Huh? the guy said they were unreliable. Does it matter if there isn't another way? Its like calling a pile of rocks an unreliable space ship. Who cares if there isn't another way? The way we're bashing isn't a way to accomplish the necessary task.
Penny wise Pound foolish. Do you use what works best today, fully knowing that it will limit your options in the future, or use something less functional that will be better long term?
Freedom, is not as you have pointed out, an absolute good, but when freedom aligns with the common good, only fools go against it.
Its like Canadian complaining that there isn't any caribou when he visits miami. Obviously the miami supermarkets are crazy to offer so much chicken and so little caribou. How will they ever survive?
No not confusing, equating. In the same way I don't think humans could have suddenly arose directly from a soup of organic stuff, plato couldn't have gone to the moon with out a bunch of technological improvements.
Its called an analogy. Do you like it? I'm also working on something called sarcasm, but I don't think its quite ready yet.
We know that humans have traveled to the moon. Humans similar in biological content to the famous greek philosopher Plato. So, is it possible that Plato traveled to the Moon?
Plato was a smart guy, but he couldn't have landed on the moon. Landing on the moon required us to adapt well enough to a very hospitable environment before we could even reach the moon's harsh landscape. I think We might discover the same is true of life. Its more likely to develop in a very hospitable environment and then over time develop the skills necissiary to thrive in harsher climates. I do think we might be able to transplant our extreme lifeforms to other planets. In the same way a lunar rover would probably do okay on the surface of mars as well.
A) How do we know they have aligned themselves with terrorists? B) What law says that you lose your citizenship if you do?
And of course as everyone else also pointed out: there is a huge difference between individually targeting a specific individual as a target vs more traditional warfare (we're an army shooting at the other guy's army).
Not that I completely agree with them, but I thought the articles said that they thought we were targeting US citizens. My rights as a citizen of the US shouldn't expire with respect to the US government if I leave the country. I'd like to hope the US isn't just waiting for me to step into mexico to snipe me.
In the same way that most people are bad at flying, jumping over the grand canyon, time travel, and teleportation. You determine a set of objective critera to form a test and see what the mean score is. If the mean score is above 50%, then most people are good at that task.
Now, if you'll excuse me I have some tests to administer to some subjects in Arizona.
Yeah, I know. I considered recommending Malbolge, but Brainfuck is the most esoteric language that can actually be programmed on purpose, without having to result to brute force searching for a program that does what you want. It would be easier to be just given a block of data and have to create a turing complete language that interpreted the data as a program that you wanted.
Well, yes, but it really makes the company ( and by inference the employees who work on mobile phones) look bad. Given the choice between what the company has done and apple they choose the competition. Why one earth would anyone outside the company buy a windows phone?
Very true. The best tool is always dependant on the particular application. My whole point in my first reply was essentially saying that the previous post had nothing to do with the story. its not a question of what is the best relational system. But really a question of how much of the relational model can you afford at high volume? These companies were not in absolute need of relational database features. It would have been easier if relational systems could scale as well as nosql systems. The relational model is very nice and has many great features.
And FYI, those companies were not using MyIsam. They were using innodb. There are many situations in which innodb is faster than MyIsam, even if you aren't using transactions, due to non blocking reads.
While insightful and informative in its own right, that isn't a logical response to my post.
He was asking for an alternative to Mysql. I was pointing out that moving from mysql to postgresql was not done by large companies with a lot of smart people working for them, because any performance improvements were not worth it.Postgresql's vertical and horizontal scalability did not represent an improvement over mysql. I didn't even mention vertical vs horizontal scalability. In the end you end up with a raw number saying we can handle X many requests in our total system, regardless of the individual performance numbers of any part of the system.
You're right he probably isn't the lead engineer of flickr and probably doens't need cassandra's power, but I think it really says something that while a lot of these companies are switching away from mysql, they aren't switching towards postgresql. But as always, anyone considering any kind of switch must do their due diligence in assessing the potential performance improvements of any new solution.
Note: Facebook, twitter, digg: they aren't moving to postgreSQL. Its not better enough to make any kind of difference for that kind of a scale. They don't need features, they need speed.
100% of hosting companies do not have twitter, facebook, reddit, or digg as their clients. Its a different market. Mysql does have a competitor in this space called PostgreSQL. Its pretty good. Pretty much every hosting company I would consider doing business with also offers it.
But again, PostgreSQL wouldn't have saved the day for these companies, they've reached a different sector of the market due to their enormous scale.
I mean, there *are* prebuilt blog software packages. Where does the real difference lie between a CRM and a web framework?
Wordpress vs Zend? The wordpress example is even easier: getposts(); Thus proving its the best framework ever!!!!!
Maybe I'm too harsh, but its like expecting a hello world program to be representative of the a programming languages ability. Sometimes it seems like there are all optimized towards creating a blog. Which makes as much sense to be as optimizing a language for hello world.
FYI, I hate hearing money by itself. I really do feel that song loses all of its meaning when played outside the album
But no, the artists can say what they want and choose to sell their art in whatever manner they please. They can also tell you how to enjoy it.
But you. You are obviously not bound by the artists interpretation of their own work. If you disagree with it,agree with it, are apathetic towards the artists interpretation, its still art.
Uhm, these results are being achieved with adult stem cells. Non controversial to anyone. No need for any laws to be changed, they extract stems cells from a person, and inject them back in the place needed.
Yeah, I can. Basically the indexer is indexing things so you can find them faster in the future. How often do you really search for things? I don't search my computer very much at all. So basically indexing everything to reduce the time it takes to find a file from 10 minutes to 10 seconds wouldn't be worth the cpu ( and HD IOPS) it took to achieve that. Plus, it might not be restricting itself to relevant files, and looking at all files. If you could easily specify specific locations and file types to index, that would help as well. If it makes you feel better I do not allow indexing of my email,or use any indexer on my linux machines either. They just universally suck for my usage.
This is more-or-less a feature of the current US health care system.
No, it isn't. If you are a dying homeless man who has never worked a day in your life, you can stumble into an ER and they, by law have to treat you regardless of your ability to pay, usefulness to society, or overall cost. They have to subsidize that lost cost by charging paying patients more.
You can't see the logical conclusion of what you are proposing. It ends up with us like Columbia, minus the cheap cocaine and beautiful women. You don't want what you think you want. To be fair though, most people don't. I shouldn't pick just on the slashdot variant of morality. Its just an odd, disturbing one. Fairness is unfortunately, a relative term in our society, dependent on one's hierarchy of values.
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Yeah, I'm saying it works 0% of the time for me. As well as a pile of rocks works as a space ship.
Huh? the guy said they were unreliable. Does it matter if there isn't another way? Its like calling a pile of rocks an unreliable space ship. Who cares if there isn't another way? The way we're bashing isn't a way to accomplish the necessary task.
Penny wise Pound foolish.
Do you use what works best today, fully knowing that it will limit your options in the future, or use something less functional that will be better long term?
Freedom, is not as you have pointed out, an absolute good, but when freedom aligns with the common good, only fools go against it.
Its like Canadian complaining that there isn't any caribou when he visits miami. Obviously the miami supermarkets are crazy to offer so much chicken and so little caribou. How will they ever survive?
No not confusing, equating. In the same way I don't think humans could have suddenly arose directly from a soup of organic stuff, plato couldn't have gone to the moon with out a bunch of technological improvements.
Its called an analogy. Do you like it? I'm also working on something called sarcasm, but I don't think its quite ready yet.
We know that humans have traveled to the moon. Humans similar in biological content to the famous greek philosopher Plato. So, is it possible that Plato traveled to the Moon?
Plato was a smart guy, but he couldn't have landed on the moon. Landing on the moon required us to adapt well enough to a very hospitable environment before we could even reach the moon's harsh landscape. I think We might discover the same is true of life. Its more likely to develop in a very hospitable environment and then over time develop the skills necissiary to thrive in harsher climates. I do think we might be able to transplant our extreme lifeforms to other planets. In the same way a lunar rover would probably do okay on the surface of mars as well.
As many others have asked:
A) How do we know they have aligned themselves with terrorists?
B) What law says that you lose your citizenship if you do?
And of course as everyone else also pointed out: there is a huge difference between individually targeting a specific individual as a target vs more traditional warfare (we're an army shooting at the other guy's army).
Not that I completely agree with them, but I thought the articles said that they thought we were targeting US citizens. My rights as a citizen of the US shouldn't expire with respect to the US government if I leave the country. I'd like to hope the US isn't just waiting for me to step into mexico to snipe me.
In the same way that most people are bad at flying, jumping over the grand canyon, time travel, and teleportation. You determine a set of objective critera to form a test and see what the mean score is. If the mean score is above 50%, then most people are good at that task.
Now, if you'll excuse me I have some tests to administer to some subjects in Arizona.
Yeah, I know. I considered recommending Malbolge, but Brainfuck is the most esoteric language that can actually be programmed on purpose, without having to result to brute force searching for a program that does what you want. It would be easier to be just given a block of data and have to create a turing complete language that interpreted the data as a program that you wanted.
Nah, go esoteric or go home.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck
Well, yes, but it really makes the company ( and by inference the employees who work on mobile phones) look bad. Given the choice between what the company has done and apple they choose the competition. Why one earth would anyone outside the company buy a windows phone?
Very true. The best tool is always dependant on the particular application. My whole point in my first reply was essentially saying that the previous post had nothing to do with the story. its not a question of what is the best relational system. But really a question of how much of the relational model can you afford at high volume? These companies were not in absolute need of relational database features. It would have been easier if relational systems could scale as well as nosql systems. The relational model is very nice and has many great features.
And FYI, those companies were not using MyIsam. They were using innodb. There are many situations in which innodb is faster than MyIsam, even if you aren't using transactions, due to non blocking reads.
While insightful and informative in its own right, that isn't a logical response to my post.
He was asking for an alternative to Mysql. I was pointing out that moving from mysql to postgresql was not done by large companies with a lot of smart people working for them, because any performance improvements were not worth it.Postgresql's vertical and horizontal scalability did not represent an improvement over mysql. I didn't even mention vertical vs horizontal scalability. In the end you end up with a raw number saying we can handle X many requests in our total system, regardless of the individual performance numbers of any part of the system.
You're right he probably isn't the lead engineer of flickr and probably doens't need cassandra's power, but I think it really says something that while a lot of these companies are switching away from mysql, they aren't switching towards postgresql. But as always, anyone considering any kind of switch must do their due diligence in assessing the potential performance improvements of any new solution.
Note: Facebook, twitter, digg: they aren't moving to postgreSQL. Its not better enough to make any kind of difference for that kind of a scale. They don't need features, they need speed.
There will be no order, only chaos.
100% of hosting companies do not have twitter, facebook, reddit, or digg as their clients. Its a different market. Mysql does have a competitor in this space called PostgreSQL. Its pretty good. Pretty much every hosting company I would consider doing business with also offers it. But again, PostgreSQL wouldn't have saved the day for these companies, they've reached a different sector of the market due to their enormous scale.
This is why I'm highly selective about my friends.
I mean, there *are* prebuilt blog software packages. Where does the real difference lie between a CRM and a web framework?
Wordpress vs Zend? The wordpress example is even easier: getposts(); Thus proving its the best framework ever!!!!!
Maybe I'm too harsh, but its like expecting a hello world program to be representative of the a programming languages ability. Sometimes it seems like there are all optimized towards creating a blog. Which makes as much sense to be as optimizing a language for hello world.
Why is every framework example about demonstrating how to create a blog?
FYI, I hate hearing money by itself. I really do feel that song loses all of its meaning when played outside the album
But no, the artists can say what they want and choose to sell their art in whatever manner they please. They can also tell you how to enjoy it.
But you. You are obviously not bound by the artists interpretation of their own work. If you disagree with it,agree with it, are apathetic towards the artists interpretation, its still art.
I'm really interested in information inside of files. So, although a cool solution, doesn't sound very useful to me.
Uhm, these results are being achieved with adult stem cells. Non controversial to anyone. No need for any laws to be changed, they extract stems cells from a person, and inject them back in the place needed.
Yeah, I can. Basically the indexer is indexing things so you can find them faster in the future. How often do you really search for things? I don't search my computer very much at all. So basically indexing everything to reduce the time it takes to find a file from 10 minutes to 10 seconds wouldn't be worth the cpu ( and HD IOPS) it took to achieve that. Plus, it might not be restricting itself to relevant files, and looking at all files. If you could easily specify specific locations and file types to index, that would help as well. If it makes you feel better I do not allow indexing of my email ,or use any indexer on my linux machines either. They just universally suck for my usage.
No, it isn't. If you are a dying homeless man who has never worked a day in your life, you can stumble into an ER and they, by law have to treat you regardless of your ability to pay, usefulness to society, or overall cost. They have to subsidize that lost cost by charging paying patients more.
You can't see the logical conclusion of what you are proposing. It ends up with us like Columbia, minus the cheap cocaine and beautiful women. You don't want what you think you want. To be fair though, most people don't. I shouldn't pick just on the slashdot variant of morality. Its just an odd, disturbing one. Fairness is unfortunately, a relative term in our society, dependent on one's hierarchy of values.