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I suspect that you have never actually used a phone-dispatch car service in NYC. You have no visibility into their ETA. Call back and ask... the answer is always the same "5 minute…

This might be the best comment I have ever read on HN.

Classes do not imply inheritance. Classes are a means of defining an interface, albeit a heavy one. The statement that it is better to separate data and behavior is far from self-e…

If you are running this from your own AWS account doesn't it have the problem of not anonymizing the traffic - since it can all be tied to your identity?

This is what happens when you do business with a company who views you as the product.

Interesting. Noted.

Seems like mostly FUD. No mention of specific issues in any clients. And please have a look at other high throughput systems (like Cassandra or VoltDB) before claiming that a load …

This person has obviously never worked on a project of any scale. See where your ad-hoc practices get you when you have millions of LOC. Can we all agree that there is good code an…

Why no to Cassandra? I don't have the reference on hand, but I believe the issues identified by aphyr have since been addressed. It is important to do your own due diligence, espec…

It seems to me that one of the core differences between MySQL/Postgres and distributed stores like Cassandra / Hbase is that with the former your data and your write workload have …

While I agree that the author and others in the same role clearly do not feel apart of the culture, could you really expect them to? They don't have any equity, they don't make ver…

It's disgusting to be comparing a veteran's suffering to a beggar's.

No. The veteran is worthy because in his suffering, he provided value to the community.

Lots of hate here so far. I agree more explanation of their premise would go a long way towards convincing skeptics. However, I think this is an interesting perspective and deserve…

So?

Not until they change the 5th amendment.

The entirety of the US system of government is predicated on lack of trust. Hence checks and balances through branches and the limits placed on the government by the constitution. …

The difference is not about who is more powerful. The difference is that I can choose to use DuckDuckGo instead of Google. I cannot (barring extreme measures) choose to disobey the…

He very often applies this tactic of trying to make the other side seem unreasonable. This is the most important issue of our generation. You cannot have it both ways Mr. President…

I don't like this line of reasoning because it allows for a pro-surveillance outcome if you change the statistics. At what threshold do you switch sides? Ben Franklin is pretty cle…

And this is exactly what the constitution is for. Changing the constitution requires much more than a simple majority.

"If she wanted a good job, she should have racked up a lot of dept and rolled the dice" Nice straw man.

My point is that there are tools and techniques that will solve these problems in ways that are more valuable than the compiler's type system. If you seriously "refuse to review Py…

Ummm, unit tests? The compiler offers a false sense of security. Type safety is not correctness.

While this particular solution may be a failure, it is a reflection of the demand, which I don't see changing direction anytime soon. This is an attempt to cache in on the fact tha…