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   by va_coder 16y ago

   "Helps big companies and the politically-connected" exactly Q: Why can't I set up my family's income as a charity? I'll give away 1% of earnings. A: Because I can't afford lawyers, politicians and accountants to protect me when the governm
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   by va_coder 16y ago

   First off, how do you download Clustrix? With MongoDB, simple as pie: http://www.mongodb.org/downloads Now, where are the docs? Again, Mongo has great docs http://wiki.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Home How can I verify your claims? Oh that'
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   by va_coder 16y ago

   understood I like how you mentioned frameworks like RoR that have XSRF prevention built in. Not enough security talks mention things like that.
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   by va_coder 16y ago

   Do you work on projects as a programmer where the project has rich ui requirements and tight deadlines? I ask this because your advice not to use Javascript is, to me, completely unrealistic.
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   by va_coder 16y ago

   :!git commit -m "change"
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   by va_coder 16y ago

   ..and old people on fixed income.
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   by va_coder 16y ago

   This is very cool. Unfortunately browsers in many corporate environments don't support this or springy.
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   by va_coder 16y ago

   There needs to be balance. God knows we don't have that in the U.S.A these days. But maybe we only have ourselves to blame. My grandfather, with no education, came from Italy had 3 kids a stay at home wife and a home. I on the hand am ver
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   by va_coder 16y ago

   "I'd love to know why people choose Mongo over say, Riak, or CouchDB" Here are some reasons: * excellent documentation * runs right out of the box * excellent libraries like Mongoid * user can easily perform deep queries (e.g person.address
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    by va_coder 16y ago

    Thanks for the link
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    by va_coder 16y ago

    This would make an awesome android app
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    by va_coder 16y ago

    Why Ruby? is a pretty damn good presentation. He talks about how the benefits include the culture, as well as the language. http://ontwik.com/ruby/david-hansson-why-ruby/
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    by va_coder 16y ago

    To them you have inferior skills in marketing or management or finance or operations, etc. The older I get the more I realise how valuable marketing, finance, team building etc is to the success of an organisation. That should humble you.
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    by va_coder 16y ago

    I don't know about you guys but I'm already seeing Facebook looking more like MySpace in the sense that a lot of people got on, but I see less and less usage by most people in my circle. Of course a few people use it heavily, but the m
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    by va_coder 16y ago

    After using MongoDB with Mongoid I strongly disagree with the premise that over the next 5 years SQL databases will be the default and NoSql limited to certain niches. And I know SQL better than most. Alter table ... or db:migrate no more
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    by va_coder 16y ago

    With AppEngine at Google, MongoDB at Disqus, Cassandra at Facebook and Redis at Github you can definitely say that SQL databases are one of many options available today and don't dominate like they did 5 years ago.
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    by va_coder 16y ago

    That's totally worth reading
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    by va_coder 16y ago

    Thanks for the post. Anybody know if there is a good place on the Web where people can be honest about what it's like to work at specific companies?
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    by va_coder 16y ago

    I wonder why a Python/C/Linux mobile environment isn't here that could replace both Android and ChromeOS? I'm going to assume if there's silence it's already being done in stealth mode.
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    by va_coder 16y ago

    And not everyone was using xdoclet. One lesson from that fiasco: Just because all the giants of the day are supporting something doesn't mean it's any good.
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    by va_coder 16y ago

    AFAIK server-side JVM solutions are ok, but if you have dreams of shipping an appliance like solution to customers you may well have problems with Oracle. Although, steering clear of Oracle-anything is a top priority of mine as well.
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    by va_coder 16y ago

    The story remains the same: A few folks got really rich and the rest of us paid for it through taxes, inflation, higher home prices etc.
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    by va_coder 16y ago

    Are Chrome tablets coming out?
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    by va_coder 16y ago

    My Roku box runs Netflix and I believe Roku is Linux.
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    by va_coder 16y ago

    I don't see this in the matrix: Has the business skill to figure out the technical needs of the organization, and the political skill and motivation to introduce and deploy changes as needed.
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    by va_coder 16y ago

    map reduce for a blog - brilliant! now in the real world: select data from this_table and this_table and this_table and that_table where there was no previously defined relationship but users need this data with the new relati
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    by va_coder 16y ago

    In Washington DC, the nations capital, there's only Verizon and Comcast, as far as I know.
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    by va_coder 16y ago

    It's so good it's scary. In 5 minutes I added a ton of friends and reviews.
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    by va_coder 16y ago

    The Hadoop book gives lots of insights into the internals of Hadoop. But if you want to get started quickly you might be better off just reading a quick guide ( http://www.michael-noll.com/wiki/Running_Hadoop_On_Ubuntu_Li... ) and using the
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    by va_coder 16y ago

    Won't mobile phones soon be powerful enough to run OpenJDK SE? Will this matter in one year?