... performance is a noun while performant an adjective. Most of the time, though, you can just say fast.
An important exception occurs when we're talking about MTBF. Fast doesn't mean performant, at all.
Right, then you can say something like reliable. We have now seen how useless the word performant really is. It's completely dependent on context. So it means nothing more than good yet takes three times the bandwidth.
I wouldn't say that PHP is built for MySQL, but that PHP isn't designed to be database agnostic. If you start doing a new project and you want it to work with MySQL, then you look up the documentation on how you connect to MySQL, you'll start going down the path of using mysqli_ and other database specific stuff. Once you are ready to move on and make it database agnostic, you are too far in, and there's too many changes to made. Unless you had the foresight to make everything database agnostic from the beginning and use something like PDO, you are going to be in for a lot of work to get everything working with a different database.
Compare that with something like
How is
Yes, PHP has database-specific functions too, like mysqli_connect. But a PHP programmer should find out about PDO if he does any respectable amount of research before diving in.
Got it. Thanks.
Microsoft is not a software company! Microsoft is an EVIL company that uses software to deliver evil.
That's perfect. I'm stealing it.
Never seen the word "performant" until today. Must be an obscure five-dollar word that scientists love to toss around. Meanwhile, I'll stick with cheap performance as my word of choice.
Performance is a noun. Performant is an adjective, meaning "having (high) performance" (or performing well). If you stick with performance, be sure to reword your sentence so that it makes sense.
You're right, performance is a noun while performant an adjective. Most of the time, though, you can just say fast.
We use it a *lot* - and it's great for what we use it for.
Now if they can only get active-active working at the same level as an Oracle RAC server? Just maybe we can all listen to the sweet, sweet sound of Larry Ellison howling in existential agony.
There's that word again, existential. I still can't figure out what people mean when they use it. I've looked it up, and the formal definitions don't seem to fit the sentence.
Question:
I like postgres, but I've never used Oracle (or any proprietary DB engine, to be honest), so I was wondering: is there any advantage in using a proprietary database vs using postgres?
No. I've used both PostgreSQL and Oracle. Oracle was worse.
Oracle was harder to install support for on Linux. Oracle had no data type for a mere date, only date and time together. Oracle's command-line tool on Linux was horrible compared to PostgreSQL's psql tool.
Why not just use MySQL? It's free and PHP is built for it so you can run web applications on it.
How is PHP built for MySQL? PHP isn't built for MySQL. PHP can use MySQL. In the same way, PHP can use PostgreSQL. And in the same way, you run web applications on it.
I've been using PHP and PostgreSQL for dozens of web applications for over a decade.
If it's not found in nature, then they all should be called Unobtanium.
More like unobtania, since there are now 28 of them.
unicornium, unicornucopia
What I am and will be curious about is what we might have gotten if Lucas had given the story line (and then gotten out of the way). Let Kasdan (Empire Strikes Back & Force Awakens) write the script, and Abrams direct
Stop making me cry!
Capitalism only sort-of works with a small population and lowish amounts of automation, and with a credible communist rival to keep it in check.
How did Russia keep American capitalism in check, exactly?
Why did you sell it? Take your money and shut up
George's response is taken out of context. Charlie Rose brought it up. George mainly said that he had to stay away, so he didn't "muck it up." Mucking it up is a self-deprecating description. He's trying to keep it light.
He did send one vague criticism, that he did say that he would have repeated less. Of course he feels that way. He has been there, done that. Directors get sick of a movie halfway through making it. Artists in general want to keep exploring new stuff.
Even I was like, another Death Star, really?
Indian teams tend to practice cowboy coding
With our westward expansion we eradicated the unique culture of --- wait, what?
In school I did a report on parenting. A child's IQ is set by 3, largely from stimulation: holding them, talking to them, reading to them, etc. --- even though they don't yet know exactly what you're saying.
Aren't many poor families in America a young, single mother, working one or two jobs, and her children? Probably not the best upbringing.
I read the article, and it turns out it isn't mainly about how easy it is to bypass JavaScript restrictions. That's a part of it, and maybe he needs to be reminded of the majority's computer competence. But that's not the gist.
It wasn't so much, "Ha ha, watch me bypass your flimsy JavaScript." It was more, "Oh the senseless inconvenience you put me and others through," and "This copy-blocking clashes with the Internet like a plaid shirt and checkered pants". A few of his points:
1. If you don't want your stuff copied, why put it on the Internet?
2. I found the article in the first place because it was excerpted by another publication.
3. Copying and pasting little tidbits is part of social media.
4. The person you're really worried about, who will copy the whole thing and try to pass it off as their own, probably knows how to bypass your measly JavaScript.
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