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> Easy karma, pg. Considering pg can likely award himself arbitrary karma points with a single SQL statement, I think your assumption of his motives is probabl
by enko 13y ago
> Easy karma, pg.
Considering pg can likely award himself arbitrary karma points with a single SQL statement, I think your assumption of his motives is probably mistaken.
- adamnemecek 13y agoHN uses text files for persistence :-).
- enko 13y agoYou have got to be kidding me. The machine this server runs on must have a lot of RAM!
- krapp 13y agoI think he has to open it up and shake it out every week or so or it gets clogged.
- adamnemecek 13y agoI'm guessing that you could get by with some pretty simple caching. Judging by the timestamps of the new comments, there don't seem to be more than say 2 comments per minute. I'm guessing that there are even fewer new posts and probably more upvotes. But I still feel like you could get by with very little in terms of HW.
- enko 13y agoFair enough. I suppose the entire HN corpus would probably not be that large compared to modern HW capabilities. Still seems to be a bit fragile, though. I am assuming persistence is a periodic thing, making the system vulnerable to eg. power failure between persist events, ie writing the text files. To be balanced against the simplicity gains of only having to deal with in-program data structures, though, I guess. Then again it's worked flawlessly for 5+ years so what do I know!
- Helianthus 13y agoYou mistake my attack. pg is hiding from the fact that the people that made him rich hate him.
- westicle 13y agoI'm all for contrarian viewpoints, but what are you actually adding to this discussion? If you want to discuss your fascinating ideas about pg and his motives, why not start your own discussion thread and see how popular it is, rather than trying to hijack this one?
- Helianthus 13y agoBecause I'm taking pot shots, not engaging in full discourse.
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- jamesaguilar 13y agoPeople who had Yahoo! shares in the late nineties hate PG? When did that happen?
- samstave 13y agoJust really curious, I don't know anyone who hates PG... Who would hate him, and aside from envy, why?
- Helianthus 13y agoHe became an investment banker. He became a capitalist. He is in the trade of making percentages off of real work. Envy? No, I would never be a person that depended, even in the slightest, on fictional gains based on spreadsheets. He is a creature of greed. And yes, pg, I'm somewhat confident you'll read this.
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