What is the kind of traffic total/concurrent at peak that you serve?

Not on the desktop, but in Opera Mini there have been product placements on both the home screen and speed dial screens for a while.

I'm somewhat OK with it, considering it is a free product. What sucks is that they don't respect my synced Opera Link settings when on a new OM installation. Have to remove items on the speed dial screen manually at that time. The home screen ones are not removable at all, from what I can see.

opera started being free with ads on top of every page.

why people here insists on comparing FF, which we all contributed code, donated money, helped users on forums, etc, to commercially developed offerings?

It is a bit frustrating to see the NSA angle in everything these days. Going by the same logic, it is very likely that they are tapping into the backbones, should we then be less enamored with using the internet?

The snooping is a serious problem and has been discussed to death and beyond in various threads.

$this->app['component']->function() gives me an instant headache. Which is why I always wind up giving up on Symfony/Silex after trying it out every now and then.

OTOH, I had a much easier time with Laravel, though it uses some of the same Symfony components under the hood.

Indulge me here for a bit; but how does a multi-million dollar investment (raised from the same existing authoritarian framework) into Bitcoins make it anti-authoritarian?

Best case scenario is that this is a good hedge with decent risks, worst case scenario is that it is a worthwhile asset class to manipulate at a lower cost compared to other asset classes.

EDIT: I don't agree with the larger tone of the article, but there are merit-worthy points that are made in it.

I never claimed that Coinbase, the company you seem to be referring to, was anti-authoritarian: only that the idea of Bitcoin itself was. Coinbase is, as you said, very much a product of the existing framework.

Bitcoin's creator satoshi wrote extensively about economics and politics and, to my understanding, its invention was explicitly anti-authoritarian.

But you do recognize that people are buying Bitcoins using the day-to-day authoritarian tools, right? This is the equivalent of popularization of denims as a statement of rebellion from the 1970s; or the prevalence of Che Guevara tees in capitalist nations. Gives you that warm fuzzy feeling, but, in reality, it is no different from anything else.

Of course. As bitcoin isn't a viable currency and no one is really conducting btc->btc transactions, paying salaries in btc or anything else, the only method of utilizing them is going through the traditional, already existing banking infrastructure.

The only part that I may slightly disagree with is that unlike the case of denim or Che shirts, there is at least a theoretical endgame that escapes the traditional framework.

Note that I don't think bitcoin will reach that endgame, but I think that is a slight distinction.

Replying to the reply to my parent comment, since I seem to have reached HN's nesting limit.

Forms of control are not always very direct. Let us, hypothetically, say the big state actors jump in to take control of 80% of the available bitcoins available, under various entities, they have control and authority and little accountability.

This is already a reality in some equity markets, where retail investors are under 20% and rest of the players are institutional players. It will take much lesser than what it takes to move a large equity market, to move BT.

There is a good reason why there is no global barter system. It simply won't work at that scale. A global barter system -- that would be truly subversive.

Bitcoin is the most promising of derivatives to come into the market in recent years. And as far as derivatives go, something that has no formal structure controlling or regulating is a godsend for actors who can move the markets. And considering the entire size of the Bitcoin world, it is one of the most juicy derivatives out there.

Does that mean it is not innovative? No. It is certainly innovative, especially in how it has been marketed. Alternative currencies are a dime-a-dozen in communities that are interested in currencies and communities that want to subvert existing currencies. But none of the others have gotten as far as Bitcoin has, in terms of both usage and how seriously it is taken.

Does that mean you cannot make money off it. No. You can certainly make money off it. That said, you can make money off how a bunch of horses are going to run on a given day too.

Does that mean you cannot pay for things with it? No. You can certainly pay for many things using it. Does that mean it is as good as the USD. No, it is not.

The true genius in Bitcoins lie in tapping into the Matrix-esque narrative that you are empowering every wannabe-Neo out there; which almost every nerd secretly aspires to be.

What that narrative misses out on is that, at a global level, any abstraction (currency, political boundaries, taxation) is already mainstream. By the time you make something niche acceptable by everyone, you have already inherited all the good and bad of something that is mainstream.

Congrats. This looks pretty neat, especially since it uses Composer.

Does it do the whole autoloader song and dance with Composer?

Example: If I add Guzzle to Composer, can I call it from my plugin's code the way you can with other frameworks?

Only thing I would change is to swap out Capistrano with Fabric. But that's a personal choice.

The autoloader is required in wp-config to get access to Dotenv: https://github.com/roots/bedrock/blob/master/wp-config.php#L...

But in the example you gave, ideally your custom plugin is itself a Composer package which requires Guzzle in its composer.json file. Then you'd require your plugin in the project's composer.json :)

Re: Capistrano. We're really trying to encourage people to fork this and modify it to their needs. So you could easily rip Cap out and integrate Fabric in your own fork. We're just providing some sensible defaults that we're familiar with.

I know it's just an example, but: if you're doing HTTP in WordPress, please use WP HTTP rather than Guzzle. It has compatibility with many more hosts (since it uses sockets as well as cURL), plus it's already built-in.

nice pun: "song and dance with Composer"

Guess one valid scenario is to use this as the base for a child theme.

One example is a CMS. An article these days is a title, body and 5-10 comments, and whatever other metadata that you would want to present on a page. Don't update the corresponding NoSQL record till there are writes in the RDMBS. Serve from the NoSQL system, with at least another caching layer in front. You get the best of both worlds and just one query instead of many.

Why not just use a materialized view inside your SQL system? No need to cache invalidation; let the system handle it for you. Same benefits, truly a single query, and only one system.

If you're going to concatenate relational data into a document, I'm not sure why a simple KV table doesn't fit the job.

Thanks, had to read up on what exactly is a materialized view. Not something I was familiar with.

Thanks, there are some good numbers to chew on there, though, I am always skeptical about projects, thanks to IDC/Garntner.

From the little I have seen of NoSQL, I like it as a niche use-case DB, not entirely divorced from a RDMBS. Thus, not surprised it has the potential to grow like crazy.