His actions since adopting and trumpeting Mono, but not limited to Mono have always made me think he was some kind of sleeper troll. His stances often seemed to take antagonistically disruptive positions. That even this time his "reasons" clearly don't seem to match up with reality, reinforce what I have seen in the past. I suppose what he said could be true if he is running one of the more esoteric distributions, but really...as much as I am not a fan of Ubuntu[I am a Debian user], there is little you can't get either natively packaged or via a ppa.
He is literally the John C.Dvorak of the Linux programing world.
Within the context of a news site basing an article around a very esoteric word, it would be good practice to include a brief definition. Especially a site that deactivates hyper links in its rss feed(the wikipedia link to skeuomorphic is only there on the direct site, not rss).
Just saying.
But yes, obviously one can google that which one does not know.
Links in the RSS feed are not shown as links. So that if you are reading via google reader. et. al. you don't see it. It wasn't till I came to the site to see comments that it was available.
Hey now, that is a decent beer. Especially within its class/category. And really, you shouldn't go around knocking "sissy northern european" beers, lest the "sissy northern european" beers of Belgium come knocking on your door.
Actually, my guess is they found that this was a pretty good sign of BS content farms. Of all the sites I have blocked in google search over the last 12 months that description fits most to a tee.
Interesting idea aside, its a bit like discussing Tomato crop yields when you find your pizza sauce bland. Sure, what tomatoes go into pizza sauce make a difference, but if its just shitty sauce its not really going to matter if you add some nice tomatoes to it.
If employers think embracing Gamification will fix an endemically lousy work environment...well, its probably why the work environment is so bad in the first place.
Given the pre roll ad, the split to three pages format, and the "middlemanagement" focus of the web site I consider the article to be somewhere between circumspect and irrelevant. However, I'm not a fan of"init" either:)
What you just stated sounds all well and good...but its not very informed. Or maybe just informed from 10 years ago.
In general a database is pretty much as good as its DBA. That said, your statement about Postgre being vastly superior is strictly a contextual one, and even then would be a trade-off at best case.
For the DBMS corner cases that MySQL doesn't do, there are some incredibly important things that Postgre doesn't do.
I see in the updates that Postgre is finally doing Streaming Replication? Just now? Before this, you had to rely on 3rd party "hacks".
Meanwhile, MySQL has done instant replication and failover for quite some time.
More importantly, MySQL has done Master/Master replication for years now, natively, with relative ease. I have been doing Live Hitless upgrades to sites for years now, to infrastructures built on MySQL. Sites doing 5-10k questions per/sec. on minimal hardware(relatively). No Down Time. That is huge when it comes to "stability" of a website or web application when everything is DB dependent.
Don't get me wrong, I like Postgre. I have for years. But don't go around talking the old line that MySQL is an severely incomplete DB for the ignorant. It has matured over the years into one of the most capable, feature complete, stable, and useful databases available.
Do you live in the NYC area? Were you here for Sept 11th and the ensuing days? Were you here for the weeks of the smell of burnth metal and cooking meat that wafted up downtown Manhattan? Did you spend your waking hours in the dirt and dust and the wreckage of downtown volunteering any way you could to help out in the days after?
If you did, and you can say what you say, then you must be a better person than I am.
Most days I don't even think about it anymore. Which is nice.
But that plane, that I didn't even see myself, made me flinch when I heard about it. It brought up some unexpected emotions.
So if a lot of people who work in the surrounding high rise offices near it decided it was time to get out of the building....then it was time to go...then it was the right decision.
Maybe its "just not that big a deal" to a lot of people these days...but surprisingly, its still a little raw here.
Sure, millions of people cowering everyday while they go about their lives....oh yeah, no everyone is pretty much over it. That said, when something that *does not* happen, does happen, especialy when its a low flying commercial jet seeming circling Hi Rise buildings in the Manhattan area, sorry that definitely touched some raw nerves.
Planes don't fly low here anymore. Its not allowed. Certainly not 747s. For the people that were here Sept 11, 2001(I was one of the many)....its very upsetting, disturbing....to look up and see a plane that low and near. So don't jump to conclusions about people over-reacting. Its a real thing for New Yorkers and others in the area.
"The new device, dubbed Project California, takes servers into new territory by cramming computer power into the very box that contains storage capacity"
Are telling me that Cisco put a computer in a box where the Disks are?!??!?!?! Thats ground breaking! Amazing! Unheard of! I mean, wow, can you imagine if HP/Dell had thought this up First...instead of Proj California....maybe they would have called it a DL380! Or Sun, an dcall it a Thumper! Cisco is truely the inovator!
Side note, I actually saw an article on this yesterday that had the nerve to use the phrase "lower CAPEX" and the word Cisco in the same sentence.
Out of the box? No. Thats the answer. Slightly longer answer....if they really want all the info in the database and access to it when ever they like they can buy your company for it.
Elsewise you should not give them access to something that could very well impact your company's ability to business with other customers.
It is actually quite a ridiculous request on their part.
Just so completely full of it. So full of BS, as showcased in this part of the review:
Cotton is strategically placed within the cable as a dampener to arrest resonance. Finally, the geometry of the cable itself has been designed to minimize the force that conductors exert on each other when current flows.
Thats as bad as speaker and patch cables claiming to be "Directional". If you buy "directional" speaker or patch cables I have a bridge here in brooklyn I would like to sell you cheap.
For those who might argue that, please go spend some time studying the principles of Alternating Current.
And as for someone who pays $2k/ft for speaker cables that use interspersed cotton to dampen the the wires resonance? Well, I guess you are getting just what you deserve.
WTF? How it this anything? thats like saying "Roses are red, the sky is blue, how are we going to save our kids?". It doesn't mean anything rational! As if our president decided tomorrow that 2+2=9! Like fucking hell and the tooth fairy exists.
Dimes
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Without(seriously) trying to be a Tr*ll, this really felt like a sales pitch.
I am not talking about Fanboy Fawning either, but more like "out of a brouchure".
Really, its not a review, but a list of talking points....no critical review, no Pro/Con.....strictly Pro/Pro.
JS's Def of a datacenter: The original intent of the datacenter was to accomodate not computer equipment, but the people who managed it. Operators who needed to mount tapes, sweep chad, feed cards, and physically intervene when things went wrong. Swap a failed board or disk drive, or reboot a system.
What he is talking about is not "datacenters" where you keep servers and network gear. He is talking about "datacenters" where there are offices with tons of staff.
That said....who the hell works where their servers are? I run pando with a couple hundred servers and I often go weeks without seeing it(the hardware) since I console everything. Before that a bank where I never went to the hardware but once a month, and before that a whole year and a half at a major auction house where I never saw the hardware ever. Its been this way for a long time.
It sorta seems to me he is either really overstating the obvious.....or he is a decade or two behind the times.
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From a developers standpoint either are good... Pros and cons for each.
BUT
Postgres does not do Master Master streaming replication, which means hitless upgrades, VIP fail over and fail backs at ease just are not possible.
His actions since adopting and trumpeting Mono, but not limited to Mono have always made me think he was some kind of sleeper troll. His stances often seemed to take antagonistically disruptive positions. That even this time his "reasons" clearly don't seem to match up with reality, reinforce what I have seen in the past. I suppose what he said could be true if he is running one of the more esoteric distributions, but really...as much as I am not a fan of Ubuntu[I am a Debian user], there is little you can't get either natively packaged or via a ppa.
He is literally the John C.Dvorak of the Linux programing world.
Within the context of a news site basing an article around a very esoteric word, it would be good practice to include a brief definition. Especially a site that deactivates hyper links in its rss feed(the wikipedia link to skeuomorphic is only there on the direct site, not rss).
Just saying.
But yes, obviously one can google that which one does not know.
cheers,
dimes
Links in the RSS feed are not shown as links. So that if you are reading via google reader. et. al. you don't see it. It wasn't till I came to the site to see comments that it was available.
dimes
Hey now, that is a decent beer. Especially within its class/category. And really, you shouldn't go around knocking "sissy northern european" beers, lest the "sissy northern european" beers of Belgium come knocking on your door.
dimes
Actually, my guess is they found that this was a pretty good sign of BS content farms. Of all the sites I have blocked in google search over the last 12 months that description fits most to a tee.
There have been too many dumb posts...not that that is too unusual...but really its not that hard:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network
dimes
Interesting idea aside, its a bit like discussing Tomato crop yields when you find your pizza sauce bland. Sure, what tomatoes go into pizza sauce make a difference, but if its just shitty sauce its not really going to matter if you add some nice tomatoes to it.
If employers think embracing Gamification will fix an endemically lousy work environment...well, its probably why the work environment is so bad in the first place.
dimes
Ahahahahah, you said "Debian piggybacking Redhat" ahhahahahahaha
Given the pre roll ad, the split to three pages format, and the "middlemanagement" focus of the web site I consider the article to be somewhere between circumspect and irrelevant. However, I'm not a fan of"init" either :)
What you just stated sounds all well and good...but its not very informed. Or maybe just informed from 10 years ago.
In general a database is pretty much as good as its DBA. That said, your statement about Postgre being vastly superior is strictly a contextual one, and even then would be a trade-off at best case.
For the DBMS corner cases that MySQL doesn't do, there are some incredibly important things that Postgre doesn't do.
I see in the updates that Postgre is finally doing Streaming Replication? Just now? Before this, you had to rely on 3rd party "hacks".
Meanwhile, MySQL has done instant replication and failover for quite some time.
More importantly, MySQL has done Master/Master replication for years now, natively, with relative ease. I have been doing Live Hitless upgrades to sites for years now, to infrastructures built on MySQL. Sites doing 5-10k questions per/sec. on minimal hardware(relatively). No Down Time. That is huge when it comes to "stability" of a website or web application when everything is DB dependent.
Don't get me wrong, I like Postgre. I have for years. But don't go around talking the old line that MySQL is an severely incomplete DB for the ignorant. It has matured over the years into one of the most capable, feature complete, stable, and useful databases available.
dimes
of such a great collection of science books!
Uhm, Haven't you ever heard of the Streisand Effect?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
Just sayin,
dimes
Do you live in the NYC area? Were you here for Sept 11th and the ensuing days? Were you here for the weeks of the smell of burnth metal and cooking meat that wafted up downtown Manhattan? Did you spend your waking hours in the dirt and dust and the wreckage of downtown volunteering any way you could to help out in the days after?
If you did, and you can say what you say, then you must be a better person than I am.
Most days I don't even think about it anymore. Which is nice.
But that plane, that I didn't even see myself, made me flinch when I heard about it. It brought up some unexpected emotions.
So if a lot of people who work in the surrounding high rise offices near it decided it was time to get out of the building....then it was time to go...then it was the right decision.
Maybe its "just not that big a deal" to a lot of people these days...but surprisingly, its still a little raw here.
dimes
Had it been a helicopter....this wouldn't be an issue. It was however a 747 circling highrises.
Easy enough to say...
Sure, millions of people cowering everyday while they go about their lives....oh yeah, no everyone is pretty much over it. That said, when something that *does not* happen, does happen, especialy when its a low flying commercial jet seeming circling Hi Rise buildings in the Manhattan area, sorry that definitely touched some raw nerves.
Don't be pedantic. Context is pretty much the High Rise Business areas of manhattan. Clearly, its not disturbing if you live in the flight path.
Planes don't fly low here anymore. Its not allowed. Certainly not 747s. For the people that were here Sept 11, 2001(I was one of the many)....its very upsetting, disturbing....to look up and see a plane that low and near. So don't jump to conclusions about people over-reacting. Its a real thing for New Yorkers and others in the area.
"The new device, dubbed Project California, takes servers into new territory by cramming computer power into the very box that contains storage capacity"
Are telling me that Cisco put a computer in a box where the Disks are?!??!?!?! Thats ground breaking! Amazing! Unheard of! I mean, wow, can you imagine if HP/Dell had thought this up First...instead of Proj California....maybe they would have called it a DL380! Or Sun, an dcall it a Thumper! Cisco is truely the inovator!
Side note, I actually saw an article on this yesterday that had the nerve to use the phrase "lower CAPEX" and the word Cisco in the same sentence.
Highlarious.
Dimes
Out of the box? No. Thats the answer. Slightly longer answer....if they really want all the info in the database and access to it when ever they like they can buy your company for it.
Elsewise you should not give them access to something that could very well impact your company's ability to business with other customers.
It is actually quite a ridiculous request on their part.
Just so completely full of it. So full of BS, as showcased in this part of the review:
Cotton is strategically placed within the cable as a dampener to arrest resonance. Finally, the geometry of the cable itself has been designed to minimize the force that conductors exert on each other when current flows.
Thats as bad as speaker and patch cables claiming to be "Directional". If you buy "directional" speaker or patch cables I have a bridge here in brooklyn I would like to sell you cheap.
For those who might argue that, please go spend some time studying the principles of Alternating Current.
And as for someone who pays $2k/ft for speaker cables that use interspersed cotton to dampen the the wires resonance? Well, I guess you are getting just what you deserve.
dimes
WTF? How it this anything? thats like saying "Roses are red, the sky is blue, how are we going to save our kids?". It doesn't mean anything rational! As if our president decided tomorrow that 2+2=9! Like fucking hell and the tooth fairy exists.
Dimes
Without(seriously) trying to be a Tr*ll, this really felt like a sales pitch.
I am not talking about Fanboy Fawning either, but more like "out of a brouchure".
Really, its not a review, but a list of talking points....no critical review, no Pro/Con.....strictly Pro/Pro.
Why is this a book review?
dimes
were Hypocondriacs? 14% and Delusional? 12% and Paranoid? 8%
Stupid effing poll drumming up stupid numbers.
And how many were addicted to over eating? 14% and drinking too much some times? 14% and blah blah blah.....
Statistically people are addicts to anything. Smoking, eating, coffee, soda, sugar. Why the hell is this news?
I am pretty sure within 10 years all those jokes about lawyers will be retrofitted to the media.
What do you call 10,000 attention whore media people at the bottom of the ocean?
dimes
JS's Def of a datacenter:
The original intent of the datacenter was to accomodate not computer equipment, but the people who managed it. Operators who needed to mount tapes, sweep chad, feed cards, and physically intervene when things went wrong. Swap a failed board or disk drive, or reboot a system.
What he is talking about is not "datacenters" where you keep servers and network gear. He is talking about "datacenters" where there are offices with tons of staff.
That said....who the hell works where their servers are? I run pando with a couple hundred servers and I often go weeks without seeing it(the hardware) since I console everything. Before that a bank where I never went to the hardware but once a month, and before that a whole year and a half at a major auction house where I never saw the hardware ever. Its been this way for a long time.
It sorta seems to me he is either really overstating the obvious.....or he is a decade or two behind the times.
dimes