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   by bitdiddle 18y ago

   Well you can't bone a chicken drumstick very easily with a bread knife, so why would one try to use CouchDB as a relational database. I really fail to see the point of this article, particularly given the title
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   CouchDB and standalone applications(jchris.mfdz.com)

   1 points by bitdiddle 18y ago|0 comments
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   by bitdiddle 18y ago

   The clock project http://longnow.org/projects/clock/ was a motivator for Stephenson's new book, "Anathem" I was a great read!
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   by bitdiddle 18y ago

   Berkeley DB is very much the same idea as couchdb, a persistent hash. What's interesting about couchdb is the REST API that makes use of JSON and the use of Erlang/OTP. Erlang was built by and for telecom apps. It's robustness and scalabili
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   by bitdiddle 18y ago

   Well the dollar seriously could go, when the world stops trading oil in it. That's already starting to happening. Also the chinese and other large sovereign banks don't need to necessarily dump their dollars. That would be shooting themselv
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   by bitdiddle 18y ago

   I just plowed through the first 113 pages of "Anathem", a great read so far. I think this is a good book to read before programming to understand the downsides to the "syntactic" machines. I hope this helps
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   by bitdiddle 18y ago

   This is less an issue when programming in lambda calculus, if one takes the combinator approach and just uses S, K, and I. I know, I can hear the complaints about the lack of good libraries...
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   by bitdiddle 18y ago

   I ask questions about two things that seem great predictors. The first is interest in music. I'm not sure why but people who can read music and play any instrument well tend to make great programmers. I have no explanation for this. The sec
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   by bitdiddle 18y ago

   With all due respect to the talents of the best and brightest college grads, 250K, or 125K per head seems about right when compared to the starting salary those grads could get at a MS or Google. YC puts up a bit of funding and takes a smal
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    by bitdiddle 18y ago

    I thought REST was just a synonym for CDR :)
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    by bitdiddle 18y ago

    Interesting thought. One can argue that the ability to write better OO code is already present in modules, functions, processes, and asynchronous message passing. Threads are needed in Ruby and Java to handle the asynchronous piece. Conside
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    by bitdiddle 18y ago

    excellent idea
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    by bitdiddle 18y ago

    I'm very happy with it, the quality is generally good and I daily scan it for interesting articles in areas I'm currently keen on such as Erlang, etc.. As a programmer it's a valuable source and often I will read entire comment threads. Tha
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    by bitdiddle 18y ago

    What I meant is that one can't deny others those same 4 freedoms, which include modifying and distributing the changes. I like to think that what folks refer to as its' "viral" nature is really the preservation of freedom. It strikes me tha
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    by bitdiddle 18y ago

    I agree that one shouldn't attack Gates FOR his philanthropy, but one should look closely at that foundation before forming judgments one way or the other. There are lots of questions about it with respect to his views on drug patents and o
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    by bitdiddle 18y ago

    I don't see it as extortion, I like of think of it as share and share alike. Someone elsewhere commented that GPL advocates want to be paid back in code rather than money. There's some truth to that view. I like the analogy to the "tragedy
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    by bitdiddle 18y ago

    perhaps, one builds up a set of neat macros and using emacs it's quite workable. For mathematics, Word still can't touch it. Word is also all about constantly needing the next $500 version. It's not clear also that they ever got this wysiwy
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    by bitdiddle 18y ago

    So what's your definition of "free"? I believe FSF code, as in GPL is free. There are four freedoms that come with it. The only restriction is that one can't deny others the same freedoms. You're also free not to use it. I find it interesti
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    by bitdiddle 18y ago

    .doc a best product. Sorry no way. Word to this day cannot produce anything near as good as Tex. I daily watch long email threads of collaborators struggling to share .doc files written with different versions of Word on different platforms
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    CouchDB(couchdb.org)

    3 points by bitdiddle 19y ago|0 comments
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    by bitdiddle 19y ago

    I would like one please. Thanks, Bit Bitdiddle bitdiddle@member.fsf.org
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    by bitdiddle 20y ago

    This is a take off on a talk I heard years ago about networking
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    by bitdiddle 20y ago

    all of the above, in that a corporation is a collection of interests. Depending on the capital structure, different players have different interests. Managing all of those in a way that promotes collaboration towards a common goal is a fine
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    by bitdiddle 20y ago

    If Web2.0 is now in Newsweek, is that itself an indicator that the wave has passed?
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    by bitdiddle 20y ago

    I happened to interview with this company, Eons, a year or so ago. At the time they were looking to do a RoR knockoff of their existing site. I'm not sure where they went with that. I'm wondering about a few things. The founder I believe wa
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    Why so much capital? (webpronews.com)

    1 points by bitdiddle 20y ago|3 comments
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    New database company(biz.yahoo.com)

    4 points by bitdiddle 20y ago|0 comments
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    by bitdiddle 20y ago

    I second that, I love the minimalist approach. Reddit was much like that in the beginning.