Everythings Amazing & Nobodys Happy

Berkely DB is NoSQL under some, let's say literal, definitions of NoSQL. neo4j currently is also such a db, a non sql db, a NoSQL. Normally, though, people expect something more from this NoSQL "movement". People want "scaling", and elasticity. We live in the world where today you have 2 users, tomorrow you have 2 million of users, the day after you have only 1000. We also live in a world were people are expecting everything to be working always, and are pretty pissed of if things doesn't respond in seconds (watch Luis C.K [this video] ) It's not a surprise that all this hype about NoSQL came out when a number of db implementation were developed which handled replication, sharding, dynamic resizing (add remove nodes) etc Now put a little bit aside the issue with the word "SQL" per se. Let's focus on the "partition tolerance" feature. I was always frustrated with the fact that no matter how great my product could be, how perfect the implementations would be, how great my db would be; if my machine/rack/datacenter or section of datacenter wen't down, switches break, network connectivity goes down etc. the users of my application are not able to use it, for them it's down. This kind of NoSQL, the one that handles partition tolerance, gives you the hope that eventually you will be able to make great software, resisting to this kind of events. I'm not sure whether by these tools (cassandra, riak etc) I would be able to write an application that actually works better, even in the other

when I read this I instantaneously thought about this rant from Louis CK [Everythings Amazing & Nobodys Happy] [this video] Linux Mint and Windows 7 take 10 seconds to boot on my laptop with a SSD. That's amazing. Just a few months ago I would go make a sandwich while my PC would boot. If you have a problem with splash screens alt tab to the browser of your choice. If you think your PC boots to slow take out your smartphone and play with it. This is not to say developers should be wasteful with users time. Especially web developers know how import page speed is. But it's a complex program just give it a few SECONDS. Also one should mention Steam (the game distribution platform). If you are bored in between rounds you just bring up the steam panel and use the embedded browser to browse the web or chat with friends. But those at times minute long delays. Sure you could embed a email client in the OS the comes up long before the main GUI is loaded but you wont get to read much in 10 seconds.

Honest about what? Guilt? Should we, as humans, crawl back into our caves and claim resource limitations as the cause? Claim greed was our downfall? Claim that this was all just too much for the human race? I might be a romantic, but it seems to me that focusing on ways to make all peoples lives better is what we should continue to do. We should be technologically solving that which has plagued humanity the most: limited energy and resources. We shouldn't be spending our time focusing on conservation. We should be focusing on how to make conservation un-necessary. Only then, will poverty go away. Maybe, just maybe, the ideas like mining asteroids, fusion, nano-technology, and AI, just to name a few, are silly. However, they are a lot less silly than creating artificial centrally planed markets like carbon offsets to alleviate poverty. That being said I leave this: [this video] .

> The communist anti-capitalism rhetoric Black and white much? This idea that everything that's anti-capitalist or anti-stupid-ways-we-spend-money is communist is absurd. The anti-capitalism rhetoric of the "mid-1900's" was a full-on propaganda campaign put out by government agencies and supported by the very real threat of nuclear total annihilation. Comparing a complaint about the stupid ways we spend money and organize our priorities to the Cold War is a bit of a stretch. I fear communist comparisons are becoming the new Godwin's law. In reality, the guilt mentality discussed above is much more similar to the ultra-realist perspective of the comedy of Louis CK— [this video] —in that it is ridiculous that we have the immediate concerns that we do, but is, in fact, entirely true, and it's observant and useful to point that out. It is not, however, communist.