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Amen.

Hi, I used to have a similar problem: seeing that when I do architectures they become difficult to maintain. Or difficult to talk about, to be honest, I don't understand your secon…

Agree, fixing bad data structures is much more painful than fixing bad code. The reason is that the deployment of the refactoring has the complexity of a new deployment, or even hi…

Ok, so how do I build a teletype that I can connect via USB to my Mac? (And will vi work? :D)

Agree, I know two people that got owned in the last year, both were using - outdated - Firefox browsers on XP.

Yeah yeah yeah, I might have been wrong with some details and with the sales numbers in 2012. However my main point stays the same: the traditional cell phone manufactures are in b…

Interesting numbers... However those numbers are not everything. What counts is whether customers buy products or not. There are plenty of examples of successful mass products that…

You have any evidence for that?

Android has made Nokia nearly bankrupt already, Siemens/BenQ has stopped making mobile phones while Android existed. Windows CE/Mobile/whatever seems to have no chance on the marke…

Or XSLT if you want both Oracle and IIS at the same time

You cannot really compare Sinatra with Rails. Rails has scaffolding, DB migrations and all this ultra-highlevel stuff rendering debugging to pure guess-work. Reminds me of doing te…

My experience is similar. Sinatra is great for one-man-shows or really simple REST apis. For the rest, forget about it... However, Rails is just too f ng complex. It's true what th…

I think they want to move the CPU into the hard drive so Oracle is faster (IA64)

I learned SQL with Postgres docs ;)

+1 for that That's also my impression and a reason why MySQL is a great DB for ORM-driven Apps.

Postgres is definitely a pain in the butt to properly setup in a network, in particular if you have never done it before. (And just talking about non-cluster use) However, once you…