I went to a class on startups once where the guy there said you should bounce your idea off like "100" people, (basically, to pivot early). Before you go "great guns" on your idea. FWIW, not sure how that ties into "pre investor" vs. post however :)
Mail-ins are accepted "over time" as it were. Which apparently doesn't help LOL. However, it might be nice to have multiple days (or strictly mail-in, as my city now does) to be able to avoid those long lines, those can be painful...
Isn't "setting up your environment" pretty much a one time cost, though? In my head at least, losing a couple days up front doesn't matter as much, it's the time after that the needs to be optimized. But maybe that's just my work place where people tend to stay on the same team for years...
If it's like Cassandra, then you can kind of get around consistency problems by, for instance if you have a "replication" factor of 2, by instructing it to write to "2 instances before returning" (and then you turn around and read it after that, if you want to double check). Though of course while it's writing to the first, then second replica, it'll be inconsistent, but not for too long :)
Honest question: do any readers here really order from walmart.com ? I am surprised they sell much at all, based on how much I personally have ordered from them (never).
It does have a reputation (for me, anyway) of possibly being cheaper. And tons of reviews online of people having poor experiences buying from it. That's the rep. it has for me so far :)
It does have a cooler looking website than walmart, and possibly even amazon. FWIW.
Adobe did buy AEM "when i was little" (you know, for like 20M or something I have no idea) and it has grown to 10x as much. However that is purchasing a smaller company...kind of like venture capital investment I guess. there seem to be plenty of examples where buying companies hasn't worked out (yahoo+tumblr comes to mind, and that's only recent news).
I figured out what is going on here. Walmart thinks to themselves "we want to be like amazon, we want to be huge online" and then jet comes along and is something of an almost competitor to amazon, so corporate thinks "oh we should snap this up" but...my gut reaction here is this is going to be a terrible deal for walmart, what are they going to do, keep dumping $500M/yr for it at a loss or what? Pretty desperate, but whatever.. :)
I don't think it aims to replace ruby (they don't even claim any kind of "compatibility" level with ruby, more like "inspired by ruby" I would think), but...I wish it would replace it :)
I think it's target is more along the space where "go" is, as little code as possible (like a scripting language), but still speedy. So in true scripting language form, you don't have to worry about collecting your objects ever. I'm not aware of any benchmarks on the cost/hit of this, I do know it uses the BDW GC which is hopefully pretty battle tested...
Are you saying the GC is as fast as C? I bet it's not.
That being said, the programs I've built in crystal "feel" very fast, here are a few random performance tests, if you're asking about overall performance: