I write code for both sides, there's no reason people need to live in their ivory towers...

I've dealt with similiar situations in my professional career. Rackspace's DDOS protection isn't worth it, after 3Mbps, they null routed our box because the size of the attack was so large that it was saturating their uplink capacity...

Prolexic has a cool approach, you proxy your site through them (either web proxy or they can annouce BGP routes for you) and they have massive datacenters that do nothing but scrub packets for you.

The downside is their service is very very expensive ($60k+ a year)

Political discussion is an activity for fools. It's like arguing which brand of anal lube or who's servant of satan is better

Not all personal lubricants are the same, silcon based are more effective in the short run but have the nasty side effect of hanging around for days. Water-based lubes are easier to wash off but need to be re-applied more frequently.

Even in thoose categories, the lubes widely differ beteween manufacturers, some are too viscous, others are too thin..

So I must wholeheartedly disagree that putting thought into your choice of anal lubricant is a fool's task.

iOS uses the same kernel and core infrastructure as OSX..

The current licensing by Nvidia makes that impossible... It takes two to tango.

How in the world this was moderated insightful is beyond me - mod parent down, its wrong.

Apparently not me (They don't allow gay people to donate - even if I am HIV-)

If by 250k you mean 80k, then sure..

-rw-r--r-- 1 xxxxx staff 85260 Apr 30 10:28 jquery-1.5.1.min.js

If you're building any sort of complicated website these days, you will use alot of jQuery.. Do you really want to go write a custom ajax handler? why bother..

Plus, using jQuery allows you to leverage tons of other pre-written libraries which were all written on top of jQuery and will avoid alot of cross-browser bugs and repeated code..

echo + html tags is a huge fail...

Riight..

Because looking at code littered with var e = document.getElementById('stuff'); is just so much more elegant and non-shit-looking than $('#stuff')..

Why do organizations target specific versions of browsers - I really don't understand why its so hard for people to write cross-browser web applications - I do it every day at my job..

It's not like anyone will want to buy that franken-ui anyways...

Huh? WebBrick is really only meant for development use.. You can hook any web server up to rails easily. For apache, just gem install passenger...

It sounds more like you're used to what you're used to and don't want to change. Meanwhile thoose "overexcited college grads" don't want to be weighed down by the 20 years of trash thats part of the PHP code base... I'm a PHP dev now, and was a rails dev for 5 years - I'll take ruby/rails any day.

Rails is very easy to deploy..

1. 1. gem install passenger
2. 2. Point the apache vhost to the public directory.
3. 3. Restart apache..

There ya go, fine tune passenger to your hearts content...