Posts by erkulas

Why is it that women are consistently paid less than men?

Re: Something missing

The bricklaying men just take out the pre payment. And they will pay oh so dearly when the time comes for this. How many men make it to the 65 retirement age vs 60 retriement for women? Bricklayers (men or women) SHOULD get more pay than kindergarden teachers because they shorten their life expectancy considerably more on the job!!! And they do.

I am getting really tired of this feminist BS. All the western societies try to get to the wholy grail of 3 children per woman but in reality are moving farther away from this goal. There is no eating the cake and leaving it too. Look at which societies are doing well on this topic (moslems? Tyrkey? asian countryes?), now look at their gender "equality" score.

This whole argument is ridiculous - something for the ones who have nothing better on their hands. Once in a while these kind of articles tick me off so here I am wasting the time I have ~10 years less than the women in my country (being a man).

Oracle's NoSQL nightmare MongoDB goes to version 2.6

Re: Scoffing

KISS principle can be applied to everything. Yeah, even data models and the ensuing databases. Actually in my experience this is the most important place to apply it when designing software that stores data.

When you don't need transactions. Oh yeah your "serious" applications can be designed (sometime even better) without them. When the relations you need can be counted on one hand fingers. Yes that means you would have to know the requirements before coding not after :P . When data amounts are medium (half a trillion smallish documents) on day one. When there are 100+ times data reads vs. one write (most data is written once and accessed orders of magnitud more times).

Then you can take MongoDB, install it on your cheapo x86 server and run it with stock configurations with everything working without any previous knowledge of the DBMS (first time we tried it in production). That also means you don't have the config hook in your code to turn on autocommit mode for your Oracle/Postgre database (sic.) .

U guys just widen your horizons, there is never one best tool for the job. Why use scissors when all you need is a knife?

PS: have used Postgres, Mongo, Oracle extensively on multiple big projects with different goals.

Don't crack that Mac: Almost NOTHING in new Retina MacBook Pros can be replaced

Re: How to fix a MacBook

"They will more than likely also transfer the data to your new device after they finished copying it for themselves" <- there fixed it for you! (pun intended)

Lone sysadmin fingered for $462m Wall Street crash

Re: You'd be amazed at how many changes are made on the fly...

Good thing the complexity is all man made ... so it can be man-unmade with just enough right motivation.

Microwaves thrash fibre on speed... if you like two-nines uptime

Re: Run for the hills

I presume you mean the bits generated in your computer and/or exchanges server as "REAL GAINS" ... . I can already imagine you eating the bits for dinner then.

The monkeys generating buy/sell orders over atlantic make no REAL GAINS. They do have a small arbitrage effect that is somewhat useful . But if 95% of the markets is arbitrage and only 5% are the guys who actually produce goods/services then by what logic can you say that market prices are rooted in something real (as in REAL gains/losses).

But hey shoot yourselves - I'll just let you guys play around the table (if you have music) while myself investing in real production capacity (agriculture).

Hipsters hacking on PostgreSQL

Relational databases ...

... had poisoned whole generation of programmers thinking (incl. me). With no clue we approached everything through relational prism that we studied in university. MySQL was the only OSS alternative that cut enough corners to make relational DBMS fit the problems we tried to solve. For which the relational paradigm wasn't a good fit anyways.

So. then comes along the NoSQL stuff and you find out that you have much better tools than relational for these kinds of problems (simple websites, blogging sites, feed sites, social sites, etc.). Along the way you might see all the other problems that really need realational (ERP systems etc.). But now you need real relational not some half-baked all corners cut MySQL stuff. Yeah that also goes for InnoDB which might have become something if Oracle hadn't freezed it.

Then you try out Postgre (because it's free) and when it works for big workloads (yes it does in skilled hands) then you are hooked. If by chance you then check out Oracle ... it feels like a twelve ton dinosaur ("erm. no boolean type? whaat - implicit commit with DDL?"). If by any miracle you don't have the 1% of projects that need something special - Oracle RAC or Spatial or whatnot. Then Postgre is the most mainstream option available - there just is no other as popular, as functional and as cheap solution for these kinds of problem domains that really require relational DBMS.

PS: been using MySQL (both MyISAM/InnoDB) over 10 years, PostgreSQL over 5 years and Oracle over 5 years.

Trustwave to escape 'death penalty' for SSL skeleton key

Secret eavesdropping is illegal in most parts of EU

and punishable by criminal law - you know jail-time and all. I can only imagine one scenario where you could do it legally. In a very big corporation which let's their employees know they are being eavesdropped but is not capable (might be too expensive) of installing their own root-certificates to their machines.

SSL should not cross this line because it is practically impossible for an outsider (Mozilla? Trustvawe?) to determine if the conditions were right for this kind of eavesdropping. Let's leave determining this to the national authorities like police and courts - shall we. If a private company wants to eavesdrop it should pay the price of managing it's own hardware/software and installing it's own root certificates .

Microsoft patent points to Skype snooping

Skype backdoor

Skype representatives have been asked multiple times to confirm/deny that there is a backdoor in the algorithm. They haven't confirmed nor denied it and have always deflected the question. So I would think it is safe to say they can eavesdrop on you if they wanted to.

Now ask yourself if the CIA visited them and asked for BinLadens conversation would they (Skype) have facilitated it. My vote says they have. Probably on very rare occasions but I think they have already used the backdoor .

This is all speculation of course.

Making sport of browser security, hackers topple IE, Safari

Couldnt be

I would argue that in as a rule of thumb having a more integrated (and thus complex) system makes for a more insecure product. So in theory Opera/FF have a bit better chance of being secure than IE9 or Safari .

Anyhow the Spaceshuttle does fly better than a brick, so every theory has exceptions :) .

Dear US gov: Stay the hell out of Silicon Valley

US is biggest in everything

You consume most energy.

You take out the most loans from your grandkids.

You have the biggest free economy.

You have by far the biggest government which is dwarfing the economy.

Wasn't US gov. that created and now owns some the biggest banks in the world (Freddie/Fannie)? This was done by the way of gov. regulation and way before the economy collapsed. Looking at that measure only US could be called communist country.