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That's interesting. I hadn't heard of it.

Who does that? I don't know anyone that actually does XP that does that. There's no such thing as XP certification, and I have never seen an XP class offered. There's not even an XP conference anymore.

It looks like there's a lot of programming going on there. The lack of continuous deployment has been an admission of omission by Kent Beck, but other than that, is it the fact that there is a meeting once a day and once a week? Planning of any kind gets in the way of programming?

I'm truly curious what part of XP gets in the way of programming.

Taste.

Well, the lack of QA certainly explains a lot.

I think you hit the nail on the head of what I'm getting at: "Famous for being famous." I guess I'm wondering if this is starting to happen in OSS and Programming in general?

Totally agree and I plan on focusing on this in the coming year.

HackerNews uses NoSQL. Delete is not implemented.

Do you consider projects like http://erector.rubyforge.org/, http://pivotal.github.com/jasmine/user-guide.html, or http://github.com/pivotal/cedar to have good documentation?

Serious question: What does TDD, BDD, Extreme Programming, SCRUM, Standups and all the stuff in the first paragraph have to do with writing a library or app with proper documentation?

I'm completely lost as to how doing Extreme Programming means you don't have a good Readme for your Git-Powered wiki with sweet API?

He lost me at a combination of that and Enterprise SAS. Last time I checked, the "State School, Java at HP" types are the only ones applying at Enterprise SAS companies.

Interesting, I wonder why it would get picked up in an ad today though?

Yes, the fact that MongoDB was losing his data was all his fault because he chose MongoDB. Sound logic.

Send a tweet to @oreillymedia and you'll get faster action than actually trying to use the accounts =at= oreilly.com email they are giving out.

The have all hands on deck trying to deal with this but their systems have been completely over whelmed.

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I've used these stencils for (I believe) 3 years now. I can't stand to use Balsamiq because I've used these for so long and the fact that Balsamiq UI isn't even in the same league as Omnigraffle.

More accurate title: Twitter migrates parts of it's system away from MySQL to other data stores including Cassandra.

One should probably not assume others "don't know [ruby] that well" when they don't know the person.

Fine sir, I believe you have missed the point.

Designing for the Social Web by Joshua Porter is one of the better books I've ever read (3-4 times). My former colleagues at AboutUs.org even had a weekly book club for it.

Isn't that what 4chan is for?

The new iPhones and iPod Nano's are actually pretty good. So is a Flip. The flips can even do HD.

You really think Arrington is an impartial news source? Really?

But if that's a problem, then he'd never open source it and just says stuff like "I pushed for open sourcing it" to excite the geeks (which is what I assume is actually true).

If Arrington wasn't completely full of shit, he'd actually open source some or all of it instead of just "pushing" for it. I mean, it's a dead project right? If it's dead, then release what you've got to the community and watch someone else follow through.

Also how would he ever let Fusion Garage "jointly own" part of the IP? That sounds like a terrible idea. The only way that happens is if his "team" couldn't actually make the thing work (which is what I'm reading between the lines). So he's over a barrel because he promised WAY too much and couldn't actually make it happen.

In other words, if you come on HN spouting bullshit about what OS you host on while asking for help finding a designer, you're probably doing it wrong.

Just to add to what QHoxie said (I worked with him on this project), the site is doing Alexa top 750 traffic. Every page view would hit the db atleast a few times. And it's not that the site just couldn't run off EBS volumes, but we would see massive performance spikes where EBS IOPS would slow to a crawl for a few minutes to even a couple hours.

There's lots of types of NoSQL dbs, where would you like to start? Are you looking for a DocumentDB or a Key/Value store or a Graph DB or a column oriented db?

Do you have a preference on what language an example app or tutorial is in?

I've noticed it. Especially the anti-37signals comments. I got -4 for saying I agreed with DHH about something.