By being made more dense the Earth would shrink, so it is very reasonable to promote the Moon to planethood according to that definition.
I would suspect the poster has already weighed the cost vs. benefit of writing efficient code. Many domains do require careful attention to performance.
This is exactly what I've been looking for! Thank you.
For most American dialects, the sounds are nearly identical, but not quite: at the beginning of a syllable, the "r" is an approximant (a type of consonant that starts with an emphasized vowel sound), rather like "y" or…
It's not as much data as one might think, especially if you store the deltas -- there's not that much variation between individuals. That fact has actually been exploited to a great extent in enabling the $1,000 genome.
One can easily estimate the cost of a query in a relational database via EXPLAIN. What relational databases do is decouple such implementation details from semantics, enabling higher levels of abstraction and therefore…
Sure, I suppose it matters a lot on the type of Web application you're building. If you have a relatively simple domain model with very few relationships, I'm sure a KVS works pretty well. Still, for anything other than…
What bothers me most about the NoSQL movement is that it seems to be in conflict with a central tenet of our community: to avoid premature optimization, especially when at the expense of of expressiveness or…
Not just uninformative, but misleading too: there are many relational query languages besides SQL (e.g. Tutorial D). Is the conference about non-relational database technologies, or any alternative to SQL?
Am I missing something here? If a microgram is 10^-6 gram and a kilogram is 10^3 grams...
This is generally the case across the physical and life sciences too. Even "revolutionary" fields like epigenetics and genomics are effectively refinements and extensions of the pioneering work done in molecular biology…
My rule of thumb: I only import things locally (i.e. within a function) if it is a conditional dependency. This is particularly true if it's something not from the standard library. Example: I might have an application…
eru nailed it. We lived off bulk everything -- oatmeal, rice, beans. For fresh food, we got cheap veggies with lots of nutrition; greens tend to be the best bang for the buck, but also bags of carrots, beets, and such.…
Why on earth aren't beans subsidized instead of corn? Among other things, this would cut down immensely on the amount of fertilizer consumed per year.
While this is true in general, it is still possible to eat a balanced, healthy diet for very little money. That said, it requires a lot of discipline and a somewhat sophisticated understanding of nutrition. Still, my…
It's not that SQL queries are difficult to compose, it's that ORMs enable different abstractions to emerge, at least when used appropriately; I'll admit though that junior developers are drawn most to ORMs because they…
I personally advocate a two-pronged approach, where DOM manipulation is done via jQuery (at which it excels), but abstractions are built up via classes (pick your favorite implementation). This avoids overextending…
It seems to me (an avid jQuery user, no less) that people are stretching the paradigm too far. There are places where traditional, class-like abstractions are perfectly legitimate, and indeed more natural. Some of the…
Pumpkin seeds are mentioned, but pumpkins themselves are fantastic as well -- they make for some really great soups. Also, I'm certainly not one to knock coffee, but tea is much better in terms of bang for the buck. I…
Quick question, if you'll indulge: where do you find those CDS numbers you mentioned?
I'd actually argue the best approach is to develop both sides fully: I agree that an OO data model is the best fit for non-trivial application logic, but I also believe relational databases make the best data stores.…
Would you argue that the ability to form ad hoc queries for answering questions not originally imagined when writing an application fails to make the relational model superior to something without that property? (I see…
Sigh. There is so much misinformation being spread by today's software engineers without proper CS backgrounds. As anybody who's read Date and friends knows, relational databases are fundamentally more expressive (and…
Please, go back to reddit.
By being made more dense the Earth would shrink, so it is very reasonable to promote the Moon to planethood according to that definition.
I would suspect the poster has already weighed the cost vs. benefit of writing efficient code. Many domains do require careful attention to performance.
This is exactly what I've been looking for! Thank you.
For most American dialects, the sounds are nearly identical, but not quite: at the beginning of a syllable, the "r" is an approximant (a type of consonant that starts with an emphasized vowel sound), rather like "y" or…
It's not as much data as one might think, especially if you store the deltas -- there's not that much variation between individuals. That fact has actually been exploited to a great extent in enabling the $1,000 genome.
One can easily estimate the cost of a query in a relational database via EXPLAIN. What relational databases do is decouple such implementation details from semantics, enabling higher levels of abstraction and therefore…
Sure, I suppose it matters a lot on the type of Web application you're building. If you have a relatively simple domain model with very few relationships, I'm sure a KVS works pretty well. Still, for anything other than…
What bothers me most about the NoSQL movement is that it seems to be in conflict with a central tenet of our community: to avoid premature optimization, especially when at the expense of of expressiveness or…
Not just uninformative, but misleading too: there are many relational query languages besides SQL (e.g. Tutorial D). Is the conference about non-relational database technologies, or any alternative to SQL?
Am I missing something here? If a microgram is 10^-6 gram and a kilogram is 10^3 grams...
This is generally the case across the physical and life sciences too. Even "revolutionary" fields like epigenetics and genomics are effectively refinements and extensions of the pioneering work done in molecular biology…
My rule of thumb: I only import things locally (i.e. within a function) if it is a conditional dependency. This is particularly true if it's something not from the standard library. Example: I might have an application…
eru nailed it. We lived off bulk everything -- oatmeal, rice, beans. For fresh food, we got cheap veggies with lots of nutrition; greens tend to be the best bang for the buck, but also bags of carrots, beets, and such.…
Why on earth aren't beans subsidized instead of corn? Among other things, this would cut down immensely on the amount of fertilizer consumed per year.
While this is true in general, it is still possible to eat a balanced, healthy diet for very little money. That said, it requires a lot of discipline and a somewhat sophisticated understanding of nutrition. Still, my…
It's not that SQL queries are difficult to compose, it's that ORMs enable different abstractions to emerge, at least when used appropriately; I'll admit though that junior developers are drawn most to ORMs because they…
I personally advocate a two-pronged approach, where DOM manipulation is done via jQuery (at which it excels), but abstractions are built up via classes (pick your favorite implementation). This avoids overextending…
It seems to me (an avid jQuery user, no less) that people are stretching the paradigm too far. There are places where traditional, class-like abstractions are perfectly legitimate, and indeed more natural. Some of the…
Pumpkin seeds are mentioned, but pumpkins themselves are fantastic as well -- they make for some really great soups. Also, I'm certainly not one to knock coffee, but tea is much better in terms of bang for the buck. I…
Quick question, if you'll indulge: where do you find those CDS numbers you mentioned?
I'd actually argue the best approach is to develop both sides fully: I agree that an OO data model is the best fit for non-trivial application logic, but I also believe relational databases make the best data stores.…
Would you argue that the ability to form ad hoc queries for answering questions not originally imagined when writing an application fails to make the relational model superior to something without that property? (I see…
Sigh. There is so much misinformation being spread by today's software engineers without proper CS backgrounds. As anybody who's read Date and friends knows, relational databases are fundamentally more expressive (and…
Please, go back to reddit.