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The title is a little misleading. The article itself acknowledges that there was a tulip fever: > That’s not to say that everything about the story is wrong; merchants really did e…

Fair enough. When I first read your original comment, I thought that you were being unnecessarily pedantic. I imagined that by using "partitioning" most people would probably know …

> But this isn't the official compiler, this is someone's personal project? True, but compilers are complicated machines and Rust is still changing at a fairly frantic rate. The au…

> Both MySQL and PostgreSQL support out-of-the-box partitioning. Are you referring to sharding? Hopefully it's fairly obvious from the context, but yes, I'm referring to horizontal…

This is probably not the answer you're looking for, but MongoDB no longer has much technical justification. Compared to Mysql and Postgres , it does have an out-of-the-box partitio…

Can you clarify what you mean by this? You're Matt Kroll and you're confirming that you still work for MongoDB? (I'm afraid that nothing is obvious from anyone's usernames.)

> what other language would you choose? As far as I can tell the goal of the project isn't to target more platforms (Rust targets quite a few by way of LLVM), so I don't think I'd …

Neat project. It looks like this was largely written by one person, and I'm fairly in awe at anyone who can take a big project like a compiler this far alone. Isn't there a bit of …

> I know this will never actually happen, but I sincerely wish the Social Security Administration would publish a complete official database of real name to SSN mappings. A full li…

This isn't accurate. Shaw has recently jumped on the same bandwagon and started enforcing hard caps with overage fees. Just go here if you want to check that: http://www.shaw.ca/en…

One more in Calgary. We should organize a meetup, all the cool stuff that's happening in San Fran all the time is making me pretty envious ;)

The trouble is that to run more complex operations, it's nice to have a high-level language to write your tasks in. Rake uses Ruby for this, and Nemesis Haskell. Either app can be …