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Whatever, it was obvious what you meant -- if someone has the choice of either figuring what you mean and addressing your question, or changing the subject with
by jbooth 17y ago
Whatever, it was obvious what you meant -- if someone has the choice of either figuring what you mean and addressing your question, or changing the subject with defensive pedantry, and chooses the latter, it may say something about their argument.
- justinsb 17y agoActually, in the distributed database field, 'partitionable on the fly' makes a lot of sense. I used this to infer the poster wasn't really familiar with the CAP theorem (which is only formally expressed in the proof), but it seems this wasn't fair in this case. The big problem with the CAP theorem is trying to decide what on earth C, A and P _really_ mean. Sounds like I need to do a blog post...