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I want to clarify a couple of things. I'm not saying that Paul Graham invented this pattern. Actually after he mentioned it, I remembered a friend of my father
by antirez 8y ago
I want to clarify a couple of things. I'm not saying that Paul Graham invented this pattern. Actually after he mentioned it, I remembered a friend of my father to implement exactly that in QUICKBASIC in the late 80s :-) The point is that maybe the Redis design was already inside me, but I needed a trigger: I often think of good things after being triggered. And smart people are more likely to tell about good ideas, old and new. That was the point. Similarly I believe there are a lot of simple fundamental ideas that can be re-applied to today's technology, as the landscape changes many things become relevant again.
- michaelmcmillan 8y agoI'll just take the opportunity to say how grateful I am that the idea of inventing Redis struck you -– regardless of how it originated. I use it all the time, both professionally and in my free time. Awesome piece of software. An idea is worthless by itself, execution is everything.
- markbnj 8y agoVery much this. Redis is pretty much the swiss army knife of persistence around our shop.
- technics256 8y agoI've been meaning to learn redis for quite some time. Do you have favorite resources for this? Thank you.
- markbnj 8y agoJust the documentation to be honest. The basic functions of redis are quite simple to learn and use either using the redis-cli client or a language binding. Basically you PUT keyname value, and GET keyname to retrieve value. There's a ton of additional features and types of structures but the basic use of it is as a key/value store.
- antirez 8y ago<3
- chrisweekly 8y ago>"I often think at good things" The idiom is "think _of_", not "think at". :) (BTW, Antirez, your English is very good; I'm aiming for helpfulness, not nit-picking / criticism!) -- and given your awesome contribution to the world (Redis), you definitely do think of very good ideas!
- antirez 8y agoThanks! Sorry in Italian is "pensare a" (literally think to) so I always get confused :-) I'll try to remember.
- OJFord 8y agoI quite like the image of an idea floating somewhere near me so that I can 'think at' it!
- fmihaila 8y ago> I quite like the image of an idea floating somewhere near me so that I can 'think at' it! For languages like Italian (as well as my own native language), the image of 'thinking at' makes sense as an analogue to 'looking at', which you'd indeed do if the idea were floating by in your vicinity.
- OJFord 8y agoVery true! I think the closest English analogue is 'think about', which taken extremely literally does also place the thinker _about_ (in the vicinity of, around) the idea.
- bch 8y agoLet's say you get an idea—or, as Pooh would more accurately say, it gets you. Where did it come from? From this something, which came from that something? If you are able to trace it all the way back to its source, you will discover that it came from Nothing. And chances are, the greater the idea, the more directly it came from there. "A stroke of genius! Completely unheard of! A revolutionary new approach!" Practically everyone has gotten some sort of an idea like that sometime, most likely after a sound sleep when everything was so clear and filled with Nothing that an Idea suddenly appeared in it. -Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh