You lost me at http://slashdot.org/topic/bi
Dear Slashdot, stop creating your own content. You suck at it.

that is getting sick of this content-free, slashdot echo chamber, clickcrack stuff. Hey Slashdot, why do you need whole nuther site to post original articles? And why do those articles make such a deafening sucking sound?
Problem is that I would be interested in a reasoned look at MongoDB v Dynamo but my experience with http://slashdot.org/topic/bi/ is not to waste my time by reading TFA.

Nobody on Slashdot or otherwise will see a kitchen with lasers that show you how to cut fish. The idea is idiotic. The response about the quality of cooking instructions on deh interwebs is surprisingly even more idiotic.

whoosh

just show him this http://xkcd.com/844/

or butterflies and rainbows!
no, wait! we will fill them with hugs and kisses!

The trick to managing technical people is knowing what you don't know and allowing technical experts do their job without infuriating them with stupid questions.
-- ask some technical questions, make sure at least a few the candidate will not know the answer to. If they fake it rather than saying "I don't know" PASS
-- give a situation to deal with (the server is down) and ask "what do you want me to do?" if it is anything other than "fix it and let me know the details only after you are done" PASS

amen brother

Minutely, as soon as the feature compiles.

We are hoping to go to real-time and have developers update Ruby scripts directly on the production server as this will save us the expense of a test environment, but that is going to require porting all our Java code to Ruby. We tried to use jRuby but that is going the wrong direction, so we are starting a new open source project for JOR (java on ruby).

Kudos, and a friendly reminder: a black hoodie is not a ninja costume.

Excellent, a universal cross compatible standard for everyone!
http://xkcd.com/927/

Even better: use octopress http://octopress.org/ and do commenting with disqus. And then run the smallest webserver you can find and turn everything else off. The best security is the simplest security.

I agree, I have an iPhone and my wife has a WP7
I love my iphone, but it is expensive and slow (granted it is an iphone 3g)
The WP7 phone was less than half the price of iPhone, has snappy performance, and the social integration is the best out there.
There are lots of things that it does not do, the app marketplace is years behind, and it is locked down as tight as iPhone.
This phone is very good at what it set out to do and is in no rational perspective a failure.

you just blew my mind
best troll ever

hell I would be happy if software developers could write maintainable code!
(ducks)