seeker61

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by seeker61 8y ago
Real reason: that's the only thing most beginners are taught. (For better or worse, but that's the facts.)
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by seeker61 8y ago
I'm glad to be old ... I think I'll be fortunate enough to pass by the bulk of the crap that is coming downstream at us all.
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by seeker61 8y ago
So it's about time for that license audit! lol
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by seeker61 8y ago
There's no shortage of new frameworks to learn. To paraphrase Tony Soprano: "You could build a jetty with what's coming out."
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by seeker61 8y ago
Is this an accusation of takfir? Do you have evidence for this accusation? Or is it just that you find it easier to impugn a brother Muslim's practice than to argue the facts? (I'll bet you're really fun at parties.)
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by seeker61 8y ago
The more complex a system is, the more people it takes to maintain, write, test for it. It builds the manager's empire and also increases mindshare for the complexity-driven approach. I've seen it many times.
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by seeker61 8y ago
Hopefully the author had a bright intern on staff who was able to crunch the initial draft through this old, old technology, then recommend revisions so as to point it away from his or her real identity.
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by seeker61 8y ago
New sharding is but old partitioning writ large. Partitioning sounded too much like what grandpa did, so they gave it a jazzy new name.
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by seeker61 8y ago
It would serve to undermine the credibility of current glorious system currently in place in Russia, whatever they're calling it at the moment. (Please. I'm being ironic.)
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by seeker61 8y ago
At least blockchain is cool, which means that code weenies will actually take the time to figure out how it works. The same is not true of databases; code weenies find databases dreary and boring.
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by seeker61 8y ago
Re-inventing it. (And yes, that's worse.)
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by seeker61 8y ago
Look what I discovered! If you try to think of what can go wrong, it can keep you from making a mistake! My dad just harumphed at me, but he doesn't know what's cool!