I don't necessarily disagree with you, but provisioning 16-32gb for a production server doesn't seem to be unusual these days and the cost negligible...
For 100s to 1000s of servers. The cost starts mattering.
I'm not saying new applications shouldn't be built on lisp. Most applications don't have huge scaling requirements. But, if you expect the application to grow, have a plan in place for migration.
AKA a "nice problem to have" ("oh, we're now so successful we have to rewrite the app in another language to lower our infrastructure costs".
Most of the time you aren't gonna need it (because you wont go far anyway as a company). And when you do -- like Twitter and Facebook did, you'll be swimming in users and money already anyway...
It's interesting that the "Privacy Controls" seem to only change how you see the data they've collected about you, but doesn't seem to change how or when they collect data about you. That doesn't sound like privacy control at all!
I hadn't considered it until that parent post. Compared to what I've seen out of Wall Street banks during the great recession, Equifax, shady lenders, mortgage scumbags, politicians, big tobacco, big oil, big sugar, GE & PCBs, CIA/Bush & torture, various Iraq war scandals, NSA spying scandal, Yahoo, Target, and about 407 other data, consumer, privacy breaches or abuses I've seen the last 20-30 years - Facebook gets high marks in this round for being very public about responding and tackling it head-on, but only after prior delay & evade maneuvers in the past. Most likely they recognized they were staring down a serious Congressional legislative/regulatory problem that could severely damage their business, and had no choice.
- They are highly reactive, pushing a lot of new changes publicly (I know that the changes don't actually change anything, but from a PR perspective they do)
- They are super apologetic and stand for their mistakes
Now, it's, of course, impossible to say today if they are going to get better re privacy, but they definitely make the public impressions that they will. And that's a good response to the crises they're having.
PS: This is a neutral observation of their actions
Mark said he didn't have details about how data is collected outside of Facebook (and it is very likely that he expected to say something false or irrelevant -- and he did: data collection for security purposes is not personal) but that he will come back to it, and he delivers, under a week.
The submission links to an article at fox13memphis.com. The user I'm replying to suggests a "much better" article at seattletimes.com because it includes content which I'm pointing out is already contained at the submission link.
I seem to remember Java Applets & Java "Web start" (or pretty much any browser "plug-in" runtime) causing a fair bit of grief for end-users...