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Comment · 14 years ago
I'm not saying they're not useful, pinterest is hardly a giant in my opinion, they do one thing and clearly do it well. I'm sure their position on unit tests will change, hopefully before they are burned.
Comment · 14 years ago
You don't get big by writing a lot of tests (or checks). You get big by getting stuff done with competent people that pay attention to the changes they apply. YMMV
Comment · 15 years ago
Yes. This will be the most productive day of the week.
Comment · 15 years ago
Yo dawg, I heard you like drones...
Comment · 15 years ago
Brogrammer? No. If someone referred to a female co-worker as a Hogrammer, then yes.
Comment · 15 years ago
Fairly certain they have a few people already doing this. Lots of happy customers over there from the sounds of it and not just fly-by-night operations either.
Comment · 15 years ago
When it's ajar?
Comment · 15 years ago
Science!
Comment · 15 years ago
They spent all that money on Skype and now this is all they can afford. It's the thought that counts.
Comment · 15 years ago
Comment · 15 years ago
So he's like that orb thing in Heavy Metal?
Comment · 15 years ago
Heh, so are we going to kick out their students which we've enrolled in some of our top research universities?
Comment · 15 years ago
Sorry, I'm going to make an assumption that by interface difficulty you mean it's ability to be queried (map reduce only + lucene {optional})? Also, nothing forces you to use protobuffs, you can tell riak what (via the content type of an http header) what your data is and get it back as such. I don't see that as a weakness.
Comment · 15 years ago

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