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by ericsink 13y ago
Two 23 year olds. One has been programming for 10 years, the other one just 4 years. Isn't it sort of obvious that the person with more experience is likely to have more skills?
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by ericsink 13y ago
I need to look at Datomic. Zumero could also be described as having similar characteristics as Git. It's like a DVCS, except for stuff that looks like rows and columns instead of stuff that looks like directories and files. I'm sure that a
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by ericsink 13y ago
Developers used to be afraid of automatic merging and conflict resolution in version control tools. We evolved. Many of those techniques also apply to merging and conflict resolution of database stuff. In fact, from a certain perspective,
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by ericsink 13y ago
At the present time, Zumero doesn't allow sync of a partial table. If we sync only part of a table down to a device, then SQLite doesn't have the ability to enforce a UNIQUE constraint. SQLite does have excellent support for using multiple
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by ericsink 14y ago
I think Perforce should buy it.
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by ericsink 14y ago
IIRC, the real reason for this "power of 2" is for fast rehashing when the table grows. Calculate a 32 bit hash and store it all, but if your table currently has 1024 entries, only use 10 bits of it. Later, when your table grows to 2048 en
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by ericsink 14y ago
Actually, I don't have a smart phone. Until recently, I did. It got broken. When I went to replace it, I realized that my iPad has displaced my smart phone in almost every way. So I bought a flip phone. I charge the battery every week whe
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by ericsink 14y ago
I've read over 80 novels on my iPad. Love it. I haven't tried a Kindle. I don't doubt that it's a better device for just book reading. But my iPad suits me well.
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by ericsink 15y ago
Veracity has a database feature which might be what you are envisioning. (Disclosure: I am one of the developers of Veracity). But I would not describe it as document-oriented. It versions a collection of records with fields in the same
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by ericsink 15y ago
Apologies to folks having difficulty. Book requests are still coming in, so the system is definitely operational. We'll be investigating the problems this morning. For now, my only guess is that it is related to the load, so I suggest yo
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by ericsink 15y ago
I just wanted to make sure none of those crooks in Congress got a free copy of my book, but I keep forgetting that other people live there too. :-) Seriously, sorry for the oversight. We'll fix this.
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by ericsink 15y ago
"knock off an existing system, only do it better" "(their primary product is a visual source safe done right.)" If I may quibble with this comparison, I would point out that we built Vault because SourceSafe is a deeply flawed product, wher
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by ericsink 16y ago
tghw's interpretation is closer to being correct. A Veracity repo can have lots of DAGs (directed acyclic graphs). A DAG in a repo can either be a "tree dag" or a "database dag". Veracity's notion of a "database" is a model that is unique t