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by cm277 5y ago
Well, an OLAP cube is a kind of a table/view. There are two core properties: the cube contains only one value ('column' in RDBMS-speak) and the data is defined across a set of 'dimensions' (levels in OLAP, unique
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by cm277 5y ago
Genuine question: are the payment processors legally exposed because of the purpose of transactions going on in their system? If so, this seems to be the main problem --I mean if social media platforms can absolve responsibility for cont
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by cm277 5y ago
Here goes nothing: - Have the people that will run the work (tech lead, senior dev, whatever) break the work down in meaningful chunks/modules. - The number of modules is important: it should be roughly equal to the man-months you&#x27
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by cm277 5y ago
I've come to look at remote/onsite preference as a sort of dietary restriction/preference: some people's personality/temperament absolutely makes remote 10x better. For some people it's a tasteless/flavorl
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by cm277 5y ago
OK, no, there are no silver bullets for Enterprise software, including Logic programming or whatever else. The challenges are human, social and economic, not technical. By definition ERP software are low trust: they involve multiple groups
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by cm277 5y ago
I've run both types of orgs. Here's the one thing few ppl on the consulting side get: the primary product of a consulting org is its people. Thus, there (should) be an emphasis on growing the skills of the team, both soft and ha
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by cm277 5y ago
The problem Datalog tries to solve is complexity: SQL "pulls" data (what's a query after all) to a calling application. Datalog builds up data relationships through declarations. That means that: a) that entities can be infe
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by cm277 6y ago
Agreed. Also what both are missing is the cost to company difference (the 'wedge' in economics-speak). In the US that's ~15% on top of the salaries you two mention above, even with health insurance added. For FAANG, with e
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by cm277 6y ago
I tried to push ISO to my (US/EU) company many times... it just doesnt work because you only need YYYY once in a while. Instead, we've settled on NATO formats (another US+EU org): 3 Nov 21 or just 3 Nov. It's unambiguous an
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by cm277 6y ago
I am old enough to have used NCSA Navigator and read the Manifesto for Cyberspace and all that net-hippy stuff (and believed it). Cyberspace in the 90s was wide open prairie, a place to settle and built new cultures and civilizations. I was
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by cm277 6y ago
Put more succinctly then: when a platform/technology becomes so successful that's used by a lot of people and/or other businesses built and depend on it, it (eventually) has to be regulated. If the prize of success is mono
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by cm277 6y ago
Everything is relative. A couple of millenia ago, powerful technologies meant plumbing, sewage, currency, postal mail. Do you want to think about any of these things? No, you just assume they work so you can move your thinking up the stack.
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by cm277 6y ago
I am literally old enough to remember the arguments for Section 230 when it was voted into law. And they basically boiled down to "this internet thing is too new, let's protect these tiny new companies now that they are starting u
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by cm277 6y ago
The article correctly goes through the history of personal computing but then just stops short of reaching the obvious conclusion: everyone pretty much has a 'personal computer' already (even feature phones count, kinda). There&#
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by cm277 6y ago
Scene: '93 or thereabouts, in a uni computer lab and I am bored. I log on remotely to an ONR Y-MP I have access to for research. Huge-ass machine in its day, but notoriously slow for single-CPU jobs. So I decide to compile xtetris on
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by cm277 6y ago
I think one of the main points of the article that the discussion here misses is that whiteboard interviews can be seen two ways: as an 'exam' where there's a 'right' way to behave/solve the problem and as a &#
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by cm277 6y ago
Most people when they think innovation they think in terms of product, not process. From a process pov modern software engineering exists on a planet created by Microsoft. Commercial EULAs, shrink wrap software, platform effects, developers
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by cm277 6y ago
They are extracting rent from a market that's now too big and powerful and are enforcing rules that do not have political (as in citizens') legitimacy. They have obviously won their market position fair-and-square and their rules
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by cm277 6y ago
The supermarket is very tightly regulated, so not at all... Amazon though... :)
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by cm277 6y ago
Hm, fair point: the App Store isn't illegal, so "black market" is pushing the term too far. However, the laws in the App Store aren't controlled by a political/state entity: they are imposed by Apple themselves. T
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by cm277 6y ago
I think I have a better analogy: Apple operates a market with a significant portion of economic activity in several industries / verticals, yet it sets its own rules and even is party to transactions. That's basically the definiti
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by cm277 6y ago
Agreed. Apple is an oligopoly providing a service that has become more or less 'must have' So are Google/Facebook in their markets. Oligopolies that are 'must have' already exist. They are called utilities and the
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by cm277 6y ago
All these analyses are forgetting one big reason: culture (and yes, cost too of course). The first office I built (out of 6 or so) was open plan, specifically because I was starting up a tech company in a conservative culture where the &#x2
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by cm277 13y ago
Erm, I think it's more likely that the laptop showed up in X-ray scan and a baggage handler availed themselves of the contents. I had the same thing happen to me at Heathrow; I spent about 5 minutes to locate it in Lost & Found a