He exaggerates. That's just his style. We accept it, and we generally ignore what he says.
Mongrel is nothing but hype most of the time. It doesn't offer particularly advanced features that even nginx and lighttpd offer. It suffers from poor performance. It's only marginally useful if you're using Ruby on Rails.
As it stands, Mongrel2 is basically vaporware at this point.
The MongoDB query looks just like the execution plan that'd be generated behind the scenes by the query evaluator of any relational database. Except, of course, the MongoDB query isn't optimized nearly as much as the query plan generated by the relational database would be.
Most of the debt problems in the US are the result of poor decisions made by Republican governments during the 1980s and the 2000s. These Republicans get the bulk of their votes from rural folk, where the density of college degrees per square mile is virtually 0, or from the long tail of the curve. Look at the cities that are at the very bottom: Oklahoma City, Jacksonville, Birmingham, Louisville, Nashville, New Orleans, Kansas City, Memphis. These are all Republican strongholds.
Geography plays a large role in the housing prices in San Fran, NYC and Boston. They're located on islands, peninsulas, or capes. Unlike Oklahoma City, for instance, land is scarce in those three cities, and they can't just expand in all directions. Greater scarcity does often lead to higher prices.
There's no excuse for a modern mail client, regardless of how it's implemented, to take 30 seconds just to open the display that's used for composing an email. Yes, that's how slow GMail is for some of us.
I've seen code written in India that disallowed any email address containing one or more digits. This was on a site accepting email addresses from the general public, as well.
Have you never used Visual Studio or Eclipse? They easily let you navigate and search your own code, plus any other libraries you might be using and that you have the source code to.
It's good to get the word out to highly-technical audiences like one you find here, so that we can test it and report any bugs before the final release.
I'm 6'5", and my thumb is about as big as the entire keyboard on a Blackberry. I try to press one key, and I end up pressing eight. That's why those devices are near-unusable by me.
No, I think Microsoft actually got it correct. It's a much better user experience to have usable applications running on a real computer, than it is to have half-baked web "applications" running on some remote "Cloud".
Where is the value in Apple? Its ability to trick Americans into buying very expensive, yet very restrictive, products that most of the time they really don't need? That's actually a very harmful thing, from an economic perspective.
Are you sure about that? I've seen co-workers suggest the use of Coq, only to see a room full of managers and peers burst out in laughter. Coq won't catch on in many places where it'd be very useful solely because of its name.
It makes sense why he's saying that. The people responsible for large, important data sets usually have lots of money to spend storing that data. Since they care about their data, they know better than to get involved with NoSQL databases, and actively shun anything that claims to be a NoSQL database. The real money will flow towards those providing real databases.
The huge rise in Objective-C's popularity isn't natural; it's only a result of Apple basically forcing all software targeting its popular mobile platforms to be written in Objective-C.
Maybe the Perl community just needs to trick Apple into making Perl the default language for iPhone and iPad development. It's marketshare will shoot through the roof overnight.
Mongrel is nothing but hype most of the time. It doesn't offer particularly advanced features that even nginx and lighttpd offer. It suffers from poor performance. It's only marginally useful if you're using Ruby on Rails.
As it stands, Mongrel2 is basically vaporware at this point.