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Re:Shipping $36000 worth of Japanese candy
on Saturday January 14, 2012 @06:03PM (#3465596)
'Just one more layer of abstraction and I can rule the world!'
Re:Circumventing the No-Fly list in thirty seconds
on Friday January 13, 2012 @01:49AM (#3459477)
In Australia I can get on domestic flights without ever showing anyone my ID.
Re:MongoDB's Write Lock
on Monday January 02, 2012 @10:29PM (#3418493)
If you added a column and you want to revert back, you just drop the column again! What's so hard about that? No 'migration' needed.
In BASIC you can 'declare' a variable by simply using it. The compiler will not warn you if you use an undeclared variable. That's the analogous situation here.
Re:MongoDB's Write Lock
on Sunday January 01, 2012 @06:52PM (#3414221)
You don't need to do any 'migration thing', you just add the column to the DB and choose a sensible default value? I don't see what you gain by having both 'undefined' and 'null'.
The 'odd sense of freedom' is not always a good thing either. It's like BASIC allowing you to use a new variable without declaring it. It may be convenient but nobody calls it a good idea.
Re:MongoDB's Write Lock
on Sunday January 01, 2012 @01:43AM (#3412674)
'I don't need to think much about retrofitting the data for all instances of that model. I just add an attribute where its needed for the new use case, ensure I have basic checking in my ruby model object and my system keeps incrementally improving.'
That's exactly the same as adding a new column to your DB with NULL as the default value.
Re:Dear Congress, It's No Longer OK To Not Know How The Internet Works
on Saturday December 17, 2011 @05:26AM (#3363968)
Piracy is already illegal.
Re:Seasteading: Cities on the ocean
on Sunday December 04, 2011 @03:48PM (#3311759)
Cruise ships already face these issues successfully.
Re:New Horizons Becomes Closest Spacecraft to Approach Pluto
on Sunday December 04, 2011 @05:38AM (#3310389)
The new 'dwarf planet' designation was a stroke of genius. It's not a planet but it ends in 'planet' so everyone is happy!
Re:Is Firefox Doomed?
on Saturday December 03, 2011 @07:22PM (#3309383)
Bing?
Re:Surviving a Production Launch with Node.js and MongoDB
on Thursday December 01, 2011 @02:24AM (#3298747)
It will depend on the type of workload. Some types will be faster, some will be slower. You'd have to run your own tests to see.
Re:Secret app on millions of phones logs key taps
on Wednesday November 30, 2011 @04:07PM (#3296908)
Where did you get 10GB per day from? They boasted about PETABYTES of data they've collected.
"Carrier IQ, which in the second quarter of 2011 passed the petabyte milestone in processed analytics data"
Re:Google Bar: The next stage in Google redesign
on Wednesday November 30, 2011 @05:32AM (#3294565)
How does this work on a touch interface?
Re:Researcher’s Video Shows Software on Millions of Phones Logging Eve...
on Wednesday November 30, 2011 @02:26AM (#3294159)
Carrier IQ openly boasted about this feature, and they admitted that they can 'probably' read your text messages if they wanted to.
Re:Facebook detects if you are logged in Gmail
on Sunday November 06, 2011 @11:13AM (#3202992)
It's like having a phone number. You'll survive without it but you're making it more inconvenient for others to communicate with you.
Re:Failing with MongoDB
on Saturday November 05, 2011 @08:01PM (#3201313)
Every major RDBMS has both command-line and GUI interfaces to create and change schemas. What exactly is missing in the dev-friendlyness department?
Re:Failing with MongoDB
on Saturday November 05, 2011 @07:45PM (#3201275)
You can do exactly the same document store with indexes on any RDBMS.
Re:Failing with MongoDB
on Saturday November 05, 2011 @07:43PM (#3201269)
What about all the time you'll waste debugging your app because you can't make good assumptions about the structure of your data?