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by neilc 18y ago
Actually, no, it can't, unless you code all your business rules into the db as well. Well, you can code all your business rules into the DB, in the form of stored procedures. But even if you choose not to, I don't see why that fact prev
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by neilc 18y ago
What's so silly about The End of History? Although the title is somewhat hyperbolic, I agree.
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by neilc 18y ago
The database can only do trivial consistency checks. Between foreign keys, triggers, and CHECK constraints, databases can actually do pretty sophisticated consistency checks. There's also a SQL standard feature for database-wide assertion
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Object-Oriented Database Management Systems Succeeded(danweinreb.org)
15 points by neilc 18y ago|37 comments
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by neilc 18y ago
the very creators of MySQL, ZFS, etc are at their company The creators of MySQL used to be at their company, anyway. they are pretty much the only ones able to offer Amazon a run for their money at the moment I'm not so sure; IBM, Mic
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I.B.M. Withdraws $7 Billion Offer for Sun Microsystems(nytimes.com)
85 points by neilc 18y ago|28 comments
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by neilc 18y ago
Pearl Harbor 2.0 is coming soon, the next time we project power from a carrier group against anyone with an organized defense. Why didn't this happen in the first Gulf War? Ballistic missiles and small boats aren't exactly new technologie
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Predicting the Present with Google Trends(googleresearch.blogspot.com)
3 points by neilc 18y ago|0 comments
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by neilc 18y ago
If you read the whole article, this would be clear: Mr. Goldstein had spent a summer during college at the Chicago Board of Trade interning with David Shorr, one of his mother's patients. Mr. Shorr left the trading floor in 2003 because of
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by neilc 18y ago
Your examples seem about as strangle as Gruber's. The initial releases of RoR, XUL, and Mozilla were not "simple" by any stretch of the imagination (RoR was less complex than XUL/Mozilla, but still much more complex than many other web fram
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The transactional memory / garbage collection analogy(cs.washington.edu)
14 points by neilc 18y ago|0 comments
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by neilc 18y ago
Wanting to build companies that might one day compete with Google is unthinkable I don't see why that would be true. Nearly any web company might one day "compete with Google", which would rule out a lot of potential startups. Investing i
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by neilc 18y ago
Seems off-topic to me.
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by neilc 18y ago
AIG is a large company; the set of people with personal responsibility for the credit-default swaps is much, much smaller. That said, it seems like a massive failure of risk management for the senior management to have allowed this situatio
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Reducibility Among Combinatorial Problems (summary of classic paper)(papersincomputerscience.org)
1 points by neilc 18y ago|0 comments
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Communications of the ACM Blog(cacm.acm.org)
2 points by neilc 18y ago|0 comments
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DBMSs for Science Applications: A Possible Solution(cacm.acm.org)
1 points by neilc 18y ago|0 comments
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by neilc 18y ago
I think the obvious reason is that understanding why the API works as it does allows you to understand more about what your program is doing, and thus lets you write better software. For example, you can just think of malloc() as a magica
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A Distributed Transaction Layer for Google App Engine(danielwilkerson.com)
3 points by neilc 18y ago|0 comments
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by neilc 18y ago
you've written more code to make the machine do less Not really: if you're improving the program's memory access behavior, the machine really is "doing more": by removing a memory stall, you're replacing a situation in which the processor
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by neilc 18y ago
Using REST seems silly. Or rather, not necessarily silly, but not very significant, either. Bray himself admits that using REST + JSON was basically arbitrary: Simply because we wanted a bits-on-the-wire interface. APIs, in the general cas
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by neilc 18y ago
to most paying customers, the word micropayment carries a connotation of being slowly and imperceptibly bled to death by vampires "Most paying customers" are unlikely to have even heard the term "micropayment", let alone to have strong vi
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by neilc 18y ago
Sure, although that's not the C++ <=> C compatibility story that was originally intended, AFAIK. Calling back and forth between C++ and C isn't entirely trivial, either (exceptions, longjmp, etc.)
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by neilc 18y ago
the way to get the masses of C programmers to move to objects was to make the move transparent: to allow them to compile their C code unchanged under C++ Except that that is not really true: it is very rare that you can take a non-trivial
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PNUTS: Yahoo's Hosted Data Serving Platform(research.yahoo.com)
1 points by neilc 18y ago|0 comments
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Git Ready: Learn Git One Commit At A Time(gitready.com)
5 points by neilc 18y ago|0 comments
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by neilc 18y ago
it's not suitable for larger clusters of machines since communication costs grow quadratically. Quadratically? Why?
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by neilc 18y ago
In my experience, there is a pretty enormous difference between doctoral programs in the humanities and in science/engineering. For that matter, there's a big difference between doctoral programs in something like chemistry (or physics, I'd
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Scalable vs. Non-Scalable Careers(ben.casnocha.com)
67 points by neilc 18y ago|38 comments
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What Science can learn from Google?(interdisciplines.org)
1 points by neilc 18y ago|0 comments

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