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Why the Facebook and Apple empires are bound to fall(m.guardian.co.uk)
4 points by sergiosgc 14y ago|0 comments
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by sergiosgc 14y ago
“There is no tragedy of the commons in software b/c there is no scarcity„ Code is information, and information has zero marginal copy costs. Nevertheless, there is scarcity. Code needs maintenance, and maintenance costs man hours. So, by
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by sergiosgc 14y ago
This may have been true ten years ago. Not anymore. Mysql query planner is dumb as a rock. Easy example: instead of referring to a table in FROM, try using a sub query with SELECT * from the same table. It's an easy reproduction of the plan
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by sergiosgc 14y ago
I know WordPress quite well. Most of these queries can be very easily executed from indexes, pulling from the tables only the data that will be output. It's just that mysql chooses to do it the dumb way.
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by sergiosgc 14y ago
I don't know where the "twice as slow" number for postgresql comes from. My the experience is different. Wildly different. For simple "keystore" loads, both are at the same performance class. For anything more complicated, typical relationa
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by sergiosgc 14y ago
Firing people in Portugal is also hell, but loopholes exist in every law; I'm sure it's not different in the UK. My favorite, which also appears applicable to this case is: promote him into a top managerial position, then fire him for breac
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by sergiosgc 14y ago
I can't. Tried owncloud, as an alternative to my paid Dropbox account. It's incredibly slow to sync anything moderately large. I handed it 30GB of my 70GB home directory, and filesystem traversal on startup was taking 15min. On an ssd. Wher
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by sergiosgc 14y ago
Seeing all the bashing of your anti OO comment, I must leave a note of appreciation. PHP is not Java. All framework developers should write that phrase 100 times, Bart Simpson style before designing their framework. It's not acceptable havi
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by sergiosgc 14y ago
I tried hiphop earlier this year, on a large WordPress installation, and it does not make the cut. It's unstable, crashes randomly. This on top of the pain of working around missing features, like eval or dynamic vars (think $$foo). It does