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Inside the absurd groundbreaking for Sho, SF's ostentatious club-restaurant(sfgate.com)
1 points by hodgesrm 4y ago|0 comments
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
This is news to me that people can't/don't do long division. It's simple. I use it regularly to estimate quotients--just run the process to a couple places in your head.
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
ClickHouse has a couple of features along this line: live views and window views. Here's a blog that compares them. https://altinity.com/blog/battle-of-the-views-clickhouse-win... Disclaimer: I work for Altinity.
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
> Well, I think that’s bullshit. I think people underestimate why running a startup is so time-consuming. Having real users with real business needs is like having a family with children. You don't take it easy when your kids hurt t
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
The megaflood is not very hard to imagine. If I recall correctly the town of Ross in Marin County California got 29 inches of rain in the month of January 1993. The Sierra Nevada got much more in places. Highway 88 up to Carson Pass was lik
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
> These guys apparently had spent $160 million and according to the article, had “no product here.” Actually it sounds as if they had a good board who were making them look forward to find bigger markets. This seems very positive to me.
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
> My point being, don't judge spreadsheets by Google Sheets. I've used Google Sheets for years and greatly prefer it over Excel at this point. The killer feature is the sharing, which Excel does not do unless Microsoft 365 has
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
> Apple has spent many years happily profiting from cheap Chinese manufacturing, labor, electrial engineering expertise and supply chains to the point where they are now completely beholden to a foreign country. Up to a point there'
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
It's like Portlandia for software developers.
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
> Good luck winning any kind of lawsuit against Oracle also. They don't always win, but it can be hard to see if the case does not go to trial. Settlements typically include confidentiality provisions to prevent publication of the r
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
Yes, that happens unfortunately. You have to make a choice whether you trust that person, just like any colleague. :/
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
Much as I dislike Eucalyptus trees, every owl calling from a Eucalyptus is a vote to keep them.
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
Have you talked to your manager? Maybe start with a question like the following: For some reason I don't seem to be connecting with my coworkers as well as I expected. (Give a concrete example.) I feel I would be more productive
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
> The eucalyptus trees they imported from Australia have had the terrible affect of making wildfires in California even worse. I watched the eucalyptus stands burning in the Oakland Hills fire. They go up like torches. I've never un
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
+1 on EKS. It's not perfect but we've had an excellent experience building a database-as-a-service on top of it. We run well over 100 clusters and are growing rapidly. Best thing is that we didn't have to get enmeshed with K8
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
I would not undersell the late middle ages. It was a complex society with sophisticated economics and social structures. Just to pick one example European warfare was highly organized by the late 1400s and enabled them to found huge empires
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Tomorrow will be my last day at VMware working on Tanzu(twitter.com)
1 points by hodgesrm 4y ago|0 comments
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
It was excellent. I work on ClickHouse and wrote something similar a while back for ClickHouse mat views. [0] It was not nearly as good, hence the appreciation. Don't know if you do talks but I have a couple opportunities coming up at
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
This is an excellent article. I like the way the author builds up in steps to eventual consistency between source tables and their materialized views. It was fun to guess the next step. I do have one question: how does the algorithm describ
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Alibaba Executives Called in by China Authorities as It Investigates Data Heist(wsj.com)
1 points by hodgesrm 4y ago|0 comments
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
> I like a lot of things about Clickhouse but one thing I'm afraid of is what happens when your data won't fit on a single machine. ClickHouse sharding and replication is not that hard to master--it's simple and the parts
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
That's a great way to hire people who care.
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Countdown to the Webb Telescope's First Images(nasa.gov)
1 points by hodgesrm 4y ago|0 comments
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
How are AI capabilities different from the introduction of guided missiles and fly-by-wire control in aeriel combat? Humans are still there but they take on different roles -- the end result is a much more formidable machine using blended c
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
I suspect Carlin understood averages and the diversity of intelligence better than your comment implies. He probably was just having fun with the idea. After all, it is a good joke.
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
> I consulted at a bank where a SVP would reorganize non-core business units into his org specifically to meet his reduction target while minimizing business impact. You never know when you need a sacrificial lamb, eh.
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
That's impressive. It is very hard to communicate this kind of news without getting tangled up in your own emotions.
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
> Trumpet seems to be the only musical instrument that's used as a pejorative. It is my pleasure to report from the German language that "Arschtrompete" (literally "Asstrumpet", figuratively "loser") is
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Databricks open sources its Delta Lake data lakehouse(infoworld.com)
2 points by hodgesrm 4y ago|0 comments
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
It's not very expensive as your note implies. This is probably all you need for most analytic projects. Well, plus a couple replicas in case the first one catches on fire.

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