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by jpitz 16y ago
My gut reaction is "as early as possible." I'd be curious to hear arguments to the contrary.
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by jpitz 16y ago
I really do to, and that was one of the reasons I focused on Mercurial ( after I abandoned my first love, Darcs, after a rather lengthy merge. Really lengthy. ) Mercurial is a beautiful tool, with very few of the sharp corners poking out. B
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by jpitz 16y ago
The style of tradeoff taken, in both cases, really exemplifies the difference in engineering priorities for MySQL and PostgreSQL. MySQL optimizes for reads, at the expense of a higher write load. PostgreSQL optimizes more for writes, at the
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by jpitz 16y ago
I think parent and GP both have an element of truth, but that the ultimate situation is more nuanced than either suggests. Customer demand is likely the biggest factor, but I'd be surprised if Oracle managed an exclusivity deal on RDS. Of t
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by jpitz 16y ago
Yeah, but PostgreSQL is _so_ easy to get running there. Seriously. And no amount of magic cloud sprinkles is going to fix Amazon's terrible IO latency problems, for any database product.
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by jpitz 16y ago
Yes, but there's a compensating transaction you can apply to the missile up until the time it reaches the target.
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by jpitz 16y ago
The fine author brags about how he could access the internet on his calculator, and sneers at people who buy phones to do the same?
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by jpitz 16y ago
So, human workers and ordinary, loud construction equipment buzzing away all day for 2 years is ok, but robot equipment - quite capable of working 24/7 and likely capable of going faster - buzzing away for 8 months, thats unacceptable? I t
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by jpitz 16y ago
Are you referring to the sodium sulfur batteries that NGK makes?
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by jpitz 16y ago
Not every competent geek is a frivolous gadget junkie.
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by jpitz 16y ago
It is hard to overstate how important this is. Read. A lot. A lot a lot a lot. Learn how good projects approach things like testing and error handling. Look at how well documented and easy to read the code is. Any clever idiot can write cle