There are no pure NoSQL or pure SQL projects/solutions, sooner or later you will end up using both SQL and NoSQL, with NoSQL it can be even worse. I have seen project that are using 2 and more different NoSQL solutions. For example, mongodb for documents and neo4j as a graph database and some other database for relational data. Hybrid approach simplifies all this, you just have to plan and choose wisely.

There are number of solutions on the market that support best from both worlds. Oracle and postgres both have support for NoSQL datatypes. Informix went even further, it gives you ability to mix classic relational tables with NoSQL collection in the same database. You can write a query that will access data from both table and collection at the same time. You can use compression, timeseries it also supports mongodb API so you can write application that will connect to Informix using mongodb drivers, and of course you can shard as much as you want with no pain. Just google hybrid sql.

I gave up cable TV years ago when I got divorced and moved out. Hadn't watched it in a year or two, anyway. Now I have my cell phone and a cable internet, I don't need a landline OR the TV. Netflix, clips on YouTube, and occasionally network series on hulu are all I ever partake of, and I don't want for more.

man things are different and weird. Don't like new interface compared to multiply, but I can't remember old /. interface so I can't compare with that.

Anyway, I just ended a relationship that I thought had a future. Obviously not the same as ending a marriage, but I bring it up to show the importance of symbolic gestures.

There's a period of adjustment after a breakup where you try to figure out if you're better off in the relationship or out of it. When you get lonely or miss something that your former partner did for you, you tend to dwell on that. Sometimes so much that it overshadows all the reasons the relationship ended.

It's easy to forget the bad or convince yourself that you can fix the bad. Then you lose your resolve and want to try to make it work. Doing something symbolic reminds you that you made the decision that it was best if it ended when/if you start to waiver.

One of the first things I did when I decided it was best if I ended the relationship with Jenny was to remove her from my favorites list in my cell phone and set her ringtone to SILENT. Because if she called me my instinct would be to quickly answer the phone, but I know that isn't what is best for me. Seeing that she called 15 minutes ago is easier to ignore than when the phone is ringing.

I guess what I'm saying is that we are observant and we see the signs (you mentioned her taking off her ring often) but we ignore them because we don't want to admit what we see. A symbolic gesture like that is more to remind us that we've accepted what we observed than of what we've observed.

The competition eat into your customer base?

And it would be intolerable not to condemn the hateful insensitivity of anonymous troll responses to that heartfelt post. On the one hand, what do you expect on the internet... but on the other, how dare we be so inhumane with each other under the protection of anonymity. Honor is dead, or dying.

I'm sorry for your pain and the pain of your wife.

Emphasis on the "old" (not you, dear -- me). :-)

For that lovely, cheesy lounge music touch -- but it's catchy, dammit!

From what I understand the reason people get offended is that M$ implies there is something evil about making $$$.

I just get offended by people saying 'M$' because it paints the Linux community as a bunch of pimply-faced teenage dorks that think that calling Microsoft 'M$' is like the greatest insult in the world. I use Linux at work. It's a great developer platform. I use it t home for my server. Great at that, too. Just have a windows box for games. So you can call me a Linux geek... but I hate two things about the linux community:
Those that insult proprietary companies like a kid would
Those that insult others trying to learn Linux (if someone was to say "RTFM" to a newbie in real life, I'd kick him in the nards)

Really? 401k is a retirement, long-term investment. The market goes up and down, so unless you plan on cashing out your 401k TODAY or next year, I say now is the time to put MORE into the 401k. It's the stock market! When it's low, put in more money, when it's high sell off!

Never ever ever react to a sudden change in the stock market on a long term investment, unless it's something like enron...

I guess you forget my tenure at Smith, then. One of the purest, most pristine pinnacles of academic ivory one could hope to see, cloistered away from all cruel realities of the world in its own halcyon bubble of politically correct perfection.

But isn't it better to have seen the inside and fallen so far from it? So very, very far.

all my departments be abolished.

Thanks for not giving me the SoS job, though. Seems that's where the chicks usually get stuck.

I will be whole. I hope he will be too.

Thank you, I think that keeps everything in perspective.