jjs

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by jjs 17y ago
In programming languages, like people, maturity is a function of more than just chronological age.
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by jjs 17y ago
Hired goon: "Excuse me, madame, but if you would be willing to divulge to me your husband's password, I will gladly give you this shiny new $5 wrench!" (With apologies to "how to determine the height of a building using a barometer"...)
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by jjs 17y ago
Now this is getting interesting... Is there anything open-source (and language-agnostic) that's comparable to Gemstone?
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by jjs 17y ago
It occurs to me that I could still use integer primary keys internally and have indexed strings as external lookup keys. I want the same key to be able to show (a) which user, (b) which database, and (c) which row, so I can verify ownershi
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by jjs 17y ago
There are other reasons I want to use strings-as-keys. Are you familiar with how, say, postgres handles this sort of thing, and is it any better in this regard?
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by jjs 17y ago
> Not really relevant to the conversation. There are databases that can store trees of objects just fine as is, not all databases force you to store everything in tables. To me, the conversation is about trade-offs, and if the alternati
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by jjs 17y ago
If you can rebuild the tree using only the information returned in that flat data structure, and the database performance is good, then why not just rebuild it in code? It's trivial to scale out stateless code; databases are the hard part.
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by jjs 17y ago
Nope: http://imgur.com/gEVPe.png
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by jjs 17y ago
> Apparently, tall people are more productive than short people. Or, having (fallible!) humans doing the hiring has created certain inefficiencies in the labor market; inefficiencies which could be exploited/corrected by someone clever.
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by jjs 17y ago
Not at all; I was just under the (mis?)impression that you intended to congratulate them for something that hasn't happened yet.
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by jjs 17y ago
This doesn't appear to be their exit; more like a new beginning.
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by jjs 17y ago
I am for the moment; if postgres is really that much better in this regard, please let me know why you think so. Incidentally, I'm using VARBINARY, not VARCHAR for the keys.
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by jjs 17y ago
If you're linking to a particular post, link to the post, not the blog.
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by jjs 17y ago
Heh, I was just thinking about this problem recently; it played a (small) part in my decision to use random-ish strings as primary keys rather than autoincrementing ints. :)
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by jjs 17y ago
At the time I wrote that, #startups on freenode was muted, with the topic line (and frequent op posts) stating that mibbit was banned by freenode, and the new #startups is on irc.mibbit.com. That may still happen, depending on whether freen
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by jjs 17y ago
Upvoted because I'm pleasantly surprised by your reply.
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by jjs 17y ago
You called him a "homophobe", and I provided a link that shows evidence to the contrary. A link to an article with a comment by you, so I know you've had the chance to read the comments. I stand by my accusation of FUD, and add one of trol
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by jjs 17y ago
Nobody's forced to use the new #startups. You could just as easily start #startups2 and sit by yourself.
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by jjs 17y ago
FUD: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=486482
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by jjs 17y ago
see my other comment on this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=665259
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by jjs 17y ago
The reason people are moving to the new #startups is not to use mibbit's client (I'm using Colloquy on the Mac), but rather to show solidarity for axod.
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by jjs 17y ago
The new #startups is on irc.mibbit.net
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by jjs 17y ago
By using PHP, he'll never run out of material. :)
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by jjs 17y ago
> So how does one get away with charging more? Do it when the Cheap Police aren't looking.
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by jjs 17y ago
> It sounds good, but I don't see why he needs to curse in his introduction. I almost stopped reading. It's unprofessional and unnecessary. Unprofessional and unnecessary? May I remind you, sir, that your username is "doodyhead"!
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by jjs 17y ago
That's a lot of signup info you're asking for. How 'bout a nice "try it now" button?
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by jjs 17y ago
Oh, I definitely agree, but after a while it might make sense to only play a sound every n sales. :)
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by jjs 17y ago
IIRC, in one of Wil Shipley's presentations, I think he mentioned that they did this at Omni, and while the constant ringing of cash-register sound effects was nice at first, it got old fast.
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by jjs 17y ago
I like to stick the hmac hash at the beginning of the cookie text, since it has a known length. I don't care about tampering on the client-side (since you could achieve the same effect with firebug), so js scripts can simply lop off the fi
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by jjs 17y ago
Foolish Scotty! The corporate world is no place for human beings!

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