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by ergo98 16y ago
He knows how to get press, and playing up that confrontation yields links and references. Just as many NoSQL pieces start off with some often ridiculous attacks on YeSQL. I'm still trying to understand how SciDB differs from VoltDB. We're c
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by ergo98 16y ago
What is the point of this being on Hacker News? Someone started using Chrome yesterday, apparently, so now they want the world to know? Now it will get the dogpile of "me too!" comments. This is unnecessary noise. Are we next going to have
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They don't segregate private versus leased versus rented versus chartered, etc. Meaning that Steve Jobs could be some random guy blowing his savings on a spot on a chartered private jet.
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As another poster mentioned, data lives on while applications come and go. This is a truism that has shown itself time and time again, in organization after organization. The data should be architected for its own consistency, usability (an
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I'm still unsure how what they're describing differs from VoltDB. This initiative seems like it's primarily geared at churning out project names to continue to get industry attention.
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by ergo98 16y ago
To some degree I think that which you seek is already available -- everyone is going to link to your post with link text about autocomplete, and that will add the semantic meaning to it (in the same way that a googlebomb works).
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You're defending the ridiculous, and really the first two paragraphs of your entry are just unnecessary defensive noise that encourage readers to hit back. Your title is now vastly better for everyone, from search engines to casual readers.
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by ergo98 16y ago
Interesting read, but as with almost all of these pieces it starts off with a completely incorrect statement about old-school databases that turns it from good information to, essentially, propaganda. "SQL (the language) and SQL RDBMS im
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Android's GC is very aggressive. Further, pretty much everything is an object, so it's constantly being worked. I would save judgement on Windows Mobile 7 until it really is running various apps and doing active day to day work. A fresh And
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It's vacuous, obvious advice. That Atwood tops HN with such tripe has always been a mystery to me. Counter examples will be rare because Atwood's entry essentially says "evolve", decorating the post with some ignorance about smartphones, a
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It's the downside of all GCs, and I've yet to see one that alleviates it. It does seem likely that it is GC issues and not whether the GPU is used or not: The visual choppiness is completely inconsistent, lending itself more to brief thread
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It seems that they're racing to get to 9 for "version parity" with Internet Explorer. And really, as you mentioned the whole version number is utterly meaningless. In contrast some open source projects have evolved and changed incredibly ov
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The whole paragraph is a meaningless orthogonal assertion. Jeff wanted to say "look at how Android has progressed", but somehow go waylaid into defending his historic strong iPhone bias, destroying whatever example he might be making. Howev
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The whole post went off track, and fast, when Jeff had to trollishly add in the Android bit near the end-- "The Google Android project is another example. Android doesn't have to be better than the iPhone (and it most definitely isn't ;
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"Which do you think seems more fraudulent?" Any corporate destination for personal purchases looks more fraudulent than any home address. Home addresses -- most notably the one correlated with the account -- have easy traceability. A packag
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Firstly, no. Secondly, most PayPal purchases happen through credit cards. Credit card companies hold onto the payments for up to 60 days, meaning PayPal is holding onto absolutely nothing.
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>Really? I certainly wouldn't. I have recourse with American Express. When I pay with Paypal I have recourse with both Paypal AND my credit card. It doesn't remove that right. >Paypal, on the other hand, flagged a transaction as pot
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There are exceedingly few global payment systems, almost none of which, from a consumer perspective, are as trustworthy and easy to use as PayPal: When it comes to small vendors, I'd much rather pay them through PayPal (where I can even pay
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http://blog.yafla.com/Flash_on_Android_Slightly_Better_Than_... Many web sites rely upon hover, don't operate with touch, and demand a keyboard. Most canvas demos (all the rage right now) make the highest of the high end smartphone absolu
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by ergo98 16y ago
But there's 6 former classmates who are waiting to contact you.
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My steam network has nothing to do with my rdio network has nothing to do with my facebook network has nothing to do with my LinkedIn network. Their Venn intersection is very slight. Companies like Facebook get displaced regularly in this i
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I have a natural aversion to "SELECT *" (it is almost always a bad usage), so while any decent database system will parse it to yield the same query plan, I still use SELECT 1.
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I meant they accomplished a slight increase in DPI across the genre (not relative to the iPhone 3GS) -- a large number of phones that came out months earlier are within spitting distance of the iPhone 4's DPI, but it just was never a big de
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"Apple has a hell of an R&D department. As far as I know, their retina display, unibody laptop manufacturing processes, and touch-based trackpad tech are unique to them. It's been shown a number of times that their touch screens are way
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Probably because they couldn't convince people that it was magical. Why did the iPhone run at such a low resolution while Windows Mobile and Android phones were coming out with 3x more pixels? Yet when they increase the DPI game slightly, b
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"The reason you don't keep files in your database is that file systems are much better at handling files. Faster, more efficient, basically all the reasons that a single-purpose layer tends to be faster than a general-purpose layer." File s
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>I'm no SQL guru, but won't that subselect will break down when users and events grow to the millions? A moderately decent database server would have no issues in such a case, however yes, optimization would be case-specific, just as it
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MongoDB is elegant and remarkably powerful. Every developer should run through the excellent getting started tutorial they have for it, as it really is eye opening. http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Tutorial However I have to respectful
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What points? That Android itself being open doesn't guarantee that every piece of software, every piece of hardware, and every carrier is going to be totally open? That's an asinine, utterly idiotic argument. It's a juvenile strawman ("Gosh
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MG Siegler is a troll of the worst kind. I have to particularly laugh at the Skype comment he added (a drum that Gruber has banged on in his dismissively sarcastic manner): That has NOTHING to do with Android. Skype, the company, decide

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