jbooth

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by jbooth 17y ago
It's much more fallacious to discount the overwhelming scientific consensus on global warming because of one scientist's character. A virtual army of teabaggers combing over this data and all they could find was one marginal case of cooking
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by jbooth 17y ago
No it doesn't.. ok, early 90s, people thought object oriented everything was the way forward. But his main point, that blasting through a flat file without a ton of row-locking and transactional overhead could satisfy a number of needs bet
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by jbooth 17y ago
What a stupid article. "It's not quite that simple, of course". So the distributed petabyte-scale filesystem that scales to thousands of nodes, the recent work on append which guarantees fresh writes will be visible to all hosts, the effor
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by jbooth 17y ago
Well, let's be clear, hacker news is a website for hackers/entrepreneurs to waste time, blow off steam, maybe learn something but more likely find interesting commentary. I liked the coffee beans article, I drink a lot of coffee and it was
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by jbooth 17y ago
Please define on-topic? Also, if anyone disagrees with your definition, your point is invalid :)
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by jbooth 17y ago
If you don't see it, that just means you haven't spent a lot of time studying it. The concept of someone who's the same exact you but grew up under radically different conditions is a red herring -- by the age of 12, there'd be more differe
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by jbooth 17y ago
Smart != Wise. I used to try to cram more stuff onto a line because I thought it was elegant. Now, depending on the circumstance, sometimes I'll deliberately split up something that I originally wrote as a 1-liner because, at second pass,
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by jbooth 17y ago
Not to be a crank - rails is better for web development than any of the 500 java web frameworks, and if you try to write a one-off script in Java, you're insane. I learned to program with Scheme just like a lot of people and it's a beautif
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by jbooth 17y ago
Well, I wouldn't want to get in the way of anyone telling themselves that they're smart, but take a look at any startup with scaling problems and what do you see? The web team's doing shopping carts and drill-down tables in Ruby. The platfo