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Success Via Failure
// February 19th, 2014 // 5 Comments » // Uncategorized
Lately, I have found myself learning a lot by screwing up. Specifically, when coding. (Though, as I write this, my wife and I have a 3-month old son, Jack. She might disagree with me scoping this idea to coding. He might as well.)
Recently, I started down the proverbial rabbit-hole trying to speed things up in the financials for LaunchPlan. However, I had to scrap all of my initial code and write off a several hours of effort too. But, I did eventually get to my goal, and I learned quite a bit along the way.
I was trying to speed up a Key-Value store that was currently residing inside a relational SQL database. Actually, I had this thought in the back of my mind for quite a while. The trigger to try to attack this came recently after I read an article comparing Redis, Memcached, and MongoDb. This article got me thinking: Redis could be a perfect solution for this – and I could implement it at the data layer and keep things clean and pretty simple. (more…)
Secrecy and Privacy are not the same thing
// January 14th, 2014 // No Comments » // Uncategorized
I just watched an interesting video:
It is about the NSA betraying the world’s trust and it got me thinking: I’m not sure people understand the difference between secrecy and privacy. It seems that with the Snowden revelations in the news we hear this common acceptance of being monitored because “I have nothing to hide.”
For most of us this is probably the case – we aren’t doing something in secret that is illegal. We do not have anything to hide. But that’s not privacy. Privacy is not publishing conversations with friends – not because you are planning something mischievous, but because it’s a private conversation and nobody else’s business. (more…)
