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I've explained this at more length elsewhere in this thread, but the short version is that maple syrup (and maple sugar) were originally a substitute for sugar (which was more expensive, and could not be grown locally in North America), so the "better" grade was that which was most neutral, and had the least "maple" flavor. Once sugar became cheap enough, maple syrup began to be used only when one wanted the maple flavor, but by then the grading was well-established.
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Our company is a big data company. So our amazing engineers are responsible for storing hundreds of millions of pieces of data per week AND also crunching and analyzing that data. So basically we need a system where we can have incredible write and read performance but also a system that is elastic in nature. Most importantly, it has to be available.

Before I go into more details, MongoDB is great for most people who don't have a high transaction volume. It is easy to setup and easy to use. So if you are in this camp, MongoDB is probably a good fit for you.

We did about two months worth of extensive tests in our lab. Basically two things didn't bode well for us. One, the locking killed reading...we just had a hard time keeping the flow of writes and the flow of data to our statistics cluster alive. Yea, you could use replication but that too didn't work too well performance wise. Two, the sharding didn't seem that robust. As the cluster got bigger and bigger, we started noticing the overhead of keeping it up was getting to be too great. Rather than write in detail, I think this article covers some of the scaling issues we experienced:

http://blog.schmichael.com/2011/11/05/failing-with-mongodb/

We finally used a hybrid system. We went with Membase, now CouchBase, to handle immediate storage and we are now implementing Hadoop for our long term storage needs.

P.S. Our entire stack is a KV in nature.
I couldn't agree more with this analysis, with the added addition that the single threaded nature of the JS interpreter can also cause really bad & unexpected performance things to happen.

Most of the people who are excited about mongo, have never used it in a high volume environment, or with a large dataset. We used it for a medium sized app at my last employer, with paid support from 10gen, and everyone on the project walked away wishing we had stayed with a more mature data store.

Of course things work well when traffic is low, everything fits in memory, and there are no shards.
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I've heard of a trading company doing something like this: they parse Bloomberg's news stream for keywords and place orders accordingly.

Not sure they'd be able to connect flood in Taiwan with, say, Seagate stock based on Seagate NOT having plants in TW. Shorting stocks of the companies in electronics industry or some index like NASDAQ is feasible, though.
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Thanks, that's much clearer than the article.

(The article talked about how people always craved the maple flavor, and were concerned about milder plain-sugar substitutes, as its lead-in to the 'truth in labeling'/authenticity-crusade era. That seemed to suggest tht even in 1906, an opposite grading emphasizing 'mapleness' could have taken root. Perhaps the regulators simply made the mistake of using the word 'grade' – implying a quality rank – when really their assessment was only of categories without any inherent preference ordering.)
That's a fair problem, but I think It is true for other products as well and was true for things that we feel very solid today like MySQL. In other words there is a tention between stability and speed of development, a very "hard" tention indeed. It is up to the developers culture and sensibility to balance the two ingredients in the best way.

One of the reasons I don't want to create a company around Redis, but want to stay with VMware forever as an employee developing Redis, is that I don't want development pressures that are not drive by: users, technical arguments. So that I can balance speed of development and stability as I (and the other developers) feel right.

Without direct reference to 10gen I guess this is harder when there is a product-focused company around the product (but I don't know how true this is for 10gen as I don't follow very closely the development and behavior of other NoSQL products).
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The reason I never used Java is that every time I tried to learn it I would get type errors. So in order for my programs to work I needed to constantly define what type things were. The other big problem I had was whenever I tried to follow examples they didn't work because there is an arcane system of importing libraries or knowing some long function name. The language doesn't seem to have any universal functions. You have to import everything. If this changes any of that then I might use it. I really like the idea of programs being able to run on any operating system. Oh one more thing is the eclipse IDE seems to have so many different set ups and ways to download it how can you know which is the right one?
> treating him like some sort of god who invented anything with an on switch

actually, he never invented anything with an on/off switch; he claimed so in one of those 60 minute interviews because it reminded him of death
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While I entirely agree with the thrust of the article, including that his criticism is all-the-more necessary given that poll was of industry professionals, this really points out the weakness in moment-to-moment opinion polls more than anything. Much like day-to-day polling of presidential primary candidates, an even-handed, reflective consideration doesn't seem to be the dominant force in this type of measurement.

To actually consider the point at hand (influence of iOS on the game industry), it's fair to note that this battle is far from concluded. The advance of video games targeting new demographics, as led by the Wii, smartphone and social network games, and how they will play out versus sales of tried-and-true genres on PCs and consoles, is far from over. One could be forgiven an ambiguous stance on the matter.

Personally speaking, as a recently retired gamer (that is, I plumb don't have the time these days), my hat is in the ring with Gabe Newell. Game distribution following a publishing model is flawed, and while the industry is just barely waking up to this, Valve seems to be in the best position to adapt as time goes by.
You do need a computer to act on the information before everyone else has the same information though.
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If MongoDB is unreliable, are services like YC S11 Parse unreliable?
After reading http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3202081 and http://schmichael.com/files/schmongodb/Scaling%20with%20MongoDB%20%28with%20notes%29.pdf

I start to wonder if using services like Parse for your backend is a bad idea?
No, they do not. Some joke DBs had some issues back in the day (MySQL comes to mind) but issues of such importance were solved looong ago.
wow, $690, does Nokia really expect people to shell out that much?
MySQL is a poor analogy because the history of MySQL is very similar to 10gen: a 'hacker' solution originally patched together by people who didn't take their responsibility as database engineers very seriously. It's only after years (decades) of work that MySQL has managed to catch up with database technology of the 80s in terms of reliability and stability (and it still has plenty of issues, as the most recent debacles with 5.5 show.)

On the other hand, commercial vendors like Oracle and open source projects like PostgreSQL recognize their role as database engineers is to first and foremost "do no harm." Ie, the database should never destroy data, period. Bugs that get released that do cause such things can be traced back to issues that are not related to a reckless pursuit of other priorities like performance. Watching the PostgreSQL engineers agonize over data integrity and correctness with any and all features that go out that are meant to improve performance is a re-assuring sight to behold.

This priority list goes without saying for professional database engineers. That there is such a 'tension' between stability and speed says less about a real phenomenon being debated by database engineers and more about the fact that many people who call themselves database engineers have about as much business doing so as so-called doctors who have not gone to medical school or taken the Hippocratic oath.
This is a pretty good concrete example of why Kryder's law[1] and related laws are phenomenological observations rather than laws of nature. Good to cite in a slide deck if you need an explicit example of when exponential progress was stopped.

It took something pretty big, and it took a direct hit. For example, Moore's law itself looks to have continued without noticeable interruption [2] through Katrina, the financial crisis, and the Japanese tsunami.

But now, for the first time in recent memory, real storage costs will be increasing rather than decreasing for a fairly prolonged period. Fortunately, the knowledge required to resume the exponential curve after these floods remains undamaged.

[1] Moore's Law for storage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Kryder#Kryder.27s_Law

[2] Moore's law through 2011: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Transistor_Count_and_Moore...
I've had version 1.6, if I remember correctly, just lose half my data with no warning, so I can believe this.

The fact that the 32-bit version also truncated data with no warning doesn't make me hopeful, either.
Reality distortion field in effect? I dare say Gates should be higher on the list than Jobs.

Influential products results are just ridiculous also. PS2 for me, 150 million consoles and 1.5 billion games sold over 10+ years. Pong, Atari 2600 and SNES deserve honorable mentions.
Thank you for the clarification.

The article gave me the impression that Grade A was from early in the season, and it is boiled less. Later in the season the sap has less sugar naturally so it is boiled more to concentrate the sugar, which also concentrates the other flavors. That later season sap makes Grade B. Is that the case? In that way grading makes sense, Grade A being more naturally pure, but knowing that it is only based on color throws out the whole point to me. I definitely have had maple syrup I felt had too harsh a flavor, maybe it was Grade B as I'm used to Grade A.
"""And why is there this widely-held obsession that people who don't know your language should be able to tell what your code does (i.e., 'readability')? When will this ever be relevant in the real world?"""

Em, you got it wrong. Readability is not about people "not knowing your language". It's about people knowing your language and having to read your code at a later point.

The problem with a language with poor readability is that it is hard to read even your own code written in it, because the syntax is ambiguous and funky and it involves a large mental overhead.
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That is incorrect, plenty of Apple devices had an on/off switch. The original Macintosh and LaserWriter, to name a few [1][2].

The quote you were referring to:

"ISAACSON: I remember sitting in [Jobs'] backyard in his garden one day and he started talking about God. He said, "Sometimes I believe in God, sometimes I don't. I think it's 50-50 maybe. But ever since I've had cancer, I've been thinking about it more. And I find myself believing a bit more. I kind of-- maybe it's 'cause I want to believe in an afterlife. That when you die, it doesn't just all disappear. The wisdom you've accumulated. Somehow it lives on. The he paused for a second and he said 'yeah, but sometimes I think it's just like an on-off switch. Click and you're gone.' He said—and paused again, and he said, "And that's why I don't like putting on-off switches on Apple devices."

[1] Original Mac on/off switch: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/AnOrigina...

[2] LaserWriter (on/off switch is on the left side): http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/wp-content/gallery/gallery_jo...
But it does 8,000,000 operations per second! http://www.snailinaturtleneck.com/blog/2010/05/05/with-a-nam...

(Sorry, possibly excessive snark. That said, I think that blog post is a good example of one of this pastebin author's points: at least historically, benchmark numbers have been a big focus for Mongo developers.)
Anyone using Mongo currently has to be aware there are likely to be some teething issues as it is very new technology.

I haven't used it in production (yet), but I would have no fear of using it today. I would run regular consistency monitoring and validation around critical data just like I do with our SQL databases.

I'm willing to take my part of the pain and inconvenience in making technology like this stable.

You could have written this about any adolescent SQL server BITD. All the tools you use today had to go through this process.

For me Mongo is awesome and getting more awesome. Mongo and technology like it is the reason I still get excited about writing new apps.
I believe http://wisedameapp.com/ is intended to do something like this.
Hmm, as the parent comment, you too confuse readability of a language with it being readily readable by non-programmers in that language.

Readability describes how clear, concise, non-ambiguous, etc a language's syntax is and also the code one writes is. It's not about sharing your code with others who don't know the language, it's about making actual use and collaboration in the language (in a shared project) better.
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Game theory assumes all agents are rational. They aren't. Pricing popcorn 20% below a competitor may seem like a good idea to a business owner and may indeed sway a consumer to return (people say things like "the ticket is more expensive, but I think the cheaper popcorn is worth it", even though numerically, it isn't)

If there is only some token competition on popcorn prices and there is research showing that that usually doesn't happen in real markets, then that is a pretty strong suggestion they are colluding.
I agree with you but my comments are more about telling what is going on in my opinion, instead of telling what I think should be the right priority list. Even if I agree I still recognize that MySQL had a much bigger effect to the database world compared to PostgreSQL, so the success of a database can sometimes take strange paths.

But I think a major difference between MySQL and Redis, MongoDB, Cassandra, and all the other NoSQL solutions out there is that MySQL had an impressive test bed: all the GPL LAMP applications, from forums to blogs, shipped and users by a shitload of users. We miss this "database gym" so these new databases are evolving in small companies or other more serious production environments, and this creates all the sort of problems if they are not stable enough in the first place.

So what you say can be more important for the new databases than it was for MySQL indeed.
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Macs have the same problem. You can't get a mac without OS X.
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A lot of trolling here, I've never had any issues of missing data. When claiming a db (as big and popular as mongodb) doesn't work, you should include references, company, examples on how to reproduce, etc. Enough said: http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Production+Deployments
This article should be banned for lack of references and examples. For those of you looking to learn mongodb check this out http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Production+Deployments
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I've come to this conclusion myself, for similar reasons. Fighting with software that has been poorly ported to Linux as an afterthought has burned me too many times. The solution is to reverse the flow (and do better.)
Exactly. It would be nice if someday someone realized a language shouldn't be constantly trying to teach the programmer something about computers. The best language would do as much of the work as possible by having a default for everything and by assuming as much as can be assumed. The point is not to reaffirm over and over what a variable is and how it is stored. We should learn that once in a text book and then get some work done. If you are designing programming languages for a living then maybe you should be concerned with that. This is called division of labor.
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Not that I think Steve Jobs was the most influential person in gaming, but it would've been nice if the author had mentioned that Jobs worked for Atari, where he and Woz built Breakout. Also, let's not forget the Apple ][, which was wildly popular with gamers -- Apple sold millions of them, before anyone had a IBM PC.
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Yeah, I haven't looked at what backports has in it right now, but that's certainly a thought. I was thinking Mint might be a "first line" against any breaks that might show up in unstable, but it seems many people are very happy with unstable. I sure don't mind spending a few hours every couple years fixing some breakage - it's worth it for keeping updated. Totally agree about Ubuntu - serious bloat. I'm back in Debian stable right now, and it's incredibly more agile on the same hardware. There's not a thing I miss about Unity, either. Mint, BTW, couldn't install on an LVM/raid setup. Thanks icebraining....
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An old sysadmin going through a career change, spending
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No comment on the second paragraph.

But in all seriousness, a lifestyle of "friends, family, outdoor exploration, and ganja" may not be wholly compatible with the intensity required to build a successful startup.

Given the gaudy valuations and acquisition prices of many YC startups, it might be useful for someone to estimate what the average, median, and max ROIs are for engineers joining YC startups before 10, 20, and 50 employees. Would not be surprised to see mean north of $200k, and median slightly lower. That's the risk profile people are looking for when they join a startup.

Only pg could really do this calculation of course.
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Actually, I was thinking that the whole network of users could be alerted, so people nearby, not just a call-center or 911. As usual, the issue is who to trust and not to trust from the userbase, but it's a problem worth solving - the equivalent of someone screaming for help.
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A much more interesting line of python is

b[:] = a # copy a into b, while b keeps its identity.
And then just perusing anything that shows up in listbugs before an update? Hopefully problems would be noticeable without having to sift through tons of reports. I've never used that before. It's astonishing how many bugs there are in Ubuntu, yet they still release it. They have tended to get them fairly well settled over a span of time, though, after a release. But right now, I'm very happy to be back in Debian stable. It does feel like home. Well, much less cluttered than home, actually. ;)
And yet he makes some good points. Pretty much all of this is verifiable.

I don't agree with a lot of his conclusions, but mostly his data is correct.
Oddly enough, I just bought a 1 TB networked HD for $99: http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-FreeAgent-GoFlex-Home-STAM1000... which seems so far unaffected by the price increases. This leads to the odd situation where it would be cheaper to buy the enclosure, rip the hard drive out and throw the rest in the trash than to buy a naked drive.

edit: even cheaper: http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-FreeAgent-GoFlex-External-STAC... 3TB for $132 compared to $250 for the naked drive.
Check out Guardly. I think they are doing something interesting this space: https://www.guardly.com/
I do not think you do fully realize what that N in NFC stands for. It is near as in 'centimeters'. I would not be surprised if someone cranked that up to miles by using a radio telescope at the other end of the connection and averaging signals over months, but I doubt you can get meters of range through walls in a package that fits inside your house.

Zigbee probably is the best bet for a wireless technology to use here.
In most case, I think 10gen will be able to dispute false claims.

With regard to nomongo's post, 10gen can check their record and say whether they did or didn't have a customer with premium support account with similar use case and issues. 10gen can also counter such complaints with testimonials from customers with similar use cases.

But note that nomongo's post is not about individual issues but about his concern that 10gen's priorities are misplaced which he should have wrote first instead of last. Rest was just about how his concern came about. Current status of technical issues he experienced are irrelevant to his concern.