To be fair I'm also no fan of what is traditionally considered "LAMP". I personally believe PHP is more dangerous than it needs to be, MySQL is a poor choice relative to alternatives and harbor little regard even for Apache.

No. Application design limits scalability of non-trivial systems not the data store.

The only thing that sucks worse than a good relational schema design is everything else.

JOINS JOINS JOINS... The reason for JOINs is saving disk space... mind blown.

General purpose languages are a dead end. The money you save not having to train people to use appropriate DSLs for the task at hand will be more than offset by increased cost of managing product lifecycle.

ab is the most worthless (slow, single threaded, client CPU limited) tool for benchmarking web servers you can pick. Almost as worthless as benchmarking hello world applications bearing no resemblance to real world usage.

How does admitting to being behind other solutions translate into a reason for your approach?

I'm disappointed all around.. both with this article and what is allowed to pass for forward progress in the web stack space.

If it isn't a joke then what is it? A tragedy?

That's weird I always assumed IMAX was just a generic term for theatre with a big ass screen?

Let me put this another way... ask anyone what do you call a movie theatre with a big ass multi-story curved screen? ... and before they answer say ...but you can't use the word "IMAX".

In various contexts people talk about IMAX cameras and film formats even NASA folks talking about the imax camera for curiosity ... I seriously always assumed it was just a generic specification.

Who knows that IMAX is a brand? Perhaps they have already suffered severe dilution and currently deserve no trademark/brand projection of any kind.

Would I pay more for mobile phones to become an open platform where I can load whatever OS I want and swap out parts with reasonably standardizable interfaces? Hell yes I would.

While I have no opinion about "ethics" of tin and gold but there is nothing I hate more in this industry than insatiable trend of a few massive companies to continue to consolidate their power over everything.

Perfectly good way to manage your passwords when you're in Burnt Scrotum, New Mexico and your opponent is in Pudong, China.

Treating this like "Shuttleworth's problem" is losing sight of the big picture. The SA government is desperate to prevent money leaving the country, because if it was easy to get out, a significant chunk of the population would (SA, particularly in the large cities, is not a fun place to live). They may have eliminated the apartheid-era controls, but they've introduced far stricter ones to prevent capital flight from the country. Shuttleworth's case is just one of the more visible ones, there are huge numbers of people who would leave if they could get their money out.

Yeah, but does it tech the tech? Everyone knows you need to be able to tech the tech to the warp drive to fix serious problems.

This is what I love about all the buzzword enriched nonsense. Use cases presented are not only completely worthless but so half baked and nonsensical that they are actually funny.

Oh the dreams of marketeers...

More likely they spend $26 billion in advertising to get people to care about their worthless and annoying gimmicks and still fail.

Try finding fortune cookies without the words "partially hydrogenated" in the ingredients list on the shelves. Looked everywhere and gave up.

Selfishly I find myself cheering for the FDA ban because I want fortune cookies without trans fat.

Fortune cookies.

I'm waiting for the first voice recognition virus or voice bomb. Basically someone saying something clever in a video or song or other mass media that triggers millions of devices into making an expensive call or directing them to something with a 0-day payload.

Playing dumb has been my personal strategy yet I have no reference to judge effectiveness against other strategies.

You are rarely helped by acting like a know-it-all. The goal I have found is not to help, inform or impress but to get the person on the other end of the line to just give a shit about helping you. Sometimes being stupid is better for you than having the clueless parts changer and "rebooter and chief" you talk to or they send out be offended when you go talking over their head or attempt to do their job for them. Sometimes if the tech they send out is not a total zombie they will see equipment racks and *ask* intelligent questions at which time it is safe to blab.

I intentionally lie about what I know, avoid argument and work hard to contain laughter especially during onsite visits. I will follow all even stupid instructions unless what I'm being told to do is outright destructive or wastes too much time.

Have also experienced the flip side of this first hand. Sometimes people who think they know something turn out in reality to know a lot less. I'm an Oracle without cookies in a couple niche domains where all who challenge me lose yet the same people keep coming back for more with the same hubris filled retorts undaunted and unaffected by previous lapses of understanding and judgment. What is particularly amusing and annoying are the guys who restate the original question thinking I must not have understood what they were asking in the first place. At all costs don't be this person.

You're right. Initially I thought it was up in the uselss-wank row of keys that vendors like to put above the function keys, but it does appear to be replacing the Esc key. Assuming they then follow the Lenovo Carbon Gen 2 model of keyboard braindamage which is... well it's hard to describe in words, see for yourself (yes, someone actually did that on purpose, which is why you can buy Gen 2's on eBay for much less than the older Gen 1's), there'll be a quick subsequent release of a Model n+1 that undoes it all again.