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> Small native binaries don't seem like much of an advantage when writing servers. However when deploying server binaries it's a substancial advantage. End users like them. Ops lik…

They never said that they had to use c because go is not a systems language, so your assertion looks wrong. They wanted to avoid using unsafe. In c everything is unsafe by the way,…

> As we wanted to keep unsafe code to a minimum, we instead chose to employ the C code from the original driver as an opportunity to present cgo. It's not for performance reasons. …

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18399389 . It's been done. Performs well.

> GPLv2 and v3 gave hobbyists, students, and anti-corporate hackers a means to feel as though their work resists the evil empire of the software industry, while in fact serving it …

To stay in France, it's a bit as if you said the cathedrals construction was a total failure basing your judgment on the Beauvais cathedral which also suffered of the second system…

What percentage of the waste is radiating for 10000 years? And how radioactive is it? Without facts, precise facts to back it up your statement looks irrational indeed.

I don't judge a software on an alpha release.

Because of the irrational fear of nuclear.

It's the first of its generation and is quite a failure on many aspects. It's not representative of all the nuclear reactors in France, far from it. Thus it is quite insignificant.…

> Maybe you don't owe that to the closers-of-source-code You assume I have something against closers of source code. Do not assume bad faith please. I don't like closers of source …

That's why the gpl without CLA remains the best collaborative platform. That's a lesson for me, Stallman was right, as they say.

Sure, but those are only weasel words and blatant lies. Talking about "Commercializing Open-Source", when you are in fact closing your source code is dishonest. And I think HN need…

A paragraph of this announcement is literally titled "Commercializing Open-Source". This is a blatant lie.

> Yes I'm generally happy when I get new stuff for free, but I don't expect that to always happen. Sure. But when a product is advertised as open source, I expect it to be true.

Oracle has been free riding red hat with unbreakable Linux, for years. Then red hat got bought for 30 billions. When you are confident about you ability to outsmart the competition…

> You can still run the software, for free, in your business. You can still change the software, for free, and run that in your business. You can still fork the software, from toda…

Those are deceptive tactics. How can one expect to spin it and make knowledgable people swallow it?

Also, please make it clear that this is a proprietary license aimed at making VCs happy and keep the cash flowing, while being hostile to the tinkerer who wants to learn and reuse …

Hence the huge need for nuclear power.

No we don't. We use ordinateur.

No you don't lose them. Fdw supports push down of where clauses, only selects the required columns. You can also create views in clickhouse to make sur the joins are processed ther…

> Anyone considering a “time series database” should first set up a modern commercial column store, partition their tables on the time column, and time their workload. For any scan…

In 5 years from now, will there still be svners?