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by va_coder 17y ago
Yes, that is correct, individual banks do not loan out money they do not have, but the collective system does. And I gathered that he wants to be separate from that system and therefore not take part in fractional reserve banking. If he wer
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by va_coder 17y ago
He also failed to address fractional reserve banking. Many of the big banks, which are shareholders of the Federal Reserve, are able to loan out money they really don't have due to fractional reserve banking. Also, the Federal Reserve is
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by va_coder 17y ago
I find the new datastores interesting but I have my doubts. Has anyone ever worked on a long project (1 year or more) using an XML storage or an Object datastore. They can be a real nightmare. One reason: Users will always add new requirem
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by va_coder 17y ago
Thanks for that info. I feel like people are omitting crucial info when describing these new datastores.
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by va_coder 17y ago
Are the new non-SQL databases agile? As my users require new ways to query and glean information from the data, will they grow with it? I'm not sure. What if down the road my users want to perform join-like behavior, aggregates and other
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by va_coder 17y ago
I think Gladwell and Anderson are both right. Anderson is right that many products that once cost money will now be free. Gladwell is right that many more products will never be free for many reasons, and one good reason is there are hidd
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by va_coder 17y ago
I've watched over a thousand truck ads on tv and never considering buying one. That doesn't mean the ads don't work.
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How Solar Power is financed(onearth.org)
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by va_coder 17y ago
problems are * vendor lock in, * no (easy) ad hoc queries, * no (easy) bulk load or export If a) you know *nix and SQL and b) don't need to scale to 1000's of users a minute, I don't see the need for AppEngine.
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by va_coder 17y ago
In a Java environment, in late 2007, we began work on a new application. I was told not to use Spring and that the application should be developed in Struts 1. Thank god I left after a year. Going forward, when you interview, you should as
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by va_coder 17y ago
I agree, but ideally you're goal should be to avoid these environments in the first place.
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by va_coder 17y ago
How can we call this Free Trade when one side has open access to markets and the other side can doesn't. Anybody ever manage a popular Web site that goes black for days? People forget about the web site, the momentum is gone, and you lose
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by va_coder 17y ago
This post spoke poorly about two concepts: * query optimization * robust hosting Both of which are generic and have nothing to do with Ruby on Rails in particular.
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by va_coder 17y ago
I would guess 80% of software developers would be better off spending their time * learning business * improving their communication skills * talking with their customers