Does MySQL5 make their default table type ACIDic, or do you still have to use InnoDB if you want that?
It seems silly (well, dangerous) to have triggers, etc. without transactions, so I'm inclined to think they finally went ACID. But if that's the case, who cares if Oracle bought Inno, so I'm inclined to think they didn't.
When you stay "startup," it makes people think they're trying to start a business around this. They're not, at least not from what I read. It's just one guy's project on sourceforge.
Objective-C's object system and general philosophy is _very_ smalltalk-ish.
Java is much more "C++ with some warts removed" than an Obj-C derivative. Obj C _is_ a "dynamic, late-binding programming environment." C++ and Java are not.
Self is no more a son of Smalltalk than Java is a son of Obj C. They (Self and Smalltalk) both came out of PARC, but they are very different.
I suspect you have no more idea about what went on at Apple than you do about programming languages, but I can't speak to that myself.
you don't know what you're talking about
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8.0 introduced "dollar quoting" for people like you who can't figure out that '' is how you escape a quote within SQL single quotes...and that was released in January.
I'm not sure what they have in mind here, but if that's the direction they're going it's clear why they wouldn't go with MySQL (technical shortcomings aside). PostgreSQL's BSD license makes it much more attractive for Sun, whose CDDL license is incompatible with the GPL, IIANM.
you do realize that profits are the market's way of encouraging innovation and competition, right?
higher profits means more innovation, more competition, and ultimately lower profits until the incentive to compete in that market drops to normal rates.
"economic consequence is the only language they understand."
but the number of places where "when you need Oracle, you need Oracle" is rapidly dwindling.
Features added recently or upcoming in 8.1 (now in beta2) include
- transaction savepoints - point-in-time recovery - tablespaces - bitmapped indexes (actually a better implementation than Oracle's) - java stored procedures (of course, postgresql has long had perl, python, tcl, etc. SPs) - replication
Add in that PostgreSQL's core engine has long been about 5x faster than Oracle's (not to mention orders of magnitude easier to set up and administer) and basically the only reason left to go with Oracle is their clustering. No doubt there are places that need that, but it's a pretty small niche.
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MySQL gives you random corruption! Even better than crashing!
If you want actual stability, PostgreSQL and Firebird are better bets.
Nobody outside of Oracle has any idea what their plans are for Inno. Pretty hard to call it a good/bad bet, given this.
if you have a db with a few TB of data, and some complex queries going on, it would be pretty impressive to serve 8 pps.
now, I'm sure rubyforge isn't at that level, but from what I remember about the SF code base, I doubt it's trivial either.
I hope I never have to maintain any database you're responsible for...
Does MySQL5 make their default table type ACIDic, or do you still have to use InnoDB if you want that?
It seems silly (well, dangerous) to have triggers, etc. without transactions, so I'm inclined to think they finally went ACID. But if that's the case, who cares if Oracle bought Inno, so I'm inclined to think they didn't.
Anyone actually know?
they never are, though.
it's probably more like "8 hits per second for 8 hours; 1 hps for 16."
which is still a joke for static content, but for dynamic, it's respectable.
Right, because one person's opinion is always more convincing than looking at the facts. At least if you're already predisposed to agree with her.
When you stay "startup," it makes people think they're trying to start a business around this. They're not, at least not from what I read. It's just one guy's project on sourceforge.
Oh yeah. Mine had a 20MB hard disk too, and one 360KB floppy.
All for about $4800!
Objective-C's object system and general philosophy is _very_ smalltalk-ish.
Java is much more "C++ with some warts removed" than an Obj-C derivative. Obj C _is_ a "dynamic, late-binding programming environment." C++ and Java are not.
Self is no more a son of Smalltalk than Java is a son of Obj C. They (Self and Smalltalk) both came out of PARC, but they are very different.
I suspect you have no more idea about what went on at Apple than you do about programming languages, but I can't speak to that myself.
if you maxed it out with a high-end Hercules graphics card and 640KB of ram, you were still a few hundred short of $5k.
it's significantly better.
if you RTFA you'd get some ideas as to why. perl's garbage collector is very, very stupid by comparison.
I wonder.
8.0 introduced "dollar quoting" for people like you who can't figure out that '' is how you escape a quote within SQL single quotes ...and that was released in January.
I'm not sure what they have in mind here, but if that's the direction they're going it's clear why they wouldn't go with MySQL (technical shortcomings aside). PostgreSQL's BSD license makes it much more attractive for Sun, whose CDDL license is incompatible with the GPL, IIANM.
unless he's the chairman or a large stockholder as well as a board member, blaming one for a company's demise is totally bogus.
... but most of them are startups.
:)
So if you're looking for a company where you can hide apathy under layers of bureaucracy AND that cares about you, you're probably out of luck.
Otherwise, it's all upside.
you do realize that profits are the market's way of encouraging innovation and competition, right?
:)
higher profits means more innovation, more competition, and ultimately lower profits until the incentive to compete in that market drops to normal rates.
"economic consequence is the only language they understand."
too bad it's not apparently one you speak.
http://www.enterprisedb.com/
it's basically postgresql with an oracle compatibility layer.
they seem to be doing pretty well.
but the number of places where "when you need Oracle, you need Oracle" is rapidly dwindling.
Features added recently or upcoming in 8.1 (now in beta2) include
- transaction savepoints
- point-in-time recovery
- tablespaces
- bitmapped indexes (actually a better implementation than Oracle's)
- java stored procedures (of course, postgresql has long had perl, python, tcl, etc. SPs)
- replication
Add in that PostgreSQL's core engine has long been about 5x faster than Oracle's (not to mention orders of magnitude easier to set up and administer) and basically the only reason left to go with Oracle is their clustering. No doubt there are places that need that, but it's a pretty small niche.
or if you can hire one.
I imagine a contract to add a small, specific feature like this one would run less than a site license for support from, say, Opera.
P.S. any java runtime new enough to run columba already has Java Web Start. JWS has shipped with all JREs since 1.2, which was released 5+ years ago.
yes, that's about gimpshop
no, it's not about this interview
That really proves his point, doesn't it?
IIANM slashdot is over 6 years old and fink is at least 4.
I'm sure there are better ways to become clinically depressed than maintaining a nontrivial perl codebase, but none comes to mind atm.
people like that don't enjoy doing nothing for a year.