Maybe it was harsh, the idea is: You might write better when you don't know how many people read your articles. On the other hand, you might write better when you know. Plan accordingly :)
1. All local. Unless you don't want and a 100-200kb JS file is too much of a strain on your server bandwidth. Or are you serving 15Mb of JS files?
2. Screw Disqus. Screw Facebook Comments. Start thinking about your visitors, as someone said on another related thread, you are responsible for the tracking of your visitors by 3rd-party sites. Local comments or turn them off if you don't care about what others are saying. Don't save any information about the commenters except what they enter in the boxes. One-way hash the IPs if you need to compare for spam reasons.
3. If you need your ego stroked when you see you had xx visitors on your site, go ahead, use Google Analytics and screw us all. We're gonna block it anyway.
[1] This is a privacy policy I use and respect very much when interacting with the visitors/commenters on my personal blog.
All due respect for Leah Rowe and her work on libreboot, but this kind of drama only hurts the OpenSource (regardless of the name you like to use) initiative.
Exactly. The people that think Medium is innovative are the same people that think Farm From the Box (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13309610) is innovative. Some people just live in their pretty bubbles.
It's not a matter of GG being white or black (not racially), it's a matter of taking his opinions/writings with a bit of salt, but taking them nevertheless.
As much as Noahpinion is entitled to his opinion, so is GG.
As someone who's been bootstrapping his own startup for the past ... 6 years and refused VC money (not for moral reasons), I have to take it. I still refuse to implement Google Analytics and integrate FB/Dropbox/Google in any of the projects I'm involved with.
Moralist? No, I'm just not into feeding the monster.
What problem is "Atom-in-orbit" trying to solve? Those times when you're always online and you can't be arsed to download a full-featured IDE, so you transform your browser into a memory-gulping machine?
I think we're just throwing solutions out there and try to find the problem to fix later.
Aren't we going a bit too far with all this "political"-correctness? Are we living such harsh times that we need to take up a defensive stance when called an Emacs-virgin?
Edit: Oh, and for the downvoting/Electron-loving folks out there, Electron is the best and All hail Elon Musk!