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morghus

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morghus··on Why Genghis Khan’s tomb can’t be found
I would add beautiful people as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewr-vzw4ZWo
morghus··on Defense of Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop offers case study on how to sell snake oil
Part I dislike most is that all this publicity just increases their exposure and probably their profits too.

I don't see how you could stop people like this and can't help but wonder how much good the backlash is actually doing.

morghus··on Facebook Australia allowed advertisers to target teens’ emotional states
We really have no way of knowing for which purpose or in which way any data that is collected about us is used by any company/person/entity.
morghus··on Facebook Australia allowed advertisers to target teens’ emotional states
Oversight by whoever dared leak this.
morghus··on Dear MongoDB users, we welcome you in Azure DocumentDB
Yes, except you can't do the most basic things with DocumentDB and it becomes very expensive very fast. Especially if you want multiple collections.

There's a lot lacking with DocumentDB, as evident from the feedback forum, that comparing it to Mongo is like comparing an infant to an adult. The infant might be cute, but it can't do a whole lot.

https://feedback.azure.com/forums/263030-documentdb/filters/...

morghus··on Error Handling in Node.js
much obliged
morghus··on Error Handling in Node.js
Can anyone explain why this pattern doesn't work? Or point me to some resource?

  function myApiFunc(callback)
  {
    /*
     * This pattern does NOT work!
     */
    try {
      doSomeAsynchronousOperation(function (err) {
        if (err)
          throw (err);
        /* continue as normal */
      });
    } catch (ex) {
      callback(ex);
    }
  }