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by wanderr 17y ago
I myself am not actually sold on the noSQL movement, at least not on the idea of ditching SQL entirely. It has its place, but may not be the best solution for every problem. That said, on the authors complaint about having to restart cassan
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by wanderr 17y ago
Didn't he? "Has anyone ran benchmarks with MySQL or PostgreSQL in an environment that sees 35,000 requests a second? IO contention becomes a huge issue when your stack needs to serve that many requests simultaneously." my answer to this p
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by wanderr 17y ago
I was going to mention the same thing: there isn't even a mention of the word concurrency in the whole article.
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by wanderr 17y ago
It's also worth considering that most big sites have more web servers than MySQL servers, and I'm sure Digg is in that boat as well. Doing your sorts on 20 front end nodes instead of 2-4 MySQL servers is obviously going to help improve perf
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by wanderr 17y ago
I'm not so sure about that. SO users are quick to answer simple/easy problems but those are never the ones I need help with. Ask a question that requires a lot of expertise and some effort to answer, and it's nothing but crickets chirping,
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by wanderr 17y ago
That's exactly what I (and the author of the article we're discussing) meant, I find it surprising that there is any confusion on this point.
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by wanderr 17y ago
I disagree with points of this article, and I'm not sure about the premise. I think Software Engineering is not as well defined as it could be but I think it is getting better. The book Rapid Development by Steve McConnel goes a long way in
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by wanderr 17y ago
That's a false dichotomy. JSON-RPC FTW!
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by wanderr 17y ago
Programming is about problem solving. A good portion of system administration is also problem solving. I know several programmers who are excellent system administrators, and a couple of sysadmins who are OK programmers (but they don't real
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by wanderr 17y ago
Thanks, that's what I thought. I was hoping I was wrong. :P
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by wanderr 17y ago
I did, but I still don't see how redis and MySQL differ in how they handle either type.
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by wanderr 17y ago
How is that any different than how you would do it with MySQL? If both products have the same solution to the same problem (handle it in your application) then why aren't they on the same edge?
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by wanderr 17y ago
Can anyone explain to me how redis supports partitioning? I'm still learning but so far I haven't found any support for it.
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by wanderr 17y ago
There are a bunch of alternative PDF readers, I don't know if they are all full featured but I have never run into something that didn't work for me in Sumatra PDF or Foxit Reader. Lifehacker did a roundup a while ago of PDF reader alternat
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by wanderr 17y ago
Even if there were a right choice, what are the chances of designers choosing it?
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by wanderr 17y ago
"Often if you get a decent suite of unit tests you are only a few requirements changes or change requests away from half of them breaking. Unit tests are software. That may sound trite but it’s worth remembering. The larger and more complex
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by wanderr 17y ago
It's unlikely Ars has any direct control over their CPM; its likely determined by an algorithm that already takes CTR into account. It would be interesting to see the internal Ars numbers to see what happened to theid revenue after ad block
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by wanderr 17y ago
As someone who works on a site largely funded through banner advertising, I can confirm that this is true; CPM is tied directly to CTR. A higher CTR means not only a higher CPM but also higher quality ads, so it is in everyone's best intere
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by wanderr 17y ago
Flash still makes sense for RIAs (Rich Internet Applications) as well. There are admittedly few of them out there though.
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by wanderr 17y ago
I think the choice should be up to the reader. Especially in texts with figures, tables and illustrations, there's a better chance of being able to see an illustration and the text describing it on the same screen if scrolling is an option,
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by wanderr 17y ago
It certainly seems that the NoSQL movement is largely fueled by two facts: 1. MySQL sucks 2. Oracle is expensive I'd love to see Postgresql get more attention, as I feel that they have scaling up and scaling out handled fairly well, whereas
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by wanderr 17y ago
pretty cool idea. I was going to use bluetooth pairing between my phone and pc for this purpose since my phone is always in my pocket, but the battery drain on the phone was not worth it.
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by wanderr 17y ago
I can't seem to find a free version online, but This American Life's TV show, the episode called "Pandora's Box" is very eye opening. They go to a modern pig farm and it's as disturbing and disgusting as this article makes it sound. I thoug
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by wanderr 17y ago
Aside from having the wrong person, if you watch the video he's clearly railing against the term, not the concept behind it.
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by wanderr 17y ago
"Facts" stated but not backed up by anything aren't worth much. "I personally measured..." is a worthless comment if he doesn't show his work (i.e. his tests or claims are not reproducible at all).
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by wanderr 17y ago
Well, did they?
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by wanderr 17y ago
If you don't like the taste of that (decaf tastes bad to me) or just want more control over your intake, caffeine pills aren't a terrible way to go as a temporary solution. Figure out how much caffeine you usually drink, and take that much
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by wanderr 17y ago
To me that seems like making the case that if there is offensive content broadcasted on tv, people will blame the television, not the broadcaster. That makes no sense.
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by wanderr 17y ago
I believe it has to do specifically with how drawing to the screen happens; if that has to go through the browser, then it can't utilize hardware acceleration. One interesting test we did recently was to make a very simple flash app that dr
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by wanderr 17y ago
I work for a company whose main site is a flash RIA. It's true that our site doesn't work out of the box on mobile flash enabled phones, although in our case it's mostly due to memory constraints. However we've created a new interface reusi

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