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This is from 2010 -- not the most up to date info.

SQL is expensive in many ways :)

Hi- I think the differences you find can me mostly attributed to whether the DB plan you are looking at is multi-tenanted or not. MongoLab (I'm from MongoLab) has inexpensive multi…

Hard to believe we had the right answer in 1960 yet are still afraid of the parens as an industry.

I agree with the other reasons posted. One more reason is one of expressiveness. When you have a "flat" simple form, it is easy to serialize as name/value pairs and send to the ser…

The point here (in the orig article) was that in some cases you do (i.e. if all you have is a SAX parser - Obj-C iPhone SDK being singled out as an example where only a SAX parser …

6.00 uses python now? :(. Call me old-fashioned but I think scheme should have remained. I feel I really benefited from scheme being my first programming language. Recursion is in …