> Putting the storage in the cloud is completely orthogonal to this ideology. Both latency & simplicity will suffer dramatically.
I'm confused by your usage of the term "orthogonal". In my experience, it is used to express that something is independent of something else, similarly to how in mathematics orthogonal vectors are linearly independent and thus form a basis of their linear span. Here, however, it seems you mean to say that "putting storage in the cloud runs counter to this ideology"?
I see "orthogonal" used quite frequently on HN. I remember reading a comment here that explained it something like:
> Ironically, the meaning of "orthogonal" has become orthogonal to the real meaning because now it can mean both "perpendicular" and "parallel", both "at odds" and "unrelated"
I'm confused by your usage of the term "orthogonal". In my experience, it is used to express that something is independent of something else, similarly to how in mathematics orthogonal vectors are linearly independent and thus form a basis of their linear span. Here, however, it seems you mean to say that "putting storage in the cloud runs counter to this ideology"?