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This, folks, is why NOSQL/new school/whizbang/* will never replace a properly designed RDBMS. Period.

Can't or won't do to the time? Don't do the crime. Committing a crime in a civil society is not bravery if the perp offs himself before standing trial. Whether or not one sympathiz…

Yes, DigitalTurk, locals everywhere seek out the "cheap, dirty places" to eat. This attitude reeks of pretention and adolescence.

Stop the madness. "While working on our new developer portal a UI bug led me to my new favorite interview question:" ... "Questions like the sticky footer riddle tend to reveal gre…

That's not exactly how capitalism works. Apple thought it would be beneficial to supply their own mapping software on their own device and OS. Google (I assume) still wants all of …

Drawing? Animation? Games? ... "Wanna"? Yes, this is how you bait a small child or idealistic young adult into wanting to "become a computer scientist when I grow up". Yes, it coer…

PostgreSQL is a phenomenal software project, so any press such as this is welcomed. I was irked, however, by this guy's ego. He came off as too 'pats-self-on-the-back' throughout. …

I'm confused. I see the word "engineer" appear several times, but the company appears to offer MP3 recording technology and a "share" button. Where are the moving parts?

Thanks for the perspective. All of us greatly needed your two cents as guidance. Travels the world taking photos... whoop-de-doo. That's been going on for decades, and only because…

Leave Portland for Smug-n-Con Alley? Why on Earth would he want to do that?

Yes, many companies are guilty of it. It comes down to ego inflation. "Engineer" lends an air of prestige and esteem, but it's a title that's undeserved by most who use it in moder…

"Engineer, engineer, engineer" Good thing you guys aren't a Canadian company, lest you be fined into non-existence. Seriously, folks, call your employees what they are. Programmers…

{Net,Free,Open}BSD... which one? All three? I'm a NetBSD user that uses a tiling window manager (i3 - not ion3, it's different). ALT+1 and ALT+2 are where I keep my urxvts, ALT+3 m…

All quotes save for one-liners are out of context. The points you make stand on their own. I don't dismiss the entire article; I appreciate thought and innovation in the space of t…

"And we, the users, play along, pretending our machine is a video terminal presenting a grid of ASCII characters in all of 256 colours. This is ridiculous." Not everybody uses thei…

Every single time I see news about window managers, I'm surprised that i3 (i3wm.org) isn't mentioned. i3 is the supreme tiling window manager. It's mature, fast, feature-ful and it…

You subverted your argument by including the term 'low-level'. Of course, that's all written freshly in C to this day. Assuming that you meant only 'non-trivial': aside from the em…

My suspicion is that this is not a C programmer at all. Claiming that you've "written loads of it" certainly lends the author a cloak of credibility, but I don't buy it. "This one,…

0 ^ 0 = 0, on all architectures.

I think that the GNU+Linux attribution is accurate and deserved. The author of this page thought it fair to use SLOC as his unit of measurement; I think that "fundamentality" is a …