fr1tkot

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by fr1tkot 6y ago
imagine hating working with databases so much you'd want to spin not being able to use modern databases amazing features as a "potential positive" just so you don't have to deal with them...
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by fr1tkot 7y ago
yes, 2 sheets folded together
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by fr1tkot 7y ago
Then it's up to you to average the number sheets and toilet visits, appropriately weighted to get the correct results!
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by fr1tkot 7y ago
> Where is this meme that RDBMSs do not scale coming from? (I see lots of people saying this as though it is a given. Has there been any published data on this for me to read?). It mostly comes from people who don't know how and whe
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by fr1tkot 7y ago
The HPI is not run by SAP the corporation in any way. It's "just" Hasso Plattners money funding it.
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by fr1tkot 7y ago
Dollars aren't used for any transactions you or I would make, people do still like making cash savings in Dollars or Euros if they can get their hands on them.
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by fr1tkot 7y ago
they've also somehow modified Lucene's search algorithm to perform some ML calculations, but it's not clear what they've implemented. still not a "new database category" though.
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by fr1tkot 7y ago
You just need to operate on a constant sleep deficit, just above total exhaustion, then you can fall asleep whenever and wherever you want
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by fr1tkot 7y ago
I've forced the habit upon myself to first compose a SELECT statement and verify that it will give me exactly the dataset that I want to run my operation on. Then I wrap that statement into a CTE and run the DELETE / UPDATE on the
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by fr1tkot 7y ago
Bokeh and Plotly obviously do much, much more than matplotlib, and if you want what they provide, you would go for those. Seaborn is more presentable-looking by default and easier to get things laid out in. I personally haven't used st
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by fr1tkot 7y ago
It's not new, I remember using the .plot function 2 or 3 year ago. Seaborn is much better anyway though, so don't bother switching. And the pandas plots are ugly
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by fr1tkot 7y ago
To me, it feels like the sender wants to yell particular words at me because they feel like I'm not capabale of digesting entire sentences.
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by fr1tkot 7y ago
I think it's nonsense to present this as a general truth the way the author does. There are likely plenty of geographical locations, skillsets and business domains where the opposite is true. If he's writing for the US, it's