greggyb

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by greggyb 7y ago
949/892 today. I can check again at any time of day you'd like. I don't have anything automated for regular testing.
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by greggyb 7y ago
Call them up and ask for their online offer of 3-year $79.99 for their "1G" (I always forget that theirs is actually a bit below). This is live today: https://postimg.cc/G446YpBQ I see it when browsing to their Fi
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by greggyb 7y ago
I love to see this, but it's a hard sell. Philly is one of the lucky cities with reasonable competition already, one of which is Verizon's Fios - decently built out through the city. A lot of new construction homes have both Comca
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by greggyb 7y ago
Or a one bedroom that is 45 minutes by public transit from the heart of DC all for less than $1200/month? Seems you're exaggerating your extremes. Now, I haven't checked all 567 listings, personally, but I have to assume at l
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by greggyb 7y ago
Or, for a short query string, the user may have a different intent without realizing they've put the same query in. I might dash off a search for "sneakers" when I am researching footwear. A week later, I might be thinking ab
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by greggyb 7y ago
Keep in mind the work being done. He emphasizes its simplicity. This is not a senior role requiring a huge amount of expertise. Of course, he's probably charging too little in general. Everyone is.
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by greggyb 7y ago
2008 and R2 are still in a supported phase of life. It's the "exorbitant support fee" phase. Nevertheless, you can still get Microsoft support for the two after the "EOL". It's more an end-of-public life
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by greggyb 7y ago
Big parallelism updates that the query planner can take advantage of. I believe also updates to index seek or scan in that time.
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by greggyb 7y ago
No. RAM drives use normal, volatile RAM. Power down and it all goes away. SSD is non-volatile. Power down and it stays. DIMM is a form factor and specific bus for getting data from storage on one side of the slot to CPU on the other. This i
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by greggyb 7y ago
> but you need to blame GPL 3 for that rather than Apple Do you? I am not trying to be snide here, but WSL seems to show that you can effectively include GPL3 userland in a proprietary system. WSL provides full interoperability with the
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by greggyb 7y ago
SSD on DIMM.
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by greggyb 7y ago
I think their goal is to have transport layer be a pluggable subsystem, divorced from their request-response protocol. They even essentially say that HTTP is not necessary to their protocol, so I think it's pretty apparent that HTTP is
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by greggyb 7y ago
To draw an analogy to Debian, vNext is somewhat similar to Sid. The name is a moving pointer. In a Microsoft context, there is not an unstable connotation like Debian's Sid is. vNext is a term used across much of the Microsoft ecosyste
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by greggyb 7y ago
They had those things prior to GitHub as well. It's had a few names, but is currently named Azure DevOps and was previously Visual Studio Online.
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by greggyb 7y ago
Sounds like a great project for someone to work on. You know, those Mastodon folks have built some interesting stuff on top of ActivityPub. Maybe we should build a text-based communication protocol on ActivityPub in addition to more social
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by greggyb 7y ago
I steer into the skid. I've acquired several clients by giving talks on implementing time intelligence on several analytics platforms. More often I deal with fiscal calendars, rather than DST issues. The thing it takes them some time t
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by greggyb 7y ago
Fair. I use it as a shorthand for reporting scenarios with required data latency measured less than a second from transaction to reporting tier. Yes, there's an entire world of performance below 1 second, but it's a useful thresho
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by greggyb 7y ago
It's a good overview you've shared of the storage technologies in SQL Server. I agree on memory-optimized being ideal for a real time service. The overhead of column indexing has ruled it out whenever I've benchmarked it for
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by greggyb 7y ago
Luckily, I get to avoid building time zone UIs in my day job. If I were to put it in a UI, I'd try to have locally understandable time zones as the labels, without incorrect offsets. I'd also probably try to give a better than a d
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by greggyb 7y ago
A single raspberry pi? Literally any database or disk hierarchy. I'd probably use SQLite, or if I had any relational database up already, I'd use that.
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by greggyb 7y ago
You definitely don't want to use that columnstore for ingesting time series data. If you need real time reporting, you are better served with row-store. Columnstore engines tend to be optimized for read, rather than write. I know f
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by greggyb 7y ago
We've 1.5x-ed!
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by greggyb 7y ago
Sure. It probably is. I'm not sure what the point is. It's still something that I see on a regular basis, and it seems clear that I care more about it than others, because in my experience I talk about it more than others. But the
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by greggyb 7y ago
And an additional observation. Many applications that allow a user to pick their time zone typically show offsets from UTC and a time zone name. It bugs me to no end when I have to select something like "-5:00 Eastern Time (US/Can
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by greggyb 7y ago
I usually attribute it to mild ignorance, not in a bad way. For a long time GMT was a good reference point. Times have changed. I used to work with a gentleman who would always schedule meetings on the phone as: > Great, let's put t
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by greggyb 7y ago
There used to be literally three channels. We've doubled!
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by greggyb 7y ago
I think there's little sentiment to it and much practicality. He raised the wage, in large part, because he could not retain employees due to the work conditions.
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by greggyb 8y ago
Do you find it fustian?
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by greggyb 8y ago
Hire me. I consult in exactly this field. I will charge an exorbitant rate (you know, to show I'm qualified) and come tell your leadership that they're wrong. This is a service I'm very happy to offer!
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by greggyb 8y ago
I thought this was just for ex mode, not for all of normal and insert modes.

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