Zach explains why I will not be using Tumblr any more. Instead I will make an effort to post more frequently on Wordpress. Even before Zach’s diatribe I’ve come to feel that my tumblelog has turned into a series of rants, and that’s just not useful to anyone.
Makes me wonder how you housebreak a tiny pony. Maybe her human always carries a really big plastic bag with her, you know, just in case the pony decides to poop in the Apple Store.
Wow, that has to be pretty embarrassing for the up and coming world superpower. The capital city is so overwhelmingly popular that you have to spend several days in traffic just to get there.
Java 4-ever! Hell yeah!
An interesting choice in decor at my previous employer. The other side of the office had a huge Clockwork Orange poster. Except for the dystopian themed posters the office was quite appealing.
Thankfully my experience at Sun was nothing like this. The annual reviews were a chore, granted, but it was a good opportunity for me and my manager to focus on what I achieved and what I would be striving to do in the coming year. The important thing is to get constructive feedback, not just a numeric score, which is patently useless. Sun really understood that.
After reading this you’ll see just how biased the previous article was. They clearly ignored obvious ways in which to improve the Hadoop benchmarks. Just goes to show that it doesn’t matter how many authors you have contributing to an article, but how smart they are. In fact, I think most of the readers are smarter than Stonebraker, who clearly thinks that his thinly veiled marketing posts are taken seriously.
This article is an improvement over the other earlier writings by Stonebraker, but still heavily slanted to show Vertica in a good light. I love how his vested interest in Vertica is never brought to light in the entire article, but the very first commenter spotted that immediately. The most off-putting statement though comes with the “stand on the shoulders of giants” reference. In other words, “DBMS is the Right Answer, as we’ve been saying all along, and you’re ignorant to think otherwise.” Nice.
I think “ridiculous” is just the tip of the iceberg. This judge clearly has no understanding of the ramifications of such a decision. Imagine if YouTube had to screen every video that was uploaded. Google could never hire enough people to screen the videos, subsequently the queue of pending reviews would stretch to the asteroid belt, and subsequently no one would bother uploading videos any more. Oops, there goes the entire point of YouTube. Transfer this to blogs and the effects are chilling. Ministry of Information, here we come. Not only should this ruling be overturned, the judge should be fired for being a moron.
I have felt this way for years. Microsoft has done nothing but bought, copied, or stolen nearly everything they have ever released as their own. You disagree? Prove me wrong.
