Beautiful comment. And sometimes you have to lie as much as they do, especially if they're asking for 5 years experience with a technology that was invented 2 years ago. Those bastards are often as guilty at buzzword bingo as we have to be.
Twice recently I've noticed something offering hope. Jobs were posted to two email lists I subscribe to, LILUG and the NY Alt.NET. In both cases the requirements were ripped apart by people not in the job market. in the case of the Alt.NET job, an "updated" posting was soon added to the list. Nothing makes me happier than when people are forced to be brutally honest.
Their not necessarily in cahoots, they just were educated by the same system and cut their teeth on the same hardware.
These are the people that gave us WinRar, 7zip, and Farmanager. They know how to do this kind of low level programming, and a lack of capitalism probably means they did not spend a lot of time learning how to make things pretty.
The irony being that the interstate highway system was designed for commercial traffic and for civil defense (moving military supplies easier across the country in the event of an invasion).
I'm also not sure the "commerce clause" would apply to nationally funded highways that didn't allow commercial traffic. Not that anyone follows that silly little constitution any more.
I've used RDBMS, I've used Mongo, I've used the file system, and I've LDAP.
Out of curiosity, is there any project that actually requires almost all of these technologies? If so, how many libraries do this project have to import, to make these technologies work?
Well its certainly conceivable. I've built a
.NET has built in support for SQL server and Microsoft Access. It also has LDAP support, but in my calse I used the Novell library. You need to use NoRM or mongodb-csharp. I'm sure I did some sort of filesystem access a well.
The number of libraries for such an app is probably not a problem. A large app will end up using several external libraries, or internally developed shared libraries.
Of course, if you are building an application big enough to need all these, it should use Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) So different modules that need to store data in different ways will be different services (separate programs).
No-SQL is not a database, it's a file store. Calling them a database is an insult to databasses the world over. Yes, there are times when a "no-sql" solution is better than SQL, and the vector is pretty much that point where you realize that storing files in databases makes sense like hauling bales of hay in sports cars does.
Full disclosure, I am not a 10gen employee, but I've contributed some improvements to windows support in MongoDB.
Mongo is not a relational database. However, its a "real database" and different from the filesystem. They do got that GridFS thing for storing BLOBs that I've not tried. The DB is schemaless, but there are indexes, and you can even do some primitive GeoLocation.
I've used RDBMS, I've used Mongo, I've used the file system, and I've LDAP. I've even toyed enough with xml documents and XSD schemas to call that a special data store (both filesystem backed adn stored in SQL server). Each has theor own purpose, and I use them all for different things.
It's an American controlled company, so yes it would be more accurate to say a subset of Americans should deny a subset of Chinese their service.
Semantics aside, google would be better off threatening the Chinese to remove their search access than to actualyl do it. Nothing is stopping the Chinese from building their own search engine.
I have been informed that Zend and the people that run PHP.NET are separate entities. Also, the people that demanded the new build documentation be reverted were zend developers that specialized in windows programming.
The only question is, would this make more sense as an added option in wireshark, or GNU Radio?
Well to keep with the unix philisophy of small reusable components the following should be done:
If something came across that doubled my salary, I'd be off like a shot and do it. I mean, really...if anyone here was independently wealthy, who would ever work again? Certainly not I.
Plenty of independently wealthy people work by choice. They got rich by earning a lot of money, and continue to do so.
If I became independently wealthy in a short period of time, I'd probably not do what I do now. However, if I earned my wealth over time, I'd probably not stop "because I had enough." Money would enable me to spend 8-12 hours a day doing what I want. Some of that might be charity, some of it would be vacations, but a good portion of it would be coding.
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