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Only thing is cheap programmers generally -- not exclusively -- but generally suck.

I already see it when trying to hire programmers and designers.

Because a programmer knows a mish-mash of PHP, Java and a little Javascript, they think that they are immediately qualified to write a scaleable web app.

Designers are even worse. Just because they know photoshop or dreamweaver, they think they are a designer.

I find that my programming candidates from the open-source world, though, tend to be better then those using the latest and greatest editor with some kind of intellisense on Windows.

Yeah, Heroku should put up or shut up until they start offering alternate NoSQL databases (and no, MongoHQ is not an alternative because of network latency).

Interesting article though.

Hilarious and totally credible!

Google wave is a godsend for teams of people who work together. We no longer have to exchange a million emails about a project topic. We all keep it into the wave.

Its not an email alternative. Its and adjunct.

Nope those are systems that few people use. If I'm gonna pay a contractor in virtually any country, PayPal is the place to be.

Paypal suxxors, sometimes.

Been using it for years and years and years. It has not sucked for me.. except once. But then again, my bank sucks. Amazon sucks as a payment system. Google sucks as a payment system.

Thing is, so many people use Paypal, and its indecently convenient, that you end up living with the suckage.

Just like that crappy car you have that sucks. You get out of bed one morning, the very time that you need it to go to that new job, and it wont start. Ugh! You get it fixed, then it works like a charm for the next 8 months. Then it sucks again.

These PayPal suxx horror stories are true. But they are few and far between. I don't see less people using Paypal because of those stories. I see more. Putting them out there is good because PayPal will hopefully pay attention.

But stop griping and get a decent alternative to paypal, and NO, what you are about to suggest is not a decent alternative, unless it works exactly like paypal and all my friends and employees use it.

For sure he does not want people to buy into the noSQL movement, because it would mean less work for FathomDB.

Good service, but disingenuous remark about the nascent noSQL movement.

Well worth the read to learn the design decisions and the capabilities that are opened up with Redis by keeping just the keys and least used data in memory.

Antirez is my hero of the week :-)

It does not matter if he considers himself a startup or not.

Think about it. He does fairly well doing what he does. Must a dentist "scale", or is the dentist perfectly happy running her practice until she retires?

Why do people have to scale? Wouldn't you like yourself to earn that regular money every month doing something that you like without thinking of constant expansion?

For us the big thing, during the current refactoring of http://www.funadvice.com, is eliminating joins.

In testing of the new up-coming platform, that was a huge, huge win for speed. And we're a Postgresql shop too.

MongoDB allowed us to: * Have embedded documents (very large performance improvements) * Have arrays and hashes as "columns"

We also use Redis in a few crucial places, because of its really good support for lists (queues), and sets, besides, just its blazingly raw speed.

Downsites? Yes. Many rails-style plugins don't work well. But an upside is that we're forced to write leaner code and not depend too much on those.

Another downside, MongoDB is super-fast, but is still a work in progress in some places, and the ORM we're using (mongo_mapper) is somewhat of a moving target right now.

But hey, thats what happens when you're on the bleeding edge.

MongoDB: * build-in replication * basic sharding * embedded documents * very very fast

Calling bullshit on that tablet. Why would I want two separate OS's in the same device?

In that test, you could see the display lagging terribly in the touch drag. And also the UI is completely horrible. As @austinshea says, its pretty rough. In fact, it looks like a caveman built it.

Sigh. We geeks want a do-it-all tablet in the fevered imagination of our wet dreams.

Meanwhile, Apple has leapfrogged all of us, and made the iPad (and iPhone) so easy, that my toddler and my grandma can use it without a manual. Think! They can actually email, facebook, and freaking save someone's name with their telephone number without freaking out over some craptacular user interface that someone like me made in a lab somewhere.

Remember, we are not the iPad's target audience. The target audience is the guy that picks up a mouse and tries to speak into it.

Just don't think that Apple somehow failed you, because you did not get exactly what you wanted.

We're looking for an intern eager to learn Ruby in the Miami area. Should be a hacker type and know at least one computer language in-depth. We're paying a modest stipend monthly $1,000.00 - eric@w3matter.com

Make sure you pay your taxes dude

Yeah, we have something simple. I'd be glad to let you get the code, or even set it up on one of our servers here. Provided you totally run it.

We use it in Jamaica for stuff there. http://www.brawtalist.com

Dependencies? * Ruby on Rails * Redis

Redis -- with Ohm. Really great. Build a bunch of sites with it. A nice replacement for ActiveRecord in many use-cases. Now ready to redo some BIG sites that we have using just Redis.

It has transformed my thinking about data (i'm a postgres guy), and just made Rails more fun now. The sites I did are also blazing fast.