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by batista 14y ago
> As if money would magically make hard things happen :) If those hard things require people working full-time on solving them, then yes, money does magically makes them happen. > Seriously, what if Python is specially hard to supp
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by batista 14y ago
Yes, and what's this Internet thing exactly, if not glorified information exchange? Or the universe, if not glorified matter?
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by batista 14y ago
How about PyPy? It's a Python JIT compiler written in Python. There are thousands of other examples. Managing memory and low level system is not the difficult part, it's just tedious - algorithms and mapping a problem correctly is the diffi
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by batista 14y ago
Yes, but snark was part of the point --just as "sneer" seems to be part of the point on a lot of comments I read about 37 Signals or "lifestyle businesses". I wanter to counter than a little. I find the very term "lifestyle businesses" cond
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by batista 14y ago
Who said anything about RDBMS? It's relational algebra we're talking about, and the reasonings pertain to the relational algebra operators.
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by batista 14y ago
> I've seen a lot of articles from 37signals.com on HN but I have no idea who they are or what they do. If you also read the articles, how is that other stuff difficult to find out? It's like a google query away... The make a SaaS offe
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by batista 14y ago
This math thing: you're doing it wrong. Theories are not "arbitrary", and you cannot outbest theory "in practice". They only way to do this is if you have an ad-hoc faulty theory.
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by batista 14y ago
> Traditional operating systems such as Linux and windows are 100% dead when non volatile memory comes along in force. Paradigm shift time. There is pretty much no reason to use any filesystem APIs or filesystem any more. You just keep
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by batista 14y ago
Yeah, thanks. I keep forgetting that _asterisk_ is used for italics in this markup.
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by batista 14y ago
"Merely the most popular"? LOL. It's the only formally proven, mathematically correct representation and querying of data sets. Not that most RDBMS conform to the relational theory 100% (or even 90%), but everything else is mere re-inventio
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by batista 14y ago
>* Politically that may be so, but technically, it's not.* Actually it's both technically AND scientifically. Relational algebra is MATH describing the properties of relational data (that is, all kinds of data one would ever care to use
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by batista 14y ago
> How easy it is to forget the cold war. In 2012, we cannot look back at scientists of 1976 and say "you should have read and believed this obscure Russian science journal and the argument would have been put to permanent rest". 1976 wa
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by batista 14y ago
> You kind of lost me when you started telling me that I should consider useless the same things you consider useless. Well, other people sometimes are in the right on telling you to consider useless what they consider useless. For exa
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by batista 14y ago
> What you call trivialities I call attention to detail. Yes, but at some point what each one calls something stops, and they have to face objective reality. Now, if you were talking about bad syntax/grammar/spelling, a blinking grey f
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by batista 14y ago
> Could you please provide a link to the report? 50% click rate is insanely high, nobody has that. It would be very interesting to know how Facebook achieved such miraculous performance. He is not talking about 50% click rate. That is,
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by batista 14y ago
Shouldn't you be bothered more about your emphasis on trivialities over the substance (or OCD)?
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by batista 14y ago
> Many of the services that are critical to Google’s ad business have historically been backed by MySQL. We have recently migrated several of these services to F1, a new RDBMS developed at Google. F1 implements rich relational database
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by batista 14y ago
>"I want to stay hungry," says Alexis Ohanian. "I really believe my resources are best used to help projects that make the world suck less." I hate this kind of over-indulgence. What "resources"? He built a social news website and had
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by batista 14y ago
> I think the answer is obvious: people prefer no ads. "Advertisement" is a dirty word. People want a free, ad-less product, despite the fact that it's economically unfeasible. Well, the answer might be obvious but might not mean much.
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by batista 14y ago
On the other hand, you can also see why working in a civilized place, like Western Europe with less liberal firing laws is also popular...
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by batista 14y ago
Well, I checked pnglib for one. He is one of 20+ contributors, not an original project founder, and was only active on it for like 2 years (2000-2002 IIRC): http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/src/libpng-LICENSE.txt I wouldn't call that "people
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by batista 14y ago
> The argument that it's equally obnoxious to assume that someone who's made useful contributions in the past has been productive in the last decade as it is to assume they haven't because you can't recall being told about any, is falli
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by batista 14y ago
> I've been on FB since the beginning. And I've never clicked on an ad. What makes you think I will to actually buy something? FB has several billions of revenue from ads. What makes you think you are not an insignificant outlier and t
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by batista 14y ago
>Doing scalable business isn't 37signals' strength. Apple is a scalable business. Microsoft is a scalable business. McDonalds is a scalable business. IKEA is a scalable business. IBM is a scalable business. Pinterest, Instagram and Qu
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by batista 14y ago
> Now, I understand DHH's resentment (or envy) against Pinterest, Instagram and Quora—everbody's raising money like shit while Sortfolio stays unsold for weeks. This shows one more time in which league 37signals actually plays. In the
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by batista 14y ago
That's a rationalization, if I ever saw one. Java has tons of documentation online, detailed API references, tutorials, etc. If there are many Java books, that's because of the demand for them and the language, not of some "mystic" BS quali
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by batista 14y ago
> If the argument is that they need the 30% to recoup costs, then fine, I can agree with that. But that means the 30% isn't just about protecting the user experience, which is my point. All of those costs are related to the user experi
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by batista 14y ago
Whereas the "OMG, ESR manages to be productive with so little" worship thing wasn't? How about just answering the question then?
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by batista 14y ago
> If ESR is able to be productive with the gear he has, I don't see why he would need to spend more money. Has he done anything productive the last 10 years? His last major project I remember was the Linux kernel configuration program
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by batista 14y ago
Because the American government could not care less about those violations in other countries, and they just issue those papers as propaganda? In fact, if you read your modern world history, America was behind tons of the worst violations i

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