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I just hope it's not an April's fool joke
by yankoff 12y ago
I just hope it's not an April's fool joke
- ihsw 12y agoCoincidentally, the HyperLogLog redis type was introduced on April Fools last year. http://antirez.com/news/75 http://antirez.com/news/75
- beat 12y agoYeah, clustered Redis, announced today? Sounds like a joke to me!
- antirez 12y agoNot a joke, the release was due in these days, so I picked 1 April since we have a tradition now to ship 1 April. Last year with HyperLogLog support, because of the futuristic name of the data structure, people had an hard time to believe it was a really thing and not a joke.
- alanh 12y agoI understand your reasons and nevertheless hope that you can realize that you are still contributing to April Fool's insanity by making it that much harder for people to tell what is serious and what isn't on this day of disregard. You’re totally within your rights here. I just beg you to consider the audience.
- antirez 12y agoYep this can lead to some confusion, but the magic of OSS software is that you can download it and check :-)
- zymhan 12y agoWon't someone please think of the childr...er, developers!
- beat 12y agoAfter many years of DevOps and configuration management, I've learned to think of developers as children...
- agonzalezro 12y agoThe author wrote this on twitter: https://twitter.com/antirez/status/583279481453936640 https://twitter.com/antirez/status/583279481453936640 "p.s. no April fools here. 1 year ago I released HyperLogLog, today 3.0.0, just to contrast with some shit done this April fool lameness."