rbranson

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811.
by rbranson 16y ago
Basically: almost every attempt to simplify programming has failed. We have successfully made the task of programming more efficient and accessible, through the use of libraries, tools, and abstraction, but this is merely the elimination of
812.
by rbranson 16y ago
This has been my experience with Rails as well. Most of the time, no SQL is needed, but it's easy to access when it is needed.
813.
by rbranson 16y ago
You have apparently never used a well-designed ORM. A well-designed ORM isn't to create this magical, leak-proof wrapper for the database. The point is the make common use cases simple and allow the developer to incrementally use more SQL a
814.
by rbranson 16y ago
Sure, but how many times have you seen someone create something equal to that with SQL queries? Instead of using a join, they execute a SELECT against the database for every row they fetch. This is shockingly common in horribly written PHP
815.
by rbranson 16y ago
How does it compare performance-wise to the Netty solution? Is it better at 100k+ connections?
816.
by rbranson 16y ago
Historically cities lose out big time when they are situated up against state lines. Usually the suburbs located in other other cities with lesser service requirements will entice the tax income over the state line using incentives. They wo
817.
by rbranson 16y ago
Let's be real though -- sometimes "shit happens." I'm not saying the majority of poor people are pure victims of circumstance, but there is also significant evidence that being poor and dealing with those struggles is permanently damaging t
818.
by rbranson 16y ago
This is illegal tax evasion. However... "you wouldn't steal a car, would you?"
819.
by rbranson 16y ago
Agreed, there are few scenarios where any product is just plain "better" than another product. I wish more "versus" articles were as balanced as this.
820.
Downfall NoSQL/Hadoop Parody(youtube.com)
1 points by rbranson 16y ago|0 comments
821.
by rbranson 16y ago
Definitely TOP SCHOOL though. I've met and worked with many PhD CS students from the lower end of the spectrum who were nothing more than book smart, in the worst way. I guess lower and mid tier schools just don't require real innovative th
822.
by rbranson 16y ago
I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who's running pgPool in production. What's your setup, what problem does pgPool solve for you?
823.
by rbranson 16y ago
For people without scaling/HA needs, the new permissions enhancements are a god-send for DBAs. PostgreSQL has very granular permissions, and it used to be impossible to grant default permissions within a database, as one can in MySQL. This
824.
by rbranson 16y ago
Maybe if the publishers will stop being greedy and start selling these things for a reasonable price, they'd catch on like wildfire. The digital versions are currently nearly as expensive as the printed version -- basically it seems like th
825.
by rbranson 16y ago
Unfortunately the companies that they (Bing, Yahoo, Google, etc) buy the map data from would be very much against pushing their precious vector data out into the public. All of the licensing is setup and specifically deals with tiling maps.
826.
by rbranson 16y ago
Nice, but needs more WebSocket and node.js. I guess EventMachine would work too.
827.
by rbranson 16y ago
Perhaps you don't understand how RAC works. A RAC cluster is cache-coherent with a shared disk system, in this case an EMC SAN. It's designed to be both scalable and fault tolerant. The replication would have been handled by the SAN itself,
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Basel III: The good, the bad, and the ugly(banksimple.com)
54 points by rbranson 16y ago|10 comments
829.
by rbranson 16y ago
I've had the same experience with smalls as the parent poster. No EBS loss though. The larger instances do seem more stable. No quantitative data to back that up though.
830.
by rbranson 16y ago
Cities do grant permits to place fiber lines to competing companies, but this is seldom done to run fiber into the home. The consumer market requires massive capital to achieve economies of scale that few companies outside of existing utili
831.
by rbranson 16y ago
Sugar alcohols create a cooling sensation on the tongue, so they aren't appropriate for everything. They've also got somewhat of a stigma from causing digestive problems. Erythritol, which doesn't cause digestive problems, is starting to ga
832.
by rbranson 16y ago
You fuck goats. Way to take this way the fuck off topic.
833.
Domino Computer(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by rbranson 16y ago|0 comments
834.
by rbranson 16y ago
I sent the link to my girlfriend. She is super bubbly and a work-from-home job would be awesome for her college (nursing school) career. I think there are a lot of college kids who would do well at this.
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by rbranson 16y ago
Who cares what term they use or what implication it has? In reality, it is the same concept. That's why it is SEMANTICS.
836.
by rbranson 16y ago
Semantics. The end result is the same: there is almost always a large amount of spare CPU cycles on each physical box, which can be utilized by instances to "burst" above their allocated capacity.
837.
by rbranson 16y ago
These instances are different though, they are able to burst CPU usage, just like Linode. AFAIK, none of the other EC2 instance sizes are able to do this.
838.
by rbranson 16y ago
It's my understanding that the indices would be sharded as well, so wouldn't you be able to just fire up more instances if the indices started to approach some kind of 80% figure?
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by rbranson 16y ago
The only thing to look for in digital cables is build quality, so that the cables last, don't break, and you get your money's worth. I've got these quality ethernet cables I bought 15 years ago that I still use. They don't have to be expens
840.
by rbranson 16y ago
Now that there are very small instances with 64-bit support, these can form the basis of the ultimate incrementally scalable MongoDB cluster.

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