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Digg Says Yes To NoSQL Cassandra DB, Bye To MySQL
donadony writes "After twitter, now it's Digg who's decided to replace MySQL and most of their infrastructure components and move away from LAMP to another architecture called NoSQL that is based in Cassandra, an open source project that develops a highly scalable second-generation distributed database. Cassandra was open sourced by Facebook in 2008 and is licensed under the Apache License. The reason for this move, as explained by Digg, is the increasing difficulty of building a high-performance, write-intensive application on a data set that is growing quickly, with no end in sight. This growth has forced them into horizontal and vertical partitioning strategies that have eliminated most of the value of a relational database, while still incurring all the overhead."
You're being deliberately obtuse. The question under discussion has to do with incentive to work, not with speculation. My point, to which you still have not responded, is that obscene financial rewards don't cause people to work any harder than high but normal rewards do.
Yes, I omitted the word "in" between "million" and "two". Therefore, I am wrong. The strength of your argument being overwhelming, I am forced to concede.