I really do think that, as time wears on, we will see more of these incidents of people switching from Node to another, more familiar development environment. It seems to me that a lot of people started using Node…
My apologies. I never intended anyone to take the Discovery Institute paper as anything more than just a casual study of the subject (by a biased party). I certainly did not want to present it as academically rigorous…
"I understand that sheltering them from the real world is not your motivation for this opinion, but it is the reality of what will happen. Your kids will miss out on a huge period of personal growth and a large…
Every day, I start up a computer running OS X. Then, I proceed to fire up virtual machines for two Linux distributions, Windows XP, and Windows 7. I occasionally play around with a headless system that I have running…
This graph is completely useless. It is looking at relative Google search query volume. Of course Node.js search queries are rising. There is a lot of noise being made about the platform, the platform is relatively…
I have to apologize. I fat-fingered the down vote when I originally meant to up vote your original comment. I think that my mistaken down vote was the one that initially sent your comment into the gray. This was…
Maybe I'm just weird, but all of this drama around a database does not make much sense to me. To me, it is simple. Do your research: * Go to https://jira.mongodb.org/ and look at the issues * Read the documentation at…
At the risk of losing karma, I have to say that I think this entire thread has really gone way too far. Guys, this is HACKER NEWS. I thought we were supposed to hold ourselves to a higher standard of conversation over…
Overpopulation is a hard problem. There are complex socioeconomic reasons for why some countries have higher fertility rates than others. This is a heavily studied topic in health economics, but I am unwell right now…
It's gotta be a slow day on hacker news when this is at the top page. (Or, is this being upvoted because it is Cringely.) An entire article about web development past, present, and future without a single mention of…
The link in the parent is https, try this regular http link if you can't read the article: http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/6/317
Am I the only one that considers all of this ranting about Nodejs to be a little bit strange? I would have never expected a post that was obviously a troll to prompt this much of a reaction on both sides of an issue.…
This is a good presentation. It is a good demonstration that there is no magic bullet for database scalability problems. I love NoSQL as much as the next person, but turning straight to NoSQL when you are faced with…
I started with Drupal around the time version 4.7 came out, and I always thought that the project would have done better for itself by focusing more on its potential as a framework rather than a CMS. Drupal has always…
Since this is Hacker News, and there are a lot of really smart, numbers-oriented people here, I just thought I'd provide a link to a dataset that looks at income distributions within the US from 1913 to 2008:…
The problem the USPS is having is not about prefunding pensions and pension plans. Their problem is that they are required to fund future employee health care benefits. No other company in America - public or private -…
> "means that they're the only govt institution that isn't a timebomb of future obligations" This was the spirit in which the requirement was enacted. I completely agree with the idea. My problem with this line of…
If you enjoyed reading that, then perhaps you would enjoy reading a book that has come to occupy a treasured space on my shelf: http://www.amazon.com/Science-Technology-World-History-Intro... The authors provide an…
Why is this being upvoted? This article begins with a questionable premise and then descends straight into misinformation. The problems in the USPS did not begin with email. They began with a highly questionable…
"Then go check the SEC filings." Which ones? There are quite a few companies in the finance industry. If we are going to paint them as good guys and bad guys, then it is important to note that those are subjective…
"Who gets to decide what the right outcomes are and whether they are efficient?" Whether or not an outcome is "right" is subjective, and is more in the field of law and philosophy than economics. Whether or not an…
The techniques in mobile web development are still young. A general knowledge of how to build a site for mobile interfaces has not come around yet. For now, it is understandable that you will see some imitation of…
I appreciate your thoughtful reply. While I am making the transition to a web developer at the moment, I have a graduate degree in Economics and I have spent some time working in the investment industry (Main St, not…
And this is why more web developers need to be aware of and use things like jQuery Mobile: http://jquerymobile.com/ If you look at the platforms list on that page, you will see that you can actually use this framework…
Dr. Taleb's book, Black Swan, was a truly interesting treatment of long-tail statistical events and how humans perceive said events. It is unfortunate to see him indulging in so much hand waving in this article. "For…
I really do think that, as time wears on, we will see more of these incidents of people switching from Node to another, more familiar development environment. It seems to me that a lot of people started using Node…
My apologies. I never intended anyone to take the Discovery Institute paper as anything more than just a casual study of the subject (by a biased party). I certainly did not want to present it as academically rigorous…
"I understand that sheltering them from the real world is not your motivation for this opinion, but it is the reality of what will happen. Your kids will miss out on a huge period of personal growth and a large…
Every day, I start up a computer running OS X. Then, I proceed to fire up virtual machines for two Linux distributions, Windows XP, and Windows 7. I occasionally play around with a headless system that I have running…
This graph is completely useless. It is looking at relative Google search query volume. Of course Node.js search queries are rising. There is a lot of noise being made about the platform, the platform is relatively…
I have to apologize. I fat-fingered the down vote when I originally meant to up vote your original comment. I think that my mistaken down vote was the one that initially sent your comment into the gray. This was…
Maybe I'm just weird, but all of this drama around a database does not make much sense to me. To me, it is simple. Do your research: * Go to https://jira.mongodb.org/ and look at the issues * Read the documentation at…
At the risk of losing karma, I have to say that I think this entire thread has really gone way too far. Guys, this is HACKER NEWS. I thought we were supposed to hold ourselves to a higher standard of conversation over…
Overpopulation is a hard problem. There are complex socioeconomic reasons for why some countries have higher fertility rates than others. This is a heavily studied topic in health economics, but I am unwell right now…
It's gotta be a slow day on hacker news when this is at the top page. (Or, is this being upvoted because it is Cringely.) An entire article about web development past, present, and future without a single mention of…
The link in the parent is https, try this regular http link if you can't read the article: http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/6/317
Am I the only one that considers all of this ranting about Nodejs to be a little bit strange? I would have never expected a post that was obviously a troll to prompt this much of a reaction on both sides of an issue.…
This is a good presentation. It is a good demonstration that there is no magic bullet for database scalability problems. I love NoSQL as much as the next person, but turning straight to NoSQL when you are faced with…
I started with Drupal around the time version 4.7 came out, and I always thought that the project would have done better for itself by focusing more on its potential as a framework rather than a CMS. Drupal has always…
Since this is Hacker News, and there are a lot of really smart, numbers-oriented people here, I just thought I'd provide a link to a dataset that looks at income distributions within the US from 1913 to 2008:…
The problem the USPS is having is not about prefunding pensions and pension plans. Their problem is that they are required to fund future employee health care benefits. No other company in America - public or private -…
> "means that they're the only govt institution that isn't a timebomb of future obligations" This was the spirit in which the requirement was enacted. I completely agree with the idea. My problem with this line of…
If you enjoyed reading that, then perhaps you would enjoy reading a book that has come to occupy a treasured space on my shelf: http://www.amazon.com/Science-Technology-World-History-Intro... The authors provide an…
Why is this being upvoted? This article begins with a questionable premise and then descends straight into misinformation. The problems in the USPS did not begin with email. They began with a highly questionable…
"Then go check the SEC filings." Which ones? There are quite a few companies in the finance industry. If we are going to paint them as good guys and bad guys, then it is important to note that those are subjective…
"Who gets to decide what the right outcomes are and whether they are efficient?" Whether or not an outcome is "right" is subjective, and is more in the field of law and philosophy than economics. Whether or not an…
The techniques in mobile web development are still young. A general knowledge of how to build a site for mobile interfaces has not come around yet. For now, it is understandable that you will see some imitation of…
I appreciate your thoughtful reply. While I am making the transition to a web developer at the moment, I have a graduate degree in Economics and I have spent some time working in the investment industry (Main St, not…
And this is why more web developers need to be aware of and use things like jQuery Mobile: http://jquerymobile.com/ If you look at the platforms list on that page, you will see that you can actually use this framework…
Dr. Taleb's book, Black Swan, was a truly interesting treatment of long-tail statistical events and how humans perceive said events. It is unfortunate to see him indulging in so much hand waving in this article. "For…