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by hodgesrm 4y ago
We maintain the Vertamedia adapter at Altinity and have hundreds of dashboards ourselves plus OSS users have countless thousands more. Can you log an issue so we can look at it? I've never heard of this problem but would love to learn
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
SQL would have looked different back in the 1970s if it had been designed from scratch. In fact it was. One example was QUEL, the query language for Ingres, which was an influential RDBMS developed at UC Berkeley by Stonebraker and Wang.
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
> This means your in-warehouse Python is limited to code that can be called on a single row of data, by a SQL statement invoking it. I'm curious how this affects performance on large datasets. Code on table scans needs to be in-line
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
https://altinity.com/blog (Disclaimer: I work at Altinity.)
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
Understood. There's a certainly a difference between short term effects such as interest rates driving currency exchange rates vs. secular trends that depress currencies permanently. It seems as if some of the latter are becoming visi
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
Wasn't the lack of inflation driven by countervailing deflation from moving supply chains into lower cost regions like Eastern Europe and China? It's been a good 30 year run but that chicken is now coming home to roost.
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
The NYT is now alarmed by things that happened in previous centuries as well. 1619 Project and the Haiti "Ranson" Project are examples. [0, 1] Not that the subjects are uninteresting, but journalists looking for a scoop don't
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
I clicked on this thinking to read about William Blake. (Him of "Tyger, Tyger burning bright...What immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry?") The name seems entirely unrelated, however.
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
The lack of monetization was mostly on Docker itself as far as I can tell. For example, they could have offered secure container supply chains years ago. Instead, companies like JFrog got there first. Public cloud container repos are anothe
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
Perhaps, but only if you define the "issue" as squirrels getting bored because the feeder is too easy to get into. My favorite in this vein was a metal sleeve on the pole holding the bird feeder that was held up by a weight inside
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
VMware learned their lesson from OpenStack, where emerging upstream technology threatened their virtualization monopoly. They also were forced to go in this direction by their enterprise customers, who are very dependent themselves on open
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VMware May Test Broadcom’s Code for Software Buys(wsj.com)
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
I'm still digesting the paper (it's rather long) but working through multi-cloud brokers reminds me of Leslie Lamport's sarcastic description of distributed systems: A distributed system is one in which the failure of a c
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
The OED also cheats a little by using quotes from other languages like Latin, which does not seem completely cricket. Definition 1 of Peer in the 1989 Edition has the following starting quote from the Magna Carta: 1215 Magna Carta xxi. Comi
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
Building a custom server does not sound so crazy. If you ever used Websphere you would probably think the same. I was at one of those crazy Internet startups you referred to and we ran a trial of Websphere for a while. It was some of the sl
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
I had that same goal for many years and was fortunate enough to get the 1989 edition (20 volumes) "on sale" for a mere $999. It came in four boxes of 5 volumes each. It was a chore just carrying them to my car outside the bookstor
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
Agree. Monitoring is a great example. Every DBMS server needs monitoring and it should be exportable to Prometheus. But the commonality ends pretty much ends there, at least in my experience. That's just single instances, too, not comp
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
> What's missing in this analysis is that those businesses are not going to be "founder-friendly" the way that the prototypical YC-seed-stage startup is. I don't understand your definition of "founder-friendly.&q
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
Amazon. AWS was just a small cloud on the horizon in 2012. They are the dominant platform to run applications and (more surprisingly) now the #2 DBMS vendor according to recent Gartner numbers. That's a major change. [0] https:/&
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
Excellent post. I'm very much in the SQL camp myself, but the clean mapping between MongoDB and Javascript data models is outstanding. If you have a front end that just needs persistence as opposed to complex queries MongoDB is the obv
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
The video of Miura's descent is unforgettable. He wipes out about 3/4 down the slope but is able keep from tumbling more than a couple times. There's a point where you see the shadow of one of the skis, which is tumbling over
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
C'mon over to databases. Computer science is alive and well here.
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
Also, good contracts are difficult to write. There are templates for most contract types but it can take a while to work out the kinks. IP clauses around open source, for example, are incredibly hard to get right. We've had multiple it
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
It helps to understand what employers are looking for when they advertise unlimited PTO. In many cases it's because they don't want to accumulate liability on the books for unused PTO/sick time, which they then have to pay ou
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
#2 is absolutely great. It's particularly useful to justify limitations of liability.
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
Always push back on terms in contracts that you don't like. I deal with a lot of Master Services Agreement and Statement of Work markups. 75% of the time people just put out changes without really being very tied to them. If they want
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Climate Change: The Technologies That Could Make All the Difference(wsj.com)
1 points by hodgesrm 5y ago|0 comments
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
The US is not a capitalist paradise. We moved a software company from the UK to a US Delaware Corp 2 years ago and it was a major headache involving substantial legal fees, accounting, employee benefits, and taxes. Texas interestingly has b
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
When I saw your initial comment I figured this was the tome. It's outstanding. I got onto it after hearing an interview with Richard White. He's opinionated and some of the opinions are very insightful. In the interview he said th
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
> Somehow I've never realized that row oriented storage is orthogonal to how disks work... The section you posted is very misleading. Storage is arranged in blocks. The secret to database performance is how you lay out data in those

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