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[KidJr]

The fuck is wrong with mongodb? Not worrying about migrations is a godsend

My gf's aunts husband works as DBA Manager and kept on harping on about how Mongodb is just to error prone to ever be viable competitor to something like Oracle. I went to one of those open seminars at UCL that they had about mongodb and a debate started about scaling horizontally vs vertically and he claimed there are literally almost zero benefits to clustering. Sounded like a dinasore but its my gf aunts husband so didnt wanna break the news to him lol.

This thread is hilarious

 

[Kid Ska]

lmfao

 

[Two Words]

No, I meant like boilerplate code that you have to write over and over again.

Like how in Java before you can even start writing a basic program you have to have a bunch of stuff like

package com.example {
	public class Test {
		public Test() {
			System.out.println("Hello, world!n")
		}

		public static void main(string[] args) {
			Test x;
			x = new Test();
		}
	}
}

whereas in Python the program would be

print "Hello, world!"

(I used tabs in this example because they're apparently so superior to spaces)

What is truly superior is keeping matching curly braces at the same indentation.

 

[crazygambit]

You think that was realistic

Well, it perfectly represents my wife, all her friends and about 90% of the women (and I guess around 80% of the men) I know, so yes?

Regular people really aren't that computer literate and most don't have a clue how to clean a virus. Even designers.

 

[Alx]

What is truly superior is keeping matching curly braces at the same indentation.

Hahaha, that's the first thing I thought too... can't fight that pet peeve of mine.

 

[Jackben]

Well, it perfectly represents my wife, all her friends and about 90% of the women (and I guess around 80% of the men) I know, so yes?

Regular people really aren't that computer literate and most don't have a clue how to clean a virus. Even designers.

Your anecdotal evidence is dumb and doesn't mean anything in the context of this thread. The book itself was about "Computer Engineer Barbie" not "crazygambit's wife / all her friends and 90% of the women he knows" Barbie.

It's ridiculous and borderline sexist to describe Barbie as a Computer Engineer at the start and then have her act clueless and helpless without the aid of her guy friends over the course of the story.

 

[PumpkinSpice]

I had a day like this yesterday.

 

[User 73706]

"I'll create a GUI interface using Visual Basic. See if I can track an IP address."

 

[cubicle47b]

K&R > Allman.

 

[Water]

K&R > Allman.

I got started with Allman style, and I remember thinking it looked "cleaner". But after a while, I happened to read an analysis of the different indentation styles - it may have been in Code Complete - and ended up switching to K&R because I think it has fundamentally better characteristics. Easier to edit and comprehend because visuals correspond better to the code flow. Some like to point out that K&R also lets more code fit on screen, but for me that's just a small bonus. It didn't take long to get used to it, and it doesn't really matter if Allman creates a more visually pleasing composition of stuff on the screen when it's harder to read and edit than K&R.

 

[BeatResetsTheWorld]

Some pretty good points here: http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2013/11/11/why-you-should-never-use-mongodb/

Sounds like he didn't think through the schema very well...the problems he pointed out can very easily be remedied even with mongo

 

[cubicle47b]

I don't like Allman because of all the extra white space. It makes code blocks less defined to me.

 

[CrudeDiatribe]

Barbie got your back -
http://i.imgur.com/BUUADP5.png

Maybe I will buy a Barbie doll for my hypothetical daughter after all.

 

[M3d10n]

Barbie is supposed to be a... computer programmer? But yet she doesn't know a thing about viruses?

Unfortunately, such people actually do exist.

-- EDIT --
Wait, the thread is devolving in both programming language and database wars? Lol.

 

[Jintor]

These memes are 2 gud

 

[Volimar]

Mattel apologizes for controversial Barbie book, pulls it from online stores

http://mashable.com/2014/11/21/mattel-apologizes-barbie/

Mattel apologized on Wednesday for the Barbie children's book that was widely deemed sexist for its portrayal of a female engineer who needs the help of two men to do her job, and pulled the book from online stores.

The company posted an apology to its Barbie Facebook page, saying all titles "moving forward will be written to inspire girl's imaginations, and portray an empowered Barbie character." Barbie: I Can Be a Computer Engineer is no longer available on Amazon.

In the children's book, Barbie has some trouble while she's trying to develop a computer program. She enlists the help of Steven and Brian, two male programmers, to help her understand the technology. Female developers (and basically everyone else) did not take it well.

"It will go faster if Brian and I help," the character Steven says to Barbie in the story, and she's quick to oblige.

The book's author has also gone on the defense, saying she did not mean to offend with her portrayal of women in tech.

“Maybe I should have made one of those programmers a female. I wish I did,” author Susan Marenco told ABC News. “If I was on deadline, it’s possible stuff slipped out, or I quietly abided by Mattel without questioning it. Maybe I should have pushed back, and I usually I do, but I didn’t this time.”

 

[thesuperfunk]

Ay yo barbie here is a tip, if that ken on ken video you downloaded has a file extension that looks like this -> ".avi.exe"
Then you're about to get trojaned.

Not sounding too promising for Ken either ...

 

[Jintor]

I am interested in this as well.

EXTOLLLLLLLLL >:-|

 

[Mesousa]

I lost my shit when I saw she took all the credit at the end of the book lmao.


I kind of want to buy the book now just to laugh.