Comments on: High Performance MySQL 3rd Edition is real! http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2012/03/28/high-performance-mysql-3rd-edition-is-real/ Stay curious! Mon, 13 May 2013 05:55:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Xaprb http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2012/03/28/high-performance-mysql-3rd-edition-is-real/#comment-19954 Xaprb Fri, 30 Mar 2012 02:35:30 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=2686#comment-19954 I have written my editor probably a good 20 times to fix misinformation about the second edition on Amazon. It is astonishing. They seem to literally crawl the web with some kind of AI machine and constantly update essential information such as the author, page count, edition, cover photo, publisher, you name it. Most of the time the updated information seems to be correct, but I’ve had to ask my publisher to update their database with the correct authors probably 6 or 8 times. Sometimes they list only one author — sometimes they list people not remotely connected with the real book — I don’t know where they get their data from.

I used to work at a company that integrated with their merchant APIs and analogous stuff happened there too.

But this is just the reality, I think: at the scale where Amazon operates, it’s just got to be a big automated machine; nothing else is remotely feasible. Amazon continues to awe me and probably always will.

]]> By: Dathan Vance Pattishall http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2012/03/28/high-performance-mysql-3rd-edition-is-real/#comment-19953 Dathan Vance Pattishall Fri, 30 Mar 2012 01:50:52 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=2686#comment-19953 Yay! Congrats!

]]> By: Nate Klaiber http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2012/03/28/high-performance-mysql-3rd-edition-is-real/#comment-19952 Nate Klaiber Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:35:09 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=2686#comment-19952 I have a copy in my hand, but this time it’s on my iPad. I found I had a bunch of stickies in my paper copy of the second edition, so I decided to transfer them to the digital format so I could have it at my disposal :)

Thanks for your work.

]]> By: Tim McCormack http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2012/03/28/high-performance-mysql-3rd-edition-is-real/#comment-19951 Tim McCormack Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:05:48 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=2686#comment-19951 Charlie Stross, a British SF author, writes of Amazon:

However, Amazon’s database is a giant sucking vacuum of misinformation. It indiscriminately hoovers up forthcoming titles from all and sundry and throws them up in front of the buying public in hope that somebody will, er, buy. Meanwhile, it gets details wrong. In this case, it got the UK publication date wrong, and it also got the territorial availability details wrong.

]]> By: Michael Rikmas http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2012/03/28/high-performance-mysql-3rd-edition-is-real/#comment-19950 Michael Rikmas Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:07:44 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=2686#comment-19950 Congrats Baron! Good news, good job!

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