Only thing is cheap programmers generally -- not exclusively -- but generally suck.
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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.
Interesting article though.
Its not an email alternative. Its and adjunct.
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.
Good service, but disingenuous remark about the nascent noSQL movement.
Antirez is my hero of the week :-)
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?
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
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.
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 use it in Jamaica for stuff there. http://www.brawtalist.com
Dependencies? * Ruby on Rails * 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.