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by Pacabel 12y ago
Even those reasons are really stretching for it these days. There are numerous ways of dealing with hierarchical or otherwise structured data using relational DBs. Support for recursive CTEs is becoming more common, which makes such queryin
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by Pacabel 12y ago
"Movement" is a good term for it. There are a lot of people out there who have a quasi-religious attitude toward NoSQL databases. It's a cause for them to rally around. In some ways, it gives them something to "fight&quo
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by Pacabel 12y ago
I don't think that's necessarily the definition of "NoSQL database". Databases that predate Codd's work, or long-established ones like dbm and BDB, may appear similar to modern-day NoSQL databases in how they operat
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by Pacabel 12y ago
I think that you've misunderstood my comment just as you've apparently misunderstood American culture. Instead of trying to truly understand American culture, I think you've just ended up injecting a lot of presumed malice th
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by Pacabel 12y ago
That's nonsense. Bullying is done out of malice. Encouraging somebody to enjoy a celebratory shot of alcohol after a big event is, in America, a show of friendship and camaraderie. Yes, Americans can often be assertive, especially in a
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by Pacabel 12y ago
No, it's not something that happens every day. But celebratory drinking after a significant event is a very common American custom. Based on what the earlier commenter wrote ("her teammates pressured her to drink a Vodka shot afte
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by Pacabel 12y ago
What makes you think they "forced" it on her? The earlier commenter wrote that "her teammates pressured her". While I don't know the particulars of this situation, it sure doesn't sound like they physically res
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Heating up food that doesn't cause odors that enough others in the office apparently dislike, obviously.
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by Pacabel 12y ago
I find your attitude confusing. Yes, America has its own culture. Yes, it's often different in many ways from what's typically found in India. But none of this is a secret. Anyone who travels, whether for a short term or for much
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Yes, "mathematics" is a relatively narrow concept, even if it embodies a great deal of knowledge. When it comes to mathematics, the exact form of the outcome isn't very important. Maybe it's a valid proof in one case, ma
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by Pacabel 12y ago
The "downvote if you disagree" has gotten to a rather stupid point here lately. In nearly every submission I read the comments of these days, I see numerous perfectly fine and valuable comments in gray text. Since so much good con
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by Pacabel 12y ago
From what I can tell, the author of the article wanted her students to engage in philosophy rather than mathematics, but maybe didn't make this clear to them. Mathematics is indeed all about rigor, proof, and finding "correct answ
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by Pacabel 12y ago
I've discussed this with several other hiring managers I know. We've all taken at least one MOOC course, and while they may be useful for the learning experience, we agreed that we couldn't trust the credentials. One trend th
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by Pacabel 12y ago
What benefits would you see Modula-3 offering over the numerous other languages available today? There wasn't anything particularly special about it when I last used it in the 1990s. It wasn't a bad language, but there wasn't
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Spare us the hyperbole and the misrepresentation, please. userbinator makes a very valid and legitimate point: regardless of what safety features a programming language may or may not offer, it's still critical for the programmer to un
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Notice that he wrote "features". That's plural, meaning more than one. And then notice that he wrote "such as validating phone numbers". The "such as" part indicates that phone number validation is just on
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by Pacabel 12y ago
It isn't just "anecdotal" when you happen to be the one who has to use a computer that crashes in such a way, regardless of who makes it, or what OS it's running.
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by Pacabel 12y ago
I don't see anybody claiming that you have to be. It is generally an environment and context that can lead to resources being expended in ways that would be very unlikely to happen in more commercial settings, however. Businesses do te
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by Pacabel 12y ago
In practice, an "open standard" that has only been suitably implemented by just one party really isn't all that open. Now, maybe there's a greater chance that the situation will change, and other suitable implementations
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Is that worthwhile, though? Whenever the issue of Firefox's performance or resource usage comes up, the response is usually along the lines of, "There are no problems." Then somebody usually links to http://arewefa
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by Pacabel 12y ago
He suggests using it to store some very basic info about the tasks that have been completed each day. So this is maybe a couple thousand rows per year, with several columns each, all for personal use. Are you really suggesting that somebody
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Is there anything particularly notable about this release? The release notes make it sound quite minor, with a small handful of bug fixes.
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Is that a problem with TDD, or is that just a problem with teams choosing to use bad tooling and processes? I've seen teams waste a lot of time trying to get various CI systems integrating with various TDD frameworks, generating lots o
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by Pacabel 12y ago
I think the comparison is much more valid that you're making it out to be. There's just as much "blind following" in many college programs as there may be in CrossFit, or even religion. Questioning what you're taugh
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by Pacabel 12y ago
It is a form of moderation. It may not be as extreme as outright deletion, but it does make the comment harder to read, which is a mild form of censorship. And, yes, I'm aware of why it can happen, and how one can deal with it. It&#x27
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by Pacabel 12y ago
I don't get the moderation here at HN these days. Currently, the comment I'm replying to has been voted down, and I can't for the life of me figure out why. The content seems very reasonable, informative and detailed to me, e
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by Pacabel 12y ago
The horrible design of the page itself made it damn near impossible for me to follow the message they were trying to express. Its design is really all over the place. There's no consistency when it comes to the font sizes, capitalizati
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Those of us who have been around for a while will remember hearing that claim made about the JVM back in the late 1990s, back when HotSpot came onto the scene. Obviously, those claims did not hold true in practice. HotSpot has had some very
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by Pacabel 12y ago
There is really no need for you to engage in petty personal insults like that just because you happen to disagree with what I wrote earlier. If you wish to discuss this further, please return to the topic at hand.
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by Pacabel 12y ago
That was true in 1995. It's now 2014. There has been ample time to fix the many flaws. There's no justifiable reason why, nearly 20 years on, JavaScript is still so inherently busted in so many ways.

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