The smaller pieces might still be big enough to survive atmospheric entry. Now instead of one problem, you have many.

Deflection sounds like a great idea, hit it right and send it off to a safer orbit.

More problems that are smaller may be better overall. With more total surface area, the air would absorb more of the total energy coming at us.

You don't want another K-T extinction event when you could just have three cities wiped out instead.

If you can guarantee just three cities. Either way, not sure why I was downvoted for having an opinion on the matter. Also I'm wondering why HN moderators allow such downvoting which discourages well intended discussion and participation.

Are you hanging out or working?

Don't be obtuse. You know it is not a binary thing. Work ebbs and flows throughout a day. No one works exactly from 8-12 then 1-5 and goes home. So working and hanging out can happen at work.

Good point, but it would be a much better comment without the first 5 unduly personal words.

Have you considered a line of work more suited to an extrovert personality?

The funny thing is, in my experience the most extroverted people (the sales team) all have offices, and the introverted programmers are all stuck in a bullpen.

Status once again. There's actually quite a lot of formal research on this, such as here:

< http://homepages.se.edu/cvonbergen/files/2013/01/Reversing-t... >

I like languages that let me write a sub-routine when that makes sense and a function when that makes sense.

You can get it free here: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10

There is an aspect to be considered about making money on this topic.

I changed "linode" to "aws" in your link, very interesting results came up in Google.

Notable is the lack of any mentions of actual instances of AWS getting hacked.

Nah honey, I'm good and Linode is the best.

I ask myself and myself says Linode is the best of all I've tried, which is many. So thanks for your wonderful insights but mine are better for me.

As hard as this may be to believe, tptacek's opinions are not the gospel of technology. I've been with Linode for several years and their staff has been top notch.

Because opensource cookbooks are unreliable or people should only rely on your cookbooks? Or old skool isn't new skool so it should be wholly disregarded?

open source or not, they should follow the best practices, these don't. The fact is, really old open source cookbooks have been copy pasted, with the maintainers names changed, and hacked on top of. For example, the MySQL cookbook. This is against the apache2 licence that they were originally distributed under.

Sure, maybe at a company with enough resources to throw at code quality, but this is Walmart we're talking about.

How much profit do they make a year? :/