His Laundry Files are excellent as well.

I politely disagree - they are funny, in a wink-wink, nudge-nudge sort of way (if you've read your Lovecraft), but pale compared to his 'harder' SF (like Accelrando, Singularity Sky, Glasshouse). That said, I do much prefer the Laundry Files stories to The Merchant Princes, but I have a low tolerance for Urban Fantasy...

Sure, but money talks louder.

Could work around it with stunnel until it's resolved

It would map better to a Django app rather than Flask

Also it literally means "dry".

Interesting. I'm familiar with Israeli tech companies and it's odd they wouldn't buy in.

בהצלחה!

Oh, that's pretty clever. Thanks for the explanation!

I still have fond memories of building a kernel in winter on a P4. No heater needed. Make menuconfig, because the TCL part was too heavy...

Its kind of balls that those moments are so far away, yet so near. I mean, we could if we wanted to, 'make menuconfig', I'm quite sure, even still.

But .. nah.

;)

`make menuconfig` still works fine, I use it to configure kernels for use on Android. Since I build those on a server somewhere on the 'net - actually it sits under the stairs but for all intents and purposes it could have been on the other side of the world - it is handy to be able to use a console-based method.

I do prefer `menuconfig` (combined with `oldconfig`) in any case, possibly out of habit but also because this type of text-based user interface often is much faster to use than its graphical equivalent.

You mean there's something fancier than `menuconfig`??

Not really. I just don't bother building my own kernel any more - the distro I use (Ubuntu Studio) comes with one that works great out of the box. Nice to know I still could, though .. ;)

As originally built by him, it was indeed just a php website.

>> it was indeed just a php website.

How quickly can one build and how quickly can it scale ? - Speed is the name of the game - is it not this rule which holds true when building things on internet.

Or else, most of top internet apps are just going to be php,rails,node web-apps

The point is once it started to get to medium and large scale, there was experienced developers scaling it instead of zuckerberg.

This was my original thought. Zuckerberg hired people to scale facebook to what it has become today.

In many, many circumstances, code that "does the thing [well enough]" is more than enough. Not everyone works on avionics or pacemakers.