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OK, I'll take a stab at them. (Yes, I did read his Important Note, but why not?) Status: 1: No 2: No (I think). I don't know if Google App Engine is making mo
by apu 17y ago
OK, I'll take a stab at them. (Yes, I did read his Important Note, but why not?) Status:
1: No
2: No (I think). I don't know if Google App Engine is making money for them, and Github doesn't host apps, and Amazon Web Services doesn't (only) host open-source web apps.
3: Hopefully.
4: Doubtful, but one can dream =)
5: No.
6: HN? Is Steve Yegge here?
7: Yes. I think it's valid to put the iphone's success in 2009 (rather than earlier) due to the large number of apps and growing number of competitors in that year.
8: Well, considering he's working there, I think he's being paid instead =)
9: Probably.
10: Yes, although it's not a tautology. (You could have asymmetric heavy tails which would make most programmers below or above the mean.)
- gstar 17y agoIf you take prediction 1 as key-value stores (which I think is more-or-less where stevey was going) - he's spot on.
- Quarrelsome 17y ago"surpass relational databases in popularity by 2011" Are you really sure about that? AFAIK the use case for key-value stores isn't one that a lot of people are going to suffer (seriously high-volume).
- miloshh 17y agoI think there was a lot of excitement about XML databases around that time, because they would let you store more complex structures in the DB, not less complex (like key-value). Somehow XML did not take off, not sure why.