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Sir, btw, I need a rule that I can use intuitively when deciding on wether to concatenate two words and when to put a dash between them. Do you have one?

Yes, I see what you mean. But surely, just adding Programming to the curriculum of businessmen, who I'm sure are quite intelligent or else they should be considering other occupations, does not equate to a person having to learn Another Occupation. Or do you think programmers, good ones, just know Programming?

But what you should realize is that the person who wrote this beautiful piece of code is someone who is at the peak of their career, a thinker, an artist, and that it must be ok to not ever rise to his level, because this is close to a master-piece. Few of these geniuses become professors, is just a guess, because no matter how quirky you are you always get a job somewhere.

If you and your parent poster are right about why Excel is so prominent, and I personaly think both of you are, then we might be able to see a shift in economics and businessmanship and in the way Excel formulas play a large part of what it is that makes the world go 'round, once business men start to learn how to program, or when Excel start's to learn to talk "business", but no earlier than that.

Which movement do you think is strongest? The AI camp or the ones that think programming should absolutely be a part of a proper education in business or economics? I hope for the latter, because I think it will be the end of the huge gap there is today, between the decision makers and the engineers, two groups who quite often but for no good reason feel alienated from each other.

> It's not even possible to make commercial truffle oil with real truffles, because the flavor doesn't last longer than a day or two.

Actually, the reason it's not possible to make real truffle oil is because (drum roll plz) truffles aren't soluble in oil. Or rather, the compound that holds the truffle essance is not soluble in oil.

I'm sure that's true for your average Wordpress publisher, but the big guys will either slap you with a law suit or take other measures to make you stop crawling their site.

Scraping and crawling is the same thing btw. I absolutely love how the English language has several words for the same thing. Your language very expressive.

Google is a scraper. Your data will end up in their index. You are perfectly OK with Google "stealing" your data.

A new player crawling your site is an offence to you. How dare someone other than Google or Bing put preasure on my site? How dare they steal my data?

TOS is a joke.

I wonder, what was the intention of the founding fathers of the internet, of the internet? Was it not to make data publicly available?

I have nothing good to say about COM, but I'm seriously thinking about gRPC [0] to get away from the sloppy json endpoints we code around today, at work. Before I dive in I would love to hear, what it is that makes that architecture a bad one.

[0] http://www.grpc.io/

Corporations will abuse your personal integrity whenever they get a chance, while abiding the law. Corporations will cry like babies when their publicly available data (their livelyhood) gets scraped. They will take you to court.

They consider their data to be theirs, even though they published it on the internet. They consider your data (your personal integrity) to be theirs as well, because how can you assume personal integrity when you are surfing the internet?

I have high hopes that the judicial system some time not too far from now will realize that since the law should be a reflection of the current moral standings it will always be behind, trying to catch up with us and that those who break the law while not breaking the current moral standings are still "good citizens" unworthy of prison or fines.

I guess Google won this iteration of the internet because of the double-standars site owners stand by, to allow Google to scrape anything while hindering any competitors from doing the same. There will only be a true competitor to Google when we in the next iteration of the internet realize that searching vast amounts of data (the internet) is a solved problem, that anyone can do as good a job as Google, and move on to the next quirk, around wich there will be competition, and in the end that quirk will be solved, we'll have a winner, signaling that is it time to move on to the next iteration.

> big data is that it can't fit in memory on a single machine

A Lucene index can be much larger than your current RAM. It can be 100x that. The data will still queryable. Lucene reads into memory the data it needs in order to produce a sane result. Lucene is pretty close to being industry standard for information retrieval.

My definition is instead "when your data is not queryable using standard measures".

MongoDB was initially designed to beat other nosql systems in benchmarks, is what I take away from reading about it. Someone took issue with that and wrote an article. "MongoDB lies" and "is slow" were some of the claims made from your link #1.

Now that these issues are gone, by having reasonable default settings for write concern and journaling, how well does MongoDB do in the benchmarks today?

Rewgarding default settings, how is "w=1" considered a safe write? The data exists in a single node and has not been propagated. If you only have one node then I guess it's as safe as can be. Is MongoDB suitable as a single node installation though? I would have thought "w=2" or "w=majority" would be the "safe" setting.

That makes sense to me. If your MongoDB cluster under preasure will only actually persist 90% of your writes and this is something you anticipate, then MongoDB seems like a good choice, if writing in this style is faster than other nosql systems (that make grander promises about persistance) that is.

If "their troubles with durability have largely been solved" were true then I'm sure HN would be flooded with posts about "MongoDB solves durability with an entirely new architecture". I might be wrong here. How did they solve the "your data is lost when a disk fails"?

Fire-and-forget is awesome for when you do not care at all about your data. I'm sure those types of writes are super (duper) fast. What exactly is the use case for that? Serious question.

At this point in time, making a statement about MongoDB on HN should almost be considered trolling. We already know about the short-comings of that code-base. It will work fine until it doesn't and you'll loose some of your data. Some folks are using it and enjoying it. Others aren't. "Your shouldn't use it" is like saying you shouldn't use javascript for things other than UI. Noone cares anymore.

First time I read a blog post about react and saw it's artifacts so to speak I threw up in my mouth. Js AND HTML, mixed! Wtf? I spoke about this to lots of front-enders who laughed and called me old. I agree with your point. If markup and UI code can be separated, why wouldn't you strive for such a solution?

I don't believe React to be mostly hype. It's so frequently being used by skilled and informed teams that I would consider anyone who make this claim to be ill-informed.

But the claim and current consensus around web development is that "you should absolutely use a framework built by someone smarter than you or you'll end up shooting yourself in the foot" I find equally ill-informed.

Consider these popular libs and then consider how poorly they integrate with each other: jquery, bootstrap, require and knockout. If you are off by a version or two in jquery, then bootstrap will not work. Up the version of jquery and parts of your app will break down. Try to fit libs that aren't modularized or that use hard-coded deps with require. You'll end up rewriting those libs (to get rid of deps you don't need).

I feel javascript should be mature enough to use without frameworks. Remember the cutting-and-pasting of the javascript.com era? We're back to that, I feel. I mean, surely there are lots of smart snippets of code or even libs that you want to use in react but can't because the code-snippets or libs aren't following the react architecture. What do you do then? Cut-and-paste those parts that you need and that will fit into react, perhaps?

My two kids (6, 9) fell in love with the regular show years ago. It's the only show I can watch with them. The writing is strange and psychadelic with hidden messages I'm sure only I pick up on and the artists (is this show computer animated?) are great.