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by gaius 8y ago
Where T-SQL is not enough, one can use basically any .Net language, but there are some restrictions to it, and I have never used this feature. Embedded R in SQL Server as well. Postgres is my default database choice, or SQLite if it'
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by gaius 8y ago
It would, but my point is really, that this isn’t a “purely American product”
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by gaius 8y ago
Yes and no. Swap planets for uncharted islands and Star Trek (TOS at least) would be instantly recognisable to any Ancient Greek.
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by gaius 8y ago
Comic book superhero is the most stale and rehashed sub-genre of science-fiction from the last century Superheroes go all the way back to Ancient Greek stories of gods and demigods, or even some of the Old Testament prophets, the stories
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by gaius 8y ago
Delete merely updates a flag to deleted=true so it doesn’t show in the interface.
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by gaius 8y ago
just voluntarily respect the Do Not Track header. It’s not even that, it’s browser fingerprinting and everything. There is no honest reason to track logged-out users, full stop. And they knew that too, at some meeting someone said “we nee
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by gaius 8y ago
1.09 was released just a year ago. Quite normal in this space, see Docker for example.
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by gaius 8y ago
his is a terrible post, coming from someone who doesn't know statistics to claim something is not statistics. But the author went to Harvard, doncha know. Harvard .
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by gaius 8y ago
I don't know about everyone else but what I want is high-quality courses that are online and basically free What you want then is EdX. Every course is backed by a real-world institution that people have heard of, and they are free to
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by gaius 8y ago
they don’t have the resources to crack down on any dissent that isn’t notable Engaging the services of a company specialising in doing things “at scale” would surely help with that.
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by gaius 8y ago
Google is an American company, and the US won't let that happen Ahem https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/05/15... The price of access to the Chinese market is to parrot the
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by gaius 8y ago
The infra for that job had far too many moving parts to make that feasible unfortunately. Multiple fibre providers, satellites, microwave relays, etc etc. The L1 guys would be on the phone alot in the event of a serious incident. Even today
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by gaius 8y ago
How much of Tumblr is NSFW material? How many of their users are only there for that? I would have guessed... most?
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by gaius 8y ago
Yet, if you had asked me, or most of the students in that class, how to calculate the variance of a population, or to define marginal probability, you likely would have gotten blank stares. That seems a bit inconsistent with the claim that
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by gaius 8y ago
always the on-call engineer, me (the team lead), and then my manager and then their manager. The best scheme in my experience is to have a 24/7 fully staffed L1 working shifts for initial response triage then waking the appropriate L
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by gaius 8y ago
I could sit there all day, and no one would say a word to me They are all too afraid of “offending” you or committing a “microaggression”. A room full of people all desperate to connect but no one will make the first move in case it ends
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by gaius 8y ago
Sure, not “sexy” enough for the HN crowd but it sucks to be these guys https://hostedftp.com since https://aws.amazon.com/sftp/ was announced
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by gaius 8y ago
AWS’s managed FTP service too
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by gaius 8y ago
It’s more insidious than that: Amazon commingling means that the merchants inventory which may be all counterfeit is indistinguishable from genuine articles prior to the buyer actually receiving it. If you want to be safe avoid any produc
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by gaius 8y ago
But, with things like Windows 10 telemetry you can't turn off, and Windows turning into a service, they've gotten back on board with how Big Tech runs these days. They sort of have no choice but to play in this space given that
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by gaius 8y ago
Pulsar is a classic Pub/Sub system. ... Kafka is a distributed log This is true but I’ll wager that 99% of real world deployments of Kafka are in the simple pubsub use case. Most people just aren’t operating at LinkedIn scale or comp
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by gaius 8y ago
Google+ had a couple floors and even a cafe that you couldn't access unless you were on the team And how did that work out, isolating themselves from everyone who could tell them it was a bad idea? I wonder if all of Google’s cancell
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by gaius 8y ago
eat out, order takeaway, take holidays, go to bars, buy things for hobbies, buy clothes Right. When I was a student in the mid-90s students were poor. We wore second-hand clothes because they were cheap, not because they were “vintage fas
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by gaius 8y ago
That’s my secret: I’m always angry
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by gaius 8y ago
Generation Z will get this sorted out once it starts joining the workplaces. Are they noticeably less ageist than any previous generation?
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by gaius 8y ago
Quite. For everyone who signed this I bet there are 100 salivating over what they could do in a country with no privacy concerns whatsoever.
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by gaius 8y ago
Precious few of them nurses but there’s always room on the org chart for more middle managers.
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by gaius 8y ago
Why are Europeans are so much ahead on USA on this? Former Soviet states now EU members have fresh memories of surveillance running amok.
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by gaius 8y ago
This is silly. If you asked anyone what medieval blacksmiths did 9/10 would say horseshoes.
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by gaius 8y ago
Not the same thing at all - those are commercial products. If someone has paid for a product and feels it was missold then yes, they are entitled to leave a review. Especially since cinemas don’t offer refunds to dissatisfied customers.

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