jtseng

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   by jtseng 12y ago

   Many people say that DBs are not good for large blobs, hence the advice to put large files such as images in the files system, not in the database. What's different here that makes it acceptable to put files in the database?
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   by jtseng 12y ago

   They do have a cluster: http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2012/09/microsoft-sql-serve... They just run everything through one live database all the time under normal conditions. Personally, I think this is muc
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   by jtseng 12y ago

   I really wanted to use Scala+Play to get away from the MS stack, but the documentation for Play was pretty hard to navigate due to the volume of documentation and the breaking changes in 2.
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   by jtseng 12y ago

   We've recently started down this C#/Postgres route. One of the main decisions to use C# was static typing, so I wanted to keep this with the data access layer as well. I've decided to use dotConnect for PostgreSQL so I can us
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   Ask HN: Do technology choices affect acquisitions?

   6 points by jtseng 12y ago|3 comments
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   by jtseng 13y ago

   From the interviews I've done so far, the algorithm questions are more important. From our perspective, it's much easier for someone good with algorithms to learn a few technologies than for someone with a few technologies to lear