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by artsrc 15y ago
This is weakest part of the Oracle database story. You can get someone else (Google, Amazon etc.) to provide the hardware, administration and support of your database if you choose something else. And you get more for less that you would wi
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These seem somewhat similar to the reason you would use simple files rather than SQL databases.
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Bureaucracy is a kind of process group think. It involves adherence to fixed, externally defined, rules. Each contributor is doing things in a way they think are cumbersome and difficult to change. The alternative to fixed rules, is to d
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by artsrc 15y ago
My understanding is that the CoffeeScript status is won't fix because the transformation violates some constraints about the complexity of the mapping that CoffeeScript values.
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by artsrc 15y ago
Handling concurrency should be an accepted part of the skill set of GUI development. Writing a user interface that can respond to user input, whilst also being able to handle and respond to a long running data access or computational reques
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The advantage of the PUT/DELETE verbs is that they are idempotent. If they fail an intermediary or you can safely just apply them again on the same or a different server. The author of this article has a different understanding of REST tha
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by artsrc 15y ago
Exactly which other HTTP based scheme? SOAP v1.0 tunneled everything over POST so you could not cache responses. A frequent non-restful solution is to return a domain specific id to a client and have the client 'know' that the correct URL i
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I think that a canceled booking is still a booking, just a cancelled one. Here is wording from the HTTP spec "However, the server SHOULD NOT indicate success unless, at the time the response is given, it intends to delete the resource or mo
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by artsrc 15y ago
REST facilitates loose coupling between clients and servers, scalability, caching, retrys etc. REST is a good thing because it provides the right abstractions for some applications. A slow, unreliable interaction with a remote server is d
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by artsrc 15y ago
CoffeeScript->JavaScript is a little like C++->C but it is more like Eiffel->C because CoffeeScript makes no attempt to compile any valid JavaScript. This is important because C++ is damaged by the attempts to provide C source c
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by artsrc 15y ago
A compiler that did an 'identity compilation' on a strict subset of real JavaScript, and rejected any problematic or confusing constructs would have value. CoffeeScript goes further than that and provides different syntax. One of the things
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by artsrc 15y ago
I think the difference between capturing values at call time and full closures only matters if you are mutating variables, which my closures rarely do, since my code is fairly functional'ish, so for me it does not matter.
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> Where as static typed languages are more slower and require more structure at the start, but the productivity boosts come later on when you have to support and alter the thing. This seems like a useful test. Create a code base and as
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That article is focused on writing scripts, rather than interactive use.
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The correct way to deal with corporate income tax is to have corporations disburse their income, and to disburse the tax credits along with the income. The correct way to deal with inflation is to to keep it low, and understand that inflati
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by artsrc 15y ago
You loose some features of SQL when you have historical values. For example if you only want customers to create orders you can set a foreign key between customer and order. If you don't delete orders and customers, then the database will
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by artsrc 15y ago
Having a database model and an application model in separate processes, and mapping between the two is expensive in many ways. There are many ways get rid of the problem with getting rid of the database. For example putting all knowledge o
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Even if he has the same personal quality, the fact that he is not Jobs means he is less powerful, and that he won't be allowed to take the same risks.
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It is illogical to deny the your drawing as prior art, and to prevent people from from making space fighters because they look like your drawing.
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If this was accurate then there is a strategy of buying every company that makes big risky decisions. If the market always hates them, but in general some are good then this strategy will win. Of course few simple strategies are good so th
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Even fairly simple tools must be able to game humans. We must be so bad at making rational decisions that prices typically are set just below a psychologically significant level for example $2.99. This of course assumes the market is cor
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by artsrc 15y ago
> They kept interest rates abnormally low for much of the last decade which meant that borrowing was incredibly cheap causing many consumers to overextend themselves The federal reserve manages the cash rate. The don't directly specify
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I think that analysis ignores tax effects. To have a stable excess return you need some collection of people accept a stable lower return. This is possible if you have different tax regimes. Tax advantaged entities can accept coupons/div
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> a) we are the most highly evolved organism on the planet I know little about evolution and assume that bacteria are the most evolved because they have a faster cycle of reproduction, and stronger selective pressure. > My amateur u
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It is not as though Apple's innovation has been unrewarded. At some point the value of the innovation is less that the value of some other things, like price competition.
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I remember reading an article by a developer working on audio compression software, where he discussed how hard it was to write compression software without hitting one patent or another. I think without patent protection, music compressio
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Many standards bodies require reasonable and non-discriminatory licensing. One reform would be to require all patent holders to offer reasonable and non-discriminatory licensing.
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This very much depends on jurisdiction. Certainly in California more expensive cars, which use the same roads, pay more tax. Similarly with property, where a more expensive property (perhaps with one by the harbour with the view, which ha
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by artsrc 15y ago
> if you're not investing in US treasuries, what are you going to invest in? You could fund my mortgage. I pay 7% floating in a currency with a pretty good record of late. My property could halve in value and you would still get your
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> Traders want ... Settlement on share trades is not real time, and no one cares from a liquidity perspective. Settlement risk is a different question. Who is convinced that these traders actually need to exist? The share market's func

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