Dick Cheney brought us the current mess.

I think you'd need to be more specific regarding which mess you're talking about. We have a lot of issues at the moment.

I'm sure his press secretary would argue that was more of an aspirational statement. And that it was necessitated by Republican inaction.

There couldn't be a wrose personality to be in power than Zuckerberg.

I dunno. Dick Cheney or Nancy Pelosi might be worse.

If you don't have user state or session state, scaling is no problem. You just throw more hardware at it so you can have replicated servers with a simple load balancer in front. Job done.

It's scaling in the presence of (mutable) state that is hard. It's also what a lot of use cases need. Sometimes you even have to give up on scaling (boo!) in order to achieve other objectives, or think very hard to come up with an alternative approach such as spinning out processing to cloud-based slaves, which also doesn't truly scale, but can often go pretty large despite that (if you get the finances/business-model right).

I... think you're focusing on a minor bigotry of the GP, which was not really related to his main point.

Your login is "LostMyBeaver". I'm sorry, but I just have to ask... did you have a sex change?

Or until it gets wet.

Maybe they should just offer a link to a free YYZ download with every Netflix membership. Problem solved.

For $8 a month they offer a pretty good selection.

I agree, assuming that selection includes movies I actually want to see. Now it mostly doesn't, so its value to me is approaching $0, sadly.

Yes. Unfortunately, as my trust in them goes up, their useful library continues to shrink.

Don't forget the "War on Terrorism".

Is FDD here to stay?

It seems like you're extrapolating from that experience, to thinking "FDD" is a current trend. AFAIK it's not. A small number of dysfunctional shops like that has virtually always existed. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you've only been doing software development for a few years, so you're working from a limited sample size.

I have been in a few jobs where the managers were verbally and/or emotionally abusive. In both cases I left ASAP.

This has always puzzled me why some developers list this as a negative. What is wrong with wearing a suit?

They're expensive. They generally need dry-cleaning. Spilling stuff on them is expensive. They're typically less comfortable than some alternatives. They tend to be hotter in the summer than what I'd normally wear.

Every professional workplace has an expectation of a formal atire.

Either you have an unusually narrow definition of "workplace", or your statement is just factually incorrect.

I think you may be missing my point. Let me illustrate with a scenario:

Doctor: I think you have long cancer.
You: That's an extraordinary claim, I want proof.
Doctor: Sorry, you're not my patient. I don't have time to talk.

Do you ignore what he said because he made an extraordinary claim and wouldn't meet some particular burden of proof?

So how does that work then? If you tell me something that's true, but you can't be bothered to try persuading me of it, shall I flatly refuse to believe it? Regardless of the idea's underlying merit? I don't see how that policy is profitable.