Re:News.YC Library
by dfranke on Wednesday August 22, 2007 @03:55AM
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> 1. Unless you really, really need those tape sorting algorithms.
Hey, you never know. Tapes have only been truly obsolete for a few years now, for sufficiently large amounts of data. If you're Walmart's DBA and already have millions invested in hardware, those algorithms could come in handy :-).
Hey, you never know. Tapes have only been truly obsolete for a few years now, for sufficiently large amounts of data. If you're Walmart's DBA and already have millions invested in hardware, those algorithms could come in handy :-).