I used VNC a few times to connect to a Mac build box ( I only used Linux professionally ) and ran into a lot of problems with artifacting ( even on a dedicated Gigabit LAN ) or more annoying the remote service would crash and the only way back in was to SSH into the Mac box, kill the remote service, kill all user sessions, and restart.
Knowing some of the FC people first hand, MongoDB did actually serve them fairly well for a substantial amount of time. Until they started hitting max limits, it didn't really make sense to move to c.
Going straight to C or something like it would have been almost cargo-cultish ( eg If we build industrial strength, we will get industrial levels of traffic ).
It sounds like you're assuming that productivity and power are opposites. Four years ago or even two, Cassandra was much harder to develop against than MongoDB, but that's not the case today.
Exactly. Can you imagine all of the Java/C developers telling Ruby developers that they are idiots and don't know anything about programming ? Simply because they choose a technology that is designed for developer productivity at the expense of scalability.
Because that what seems to happen for every database discussion.
You guys have been hiring consecutively for the last 3 months and the rejection letter for two of those months is the same formulaic response. Perhaps you need to refine what exactly you're looking for?
Just separated from a company over some employment contract issues. Taking it easy for the month and working on my own stuff, still I would be open with working on any cool idea's for equity or better money.
Quick background on me: prefer backend/data mongering ( high tides in my career was ~1-1.2 Billion pageviews/month and 300GB of data collected/day ) but I do have an understanding of CSS 2&3 ( done a few contracts for Conde Nast's clients ). Primary work in Python but worked professionally with Java, PHP, and Ruby ( no more Rails ).
Currently working on a CherryPy like overlay to twisted web ( similar object graph to endpoints but with all of Twisted's strengths & capabilities ) and a ZMQ mobile/web/desktop notification system ( QT4 & Sencha Touch 2 for other systems).
This is nice to hear, I suppose. I just separated from a company due to failure to pay/contract term violations and been thinking the odds of me finding gainful employment would be pretty low or non-existent until late Jan.
Still seems like its going to be an upward climb as my normal places to look for python and or backend dev are somewhat sparse right now.
This is perhaps the most elaborate "fuck you" to asnine interview questions. Fizzbuzz was a great acid test but now a days people who can't solve `a = 1+2; a == ?` know fizzbuz somehow.
