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One reason if you are building a shippable product that needs to work with a variety of client databases rather than a choice of your own.

99% of the time, this is why you build DB agnostic apps.
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I recall google doing something like that after introducing G+.
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As long as you want to, my friend. As long as you want to.
Wow time flies, had no idea it had launched already, yet alone a year ago - thanks for correcting me.
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On Windows many new desktop applications are now being done in C# actually.

In the game industry, the game development tools which used to be developed in C++/MFC are now being coded in C#.

Microsoft is hiring compiler developers to implement native code compilation in their C#, if you search their careers portal.

Before Mac OS X, open source was also unheard of at Apple, if it wasn't for their despair at the time and the NeXTStep team, I am not sure if Apple would have so much open source projects.
I see it as a major success story.

Postgres was developed over a long period of time with careful attention to architecture, robustness, and extensibility. It also focused on both external and internal documentation and cleanliness. And, it followed the traditional database system model with a cost-based optimizer and everything else.

As a result, we see a very robust developer community. It's a real machine -- churning out high quality releases every year with a great mix of newsworthy features. Enterprises and startups alike are flocking to postgres for a huge variety of use cases.

Slow and steady wins the race (and it doesn't hurt to be 5 tons and have tusks) and isn't tired afterward. And in databases, it's good to play for the long term because that's how long the data will last.

I wouldn't trade that for some first-to-market popularity.
I think he wasn't very good. He was obviously underprepared, or he would have had a couple of nicely phrased questions in his head. For a media professional, he was just too inarticulate.
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The primary target audience for hacker-to-hacker Postgres evangelism is MySQL users. Because let's face it, the choice for DBs like Oracle is usually made upstairs, and for very different reasons.

So why do Postgres advocates insist on dissing MySQL with false and misleading arguments? The usual target is some default settings, when obviously there are three kinds of MySQL users: the ones that actually have a reason to want less strictness, the ones that know how and when to change the settings, and the ones that just don't give a fuck.

You're not going to convince the latter until you are #1, and you're insulting the intelligence of the first two, whilst also making them question whether the arguments in favor of Postgres are actually true, since you're not being particularly honest in your criticism of MySQL.

And you're wondering why Postgres doesn't get any more love?

Most MySQL users are well aware that Postgres is technically a better DB. They mostly (right or wrong) feel MySQL serves their needs sufficiently, and are not particularly attracted to an open source community with such a douchy attitude.

If even Oracle doesn't scare people of sufficiently to jump ship and switch to a better, free and open database, you've got a serious image problem. Stop blaming it on other people's "stupidity".
When I read this, I see my old YC2010 startup NewsLabs/NewsTilt. I maintain that was a good idea, but I wasn't the one to do it. My lessons are at http://blog.paulbiggar.com/archive/why-we-shut-newstilt-down, and it looks like Dustin has a handle on most of it.

Dustin has a lot that we didn't - a good sense of design, a large following, writers already contributing, and from the look of this, some cash. We had writers too, but they were checking out the latest fad, not actually writing for their own purposes. We didnt have the followers/brand awareness to bootstrap traffic - I think svbtle does.

I think he's doing some of the things which for us were mistakes, but they might not be in the context of svbtle. For example, we also made our own CMS instead of using wordpress. That was definitely a mistake for us, but I'm not convinced it is here - could go either way.

He's making the branding all about svbtle instead of about the journalist. That was definitely a mistake for us, again I'm not positive it is a mistake here - svbtle actually has a brand (even if some people think its a pretentious one).

He's making it about journalism instead of about blogging. I think that's a mistake. Journalism is a horrible niche to be in and I would hate to be a journalist. It has expectation of journalistic purity and a hypocritical hype machine around traffic. Better to be a blog network - I think it's closer to what svbtle is now and I believe that has the potential to be bigger than just journalism.

We werent motivated by journalism - I've never heard of Dustin being either. I think he made svbtle to be a better blog, so why not focus on that? I could be wrong here - I dont know Dustin well at all.

I think they're aiming for the right level of writer - definitely those who want to make something for themselves. We didnt: http://blog.paulbiggar.com/archive/why-we-shut-newstilt-down...

Anyway, this looks like it might work. I cringe when I read about it because it brings back the awful memories of a failed startup, but I could see this succeeding. Best of luck Dvstin!
I think Ruby does a pretty good job with this, as far as an object oriented main stream language goes. For example, the switch case example from the article can be implemented in ruby as
case n:
when 1: "one"
when 2: "two"

etc, and the entire construct can be assigned to a variable because it is an expression.

As an aside, ruby 1.9 also supports generic predicates for case statements through lambdas, which is very concise and powerful. Example: https://gist.github.com/838163, source: http://flazz.me/predicates-in-ruby-case-statements
Yes, I do. I said "in my experience" and I totally understand why Heruku is offering PostgreSQL and not DB2, Oracle or SQL Server as a service.

Amazon RDS started with MySQL, and only two years later Oracle support was added. SQL Server three years later.
And should we expect this system which seems to work so great for management consultants to be the best system for organizing tens of thousands of employees developing software products composed of tens of millions of lines of code shipping to billions of customers?
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I fail to understand the step where the other end takes offense. It's almost like underpant gnomes:
1. Big boobs in code.
2. ?????
3. Offended people.

What's that stage?

Big boobs are a fact of everyday life. If for some reason their mention casts such strong emotions, perhaps there are deep problems in the workplace culture. Art lets you expose that. But art is not a source of those hypothetical problems, rather than reactions to it are merely indicators.

I don't say people should be more relaxed. People should get better; It usually involves them getting a little worse first. Force them to reflect. Force them to negotiate peace with their sexuality and their environment.
These type of restrictions are exactly what Linux's AppArmor (as well as SELinux, etc) do.

I'm not sure what profile Firefox runs under, but what you suggested would be quite reasonable, though maybe not as default -- You probably want to be able to "save as" to an arbitrary directory, and open files for upload from anywhere too. Though since both of those involve a user dialog, that could easily be a secondary application with its own profile that uses IPC/shared memory/something to pass data to the browser. Smaller target attack area.
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I'd be curious about this. I can't believe it's true. Besides that, it's very easy to very quickly appoint an interim CEO from within. Look how quickly Scott Thompson was replaced by Ross Levinsohn.
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Well OUYA is meant more for indie developers than big studios, so that might help.
Maybe more people should question the involvement of fathers in their children's life, as to start to make it important in the culture's view? It goes both ways - keeping quiet, and of making noise.
Well, 2 years was just off the cuff. The aim is to allow companies to innovate, and get benefits from that innovation and from disclosing that innovation.

I was ignoring all the paperwork stuff before the device goes to market, so this two years is from product launch. Maybe that's a little bit short.

Another idea is to only allow patent protections for active products. Thus, if you're making and selling a widget you can use patents; but if you made and tried to sell a widget, and failed, you cannot sit on the patent for years and extract money from anyone who comes after you who is selling a different widget that happens to infringe a patent you own.

I don't know - I recognise the need to protect the hard work that people do, and to give them incentives to innovate, and to reward them for releasing those innovations to the public, but the current system is now thoroughly broken.

I also recognise there's considerable bias in the reporting. Maybe there are some small inventors who use patents for what they're meant for.
Based on Google's culture (or what I have heard about it), I don't think this is surprising.

It also lets her get introduced to the people at Yahoo! who have ideas, those that are still passionate about the company, and those that will make a difference.
I'd love to sit at home cook food, and take care of kids if my future wife wants to take of everything else(Money, security etc).

That will give me a great deal of time to hack, play video games and practice my harmonica.
If you'd like to give Postgres a serious shot, I'd recommend taking a look at Citus: http://citusdata.com/. It's a distributed database forked from Postgres, and can easily handle billions of rows in realtime for certain use-cases. We use it at MixRank to store and run analytics on for ads we crawl in the internet (a respectable amount of data), and it handles extremely well. (Full disclosure: I know the Citus team well).

I've also pushed Postgres to its limits and suspect you'd be able to make it work with that much data, though I wouldn't consider it a trivial exercise executing that transition on a production system. If you're seriously considering it though, feel free to reach out via the email in my profile.
"What are the scaling differences between MySQL and
PostgreSQL?"

The best advice I have is that using a different database system, particularly ones as different as MySQL and PostgreSQL (which are essentially opposites) is like going to a foreign country. You'll find things you like and things that you don't like, and it will have a real impact on your quality of life, but it's hard to say in a few words the things that will really matter to you. You don't have time to live in every country in the world, but you owe it to yourself to at least visit a few that come highly recommended.

Whatever you do, don't try to make the new country into your old country. You will just be disappointed.

The same goes for database systems.
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Not to mention that, until things began to fall apart, Nokia sold plenty more phones than Samsung and had their own economies of scale to build on.
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"Among many 'radical' policies, Semler let his employees set their own hours, design their workplace, choose their own IT, share all information and have no secrets. Every six months bosses are evaluated by their subordinates and the results are posted. Semco has a policy of complete internal financial openness, even teaching factory workers how to read accounts so they can understand the company's books. Salaries are public information unless the employee requests they not be published. In addition, all employees can set their own salary."

As of 2003, they had 3000 employees and was growing at 40% a year. No idea how they're doing now.
It may also help to look at it as: stagnating Google employee #20, passed over for promotion, spites Google by taking job at a competitor.
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The main reason to do that is licensing. You either need to get a redistribution license, or the client needs to work out their own licensing deal -- and either way, you don't want to be beholden when negotiation time comes.

That also applies to MySQL, because it's GPL.

That does not apply to Postgres, because you can just ship it with the app.

I exaggerated a little, there certainly are times when you just don't care what database system you use and would rather have simple migrations at the expense of owning more code. But I think these reasons are weighted much too highly, particularly in the context of postgres.
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Would Kara Swisher please openly admit she has a grudge against Yahoo? And I thought HN wouldn't promote such blatantly passive-aggressive articles to the front page. I thought this is a place for intelligent, well-reasoned debate. Oh well, now I know better.
I had to use Postgres at a job or about 6 months and hated it due to lack of a decent GUI. The "official" one has many bugs and quirks and takes quite a bit of getting used to especially after coming from phpMyAdmin. So it's nice to see there is now an .app for it.
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I love this thread: it's populated either by founders of Manu's portfolio companies, or entrepreneurs who pitched him and got valuable advice instead. I fall into both categories: the former in my current company, the latter in my previous one.

I think anyone who knows Manu can attest that a great investor provides so much more than money. In fact, this is part of his investment thesis, and, in my opinion, helps to explain why his first fund was such a success.

So if you're raising your seed round and you haven't talked with Manu, you should be asking yourself: why?
It is fun to see this memo, but it does not tell me anything useful. I will be looking for three key things that will determine a lot about how Marissa's tenure will go.

1. When she starts actually changing things, what changes will she make? The importance of this is obvious?

2. Who is going to follow her from Google? Sure, she's not allowed to solicit, but people are allowed to solicit her. Good execs usually have a core follow them to a new position, and this core is essential to any possibility of success. (For an extreme and unlikely example, if Jeff Dean were to follow her, I'd buy Yahoo stock immediately, even if I had to borrow money to do it.)

3. What will motherhood take out of her? Like a lot of high-powered women, she appears to think of motherhood as being something she can limit and compartmentalize. Judging from the experience of other new parents that I have known, and my memories of my own children, she's in for a shock. What will the impact be? (She may or may not succeed in hiding it.)
That may be so but when selling software to large enterprises then .NET really helps. I think I would be safe in saying that most enterprises will have Windows OS somewhere in the data center. We've just built a product from the ground-up using MVC 4 (yes, beta) and it is just about to ship -- plenty of pre-orders already and the IT Police just let's us "in".

.NET is the only way I would personally want to go when targeting large enterprises with products.
Doing something with a gun at your head is, I imagine, pretty hard. Imagine something you do with muscle memory every day - maybe typing fast or editor keyboard shortcuts or somesuch. Now deprive you of sleep, and food, and make you anxious, and then have someone with a gun at your head. Are you still going to be typing as fast? With the same error rate? Are you going to be making the same keyboard shortcuts?

Having said all that, I agree it's a valid risk.

But it's extreme. Other risks are interesting to look at.

The game produces one stream of output mixed from one unique (to each player) log in sequence and some random data. So recording many streams would seem to make the real sequence available, and now you just need to simulate the player response to that input. Analysis of sound is an established technology now, having had considerable investment and research because of its military technology. Recording the sound of keystrokes (of type writers, some printers, computer keyboards) can produce accurate transcripts of what has been written.

Having said all that, I am glad that there are people researching this stuff. It's a bizarrely under-researched gap in security.

And the underlying idea seems reasonable enough. I have a few passwords that I can enter if I'm in front of my keyboard, but give me a different keyboard and I'd struggle.
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> usual target is some default settings

for me it would be missing common table expressions, weak implementation of functions and SPs (recursion) and horrible .NET connector (connections dying, int can get returned as byte[]). And I'm not even mentioning the gazillions of advanced features that pgsql (and Oracle or SQL Server) has that mysql doesn't.
Terribly misleading title.
The reason the extension 'breaks sites' is because an alarming number of sites are happy to serve unsecure content all over the place. See the refernece to New York Times in the original article for an example.
> Active Directory and Outlook are supposed to be awful, but there is still nothing I see that I could replace them with. (I might be wrong, I haven't been looking at it lately)

Things like Google apps and other web based mail and calendering services. Employees can accessed them from their Android and iOS devices. And IT people don't have to manage it all.
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> Cuil didn't die because people were "too lazy to switch to something new." It died because among the few who did know what Cuil was, opinions ranged from "disappointment" to "laughingstock".

Cuil died the day it was announced. They went live with a great PR fanfare and a corrupted index, everyone marginally interested in it saw it when it was broken, which is how it got its reputation as a laughing stock.
> Any company that ships values QA.

This is factually untrue.

I have worked at three companies that ship, and watched close friends at a dozen others. A few didn't value QA at all, and allocate zero resources. A few genuinely value QA and allocate significant resources. The great majority purport to value it, but spend as little as they can, and treat QA staff very poorly (poor respect, poor tools to do their job, and poor pay).
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I think (s)he is referring to his/her username being green.
It is a lot easier to convince someone who wants to use Oracle to use Postgres than to use Mysql. There is serious commercial support available, and it is built for reliability.
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Since Unity3D already can deploy to Androd platforms I would venture to guess that we will see quite alot of games ready for the launch of Ouya.
But even then, I can't understand why people think that SERVICE X is always on.

Obviously there's a few people who know the up times and down times and make an informed choice.

But many people just assume that it will always work, and who will suffer when that service is not available.

Maybe my early experience of batch processing and unreliable utility supplies and a few experiences of dropped services has taught me, and that other people are living in a world with remarkably good up times and thus don't get the chance to learn that three nines is not six nines.
I've been thinking the same thing. I'm just worried that the culture might be too entrenched for her to change it.
I don't think money motivates her exactly, but being paid less than the next CEO guy would demotivate her (yes, it comes to the same thing and no, her needing less won't force her to pay more taxes). Pecking order in the peer group matters to most people. That said, I think as a group CEOs are overpaid wrt to the value they bring to shareholders, but boards are made of CEOs, which explains why the Gini keeps rising.
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