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by dventimi 13y ago
Breaking the question down into parts, so that Postgres is compared one-on-one with each of its potential competitors, consider Postgres-vs.-MySQL. After all, it's plausible that one of the first decisions you make is whether to use a
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by dventimi 13y ago
Running "./configure && make && make install" usually results in a working installation of whatever package you are attempting to compile. followed by the auto tools are constantly a thorn in the side of us
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by dventimi 13y ago
This notion that technology is responsible for inequality and unemployment both now and in the future has been making the rounds lately, but it has got to stop. So much about this is just flat out wrong, but just as bad is that it helps th
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by dventimi 13y ago
Unfortunately, the best I can do is provide a link to the TIMSS Data Explorer (click the link for "TIMSS IDE"): http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/international/ide/ After agreeing to the terms, you can cho
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by dventimi 13y ago
Let's throw a cold splash of reality onto the treasured fairy tale about Finland's "stellar schools." What do the data say? One place to look is at the standardized assessment tests designed to (among other things) mak
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by dventimi 13y ago
Another approach is to refactor mega-queries into smaller, component queries using SQL views that are then pieced together in another, simpler query. YRMV.
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by dventimi 14y ago
By my lights, the most effective application of "video tutorials" is not as tutorials at all, but rather as marketing tools, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. In the best cases, watching a mercifully-brief video "tutorial" gives me a
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by dventimi 14y ago
Americans already enjoy blanket worker protection, since you can't legally work here without some kind of visa. That's not necessarily a bad thing, and I'm not saying it's different from labor policy in other nations. But it's a fact, and
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by dventimi 14y ago
Do you favor more or less protection for engineering workers? If more, would you also favor more protection for lower-skilled and manufacturing workers (many of whom are actually highly-skilled)? Is there any class of worker who doesn't d
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by dventimi 14y ago
U.S. trade policies seem designed to put "low-skilled" workers in direct competition with low-wage workers around the world, while protecting "skilled" workers from international competition. For instance, health care costs might be lower
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by dventimi 14y ago
Yes, except that I'm not about to do a startup in Common Lisp or in anything else anytime soon. But why do you care what my position is, and why does it matter why the OP posted the question?
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by dventimi 14y ago
If you'll indulge a rephrasing of your question as, "Why does this question matter to anyone?", then I would answer, "Because I like Lisp and Scheme, would enjoy using it in a start up, but worry that it would introduce problems. Therefore
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by dventimi 16y ago
I don't own or use a Mac anymore, but when I did in grad school a few years ago (using Tiger) I always got gcc binaries from here: http://hpc.sourceforge.net/ I never installed XCode. I very very far from being an expert on this, so forg