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by hobb0001 14y ago
Well known inventors aren't well known because of their great inventions. They're well known because there's a corporate PR department promoting the legend. Ever heard of Thomas Edison? He founded a company named General Electric. Heard of
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by hobb0001 14y ago
Having your code still work 20 months after you wrote it really isn't much to boast about.
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by hobb0001 14y ago
Why aren't capes still around, then? (They were made for horseback riding, too)
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by hobb0001 14y ago
It's more likely that the shutdown was planned to coincide with the SOPA bill. Even though SOPA was unexpectedly derailed, the raid had too much momentum and continued on regardless.
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by hobb0001 14y ago
I should acknowledge that these issues apply just as much to a document store as to a relational database. However, you tend to interact with a document store differently, since there is no need for a mapping abstraction. You often just use
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by hobb0001 14y ago
Since the relational model is very set-oriented, it has always had a particularly hard time dealing with ordered lists. But that's really a minor thing, and is actually something an ORM can do well to abstract. My real headache with ORM has
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by hobb0001 14y ago
> However I would actually advise developers to stop and think if they really need MongoDB or the latest fad, because their current relational database, such as PostgreSQL, does a mighty fine job for most of their needs. Every time I've
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by hobb0001 15y ago
Really? There's still such a thing as an "FPS fan"? That's sort of like being a fan of black Model-T's, isn't it?
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Whatever happened to undo?
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by hobb0001 15y ago
I'm not sure that it will take 20 years to prove that we're only as sentient as the other animals.
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by hobb0001 16y ago
FTA: That jibes well with Page’s push to whittle down Google’s manager bureaucracy, eliminate politicking and rekindle its start-up spirit. I first read that as "pot-licking" and thought, WTF is that? A new managerial term like d
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by hobb0001 16y ago
Many people have already made the comparison between the mobile wars of the 10's and the PC wars of the 80's, where Google is now playing the role of Microsoft and Apple is now playing the role of, er, Apple. But what I find ironic is Micro
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by hobb0001 16y ago
> As for SQL Server, it's a decent platform. ... and purchased from Sybase. Though, to be fair, it has come a long way since then.
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by hobb0001 16y ago
What's next? iPad running flash?
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by hobb0001 16y ago
tldw? Anyone? sigh It's so annoying when you have to sit through a hour-long video for what would otherwise be a 5-10 minute read.
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by hobb0001 17y ago
I acknowledge your clarification and I agree with what YOU have said, but let me rant a little against the startup mentality that is prevalent here on HN. The general attitude seems to be that you're wasting your one chance at living unless
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by hobb0001 17y ago
For those of us without ADD, the editorial control over story selection is actually rather nice. (The user commentary, however...)
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by hobb0001 17y ago
> I even tell my dealer to change my tires twice a year > I even drilled a hole my wall, and bought a 60 feet cable, at the cost of $300 What?! Is this guy completely oblivious to the way he spends his money? > Ye
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by hobb0001 17y ago
I've always wanted to create a similar fractal zoom into the real number space to illustrate the position of pi. Some sort of Flash or JavaScript thing that would keep generating more digits on the fly and could run forever. I never seem to
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by hobb0001 17y ago
I have to disagree. Since the advent of blogging, I now prefer that style of writing. For example, the writing style in this article illustrates precisely why I no longer care for the standard journalistic style: http://news.cnet.com/8301-
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by hobb0001 18y ago
BTW, not many people realize this, but SQLite has "pragma" commands that allow you to dial back its HDD synchronization and transactional consistency. I have used "pragma synchronous = 0;" many times to greatly improve the performance of my
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by hobb0001 18y ago
The author is obviously a fan of B&D languages. ( http://catb.org/jargon/html/B/bondage-and-discipline-languag... ) There's nothing wrong with preferring a little B&D, but it's a shame that there are still masochists in this day and
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by hobb0001 18y ago
Not that I've worked with building architects, but I have worked in an HVAC engineering firm that does work with architects. My sense is that the original author's view of a real architect's life is shaped by whatever is shown on TV. In con