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by hodgesrm 5y ago
Most interesting CS topics show up at least somewhere in databases.
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
Larry Ellison is seriously underestimated as a database leader. I worked at Sybase. Oracle beat us fair and square. The Oracle DBMS team is outstanding.
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
> It also means you can restore a database immediately to the last known good state. How is this different from preserving a database UNDO/REDO log permanently?
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
Got knocked on my tail by an electric shock as a kid--tried to extract magnets from a broken circular saw. As a precautionary measure, I had plugged it in beforehand to ensure that it really didn't work. I don't remember anything
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
Well according to the article it destroyed a lot of banks when asset prices stopped rising. > “You could see that no one anticipated that adjustment, even after Volcker began to address inflation. They didn’t think it would happen to the
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
> Inflation of goods is caused by a supply shock or too much demand (too much spending chasing two few resources). It was my understanding that increase in the money supply caused severe inflation in Spain during the 1500s. [0] If true h
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
Agree. Krugman is really good on pure economic questions like trade theory. Unfortunately he is a lot less trustworthy on issues where economics and current politics intersect, e.g., NYT opinion pieces. I read those with a fair degree of sk
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
Agree. It had an unusually clear explanation of how different types of bubbles are tied to Fed policies. Pointing out the effect of shifting of assets from poorer to richer segments of society was another interesting point in the article. H
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The Fed’s Doomsday Prophet Has a Dire Warning About Where We’re Headed(politico.com)
57 points by hodgesrm 5y ago|35 comments
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
Machiavelli wrote De Principatibus to get a job with the Medici after losing his position when they returned to Florence. There are a lot of interpretations of the work but the simplest is that it's a manual for an autocrat and that Ma
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
In that case make the argument as you do above and the rest of us can decide whether it's more or less probable. I'm still not convinced incidentally. State actors have very strong motivations to break Tor, regardless of difficult
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
Why is this comment being downvoted? I follow HN to get perspectives exactly like this one.
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Adobe, Cloudflare lead plunge in cloud stocks after JPMorgan issues downgrades(cnbc.com)
1 points by hodgesrm 5y ago|1 comments
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
There are at least 6 or 7 SaaS implementations of ClickHouse: 3+ in China, Altinity.Cloud (AWS/GCP), Yandex (Yandex.Cloud), TinyBird (AWS)...And more on the way. Disclaimer: I work on Altinity.Cloud.
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
> This trend is also supported by Kubernetes as this is a technology which is hard to master. So people start splitting up responsibilities again. One part of the team developing the application the other part of the team managing the in
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
Well, as long as we tolerate it. To the extent Americans (and others) live in a democracy and can pass laws to address social harms this situation is entirely our own fault.
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
ClickHouse works great on Kubernetes. Check out the ClickHouse Operator for Kubernetes. [0] We just added a UI to it, blog article out shortly. [0] https://github.com/Altinity/clickhouse-operator Disclaimer: I work at
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
> Most data center machines run at a tiny fraction of their capabilities; seeing a CPU running at 25% is definitely something that stands out. Kubernetes fixes that, as does VMware. They can both distribute workloads efficiently to ensur
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
Most companies that I see operating private clouds are using Kubernetes. It's much more flexible than OpenStack. It also has the advantage that apps are more or less portable across private/public cloud infrastructure.
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
It very much depends on the business. We offer managed data warehouses, which (a) are major consumers of compute/storage/networking and (b) often have stringent requirements around security and control of data. We're betting
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
Successful pure play open source businesses are rare. As in RedHat; most others I can think of were successful in the sense they had good exits. On the other hand if you look at companies that build value-adds on top of open source, then th
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
> I can't escape the feeling that AWS is taking credit for industry trends (DDR5) and Arm's decisions (Neoverse). ARM is just a design. AWS brought it to market. ARM-based server processors are still rare on the ground. IIRC Eq
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
Redshift pulls down $100s of millions in annual revenue as far as I can tell. Not everyone is switching.
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
Amazon services are individually not that great in many cases. Their strength is the enormous diversity in the aggregate. You might use your own services for data and apps, but if it's all glued together with Lambda you aren't goi
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
That's a great question. I did use the map built into the re:Invent app and it's really handy. That said, it helps enormously to have been there before. Even a single venue like the Venetian is enormous and requires some practice
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
> What if cloud vendors focus on the lowest layer, and other (pure software) vendors on the layer above? I'm at AWS re:Invent this week and I can tell you this absolutely not what Amazon is doing. Two themes really stand out in th
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
This. I would add that tech people and many others also fail to grasp some of the real market barriers to entry. (Well sometimes.) To cite a single example: corporate procurement systems. It's like trench warfare to get enrolled in man
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
Thank you. I had no idea of this history.
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
I like bicycle touring for the reasons you listed. Bike tours are physically just as hard, but you tend to run into decent food and drink more often. There's no shortage of nice camping.
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
Shooting a charging bear is harder than it sounds. If you don't kill it, chances are you'll just really piss it off.

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