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This is obvious if you took a DB course, and if you didn't, you have no business building a DB. Sadly, all the NoSQL junkware was built by people who didn't.

The example is flawed -- if there is an exception incurred before or during the sending of the email, the operation will be erroneously marked as "cancelled" without having complet…

What a self-indulgent writeup. The article came nowhere near answering the central question: what are the devs doing other than constantly changing the name of the project and how …

Good riddance to these tools because this technique, of relying on embedded strings in the code, is inherently insecure and unreliable. You can only really on it when you know you …

Thanks for the clarification. On a related note do you understand where the X.509 Name Constraints effort sits? Which, if any, browsers implement it? If it's not 100%, do you know …

The author seems to be ranting that nobody stores rainbow tables, they are computed on demand. So, big whoop. Why should the NYT care about how the tables are stored or not stored?…

Since it takes a while to digest the report after having seen it, chances are that they were in possession of the report far earlier than T-400ms but waited until they were in a ti…

If a data store touted as fault-tolerant isn't fault-tolerant, it's broken.

These articles invariably end in "does not follow" fallacies. In this case, he gets his accounts hacked, and his advice is "don't use any cloud-hosted email." Ok, but what evidence…

I have mixed feelings about this announcement. On the one hand, I really enjoyed Triumph of the Nerds. On the other, Cringely came off as a self-oriented, egotistical guy (I rememb…

He does not need to be able to point to an extant, better alternative for his criticisms to be "credible." BTW, I can't believe you're implying that his post is not credible. The p…

In what entitled universe do you live in where a guy who carefully and patiently points out problems is also obligated to solve every single one of them? Also, do you really need s…

LaTeX is the geek's connection to Gutenberg and his legacy. Surely your grandma knows Gutenberg.

Yes, we all follow what you have said, but I see no guarantees offered by Wolfram, the service provider. You can pretend to be offended and avoid the question, but at the end of th…

These is non-responsive PR: 1. The PP explicitly says that Wolfram can collect and retain data indefinitely. The FAQ promises a horizon of 1 hour. 1 != ∞. Which of these documents …

Great, then you can respond to some observations and answer some questions: 1. Your FAQ is at odds with your privacy policy ( http://www.wolframalpha.com/privacypolicy.html ) which…

It used to be that, in order to get access to someone's rolodex, you'd have to befriend them and do a ton of things with them to maintain that said friendship. And even then, you s…

Section 1.1 starts out by listing some "principles": availability, reliability, cost, etc. None of these are principles. At a higher level, the main point of the book, a Service Or…

It's strange that when you cite a tweet, MLA wants you to include the tweet contents, whereas for every other citation, they want you to embed just enough info to form a pointer to…

Consider the case where the grad student, acting alone and not as part of an officially sanctioned project, invented something awesome using some resources from MIT like an interne…

Pointlessly awesome. Care to describe why it would make sense to run LaTeX on JS?

I see your legalistic approach to MIT's responsibilities, but this fascination with "endorsement" is missing the point. Universities are not government labs, where you'd expect eve…

I wonder how much time the OP provided to FB to respond.