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Re: Databases Should be Dynamically Typed

jawngee — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:45:35 -0000

This has to be one of the dumbest things I've read in forever and a day.

Goodbye optimized queries, optimized storage, optimized stored procs and hello shitloads of redundant client side code to validate input and enforce data integrity. Ever heard of DRY? Well this is the opposite of it.

What is the expected behavior of a SUM() aggregate when a column contains "Hello I'm stupid and don't think through shit" as a value? How am I suppose to group results by month part on a date column if it's not in any sort of format that the database can do anything with?

I'm starting to suspect that you NoSQL guys are either pulling a brilliant Andy Kaufman-esque joke on us all or you guys are lazy and dumb. I'm not sure which it is.

Re: Bootstrapping Technology For Eight Bucks a Day

jawngee — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:21:53 -0000

Most businesses can get away with the standard version which is free.

Re: Bootstrapping Technology For Eight Bucks a Day

jawngee — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:02:16 -0000

Thanks for the tip, haven't heard of them before.

Re: NGINX + PHP-FPM + APC = Awesome

jawngee — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:05:06 -0000

Thanks for the heads up!

Fixed now.

Re: Variables in CSS via PHP

jawngee — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:13:53 -0000

Nope, link?

Re: Metadata/Attributes in PHP

jawngee — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 02:41:57 -0000

JSON would be great here as well. Honestly, the only reason I chose YAML is because all of our other configuration is done with that.

Re: Metadata/Attributes in PHP

jawngee — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:06:07 -0000

Well, it definitely isn't blazing fast, but I don't believe the overhead is too taxing. That said, we use APC's shared memory cache to cache metadata so that we only really load it when the application starts up (the cache sticks around until you restart the server or until APC restarts itself). Using this strategy, once it's cached it's barely noticeable.

You could do the same thing using memcached, but APC's is much faster as the memory is local to its process.

Re: Filmmakers Finding New Action Online

jawngee — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:03:11 -0000

We are launching a new music video competition next week. It's a doozy.

No, most definitely not a horror movie site. Check back in next week. We're launching a ton of new tools, as well as having a string of competitions this fall that are going to be bananas.

Re: What’s your most memorable hand?

jawngee — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:02:05 -0000

I'd be thinking almost the same thing. BB is feeling, MP is protecting.

It's a fucked situation, MP is going to call you any which way you
go. If you push, he calls, if you smooth call, he gets his flush.

The math says to push, you are ~75% to win (4% chance to hit that
straight flush) but, on the other hand, it's possible that this guy
has a J or T high flush and is protecting it against the K. But if
all he has is a flush draw he can't call if you've made it 270 to
roll, but in 1/2 anything is possible. So, yeah, you have to raise
here. It's really the only thing to do.

You could fold, you're only in for $10 at this point, but the $100 bet
from MP is fishy. I'm trying to think what would prompt me to overbet
the pot like that in MP with a flush draw on board. By raising here,
I'm giving two people the opportunity to reraise me. I'm guessing
that $100 was 25% of his stack? For me to make that bet in MP I'd have
to have second nuts or better or top pair/overpair with a high spade
for the flush draw. Or trips. I'm not going to raise 55 or 66, but
I'll call $10 to see a flop. I hit a set and I'm going to bet to
protect it. But in this case, I'd make a safety bet to see where they
are at, so I'm not going to put 25% of my stack out there, maybe a pot
sized bet, ~$60. I've reraised the initial bettor, which signals some
strength, but with two to act, I need a clearer picture of where I'm at.

But, if I'm in MP and I do have second nuts, I'm going to smooth call
the original bettor, or min raise him to generate some action. So I'm
going to have to say the chances of him having trips are pretty small,
having second nuts or better is about the same. So the only likely
hand this guy has is top pair with a high spade, maybe JJ or 10-10,
but he would have raised from MP pre-flop unless he was trying to
replay a WSOP episode, which might be likely considering his poker t-
shirt.

So yeah, I'd push.

Re: Lesson One: You are not as good as you think (Part 1)

jawngee — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:21:34 -0000

Ok, so you drop 2, get 2 callers and last to act min-raises?

You can reply to posts by replying to the email notices, sick.

Re: Lesson One: You are not as good as you think (Part 1)

jawngee — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:51:10 -0000

Awesome post.

You're fucked in this situation. If I have zero table image at this point, and it's early in the game, I will check and fold and wait for a better situation. You're only sunk for $35 bucks and pushing all in (the only move I could imagine at this point) would be critically stupid. I like to start with small pots and build up to bigger ones, so if I still am 300 back, I'm cool with that and will hang tight for better weather. The sharks can keep my $35 bucks.

Also, if you show weakness here, you can utilize that down the road when you flop the nuts. Here I would check and fold to any bet over $35 to see what the turn brings. Land me trips? Spike the shit out of it and get paid. But again, I'm of the "pot progression" school of thinking in terms of time management and applying value to hands. When you're weak on the table and short stacked, the value of your hands drop and you're in no position to think of trying to maximize that value. I feel like the aim here should be building up chips in relative safety.

Once I'm deep stacked, it's an entirely different situation though and you'll see me spike that flop without hesitation.

Re: My Mac Mini

jawngee — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:11:11 -0000

Umm. I use 4 monitors on my mac.

I'm a convert from Windows as well, 15+ years as a windows developer/.NET consultant, now I'm entirely rails/PHP/objective-c. I still use a Windows laptop but after six months of using a mac, I find myself less productive and more annoyed with Windows each passing day.

You'll get to that point as well, some day. Takes some time, but once you get there you'll wonder why you hadn't done it sooner.