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by jpitz 13y ago
Also, Forge of God / Anvil of the Stars, by Greg Bear.
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by jpitz 13y ago
Ouch. That impacts a lot of physical definitions, like joules. -edit- On re-reading, I guess you weren't proposing changing the second, right?
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by jpitz 13y ago
He's got his three like any other citizen. They could hunt him if they wanted.
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by jpitz 13y ago
Devil's Advocate: It is important to get them _right_, because postgres will cache the tar out of a IMMUTABLE function result, and <mumbling>something something optimize STRICT calls, maybe?</mumbling>
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by jpitz 13y ago
JET's days are long gone. The SQL Server Desktop engine is the underpinning for Access now. It essentially _is_ SQL Server. The biggest limitation? The concurrent transaction count is limited to 5. There are others, but it is a far, far cry
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by jpitz 13y ago
So, that's interesting, but it solves a problem that others are creating. I'd rather solve it the right way, and enable a feature that works well for me : tagged emails.
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by jpitz 13y ago
Stop the email validation madness. http://davidcel.is/blog/2012/09/06/stop-validating-email-add... Fix this, and I'll try it out. I tried: myname+tesla.im@gmail.com I got: 'Enter a valid email' edit: can I get some commentary to season th
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by jpitz 13y ago
I intended the second one. I assumed it would be necessary for writable federated views.
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by jpitz 13y ago
7's the key number here. Think about it. 7-Elevens. 7 dwarves. 7, man, that's the number. 7 chipmunks twirlin' on a branch, eatin' lots of sunflowers on my uncle's ranch. You know that old children's tale from the sea. It's like you're drea
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by jpitz 13y ago
DBLink connects to remote PostgreSQL databases only. FDW extends that idea to arbitrary data stores. Wrappers exist for Oracle, MySQL, Redis, Amazon S3, text files, etc.
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by jpitz 13y ago
Wow, sorry. I misspoke. I meant to say constraint exclusion. Exclusion constraints would be pretty hard to implement in a distributed system. That said - constraint exclusion wouldn't be all that rough, would it? The eventual goal I am thin
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by jpitz 13y ago
Now, just give us a way to apply exclusion constraints across federated partitions.
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by jpitz 13y ago
Monoculture used to be a dirty word.
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by jpitz 14y ago
If one needs be "more respectful" then one is lacking in respect. The literal dictionary definition of disrespect is a lack of respect.
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by jpitz 14y ago
Context or not, I doubt disrespect was intended. The capital casing in the article title is a recognized norm in the written English language. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization#Titles
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by jpitz 14y ago
Obligatory: http://xkcd.com/397/
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by jpitz 14y ago
So, that I may thoroughly hijack this thoughtful comment: who, in the OS community, is like Malcolm was? I want to interact with them. I want my first commit to a project to be through them.
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by jpitz 14y ago
Feeding people.
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by jpitz 14y ago
Not really. Most of us just have no reason to practice it. If we lacked the ability, audio engineers wouldn't use reverb effects. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/05/2...
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by jpitz 14y ago
It is the nav app keeping the display lit up like a Times Square billboard that is sucking the majority of your battery life down, by the way. Your suggestion stands, however.
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by jpitz 14y ago
It has to wrap around at some point.
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by jpitz 14y ago
"Regardless of whether you should depend on them, many many people do. Heck, many people don't even understand that there's a choice to be made: after all, everyone knows that Oracle is ACID compliant, right?" Ignorance is not an excuse. It
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by jpitz 14y ago
I did read the post. It does cover both default and maximum. I didn't dispute that. I called out the notion that anyone ought to be depending on the defaults in the first place, or that SERIALIZABLE as a default was a good choice. Yes, many
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by jpitz 14y ago
Huh? You ought not be depending on the default isolation settings. If your workload needs serializability, set it. Most don't. CAP teaches us that ACID is a spectrum in a distributed system.
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by jpitz 14y ago
I've tried, and failed, twice, to introduce IRC into organizations. The first organization wanted policy and procedures around logging all chats - ugh ( yes, I know how to set up logging bots.) At the second, I had most of the team balking
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by jpitz 14y ago
That's the first thing I thought of too, maybe combined with something like code bubbles http://www.andrewbragdon.com/codebubbles_site.asp
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by jpitz 14y ago
Terrible, how?
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by jpitz 14y ago
If high-performance PostgreSQL is critical to your job, here are some resources: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Slow_Query_Questions Query analysis tool http://explain.depesz.com The mailing list http://www.postgresql.org/list/pgsql-p
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by jpitz 14y ago
Transactions are most certainly not irrelevant for reads. They are quite necessary. Explicit transaction blocks for single-statement reads are pointless. Extra packets for the transaction demarcation even more so.
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by jpitz 14y ago
The PostgreSQL docs, and source code, are an absolute shining star, in Open Source or otherwise. I'm hard pressed to think of a project that does it better, really.

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