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You may not be convinced yet, nor am I, but your strawman argument makes you look ... well a little silly.
by jshen 18y ago
You may not be convinced yet, nor am I, but your strawman argument makes you look ... well a little silly.
- Tichy 18y agoThat is the way I understood it. What do you mean by "it creates an index for each view"? I just would like to avoid reinventing the wheel, and relational databases abstract away some of the problems of dealing with large data sets. Edit: OK, read the CouchDB introduction now. Did not know that the "views" are server side. I have a past as a Java developer, and I have actually come across the "select all, then compute in Java" pattern several times in the real world.
- jshen 18y agoYou should phrase your comments in the form of a question rather than passing judgement on things you haven't looked into.
- Tichy 18y agoI used to do that but then got negative comments from HN. Anyway, the title of the article was a bit provocative, so I hoped answering in the same spirit would not be taken as offensive. It certainly is inspiring to look into CouchDB.
- jshen 18y agoYeah, the HN headline was stupid. Sadly stupid titles usually get a lot of up votes. By stupid I mean, intended to incite a knee-jerk reaction.
- jamesbritt 18y agoSame seems true of comments. I think I see Tichy's point; if you ask question, you are often ignored, or mocked. If, however, you make a (willfully) ignorant assertion, people jump at the chance to tell you just how wrong you are. Not that I want to advocate this approach, but I understand why someone would use it if, in the end, it generates more useful information. (I think this was discussed elsewhere on HN, with "troll, don't inquire" as a disappointingly effective means of getting information.)
- Tichy 18y agoI wasn't trying to troll, I merely answered in the same tone as the submission title. Let's not blow this out of proportion.
- jamesbritt 18y agoI didn't mean to suggest you were trolling, just that some folks have found that adopting certain troll-like characteristics is (for better or worse) an effective means of getting informative replies.
- intinig 18y agoI am sorry for the headline, but you're right about stupid headlines getting reactions.