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Consider using Arangodb, a multi-model db. Document store, and graph-db in one. Has a query language (aql) that is easy to understand. Joins and relations are easy to accomplish. Version 3.4 has many new features, like full text search and geojson.


This is depressing :/ I'm hoping RethinkDB will have an afterlife.


These renderings of a girl look pretty damn realistic to me: http://vimeo.com/40602544


The are very good. Knowing they're renderings though, you can see it in the face and hair.

DanBC made an interesting comment - it would interesting to see renderings like these in a double blind test with photographs and see how well they stack up.


Those are pictures of an adult, not a child. When you use the word "girl" to describe an adult woman you're implicitly belittling her. Don't be that guy.


> Those are pictures of an adult, not a child. When you use the word "girl" to describe an adult woman you're implicitly belittling her. Don't be that guy.

Sorry, I'm not a native English speaker (so I'm not confident enough to downvote or anything), but your judging this use of “girl” as female version of “boy”, ignoring the overall mode of expression, doesn't seem adequate. I would have no objections if thomaseng's comment was more formal:

> I would consider these pictures of a girl quite lifelike

But it's not.

If I were the author, and the pictures were of a man, I'd totally say “guy”. Once you flip the gender, “guy” seems to become “girl”, not “woman”. (Again, given the overall informal style used.)

And as for the word “guy”, it doesn't sound in any way belittling a grown-up man (and you just used it yourself).


I would say that the male equivalent of "girl" is "boy", not "guy".

The English language is often unhelpful in that exact equivalents of the word you want that exist for one gender don't exist for the other, or else carry other connotations. Master vs Mistress for instance.


And the female equivalent of guy is girl. The word 'girl' genuinely has more shades than the submissive little box you want to put it in.


Did tumblr buy HN?


'PM' usually denotes 'Prime Minister'. I suspect this is not your actual occupation. Furthermore, great entrepreneurs should be separated.


PM usually means "post meridian", far more often than it means "prime minister". You have to work out what an abbreviation means in context.

It can mean "project manager" (as georgemcbay said) or "product manager" (which is different from project manager, but they sometimes look similar from the perspective of a programmer). It's pretty clear from context that one of these was more likely than "prime minister".


If you work in tech in the USA, 'PM' usually denotes 'Project Manager'.


Well, thats a demotion, isn't it?


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