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by hodgesrm 4y ago
> How do you get rid of nuclear weapons entirely? One step at a time. Start by reducing numbers radically. There's no reason for countries like the US, Russia, and China to have such large arsenals.
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This was job #1 in US defense policy from the late 1940s to the early 1990s. There was a lull after the wall came down but it's back. In my opinion the only way to avoid nuclear war is to get rid of nuclear weapons entirely. Humans bei
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LLC is not a shield for criminal conduct. It protects personal assets of the company owners. [0] Generally speaking in American law such protections disappear if you commit fraud or similar malfeasance. For examples, courts will break contr
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Magma, a new storage engine for Couchbase(smalldatum.blogspot.com)
51 points by hodgesrm 4y ago|12 comments
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
Yes you did! Sorry for restating what you had communicated more parsimoniously. (I'll be looking for somebody to help write my HN comments for me.)
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Florida CEO urged staff to work through Ian. Then she took it back(washingtonpost.com)
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> Yes it does. It gets them off the streets. It is the only thing that will do it. So does it follow that the reason the previous houseed persons who are now homeless were previously in jail? If not, then there are other root causes at w
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
I think you also have to give Reagan credit for hiring gifted writers to shape his communications. Peggy Noonan is just one of several.
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If you do enough sales of virtually any product buying a car gets easy. It's just a game. When the salesperson says "I'll need to talk to my manager," you just say "No problem. I'm not in a hurry." And whe
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Go ahead and stare at my prosthetic arm. I know it’s awesome(washingtonpost.com)
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You are right about commenting tests, but it seems wrong to categorically reject their value as documentation for users. I use tests all the time to get code examples and understand what's actually supported. One of the great things ab
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
> Ask HN: Why do so many people dislike MongoDB? That should be: Why do so many people on HN dislike MongoDB? MongoDB is the #5 database on DB Engines and has been in that position for a number of years. [0] In the general developer po
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
By what method woud you propose to distinguish companies that "refuse to support those projects?"
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Isn't it also the case that large companies are the reason projects like Linux have been so successful? Linux is an example. A very high percentage of Linux contributions are from corporate sponsors. [0] [0] https://thenewst
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Many companies own patents for many different reasons. Has Percona ever actually asserted patent rights? I can't think of an instance where this is the case. They have also made major independent contributions like Percona XtraBackup,
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> On the flip side I think it's fair that if they have many of these large customers with more than $25 million in turn over not contributing that they do pay for the software development. Do you mean for every single OSS project? H
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
BSL is just another form of source code escrow. It's unusable for projects my company works on and uses, for two reasons. We need the freedom to use the software for any purpose. We also need some assurance that others will feel enough
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Open Source Bait and Switch: Licensing and Beyond(percona.com)
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> It's a bit of a catch 22 for B2B startups hoping to use the YC startup network as a source of early customers, Does YC really help you get customers? Just wondering--in my experience VCs can help with intros but getting real custo
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
To pile on your answer a bit the manual bucketing you describe is exactly how ClickHouse works in most cases. It won't allow joins / IN on multiple distributed tables--i.e., sharded/replicated tables--unless you explicitly se
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
Thanks for posting. Pipebird sounds really useful. We're running a conference on November 15th called Open Source Analytic Software 2022. It's free and covers all parts of the open source analytic stack. Talks on innovative new te
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
The US military spends a lot of its treasure managing data, so it's not surprising that they would fund database companies to do it better. I got my start in databases while serving in the US Air Force in the early 1980s. Oracle would
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
Interesting. "Key Hole" is the code name for the KH-11 reconnaissance satellite. [0] I never made the connection between the names. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-11_KENNEN
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
I'm old school. Employees have enough to deal with without the boss going all weepy on them when they are processing losing their job. It feels self-indulgent. I honestly don't care how bosses feel in these situations, especially
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
The feedback certainly does not apply to fintech companies. They employ some of the smartest devs I've ever met.
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When Your Boss Is Crying, but You’re the One Being Laid Off(nytimes.com)
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> Wow their statement about not participating in benchmarking wars is alarming. I found the Snowflake statement pretty reasonable. [0] Vendor benchmarks are largely propaganda. What actually counts is performance on real-world workloads,
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I'm not complaining, of course. It's just an observation. Snowflake is very similar to Oracle in that respect, which is not surprising given where the founders came from. Personally I think Snowflake is very impressive on the thin
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> It's a terrible article. The author misunderstands competition and how much it drives products in this area. Agree, but the author has one thing right. Snowflake is not transparent about product behavior, which makes it hard to re
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
ClickHouse only has fixed run cost if you configure it that way. We run ClickHouse clusters in AWS / GCS using block storage in our cloud platform. You can scale VMs up and down vertically in minutes, and scale horizontally in the same

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