His actions since adopting and trumpeting Mono, but not limited to Mono have always made me think he was some kind of sleeper troll. His stances often seemed to take antagonistically disruptive positions. That even this time his "reasons" clearly don't seem to match up with reality, reinforce what I have seen in the past. I suppose what he said could be true if he is running one of the more esoteric distributions, but really...as much as I am not a fan of Ubuntu[I am a Debian user], there is little you can't get either natively packaged or via a ppa.

He is literally the John C.Dvorak of the Linux programing world.

Within the context of a news site basing an article around a very esoteric word, it would be good practice to include a brief definition. Especially a site that deactivates hyper links in its rss feed(the wikipedia link to skeuomorphic is only there on the direct site, not rss).

Just saying.

But yes, obviously one can google that which one does not know.

cheers,
dimes

Links in the RSS feed are not shown as links. So that if you are reading via google reader. et. al. you don't see it. It wasn't till I came to the site to see comments that it was available.

dimes

Hey now, that is a decent beer. Especially within its class/category. And really, you shouldn't go around knocking "sissy northern european" beers, lest the "sissy northern european" beers of Belgium come knocking on your door.

dimes

Actually, my guess is they found that this was a pretty good sign of BS content farms. Of all the sites I have blocked in google search over the last 12 months that description fits most to a tee.

There have been too many dumb posts...not that that is too unusual...but really its not that hard:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network

dimes

Interesting idea aside, its a bit like discussing Tomato crop yields when you find your pizza sauce bland. Sure, what tomatoes go into pizza sauce make a difference, but if its just shitty sauce its not really going to matter if you add some nice tomatoes to it.

If employers think embracing Gamification will fix an endemically lousy work environment...well, its probably why the work environment is so bad in the first place.

dimes

Ahahahahah, you said "Debian piggybacking Redhat" ahhahahahahaha

Given the pre roll ad, the split to three pages format, and the "middlemanagement" focus of the web site I consider the article to be somewhere between circumspect and irrelevant. However, I'm not a fan of"init" either :)

What you just stated sounds all well and good...but its not very informed. Or maybe just informed from 10 years ago.

In general a database is pretty much as good as its DBA. That said, your statement about Postgre being vastly superior is strictly a contextual one, and even then would be a trade-off at best case.

For the DBMS corner cases that MySQL doesn't do, there are some incredibly important things that Postgre doesn't do.

I see in the updates that Postgre is finally doing Streaming Replication? Just now? Before this, you had to rely on 3rd party "hacks".

Meanwhile, MySQL has done instant replication and failover for quite some time.

More importantly, MySQL has done Master/Master replication for years now, natively, with relative ease. I have been doing Live Hitless upgrades to sites for years now, to infrastructures built on MySQL. Sites doing 5-10k questions per/sec. on minimal hardware(relatively). No Down Time. That is huge when it comes to "stability" of a website or web application when everything is DB dependent.

Don't get me wrong, I like Postgre. I have for years. But don't go around talking the old line that MySQL is an severely incomplete DB for the ignorant. It has matured over the years into one of the most capable, feature complete, stable, and useful databases available.

dimes

of such a great collection of science books!

Uhm, Haven't you ever heard of the Streisand Effect?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

Just sayin,

dimes

Do you live in the NYC area? Were you here for Sept 11th and the ensuing days? Were you here for the weeks of the smell of burnth metal and cooking meat that wafted up downtown Manhattan? Did you spend your waking hours in the dirt and dust and the wreckage of downtown volunteering any way you could to help out in the days after?

If you did, and you can say what you say, then you must be a better person than I am.

Most days I don't even think about it anymore. Which is nice.

But that plane, that I didn't even see myself, made me flinch when I heard about it. It brought up some unexpected emotions.

So if a lot of people who work in the surrounding high rise offices near it decided it was time to get out of the building....then it was time to go...then it was the right decision.

Maybe its "just not that big a deal" to a lot of people these days...but surprisingly, its still a little raw here.

dimes

Had it been a helicopter....this wouldn't be an issue. It was however a 747 circling highrises.

Easy enough to say...

Sure, millions of people cowering everyday while they go about their lives....oh yeah, no everyone is pretty much over it. That said, when something that *does not* happen, does happen, especialy when its a low flying commercial jet seeming circling Hi Rise buildings in the Manhattan area, sorry that definitely touched some raw nerves.