lwat

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by lwat 14y ago
It's going to be some time before I stop thinking 'spam' every time I see a URL to theatlantic.
152.
by lwat 14y ago
If a product is still profitable, why discontinue it?
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by lwat 14y ago
Most websites will just ignore it from day 1 anyway.
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by lwat 14y ago
I'm willing to pay the Gold Price but I don't want to wait several months until they decide to air it in my local country.
155.
by lwat 14y ago
Offers are ALWAYS subject to due diligence checks.
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by lwat 14y ago
Human drivers are terrible. Is it so hard to imagine computers doing significantly better? Why do computers need to be 100% safe when the humans they are replacing are nowhere near that?
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by lwat 14y ago
Seven years ago I bought a Dell 30" with 2560x1600 resolution for about $1500. Today the biggest monitor I can find is still the same 30" at $1500. What the hell?
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by lwat 14y ago
Nothing? For something as common as you say I'd have thought there would be many examples out there. I don't get how this can be touted so often when there's no concrete use cases for this 'feature'.
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by lwat 14y ago
I recently asked if anyone could point me to an (open source) app on github or wherever that has a 'fluid schema' on a NoSQL system and nobody was able to show me one. Do you have a concrete example I can look at please?
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by lwat 14y ago
If you're good at adapting to your environment you don't need to waste so much time trying to adapt your environment to you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-9w3dlcmyk
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by lwat 14y ago
Yes but can you request 'all internal emails for the last 3 months' or something as broad as that?
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by lwat 14y ago
I'm not convinced you can get a TB of internal emails via a simple FOIA request.
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by lwat 14y ago
It's one of the biggest players in their market!
164.
by lwat 14y ago
So who cares, shady operators will just move?
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by lwat 14y ago
Not too many 'casual' pirates download from usenet. They just go to The Pirate Bay and the comments will always tell you a file is fake before you hit the download link. These fake torrents do exist in large numbers but they're trivial to a
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by lwat 14y ago
What if they're not in the USA?
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by lwat 14y ago
Nope, our system is a write-heavy transactional one, and SQL Server can show you which query started your lock chains too so it's easy to resolve lock contention issues.
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by lwat 14y ago
This doesn't work on sites like The Pirate Bay where trusted uploaders make it easy to find what you're looking for. If my torrent was uploaded by eztv then I know what I'm getting.
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by lwat 14y ago
I've been using SQL Server 5 hours a day for almost 15 years now and yes, I've taken databases to the limits of the hardware many times. We've upgraded our SQL Servers' hardware many times due to increasing load. We've never had a scaling p
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by lwat 14y ago
This doesn't really answer any of the questions I asked you but from what you wrote here you have to agree that going with a tried-and-true RDBMS that's been around for decades is a much better prospect than choosing one of the new, unprove
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by lwat 14y ago
So if these incredibly mature and robust systems are an 'operational nightmare' I'd like to hear what software systems ARE up to your operational standards? How often did you manage to spectacularly fail PostgreSQL to qualify it an 'operat
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by lwat 14y ago
FYI PostgreSQL is free.
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by lwat 14y ago
You don't seem to have any experience with solid, mature RDBMSs like PostgreSQL or Oracle or SQL Server. MySQL sucks in so many ways and all the other names you mentioned are not RDBMSs. People running large numbers of (for example) MS SQL
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by lwat 14y ago
Do you mean the physical server crashing? You should have a hot spare replicated machine for that. If you mean the RDBMS failing randomly at night, that really doesn't happen on mature systems like PostgreSQL or MS SQL Server. I mean it cou
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by lwat 14y ago
So brave
176.
by lwat 14y ago
If you push ANYTHING to the limits it will cause issues. I don't see how that's an argument against properly utilizing an RDBMS.
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by lwat 14y ago
I don't know how accurate those stats are though.
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by lwat 14y ago
I disagree with everything you say here. I seriously doubt you've been using databases for 20 years. Which databases have you used? How many hours experience do you have with each of them? Just because some people do it wrong doesn't mean y
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by lwat 14y ago
Mutually Assured Destruction is alive and well and many countries still maintain a good stock of nuclear weapons for this purpose.
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by lwat 14y ago
No this device has a faster CPU, more RAM etc. It's not an exact duplicate of the Pi.

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