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by nettdata 16y ago
Reminds me of some government work I've done. The worst case was when I wrote a best-practices manual for Java/database/security for their internal development, and it was basically taken in draft form, put in a big 3-ring binder, and put
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by nettdata 16y ago
I'm sure they'll still ship with a JRE. The issue has always been that Apple has maintained their own JRE code base, while Sun had maintained all of the other JRE's for the other OS's. I've been doing Java dev on OS X since OS X came to be,
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by nettdata 16y ago
And knowing what files were touched for the various commits is a big advantage as well.
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by nettdata 16y ago
Meetings aren't the problem, in my opinion. People who don't know how to properly run meetings are. I spent some time in the military, and one of the best skills that experience ever taught me was how to properly prepare for and run a meet
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by nettdata 16y ago
This is accomplished by way of a swashplate, as can be seen here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swashplate_%28helicopter%29
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by nettdata 17y ago
>> If the initial phases of the project don't need those sophisticated aspects, why would you design them in at the beginning? Because history has taught me that it will be a definite requirement later on (as in when going live), an
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by nettdata 17y ago
If you're lucky enough the first time, you don't need to worry about the second.
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by nettdata 17y ago
Oh, and I also have a possible theory as to why this is. Game developers are, for the most part, quite smart. When a game company, or any tech company, for that matter, runs into a problem that needs solving, they generally try and solve it
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by nettdata 17y ago
I've done quite a few independent 3rd party tech reviews of a number of game hosting providers, and was (and am) quite shocked at the absolute crap that I saw. Sure, a few were well done and at a level of quality you would expect based on
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by nettdata 17y ago
Welcome to the current overly-developed sense of self-entitlement that a lot of people have these days. Everyone is owed everything with nothing in return.
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by nettdata 17y ago
Dude. It was a light-hearted, good-natured joke, and nothing at all personal. Unless a sense of humour isn't iPhone compatible either?
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by nettdata 17y ago
Doesn't work with lynx either.
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by nettdata 17y ago
As an admittedly biased Oracle architect/DBA, I'm inclined to believe that the "Oracle" bottleneck was due to the design/implementation of the Oracle DB, rather than the technology itself. If, for instance, you were pulling this data out of
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by nettdata 17y ago
I think the article's headline is a bit unfair. I read that and thought that they were/are manipulating the network in some way to slow it down, similar to ISP's that traffic shape torrenting clients to minimize the effect on their networks
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by nettdata 17y ago
Why bother with anything like an EMP? At the cost of the DIY, it's disposable... just fly right into the thing and physically knock it out of the sky. BattleBots in Space. That's a pirated video I'd watch.
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by nettdata 17y ago
You have the perfect right to just point and say "you were supposed to do that", while losing all of your data. The rest of us will be quite happy to ensure that what we think is happening, actually is. It's akin to a pedestrian getting hit
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by nettdata 17y ago
Dennis Leary said it best: Great Senator, but a bad date.
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by nettdata 17y ago
Un-indexed queries are not inherently evil... sometimes they are faster than using/maintaining an index. Queries are all about context; how big of a data set, how much/fast is that data set changing, how often is the query being made, etc.
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by nettdata 17y ago
It was one of the "good" forgeries.
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by nettdata 17y ago
Really? Nobody? It's an article about making up excuses. I was hoping everyone would chime in with their own excuses in the spirit of the article.
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by nettdata 17y ago
I would have read the article, but my internet connection was down.
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by nettdata 17y ago
I wonder how well their SQL scaled? What? Too soon? ;)
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by nettdata 17y ago
And let's not even start talking about consistent reads.
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by nettdata 17y ago
A lot of databases "suck" because they have to be jacks of all trades, in that they have to be able to do a ton of very general things. That's why a crap-load of web sites and apps can all use the same database software. You will ALWAYS hav
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by nettdata 17y ago
Just to clarify, I never said Oracle was the be-all end-all solution for everything. And I didn't rationalize anything with a "job history", but rather with large systems that actually have been built and are working. I'd be very interested
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by nettdata 17y ago
Nope. Had one for a while ( http://orageek.com ) but found I didn't really have much to say all that often to warrant maintaining it.
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by nettdata 17y ago
Uhmmm... duh? The original article mentions nothing about cost or the ability (or lack thereof) of any company to afford it. He made a flat out statement that said SQL DOESN'T SCALE, which is wrong. There are other methods for dealing with
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by nettdata 17y ago
I agree... never meant to imply that Facebook had fewer hits/etc than a banking site in raw numbers, just that the ratio of DB reads (not considered a transaction, very easy to cache, etc) to DB writes, makes the site much more read-only th
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by nettdata 17y ago
I'd beg to differ. Go take a look at Adam Leventhal's work with the Fishworks stuff. Specifically, go check out the Sun Storage 7310. It will scale HUGE, and is nowhere near the stupid cost of NetApp or EMC or the other major vendors. I'd l
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by nettdata 17y ago
Absolutely wrong. We use Dell 2950's for our DB nodes in our Oracle clusters. Biggest one right now is 12 nodes. And if it scales, but costs too much (a relative concept at best), then it somehow doesn't scale any more? Of course cost matt

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