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Digg Database Architecture

Are you suggesting that a cat that can approach a camera without appearing to move isn't newsworthy? ARE YOU?! (see comment)

Digg Database Architecture

Yeah. Things are in a pretty chaotic denormalised form for pretty much performance reasons. What's interesting is that it pretty much guarantees data inconsistency, so that's another of the problems of Digg's databases. Fortunately people are forgiving i … (see comment)

Digg Database Architecture

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Is Steve Jobs Dying?

I buried this as inaccurate, because there was no option for "article description is random garbled nonsense." On the surface it appears to be English, but I'm convinced it's just a machine spitting out random sentence fragments separated by commas. Let … (see comment)

The Number of Machines Controlled by Botnets Has Jumped 4x

Mozilla Not Worried About Google new browser

My only question, as a database administrator is, "Is there a type of tech professional out there that can tell me if this thing is standards-compliant, or will it just be another quirky browser to have to support?" If only there was such a type of tech … (see comment)

Digg Dialogg: Great Concept, But a Botched First Run

Digg Dialogue Questions get answered by Nancy Pelosi on CNN!

So it's really an interesting concept, this Dialogg. But one thing it appears to be not: a dialogue. We ask the questions, and the guest answers, but the guest always gets the last word. The community doesn't get to say: "Hey, that answer was factually in … (see comment)