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Comment on Using Sync on the bleeding edge? Read this! by mconnor

mconnor — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:03:53 +0000

Oops, forgot to link this: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Services/Sync/Developer/StorageFormat#Version_3

It’s essentially an optimization for scaling so that user data can be migrated between hosts without requiring admins to alter the data. We had not migrated users between hosts at any point until we moved to a new infrastructure, and we discovered this made it a much slower progress (altering the contents of each and every row stored in a DB is time-consuming). It’s not a use-case we had anticipated, but probably should have.

To be clear though, it’s entirely possible that we’ll change things again if it means significant wins for performance and/or complexity. It’s entirely likely that history’s internal format will need to change to fix https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=597874 as an example. This is one of the key drawbacks to a client-centric system, but we feel that it is worth the tradeoff.

Comment on Using Sync on the bleeding edge? Read this! by Havvy

Havvy — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:52:53 +0000

Can you describe what this change is and why it wasn’t noticed in the stabilization efforts so that future attempts as standardization of storage formats do not end up having the same issue?

Comment on Aspie in a fishbowl by Alexander

Alexander — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:27:16 +0000

If you don’t mind answering, I’d be curious how such a thing gets diagnosed in an adult. What prompts people to ask a doctor?

Comment on Aspie in a fishbowl by Daniel Glazman

Daniel Glazman — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:10:48 +0000

Mike, wow. Let me tell you one thing: your description of yourself, if you except the two words AS, apply to most of the geeks I know (including myself)… Remember: “be yourself, no matter that they say”.

Comment on The value of planning ahead by Jason

Jason — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:54:54 +0000

Good point, especially making it clear that planning for the future isn’t always as simple as, “hey, we might want this feature, let’s add a bunch of code to make it easier to do that at point”. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve spent time “overarchitecting” some piece of software per management’s request just to have the potential feature completely ignored and never fully implemented (what a waste). Imagine what people would be saying about the wasted money spent on the lower deck if no subway was ever built in Toronto?

With that being said, I think the ability to plan ahead like this is really what makes us human. No other animal has the intelligence to think long term like that. Of course no other animal is designing software either.

Comment on Aspie in a fishbowl by Peter Nemšák

Peter Nemšák — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:13:13 +0000

Respect. You know, I sometimes wish that all people had AS. There’d be less misunderstandings and deceivings among us. Good luck with your goals.

Comment on The value of planning ahead by Robert Accettura

Robert Accettura — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:14:07 +0000

Excellent post.

I don’t think this is just an engineering issue, I think it’s really an issue for society at large. I think this concept in general was lost after WWII, especially with the baby boomer generation. You see this in many respects from budgeting to business. People are much more near-term minded than long-term. The days of building something so that it can last 500 years are mostly gone in favor or cheaper quicker construction. The days of building a slow steady business are also gone in favor of quick startups that grow and die almost overnight. Even television shows have a handful of episodes in which to prove themselves and succeed or they get pulled.

You can even blame lots of the economic troubles on this concept. Many of the mistakes made were nearsightedness.

Is it risk tolerance (why take a long term gamble when you can take a quick win and leave)? Or is it simply work avoidance?

Comment on Aspie in a fishbowl by David Bolter

David Bolter — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:58:10 +0000

What Axel said.

Comment on Aspie in a fishbowl by EquiisSavant

EquiisSavant — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:34:34 +0000

apologies for the typos — I’m an Autistic savant with synesthesia who sees in pictures, not letters-words.

Comment on Aspie in a fishbowl by EquiisSavant

EquiisSavant — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:32:06 +0000

Actually, as an adult Autistic savant, I do not feel I should have to conformed my Autie-Savantism to some neurotypical’s psychological problems with needing to feel accepted. To put that burden on me, instead of the neurotypical to conformed to our Aspieness and Autie-savantism is Autism spectrum DISCRIMINATION — Pure & Simple.

I am not being made to feel like a Second-class Citizen made to Kiss some neurotypical’s You-Know-What just to facilitate their psychological co-dependency on feeling accepted.

They need to get a Shrink, an Autism language interpreter, or got to Neurotypical AA for their needy “acceptance”-dependency addictions.