[xquery-talk] not sure if I should laugh with big tears or cry with big tears...:-)))))

[Ihe Onwuka]

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 <ihe.onwuka at gmail.com> 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
>
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> 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
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> On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 11:38 PM, daniela florescu <dflorescu at me.com>
> 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>
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>>    -
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