Agreed, I track the CentOS and Ubuntu security lists to know when to reboot my services, and chances vulnerabilities for various libraries are much more common than other stuff. That said, a lot of the time you can get away with just restarting a service or two.

I'd put this service in the category of things that'd be nice to have, I'd consider paying $4/mo for it. Of course, if you really 'need' this service what you probably actually need is a hot spare with automatic failover.

Eeesh, what a tragedy. I got the same BS at my job, luckily my higher up was fired and I replaced him, letting me turn our crapload of PHP into Rails.

I took a good long look at the PHP MVC world when it was clear my company wasn't going to drink the Rails kool aid, and I have to say, none of the PHP frameworks were (at the time, 2 years ago) up to snuff compared to Rails. They were just flat out missing a lot of the features that made Rails great.

Plus, it takes me way less time to code in Ruby than PHP, PHP just takes more LoC, especially as your app's complexity increases.

Hey, I agree, I wrote that post as a joke, almost all the negatives are easily dis-proven falsehoods. The knee-jerk zealots on Slashdot are too arrogant to educate themselves about this language unfortunately.

You know, I wrote my post as a joke, to hopefully prevent stupid comments like yours. That yours was modded (twice) up is proof of the juvenile partisanship present here on slashdot.

Well, if you want good, cheap rails hosting you could easily do Dreamhost or Heroku. I'd go with Heroku, they'll scale up pretty well.

Please pick form the list below

Ruby and/or Rails sucks because:
    1. It doesn't scale (Twitter)
    2. It's slow
    3. I read somewhere that Python was a better language
    4. I write PHP, I can do everything Ruby/Rails can do better
    5. My obnoxious younger coworker uses it
    6. It's not lightweight enough
    7. The ruby community is full of over-hyping zelous twits
Ruby and/or Rails is awesome because:
    1. It scales within reason (Twitter, Lighthouse, Shopify)
    2. It's as fast as Python and PHP
    3. I read somewhere it was better than Python
    4. I used to write PHP, Ruby's been a godsend
    5. There are so many motivated and innovative people in the community
    6. It's featureful
    7. Pythonistas are over-hyping jealous twits

The plural of anecdote is not data.

Wow, I'd love to hear your opinion about things you have no experience with and have strong suspicious about.

How do you expect to be seriously talking about stuff you claim to not really know about?

I suspect you could benefit by taking a step back, re-reading your post, and spending some time reflecting on your own biases.

I was under the impression the economy and shrinking retirement affected everyone. Why single out just IT?

I actually agree with you, but not in the context of the article.

Someone at Google suggesting they shouldn't hire someone because it's good for the tech ecosystem, whatever that is, deserves to be roundly mocked. It is pretentious and silly to suggest that.

Google exists to make money. They have the "do no evil" motto and all that, but fundamentally they are a business and everything else takes a back seat to that goal.

Horowitz repeating that story tells me that they are simply running a PR campaign to clean up their image and make people forget about the fact that they're amassing frightening amounts of data about people and then selling it. How altruistic.

If they really believe in helping the proletariat, then they should all be in the peace corps instead. Horowitz (and his engineer) must really feel that the public is incapable of thought, since they assumed no one would figure out just what that statement implies about those not working at Google.

Wow.

I had no idea Rick Ross went after the CoS when not rapping.