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by functional_test 12y ago
What's the upside to this? Larger size, potential legal issues -- all for an Easter egg? People defend it, and it hasn't been taken out in 1.0, but it seems like an all downside trade. I see the value of Easter eggs, but the fact
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by functional_test 12y ago
I'll ask again, what else do you suggest?
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by functional_test 12y ago
Anonymous sources of information are generally recognized as less credible (for example, they have less reason to be truthful since they have no credibility on the line). Of course, the larger problem isn't the anonymity of the authors
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by functional_test 12y ago
I did not say that it was the only way, please don't put words in my mouth. I said it was the standard way (which it is). What other methods would you suggest?
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by functional_test 12y ago
Because if you don't require evidence proportional to the claim, your world view can end up including any and all beliefs, which is neither interesting nor useful. One of the classical ideas in epistemology is the justified true belief
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by functional_test 12y ago
Based on what? This is a genuine question, not snark. Serious claims like this require equally serious evidence (and if you have some, I'm quite interested).
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by functional_test 12y ago
To make a point. Let's be honest, the money probably wouldn't be life changing, but establishing a precedent in matters like these actually could be.
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by functional_test 12y ago
Avoiding questions because of theoretical potential outcomes of people knowing the answer is neither good nor useful. Knowledge is not implicitly dangerous or immoral. Also, in this particular case, it seems that the people interested in th
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by functional_test 12y ago
Have you used an OXO measuring cup? They really are a lot easier to use when baking and cooking, and my sponges never have a problem getting in those corners.
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by functional_test 12y ago
It sounds like you subscribe to Materialism [1]. In fact, these are widely debated questions. Materialism is only one of many philosophies that seek to answer these questions (e.g. dualism). Be careful about accepting answers like that if y
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by functional_test 13y ago
It shows good faith. It shows your willingness to negotiate. You can go through life upset that the world doesn't work the way it "should" - you can even refuse to participate like the original poster. But you will generally
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by functional_test 13y ago
You can't possibly be serious. You pocketed his ~$12K loss and you're giving him a $50 credit? Are you high? Sloppiness like this wouldn't fly in actual finance. It would get you fined and possibly more. Lacking any sort of i
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by functional_test 13y ago
"The Amazon system is characterized by low wages, permanent performance pressure and short-term contracts" - one of the union board members For me, this sentence captured the entire article. Of course the wages are low-- the jobs
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by functional_test 13y ago
The primary "unreasonable" default seems to be that in the beginning, writes were not safe by default. Although they were explicit about it (if you read the docs), it probably was a bad decision. This has been changed, thankfully.
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by functional_test 13y ago
I seem to have been able to use it correctly. In fact, I ran a cluster for years in production without any issues. I know of several other groups that have used it successfully as well. As far as I can tell, a lot of people assumed it worke
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by functional_test 13y ago
In a proper production environment, you just compact each slave one at a time because you have a replica set rather than a single instance. Of course, if you aren't replicating your business's production database, you have a whole
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by functional_test 13y ago
Seriously, another case of using Mongo incorrectly? I want to believe all the Mongo hate, but I can't because I always find out that the actual problem was one or more of: * didn't read the manual * poor schema * didn't maint
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by functional_test 13y ago
I just don't think the snark is necessary here. I'm pretty technically savvy and I found the wallet setup process to be... unintuitive. For example, transactions didn't show up until I told my wallet to sync back to before I
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by functional_test 13y ago
Yep, this time is different [1]. In all seriousness, if you really believe this, I suggest you pick up a copy of that book. History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme, and you'd be surprised just how similar this time is. [1
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by functional_test 13y ago
Exactly. Although rebasing is convenient, it does involve taking destructive actions on a repository which is ostensibly a tool to make sure your data isn't lost. The feeling in the Mercurial community is that this is potentially dange
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by functional_test 13y ago
Check my comment history, I've given several use cases. Basically, Mongo is nice if you don't need a lot of relational stuff but do have lots of arbitrary data to store. A good example is time series data where the format changes
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by functional_test 13y ago
This is spot on, no one would actually follow that protocol. Tangentially, the best side effect of HFT seems to be that a lot of technical people have become more sophisticated in understanding incentive structures and contracts. I wonder h
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by functional_test 13y ago
Turns out you can read the manual of a vehicle ahead of time. Turns out you can also test drive and do everything else you said, and we don't need to pretend that it's all mutually exclusive. Stop being a pedant -- me listing ever
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by functional_test 13y ago
If understanding your production database is a bad use of your time, then I really don't understand your priorities, but I'm glad you're not on my team. You don't need to read every word of everything, but some things
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by functional_test 13y ago
Literally 1 month ago, I bought a car and did exactly this. What's impractical about spending a little time to read?
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by functional_test 13y ago
Wouldn't that become quite a bit of book keeping though?
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by functional_test 13y ago
I'm not sure how anyone else could know what my best interests are. There are a lot of real world applications where small amounts of data loss don't matter but latency matters a lot. Any time I deploy something as critical as a
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by functional_test 13y ago
Generally I'd only have at most 2 formats at once while you converted the older records to the new format. You're right that there's no sense in keeping around a dozen versions but there are a lot of business cases for having
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by functional_test 13y ago
I would also read the manual of a car I just bought before driving it. I guess that's just my style. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying your assumption is unreasonable. But in the end, it's on you as a conscientious deve
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by functional_test 13y ago
The file system is great for some things, but, for example, how would you handle the same data to having multiple indices?

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