Make the machine cheap and sell the consumables above cost.

It wasn't young programmers, it was anybody who just graduated from college and needed a job, probably 99% non-programmers. They would send them to a boot camp in St. Charles Ill. (mostly to drink). Then they would bring them on projects at $350+ per hour. All they would do was generate spreadsheets while the real programmers had to do all the work and get non of the glory.

What gets me about "the cloud", is that at least for Amazon it appears that there are multiple clouds. You can still have outages. Doesn't sound like Amazon is doing "the cloud" right to me. Anybody else have any thoughts on this?

Kinda like the people who fill the pot holes in the streets.

It is the pay for plugin market that really is killing wordpress, but it is also what keeps it going. You have a million marketers saying that wordpress is the greatest thing since sliced bread, because that is how they get their bread. Last I looked at joomla, it was in the same sorry state. Drupal is still the only truly free cms.

qmail? djbdns?

Says the anonymous coward who is probably still struggling with their first "Hello World" program in quick basic.

If I remember right, php didn't start checking peer ssl certs until 5.6. Then it doesn't really matter if http or https is used because php wouldn't even notice if the cert was invalid if you aren't on php >= 5.6.

Of course it is, it was based off of oscommerce another steaming pile of phpshit.

How is that not the same as:

Meanwhile, a different candidate rapidly built a large and complex web application that could have several undiscovered vulnerabilities (security experts call this a “large attack surface”). And not a single candidate returned my attempts to contact them about possible security vulnerabilities.

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Isn't Shopify a large an complex web application. Has anyone done a security audit on shopify or reviewed its source code?

Yes, it is better that your plugins contain the sql-injection attacks so the core doesn't have to deal with them.

Pretty sure the last frame is a jump scare.

want to make everything you do a crime if you aren't paying them money.

I have 12 seagate drives in a raid array. I finally had one fail, but it was after 8 years or operation, but I think that was my fault because I moved the server to a new rack and it was offline for about 30 minutes and it failed about 30 days later. Data loss? Zero. Personally I think backblaze is the cause of the seagate drive failures.

Be it cable tv, itunes, ads (hulu) etc. I'm NEVER going to subscribe. Let me pay you money, and access content with no ads and I'm in. You can even put appropriate limits such as with netflixs and its # of streams limit.