Comments on: CmdrTaco: 16,777,216 comments should be enough for everyone

CmdrTaco: 16,777,216 comments should be enough for everyone

forwebsites — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 09:48:06 -0800

Slashdot runs out of comments

By: mbrutsch

mbrutsch — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 09:50:03 -0800

Last post! Sorry, couldn't resist.

By: hal9k

hal9k — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 09:50:28 -0800

2^24 post!

By: zsazsa

zsazsa — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 09:58:18 -0800

Slashdot without threading! It's kind of like..... Metafilter.

By: Armitage Shanks

Armitage Shanks — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:01:10 -0800

It still amazes me that, for a brief time, it was possible to be an illiterate mediocre programmer and still get rich.

By: forwebsites

forwebsites — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:03:22 -0800

ok..my "/." tag was converted to a "-." by MeFi. I tried escaping it with "\/.", but it turned out to be a "\.". Duh!! How to fix it ?

By: dead_

dead_ — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:04:22 -0800

Kind of makes delmoi's 10,000 look pretty weak, huh?

By: hoborg

hoborg — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:04:53 -0800

Luckily, Mefi's got a ways to go. Unless we're running on varchar(8) or something. Also, why the -. tag?

By: Captain_Tenille

Captain_Tenille — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:06:33 -0800

Of course, 15 million of those comments are goatse links, slash fic about the editors, ascii goatse, or FIRST POSTs.

By: quin

quin — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:08:04 -0800

Quick, now is our opportunity to take them out. [scary Kurgan voice] There can be only one.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:09:44 -0800

Slashdot ran out of comments many, many years ago.

By: sonofsamiam

sonofsamiam — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:15:58 -0800

It still amazes me that, for a brief time, it was possible to be an illiterate mediocre programmer and still get rich. It's still possible. You have to now market to technically clueless niche markets like certain universities or electronic voting machine purchasers.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:20:47 -0800

Heck, you could even go work for Microsoft.

By: splice

splice — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:21:31 -0800

So... This is something only slashdot users would be concerned about, and there's a posting about it on slashdot... I can't wait for the slashdot posts about MeFi downtime or technical issues.

By: hincandenza

hincandenza — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:25:30 -0800

More to the point: should anyone ever let the /.ers live this down, give how often they snark like bratty little punks about MicroSuxx0r$$$?

By: casconed

casconed — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:27:23 -0800

awww loquacious beat me to it.

By: owenkun

owenkun — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:30:11 -0800

It's official, Netcraft has confirmed it: Slashdot is Dying Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Slashdot community when recently the Slashdot editors confirmed that Slashdot's comments database has grown to exceed the available table space. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that Slashdot is a haven for trolls, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Slashdot is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent list of Natalie Portman-related technology websites.

By: Big_B

Big_B — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:30:49 -0800

Thousands of Comic Book Guys in their mom's basements scream out in horror ....

By: jefbla

jefbla — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:33:04 -0800

Score: 5 (Funny) [insert comment that isn't actually funny]

By: srboisvert

srboisvert — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:41:30 -0800

I can't wait for the slashdot posts about MeFi downtime or technical issues. If they did that they would overrun their index type limits...

By: YoBananaBoy

YoBananaBoy — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:49:42 -0800

awww loquacious beat me to it. and in Soviet Russia, loquacious beats YOU!

By: dr_dank

dr_dank — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:50:58 -0800

owenkun: It's official, Netcraft has confirmed it: Slashdot is Dying Truely an American icon...

By: OmieWise

OmieWise — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:52:07 -0800

DDDDEELLLLMMMMOOOOOOOOIIIIIIIIIIIII!

By: troybob

troybob — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:53:44 -0800

see what happens when you don't police the FPPs! kidding, of course...i'm an FPP liberal

By: TrueVox

TrueVox — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:54:07 -0800

Slashdot running out of comments... Wow. I always figured the HDD's woulda given out before the database index. Obligitory: I, for one, welcome our Unsigned Int overlords. In Soviet Russa, Int signs YOU!!!

By: Armitage Shanks

Armitage Shanks — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 11:01:55 -0800

[insert comment that isn't actually funny] im in yr database overflowing yr primary keys

By: loquacious

loquacious — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 11:15:10 -0800

and in Soviet Russia, loquacious beats YOU! DAMN STRAIGHT.

By: bonaldi

bonaldi — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 11:17:35 -0800

It looks seriously better without the threading. And because they're not composing for threads, it reads much better than in flat view.

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 11:29:34 -0800

I blame linux.

By: signal

signal — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 11:32:27 -0800

It's almost readable this way.

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 11:38:19 -0800

Is there an inappropriate way to flog oneself?

By: nebulawindphone

nebulawindphone — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 11:47:48 -0800

Is that a promise, big boy? I wonder how much flights to Russia are running these days...

By: nebulawindphone

nebulawindphone — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 11:48:17 -0800

(Actually, now that I think about it, the time travel would probably be the biggest expense.)

By: gsteff

gsteff — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 11:48:28 -0800

It boggles the mind that they're running that site on mysql and perl.

By: Hicksu

Hicksu — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 11:51:40 -0800

I'm glad i never gave them 5 dollars.

By: mistermoore

mistermoore — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 11:52:06 -0800

Loquacious is gonna beat us 'til we're straight?

By: clevershark

clevershark — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 11:57:00 -0800

Sure, make it an unsigned int, but you just know that in another 8-9 years you're going to have the same problem all over again! If they used a bigint they'd be good for 18446744073709551615 comments.

By: clevershark

clevershark — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 11:58:06 -0800

er, unsigned bigint. That's 18.4 quintillion comments.

By: keswick

keswick — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:04:41 -0800

It is official; Slashdot confirms: Slashdot is dying

By: keswick

keswick — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:05:13 -0800

oh damn, i was beaten.

By: octothorpe

octothorpe — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:05:28 -0800

It boggles the mind that they're running that site on mysql and perl. Yea, they should be running ColdFusion.

By: clevershark

clevershark — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:20:59 -0800

gsteff writes "It boggles the mind that they're running that site on mysql and perl." Actually what really boggles the mind is that so many companies are willing to stake their online reputation on IIS and SQL Server... [shudder]

By: knave

knave — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:41:33 -0800

Nothing to see here.

By: sonofsamiam

sonofsamiam — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:49:23 -0800

It boggles the mind that they're running that site on mysql and perl. I can't say much for mysql (never ran it on anything that big) but there are bigger sites than /. that run perl. mod_perl is pimptified.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 13:08:54 -0800

Loquacious is gonna beat us 'til we're straight? Never straight, always forward. Or something. Whatever. Look, I'm not going to spank you at all unless you change out of that clown suit. That shit costs extra.

By: sonofsamiam

sonofsamiam — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 13:12:44 -0800

We must move FORWARD, not BACKWARD! UPWARD, not FORWARD! and always TWIRLING, TWIRLING, TWIRLING towards freedom.

By: machaus

machaus — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 13:13:24 -0800

16,777,216 comments? Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of those?

By: blacklite

blacklite — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 13:26:01 -0800

mysql and perl That's how amazon is run. Well, they might use postgresql, but, you know, same basic thing. That's how a ton of major high-traffic sites are run. What would you suggest instead?

By: gsteff

gsteff — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 13:44:40 -0800

I have a really hard time imagining that amazon uses perl. I assume they use old fashioned cgi or some java solution. I'd guess that a site like slashdot, if they could do it over, would use php or some java-based solution from the apache jakarta brand. The db is more forgivable, since they aren't doing anything fancy, and last I heard it had better replication solutions than postgres, but it all depends on how much money you have available for hardware. There's no question that postgres makes life easier for your programmers.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 13:53:41 -0800

It boggles the mind that they're running that site on mysql and perl. Go away or I'll replace you with a very tiny perl script that resembles unintelligble line noise. Note: poster is not actually a perl coder, nor does he resemble one or play one on TV, but appreciates the beauty and mad-scientist power that is perl.

By: gsteff

gsteff — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 14:05:14 -0800

Go away or I'll replace you with a very tiny perl script that resembles unintelligble line noise. Hah! What you don't realize is that I'm actually a CS undergrad's final Lisp project.

By: sonofsamiam

sonofsamiam — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 14:13:32 -0800

I'd guess that a site like slashdot, if they could do it over, would use php or some java-based solution from the apache jakarta brand. What you fail to realize is that PHP is exactly like perl, except worse in every way.

By: cellphone

cellphone — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 14:13:37 -0800

That's how amazon is run. Well, they might use postgresql, but, you know, same basic thing. No. Not the same thing. Not even close.

By: los pijamas del gato

los pijamas del gato — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 14:18:02 -0800

/. 2.0

By: PontifexPrimus

PontifexPrimus — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 14:23:42 -0800

gsteff: "Go away or I'll replace you with a very tiny perl script that resembles unintelligble line noise. Hah! What you don't realize is that I'm actually a CS undergrad's final Lisp project." Does this mean we poor slashdotters have to make our stupid nerd jokes over here? Like: perl is a write-only language or I just finished my Lisp assignment; the last two lines were: )))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

By: grouse

grouse — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 14:31:34 -0800

It's depressing that the jokes here are the same as on Slashdot.

By: AmbroseChapel

AmbroseChapel — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 14:43:30 -0800

IMDB runs on Perl, too, just for the record. >>It boggles the mind that they're running that site on mysql and perl. >Yea, they should be running ColdFusion. Is there a category stronger than "favourite"? I guess favourite will have to do.

By: AmbroseChapel

AmbroseChapel — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 14:46:25 -0800

Is there away to find comment number 16,777,266? I wonder what it was.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 15:00:17 -0800

Hah! What you don't realize is that I'm actually a CS undergrad's final Lisp project. Fascinating! I'm a undergrad's Prolog project. We should go grab a byte or two somewhere. You're not... 16 bit, are you?

By: grouse

grouse — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 15:17:29 -0800

There's no way anything written in Prolog is that verbose. No way.

By: bitter-girl.com

bitter-girl.com — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 15:30:45 -0800

"Gaily forward, never straight", loquacious. (as learned from my gay ex...long story)

By: BeerFilter

BeerFilter — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 15:46:41 -0800

Slashdot without threading = no digg

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 15:54:56 -0800

1. Create Slashdot 2. Run up comments 3. ??? 4. profit

By: Parannoyed

Parannoyed — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 16:20:07 -0800

Sweet frozen christ! This thread is like that nightmare I had where I was gang-raped by a pack of surly memes. only less sexy..

By: gsteff

gsteff — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 16:33:45 -0800

You're not... 16 bit, are you? Not at all. In fact, I'm big-endian.

By: sharpener

sharpener — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 16:51:40 -0800

Wow, I'm clearly not nerdy enough for this thread.

By: SteveTheRed

SteveTheRed — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 18:00:42 -0800

In the un-thread for the announcement, the inevitable posgresql vs mysql flamewar broke out. It is hysterical to me to read a flame, then read six totally unrelated comments, then read the response. I'm trying to think of a funny hot grits reference, but if a million slashdotters haven't been able to do it in 16M+ comments, I doubt that I can do it in just one.

By: neuron

neuron — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 18:54:24 -0800

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2000/01/31

By: kaemaril

kaemaril — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 20:17:21 -0800

blacklite : That's how amazon is run. Well, they might use postgresql, but, you know, same basic thing. That's how a ton of major high-traffic sites are run. What would you suggest instead? Oracle or DB2. But I'm kinda biased, since I'm an Oracle and DB2 DBA :)

By: loquacious

loquacious — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 21:06:27 -0800

There's no way anything written in Prolog is that verbose. No way. Is that veiled request to inspect my code? Not on the first date. Not at all. In fact, I'm big-endian. Well, I can see that baby got back, but you better not be gettin' all arbitrary precision and slip into floating point on my ass later when we start exchanging words, y'know what I mean? A stack overflow really isn't my idea of a good time. Wow, I'm clearly not nerdy enough for this thread. I can't believe I haven't had my ass kicked and my lunch money taken away from me for dropping a pun using the word "byte".

By: clevershark

clevershark — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 21:16:01 -0800

[kicks loquacious's ass, takes his lunch money.] Now the cycle is complete. [gets arrested for having committed an illegal operation.]

By: MiltonRandKalman

MiltonRandKalman — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 23:01:10 -0800

This is the way the web 1.0 ends NOT with a comment but a integer.

By: public

public — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 00:50:27 -0800

Unfortunately, like 5 years ago we changed our primary keys... Why did they change them? Because 5 years ago they moved from PostgreSQL to MySQL. Oops.

By: sonofsamiam

sonofsamiam — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 06:33:52 -0800

I can't believe I haven't had my ass kicked and my lunch money taken away from me for dropping a pun using the word "byte". That joke bit.

By: blacklite

blacklite — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 20:57:15 -0800

gsteff: I have a really hard time imagining that amazon uses perl. I assume they use old fashioned cgi or some java solution. I'd guess that a site like slashdot, if they could do it over, would use php or some java-based solution from the apache jakarta brand. Well, they do, in fact, use Perl. I'm not sure what you mean by "old fashioned cgi", but any interpretation I can think of certainly can't deal with the amount of traffic they get. BBC's websites are also done with Perl, as is IMDB (as mentioned upthread.) Java stuff is nice, but very-high-traffic sites that have been around for a few years generally aren't written with it, and there have been a ton of things worked on over the years to milk every drop of performance out of the old standard (my|postgre)SQL/Perl/Apache/Linux mix. I can't really figure out what you mean by the rest of your comment, but, well: Perl can be used to make very impressive things.