Germans.
EDIT: Hey downvoters, please read my piece again, it's NOT against any nationality—it rather criticizes how the interviewers/questioners were chosen which might give a not representative picture.
Someone who got it and starts the README right away with advantages over Cygwin.
The '1/15th of the size' sounds fantastic—I installed Cygwin on a cheaper Windows notebook yesterday and it took 45 minutes (I could have installed a VM + an Linux image in the same time).
My dad had an IBM Selectric typewriter with a typeball head. I remember I was 9 or 10 and it was so satisfying how a soft key press let the typeball moving & rotating incredibly fast to the right letter and hammering the paper. Actually it was so fast you barely could see any movement. The printed letters were ultra crisp and clear (like a today's 2400dpi b/w laser printer) since it was kind of an one time ribbon. A total different experience to previous typewriters where you needed to hit the keys hard and the printed letters were of inconsistent quality.
Since then I was fascinated by devices with keyboards.
I don't care where I can find free WiFi. Nowadays, every damn coffee shop, hotel or mall has free Wifi—I care about fast and free WiFi with speedy up- & downloads and low latency. Well executed implementation though.
While Nxweb looks very promising, my first question would be 'Why should I use it over eg Nginx?' It would be helpful to have some direct comparison to other servers on the landing page.
EDIT: Ok, there is a link to some odd benchmarks and it includes performance comparisons to Nginx and others which are not understandable (Nginx 141 req/s and Nxweb 200 / 121 req/s while it's not clear when 200 and when 121); moreover they compare it to Mongoose which is an ORM/ODM
I'm still mind blown every single day about the Node community—for me it's the fastest evolving dev ecosystem which is at the same time high performant and robust.
Mozilla is focussing on its core competency. No mobile OS, no identity built in the browser, no distractions—no, it's just about the browser and how to make it better. What this guy showed is just impressive, well done and please more of such achievements.
While I really like the idea—a one stop-shop company creator I am a bit unsure if Stripe will achieve the same quality level like dedicated registries which do this for several years.
Points I am missing/not seeing:
- Can I decide about the administration location (eg also Delaware or does it have to be my actual location)?
- Can I get some virtual office with address, mail forwarding, etc, sometimes offered by registry?
- Is Stripe a full state approved registry or do they use 3rd party registries? What are the ongoing costs (there can be significant differences)?
- How many people are in customer support?
- Is Stripe stated as the registrant in the Delaware corp database?
The only advantage I've seen is that Stripe is opening the bank account for you and it seems you do not have to visit the States but other than that I am not sure if going all-in with one entity (Stripe) is a bit too risky.
And if looking at dedicated registries there 3-5x more information on their websites—this is not a clear indicator for quality of service but since this is not Stripe's core competency it's something I'd be a bit cautious. But still something Atlas can catch-up.