angrybits

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by angrybits 12y ago
This scares the hell out of me from a retirement planning perspective. If I outlive my savings, what then?
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by angrybits 12y ago
For the people who don't need it, it's perfectly reasonable. That said, I suppose I haven't been fortunate enough to work on anything that doesn't need it.
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by angrybits 12y ago
I don't know why you're being downvoted, that seems to be their MO.
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by angrybits 12y ago
Are you doing BI/analytics on it or do you unload to another stack for that?
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by angrybits 12y ago
Unless your workload is storing deeply-hierarchical-yet loosely-related-but-otherwise-independent documents, you have a relational model. Not using a relational engine doesn't change that.
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by angrybits 12y ago
You don't pick your storage layer based on perceived ease of devops, you pick it based on how well it accomplishes the needs of your workload. You pick it because it fits well in your architecture. If you're worried about scale
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by angrybits 12y ago
It's really not, the thing that makes a piece of software successful is not how many lines of bash it takes to "scale". It's how hard it is to need to scale. You're worried about the wrong thing.
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by angrybits 12y ago
After reading that, I cannot help but think that this person/company would be positively horrible to work for. I find myself wondering what his goal was when publishing that, because it didn't read (to me) as positive or helpful.
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by angrybits 12y ago
I have been writing an application that is a thin PHP application on top of a relational model that implements (what I hope is) a clever business. This framework would not solve a single problem I have had. None of the frameworks do, which
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by angrybits 12y ago
I like the bit about reacting to sign-ups from boeing.com emails, I wonder if anyone out there is curating a "whale list" that gives the domains you should care about.
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by angrybits 12y ago
Pretty sure most people treat the downvote button on comments as an "I disagree" button, which I don't think is helpful.
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by angrybits 12y ago
"This just in, Mongo is still in the hype cycle in the slow-moving enterprise space! Obviously after having handily crushed the todo list and twitter clone verticals, they want to expand their influence into mega corporations' de
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by angrybits 12y ago
1. So then the problem they had was they didn't get the performance they expected since the benchmarks were done with different settings to juice the numbers? There is no upside to arguing this one, Mongo loses one way or the other.
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by angrybits 12y ago
Because multi-master clustering is extremely hard to do when you need transactional semantics. For those that need it, scaling up is by far the easiest path. Most of us will never exceed the growth rate of server capacity over time, so yo
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by angrybits 12y ago
An increase in diversity is a goal, it's not a course of action. We should be trying to root out whatever the underlying causes are that lead us to segregate ourselves into the groups that we end up in. Forced de-segregation (as in t
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by angrybits 12y ago
Maybe I've just been out for long enough now, but just this morning I found myself missing that life. I would have retired with 20 years in 2016 had I stayed in. Now for sure I don't miss power-drinking in the dorms or on TDY, bu
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by angrybits 12y ago
I'm pretty sure I'd be dead or locked in a jail cell if not for my four years in the USAF--second to last option indeed. Your point about the selection not being random could not be more spot on. I feel like we were largely just
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by angrybits 12y ago
I wonder if this isn't a little late to market. At this point, the major cloud providers offer such a large array of products and services that add value to their VM capabilities that I find it hard to imagine someone architecting a s
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by angrybits 12y ago
I was hoping the same thing, but the max length on a video is 20 minutes. Drats, foiled again!
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by angrybits 12y ago
Why I do use it: Because my time is important and I can't afford a designer yet.
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by angrybits 12y ago
I was raised in the midwest and this comment really resonated with me. Most of us make fun of these people as "backwards rednecks", but most every backwards redneck I have met has been genuinely happy and led a pretty care-free l
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by angrybits 12y ago
Everything else is yours too, like getting an ROI out of the capital your spending. It's nice you have that kind of money laying around to spend on iron instead of advertising (as an example), but not everyone does.
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by angrybits 12y ago
(I'm not the OP, but I will butt in with my two cents.) Anything that isn't CRUD or a simple aggregation. Real world applications tend to have: oddball joins, subqueries, window functions, case statements and all other sorts of c
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by angrybits 12y ago
The top story on their homepage is about how some Fox News anchor got arrested at an airport bar. I am not convinced that Mr. Reid will be fearing for his job as a result of this little stunt.
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by angrybits 12y ago
The first half-dozen of those paragraphs were just him saying words, none of them really had anything to do with the subject at hand. Kind of like a very poor attempt at strawman arguments. "DHH accused us of being violent extremists
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by angrybits 12y ago
Single-server relational backends can survive loads well in excess of most of us will ever see for our software. There are a handful of truly web-scale companies that need specialized engineering, and the time to solve for that is when you
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by angrybits 12y ago
I think you're over-thinking it. I imagine this was done solely in response to heartbleed itself, not OpenBSD's fork. It's a good charter, I'm happy it's being done.
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by angrybits 12y ago
for the curious, here's the bill itself: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2013-14%20ENR/SB/SB...
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by angrybits 12y ago
In a non-trival application, using a schemaless document store doesn't relieve you of having a schema, especially in the face of a relationship change. You either have to write a migration to change all the records, which non-MySQL re
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by angrybits 12y ago
Relational models are well-described and can be changed transactionally, both in structure and content, using a well-known and ubiquitous language to describe the migration. It doesn't get any easier than that.

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