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obecalp | 16 years ago | on: Why Pair Programming Is Not For the Masses

Pair programming is good for UI/HCIish code and so so for other types of code. Studies have shown that human are not good at multitasking even though it makes them feel productive.

Personally I think pair programming is overrated while code review is still underrated.

obecalp | 16 years ago | on: Dynamic Web Development with Seaside

Most web designers don't grok <your_favorite_langauages>, but some limited template languages/tags. A web framework without template doesn't scale in terms of development resource unless you figure out a way to automatically translate a template delivered by a designer to your Smalltalk code.

obecalp | 16 years ago | on: Clever ideas that failed

Good lessons, except for 1, without doing that there'd be no Google map-reduce and Hadoop. Of course, this means you should be using Hadoop now.

obecalp | 16 years ago | on: The Problem with Design and Implementation

Short summary: he thinks that every line of code is design because the final code is the precise spec.

This is an interesting but narrow POV. What if you "design" an algorithm in Haskell and what to "translate" to another language? Calling the "translation" process design would be a bit of stretch. Implementation seems to be an appropriate word here.

obecalp | 16 years ago | on: The looming (storage) bandwidth wall

Retrieving data to process and storing back to some giant "storage units" are becoming more and more obsolete. The future is google style: data is replicated and backed up at all times and you push computation to data to explore data locality.

obecalp | 16 years ago | on: Why You Should Switch from Subversion to Git

If you want to compare repository sizes you should compare the size of .git directory only.

obecalp | 16 years ago | on: Don't MAWK AWK - the fastest and most elegant big data munging language

-d'<tab>'

obecalp | 16 years ago | on: Beginnings of the Holodeck: AMD's DX11 GPU, Eyefinity and 6 Display Outputs

The singularity is near!

obecalp | 16 years ago | on: Keyspace 1.1 released

Paxos and consistent hashing on top of BerkeleyDB? This is getting old. 3-way replication levels at 12MB/s? Have they heard of replication pipelining?

obecalp | 16 years ago | on: Help pick a better name for NoSQL Movement at NoSQL East Conference

PostSQL is better than NoSQL

obecalp | 16 years ago | on: What happened to Marc Andressen's past blog postings?

Then your point is moot. The context is startup. Eric does a good job for a post-startup, which is already very profitable with a revenue of $86m in 2001 (http://investor.google.com/fin_data2003.html). As a matter of fact, many think that Eric is more "lucky" than "good", given his track record at Novell.