Which one should I use now and why?

What is the alternative?

He wasn't talking about FreeBSD 20 years ago, he was talking about App deployment on mainframes 20 years ago. Yes, junior it isn't a new idea. Sure some things are different, but many fundamentals were ideas way way before we had the super power, speed we do now.

It was kinda sorta in style during the Roman empire, just for a few centuries or so.

Fucktard, you are an absolute moron. Anon coward or not it has to be said. Look up the term, middleware, PLEASE.

What is the site? This smells of some poor choices, but mixing in A/B with Analytics in your description is not clear. Are your pages fully cached with a CDN? Are there major content decisions made only in the JS?

It isn't the amount, as much as the complexity and the number of different vendors, programmers, companies that are represented. The post a way's up blaming "tracking" is way oversimplified and hitting the wrong issue. How do you debug a page for performance AND MAKE ANY CHANGES, if much of the code you didn't write and you can't change?

I don't know how this got moded up, it is nonsense. Most tracking happens post load/post interactive, and someone saying, "looking at your status line" is a telltale for this person not having a clue about website performance opt. I get this from JS devs and PM's all of the time, and I really do have to prove that the 1M of badly optimized images is more the problem.

Lower transportation costs, well frankly if those go up, I see a likely benifit regarding more local jobs. I don't see batteries powering those massive container ships, but then again, there is more oil for that kind of shit if it isn't being used in cars, for other power etc.

Fukushima, yeah, a power plant needs a nice view...

How the hell does this absolute crap get posted?

"What the fuck is Qt?", my boss says. He is right. Great news re .Net. Good luck to all of those unable to see the benifit of this. Our companies will eat your companies for peanuts, not because of .Net, but because your tech opinons are so clouded with emotion.

Why no booms?

I only remember it from the time when people could afford to pay their doctors for the most part.

Bullshit, you are a chump and your costs are insane for that rnd overheard conversation. Focus makes deadlines. People who ask questions get A's. People who don't you fire.