Should read Or you could dispense with all I just said and just send him this http://www.frugal-cafe.com/public_html/frugal-blog/frugal-cafe-blogzone/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/forrest-gump-stupid-is-as-stupid-does.jpg
On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 1:09 AM, Ihe Onwuka <[email protected]> wrote: > Feel free to paste this from a couple days ago - no attribution required. > > "History always has valuable lessons to teach us. If you look at the NOSQL > landscape in terms of players it is not dissimilar to the landscape in the > early relational era (which includes the non-relational vendors). Many of > those companies had success, rapid growth and then either got too uppity or > made a strategic error and were acquired, often by Computer Associates" > > I would modify it to emphasise that such acquisitions were usually done on > the cheap. > > As to whether you should laugh or cry, some perspective here. There is a > growing trend for companies to seek individuals who are "passionate about > technology (or some derivative specialism thereof)" and I note a > corresponding rise in the number of people branding themselves as such. > > I am passionate about my woman and passionate about Tottenham Hotspur > Football club. More than enough emotional roller-coaster there but if it's > not enough. Be passionate about your children, be passionate about your > dog, be passionate about ending homelesness and hunger. Do not waste your > emotions being passionate about technology. I would imagine that to do a > PhD you need that to some extent but doing a PhD does not require you to > immerse yourself in stupidity. > > Or you could dispense with all I just said > > > http://www.frugal-cafe.com/public_html/frugal-blog/frugal-cafe-blogzone/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/forrest-gump-stupid-is-as-stupid-does.jpg > > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 11:38 PM, daniela florescu <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I copy and paste here from Linkedin my conversation with one of the top >> scientists of on of the top NoSQL databases: Couchbase…. >> >> "Please consider real world deployments, not academic endeavors....This >> is still an inexact science” :-)))))))) >> >> >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> >> >> Dana, >> >> Please consider real world deployments, not academic endeavors....This is >> still an inexact science. >> >> On 6/2/15, 10:38 AM, Daniela Florescu wrote: >> -------------------- >> Dear, >> >> you have a query language implemented, and you have no specification >> written for it !??? >> >> That's weird to say the least. >> >> I never heard of a programming language (because a query language is a >> programming language...), whose specification is only in Powerpoint. >> >> Sorry, I don't have time. >> >> If you have a specification written, please send it to me, and I'll give >> you an honest feedback. >> >> Best >> Dana >> >> On 6/2/15, 10:33 AM, XXXXl wrote: >> -------------------- >> Daniela, >> >> Couchbase Connect 15 going on this week at Levis Stadium in Santa Clara. >> You should check it out. We are talking up our query language N!QL. >> >> >> http://www.cvent.com/events/couchbase-connect-15/event-summary-b7744ca960364b75aba41de42cbef19e.aspx >> <https://www.linkedin.com/redir/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ecvent%2Ecom%2Fevents%2Fcouchbase-connect-15%2Fevent-summary-b7744ca960364b75aba41de42cbef19e%2Easpx&urlhash=3ZMl> >> >> - >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> [email protected] >> http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk >> > >
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