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Sarki··on Forbes Revises Estimated Net Worth of Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes
Looks like the brioche shouldn't have risen anyway. What an interesting business fairy tale.
Sarki··on Scaling to 100M: MySQL Is a Better NoSQL
So if I got it straight the message is: "Don't fall for the sirens of hype but instead make sure that your choice of technologies suits your needs"?
Sarki··on That awkward moment when Apple mocked good hardware and poor people
This Apple Keynote 2015 video extract speaks for itself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4UOmR_xSBM
Sarki··on I got a new Samsung TV (Tizen), do you think I can write an app for it? Hell no!
Indeed!

On the plus side you can benefit from your hardware with other viewing medium.

With a HDMI switch I can watch some Netflix either on my TV or my video projector this way - Not on a Pi though as Netflix uses proprietary encryption which is a pain to setup for it. But other things like a WDTV HD does the job fairly decently.

Sarki··on I got a new Samsung TV (Tizen), do you think I can write an app for it? Hell no!
<sarcastic tone> You mean that on top of its closed firmware this is closed software as well? </sarcastic tone>

Forget the shiny stuff they ship with their TVs with and use an external hardware instead. It's not ideal but you'd be amazed by the things a Raspberry Pi2 can do when wired to a TV.

Sarki··on Show HN: Restdb.io – a plug and play database service
Such a thing already exists if you're ready to host your own DB:

http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1616/

http://labs.mysql.com/

That's as simple to find as googling "<db name> REST API"

Sarki··on Sydney startup Curbit lets users pick up someone’s unwanted goods from the kerb
Nice project, for the record this is existing since 2006 and covers France, Switzerland, Belgium and Canada. https://donnons.org/ ("Donnons" means "giving" in french)

Perhaps you'll have more impact worldwide with this, it's never a bad idea to let ones enjoy what is a now a burden for others.

Sarki··on Object-Oriented Programming: A Disaster Story
The real disaster here is when you assume that OOP is the only path to follow.

OOP is a programming paradigm among others, the same way you have many types of hammers.

Only ignorance (or lack of culture) motivates oneself to use a mace instead of a carpenter's hammer for driving nails into a wall.

In case you're curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_paradigm

Sarki··on “now every Rails install requires redis, eventmachine, celluloid and faye”
For those looking for potential promising alternatives : - https://blog.engineyard.com/2015/life-beyond-rails-brief-loo...
Sarki··on This Christmas, give the gift of a blameless life to someone you love
Unbelievable... I sincerely hope it's a joke.
Sarki··on Pursuit of Serverless Architecture: What if we didn't need app servers anymore?
Big misunderstanding here: it's not "server-less" (as in without-a-server), it's Serverless (as in "these products we're trying to sell through HN"...)

You need your users to be able to share information between them? You will need a server at some point. Period.

Call it miraculous AWS or whatever, it's still a server.

Sarki··on Banking APIs, or, how fraudulent are you?
All credit bureaus have an API, depending their age you can find from COBOL CICS Sockets to JSON interfaces.

Should we be that much surprised about this?

How to you think businesses ensure that you can afford this revolving credit application?

Sarki··on Facebook’s code quality problem
Funny, mostly because these three exhibits (and I'm pretty sure there's plenty others) are a blatant proof of the issue with hiring young programmers (read "no one over 30")...

The evidence here is three times "If brute force doesn't solve your problems, then you aren't using enough." which is the route chosen by uncultivated people in any domain. (myself included)

Among which I often hear: - "Just add more RAM, it doesn't cost much nowadays!" - "Just push it to <insert well-known hosting plaform, preferably A.z.n> using <insert overhyped virtualisation platform>" - "Just use to NoSQL, it's faster!" (sigh)

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