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“Fashion Is Hard. PostgreSQL Is Easy” [video]
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Re: “Fashion Is Hard. PostgreSQL Is Easy” [video]
#12Hmm, looking a bit at their site[1]: Addidas jogging pants -- 59,95 € Volcom T-shirt print -- 17,45 € Under Armour T-shirt -- 39.95 € Like really now -- who needs this stuff? Especially when you can just go to Aldi or Tchibo (or any of a number of other discount retailers readily visible at nearly every shopping mall in Germany) and buy essentially same stuff (minus the logos, of course) for 1/10th of the price. So p…
Pointlessness is rather subjective.
Re: “Fashion Is Hard. PostgreSQL Is Easy” [video]
#13Coming up with your own ideas is hard. Cloning other businesses is easy.
Coming up with ideas is easy. Executing them well is hard.
Zalando is hardly executed well. The work conditions in their logistics centers are (infamously) atrocious.
The strategy was distinctly described by one of the Samwer brothers in email conversation as "Blitzkrieg" and "the most aggressive plan in history".
Work climate (not only for manual labor) reflects this attitude pretty well.
Re: “Fashion Is Hard. PostgreSQL Is Easy” [video]
#14PosgreSQL is pretty much my default. Any other database has to have compelling arguments for how it fits my use case if I'm going to use it over Postgres, and even then, it usually gets used for a subset of the data, while Postgres gets everything else.
I think it's better to default to the tried-and-true piece of software than the new and shiny, rather than the other way around and have to argue why Postgres is a good fit for your data.
Re: “Fashion Is Hard. PostgreSQL Is Easy” [video]
#15Two years ago I switched from PHP and MySQL to Ruby and PostgreSQL. The only thing I'm missing is Sequel Pro. PG Admin is ok, does everything I need, but that interface is ugly and unintuitive.
Re: “Fashion Is Hard. PostgreSQL Is Easy” [video]
#16Hmm, looking a bit at their site[1]: Addidas jogging pants -- 59,95 € Volcom T-shirt print -- 17,45 € Under Armour T-shirt -- 39.95 € Like really now -- who needs this stuff? Especially when you can just go to Aldi or Tchibo (or any of a number of other discount retailers readily visible at nearly every shopping mall in Germany) and buy essentially same stuff (minus the logos, of course) for 1/10th of the price. So p…
You always get what you pay for. I'd rather not buy too cheap and wear toxic stuff: http://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article133578674/Greenpeace-wa...
Re: “Fashion Is Hard. PostgreSQL Is Easy” [video]
#17That title is really great, and also rings true. And of all open-source SQL DBs, PostgreSQL is superbly executed and a breeze to work with. I can only recommend it.
As someone who's used to MySQL, I keep trying to use PostgreSQL (better standards compliance, better behaviour in the face of bad data) - and I keep going back. The psql interface is awkward (too many magic backslash commands to memorize instead of SHOW CREATE TABLE) and always feels slightly laggy somehow.
You are the first person I read saying they like the mysql cli. Ctrl-c kills the whole shell. great, but not what I expect. Want to fix a small typo in your big query? In psql you can just edit your last command in your $EDITOR. Useful (but not perfect) autocomplete is also not in mysql.
Re: “Fashion Is Hard. PostgreSQL Is Easy” [video]
#18PostgreSQL is great, but I've gone back to MySQL because of the ease of which I can setup replication (which I like to use when possible in addition to automated/periodic backups).
Re: “Fashion Is Hard. PostgreSQL Is Easy” [video]
#19PosgreSQL is pretty much my default. Any other database has to have compelling arguments for how it fits my use case if I'm going to use it over Postgres, and even then, it usually gets used for a subset of the data, while Postgres gets everything else. I think it's better to default to the tried-and-true piece of software than the new and shiny, rather than the other way around and have to argue why Postgres is a go…
That's probably the best way of looking at it. PostgreSQL is generally going to be the best solution for 90% of your data, short of having a subset that's write heavy to the point of streaming.
Re: “Fashion Is Hard. PostgreSQL Is Easy” [video]
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Coming up with ideas is easy. Executing them well is hard.
Zalando is hardly executed well. The work conditions in their logistics centers are (infamously) atrocious. The strategy was distinctly described by one of the Samwer brothers in email conversation as "Blitzkrieg" and "the most aggressive plan in history". Work climate (not only for manual labor) reflects this attitude pretty well.
Yes, their website still sucks in the same ways it did 3 years ago. It boggles the mind.
They have a huge selection, expensive advertising campaigns and lenient shipping & return policies, fueled by huge sums of money, so they have a huge market share. Its nice, but execution is merely decent imho.