This is obvious if you took a DB course, and if you didn't, you have no business building a DB. Sadly, all the NoSQL junkware was built by people who didn't.
The example is flawed -- if there is an exception incurred before or during the sending of the email, the operation will be erroneously marked as "cancelled" without having completed all of the cancellation flow.…
What a self-indulgent writeup. The article came nowhere near answering the central question: what are the devs doing other than constantly changing the name of the project and how is this thing better than gimp.
Good riddance to these tools because this technique, of relying on embedded strings in the code, is inherently insecure and unreliable. You can only really on it when you know you can trust the build, and yet they are…
Thanks for the clarification. On a related note do you understand where the X.509 Name Constraints effort sits? Which, if any, browsers implement it? If it's not 100%, do you know why browsers are hesitant to deploy it?
The author seems to be ranting that nobody stores rainbow tables, they are computed on demand. So, big whoop. Why should the NYT care about how the tables are stored or not stored? There are people with really large…
Since it takes a while to digest the report after having seen it, chances are that they were in possession of the report far earlier than T-400ms but waited until they were in a time window where they knew the…
If a data store touted as fault-tolerant isn't fault-tolerant, it's broken.
These articles invariably end in "does not follow" fallacies. In this case, he gets his accounts hacked, and his advice is "don't use any cloud-hosted email." Ok, but what evidence have you presented that shows that…
I have mixed feelings about this announcement. On the one hand, I really enjoyed Triumph of the Nerds. On the other, Cringely came off as a self-oriented, egotistical guy (I remember the scene where he threatened the TV…
He does not need to be able to point to an extant, better alternative for his criticisms to be "credible." BTW, I can't believe you're implying that his post is not credible. The practical outcome of your demand for a…
In what entitled universe do you live in where a guy who carefully and patiently points out problems is also obligated to solve every single one of them? Also, do you really need someone to spell out the alternatives to…
LaTeX is the geek's connection to Gutenberg and his legacy. Surely your grandma knows Gutenberg.
Yes, we all follow what you have said, but I see no guarantees offered by Wolfram, the service provider. You can pretend to be offended and avoid the question, but at the end of the day, the assurance you are trying to…
These is non-responsive PR: 1. The PP explicitly says that Wolfram can collect and retain data indefinitely. The FAQ promises a horizon of 1 hour. 1 != ∞. Which of these documents is to be believed? Which of them…
Great, then you can respond to some observations and answer some questions: 1. Your FAQ is at odds with your privacy policy (http://www.wolframalpha.com/privacypolicy.html) which states that you can collect and retain…
It used to be that, in order to get access to someone's rolodex, you'd have to befriend them and do a ton of things with them to maintain that said friendship. And even then, you still had to go through them to take…
Section 1.1 starts out by listing some "principles": availability, reliability, cost, etc. None of these are principles. At a higher level, the main point of the book, a Service Oriented Architecture composed of…
It's strange that when you cite a tweet, MLA wants you to include the tweet contents, whereas for every other citation, they want you to embed just enough info to form a pointer to the actual content. Tweet citations…
Consider the case where the grad student, acting alone and not as part of an officially sanctioned project, invented something awesome using some resources from MIT like an internet connection and lab space. How eager…
Pointlessly awesome. Care to describe why it would make sense to run LaTeX on JS?
I see your legalistic approach to MIT's responsibilities, but this fascination with "endorsement" is missing the point. Universities are not government labs, where you'd expect every participant to clear every activity…
I wonder how much time the OP provided to FB to respond.
Let's not revert to ad hominems so quickly. If you looked through my submissions, you'll see that I explained the problem elsewhere. Here it is again: Imagine two nodes, both initiating updates to the same row. One has…
Imagine two nodes, both initiating updates to the same row. One has observed a number of node additions and deletions. The other has not. They will perform their updates on disjoint sets. > There's not really any…
This is obvious if you took a DB course, and if you didn't, you have no business building a DB. Sadly, all the NoSQL junkware was built by people who didn't.
The example is flawed -- if there is an exception incurred before or during the sending of the email, the operation will be erroneously marked as "cancelled" without having completed all of the cancellation flow.…
What a self-indulgent writeup. The article came nowhere near answering the central question: what are the devs doing other than constantly changing the name of the project and how is this thing better than gimp.
Good riddance to these tools because this technique, of relying on embedded strings in the code, is inherently insecure and unreliable. You can only really on it when you know you can trust the build, and yet they are…
Thanks for the clarification. On a related note do you understand where the X.509 Name Constraints effort sits? Which, if any, browsers implement it? If it's not 100%, do you know why browsers are hesitant to deploy it?
The author seems to be ranting that nobody stores rainbow tables, they are computed on demand. So, big whoop. Why should the NYT care about how the tables are stored or not stored? There are people with really large…
Since it takes a while to digest the report after having seen it, chances are that they were in possession of the report far earlier than T-400ms but waited until they were in a time window where they knew the…
If a data store touted as fault-tolerant isn't fault-tolerant, it's broken.
These articles invariably end in "does not follow" fallacies. In this case, he gets his accounts hacked, and his advice is "don't use any cloud-hosted email." Ok, but what evidence have you presented that shows that…
I have mixed feelings about this announcement. On the one hand, I really enjoyed Triumph of the Nerds. On the other, Cringely came off as a self-oriented, egotistical guy (I remember the scene where he threatened the TV…
He does not need to be able to point to an extant, better alternative for his criticisms to be "credible." BTW, I can't believe you're implying that his post is not credible. The practical outcome of your demand for a…
In what entitled universe do you live in where a guy who carefully and patiently points out problems is also obligated to solve every single one of them? Also, do you really need someone to spell out the alternatives to…
LaTeX is the geek's connection to Gutenberg and his legacy. Surely your grandma knows Gutenberg.
Yes, we all follow what you have said, but I see no guarantees offered by Wolfram, the service provider. You can pretend to be offended and avoid the question, but at the end of the day, the assurance you are trying to…
These is non-responsive PR: 1. The PP explicitly says that Wolfram can collect and retain data indefinitely. The FAQ promises a horizon of 1 hour. 1 != ∞. Which of these documents is to be believed? Which of them…
Great, then you can respond to some observations and answer some questions: 1. Your FAQ is at odds with your privacy policy (http://www.wolframalpha.com/privacypolicy.html) which states that you can collect and retain…
It used to be that, in order to get access to someone's rolodex, you'd have to befriend them and do a ton of things with them to maintain that said friendship. And even then, you still had to go through them to take…
Section 1.1 starts out by listing some "principles": availability, reliability, cost, etc. None of these are principles. At a higher level, the main point of the book, a Service Oriented Architecture composed of…
It's strange that when you cite a tweet, MLA wants you to include the tweet contents, whereas for every other citation, they want you to embed just enough info to form a pointer to the actual content. Tweet citations…
Consider the case where the grad student, acting alone and not as part of an officially sanctioned project, invented something awesome using some resources from MIT like an internet connection and lab space. How eager…
Pointlessly awesome. Care to describe why it would make sense to run LaTeX on JS?
I see your legalistic approach to MIT's responsibilities, but this fascination with "endorsement" is missing the point. Universities are not government labs, where you'd expect every participant to clear every activity…
I wonder how much time the OP provided to FB to respond.
Let's not revert to ad hominems so quickly. If you looked through my submissions, you'll see that I explained the problem elsewhere. Here it is again: Imagine two nodes, both initiating updates to the same row. One has…
Imagine two nodes, both initiating updates to the same row. One has observed a number of node additions and deletions. The other has not. They will perform their updates on disjoint sets. > There's not really any…