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by newt0311 18y ago
To give an example on varchars. Postgres never uses more space for varchars than strictly necessary. In fact, it is common to use text columns which are varchars extended to 2 gigabytes . Furthermore, postgres is capable of automatically c
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by newt0311 18y ago
Correction. There is one reason. Its a lot easier to find MySQL devs. than postgres, firebird, or SAP/DB devs even though the latter are a far superior product technically.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Agreed. A single look at a performance chart for MySQL under simultaneous transaction load shows it crumbling under. Furthermore, it has had substandard ACID support and substandard ANSI SQL support for generations and these problems are ju
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by newt0311 18y ago
s/SQL/MySQL Other dbs like oracle, db2, postgres, and sql server are indeed much better about this. Ie. they only require optimizations on statistics like resident memory, etc... The actual queries do not need to be optimized except in extr
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by newt0311 18y ago
Ummm... Replace performance reviews with performance previews and pretty soon, they will become indistinguishable.
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China gets Universal Healthcare?(online.wsj.com)
1 points by newt0311 18y ago|0 comments
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by newt0311 18y ago
"You're full of shit." Which great innovator isn't? Seriously, think about what goes into it. You have to believe that you are capable of changing the reigning viewpoint, that almost everybody else in the field is wrong. Without an epic e
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by newt0311 18y ago
Indeed 800 trillion is a big number. So big that I would check your sources if I were you.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Number 1 is idiotic. Historically, investors who hold shares for more than 6 months get 9 times the returns of investors who churn on a short term basis. Furthermore, there is no way to predict how stocks will behave in the short term. In t
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by newt0311 18y ago
Short summary: The best problem solvers will think of similar solutions and so may take longer to solve the problem than a random group because the random gorp will come up with more ways of solving the problem.
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by newt0311 18y ago
For the 30 seconds that it will take to break this. This measure is not so much orwellian as it is idiotic and a waste of time. Its sole purpose is to put up a PR stunt and that politicians can get away with using $128 million of taxpayer c
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by newt0311 18y ago
It seems bad but most of the changes can be taken care of using the 2to3 tool written GvR. The changes are really not that bad and quite a few of them are very long overdue.
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by newt0311 18y ago
You might want to look at private trading markets. It is sort of a lower scale version of the public markets. Companies can be traded between entities as stock without the onerous accounting requirements but there are certain stringent requ
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by newt0311 18y ago
yes.
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Plants now have "dignity" in Switzerland.(online.wsj.com)
12 points by newt0311 18y ago|4 comments
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by newt0311 18y ago
A better way to indent and align code: Use emacs and tell it to indent in any way you want. PS. Make sure you have (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil) somewhere in your .emacs
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by newt0311 18y ago
Thank you for figuring that out.
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by newt0311 18y ago
He gives too much of a shit. Hard as it may be, life goes on.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Seriously, why does the name matter?
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by newt0311 18y ago
No, but if the other guy is richer, you will either start to emulate him (and become richer and more like him yourself), or he will eventually become a stockholder of yours at which point, he has effectively taken over. Do this across gener
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by newt0311 18y ago
"Better to trade with them. Better for us, better for them." That would be the non-violent slow social take-over. Still depends on high social output.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Just wondering, why the obsession with happiness? As a society, shouldn't we be out for the greatest output so that we can crush all other societies and take over their resources (violently or not)?
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by newt0311 18y ago
How does this compare to say Python2C and pyrex?
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by newt0311 18y ago
See PostgreSQL views and rewrite rules combined with expression indexes to see a significantly more mature and functional version of the same. It nice to see MySQL finally catching up in some features. Now it needs to get rid of the stupid
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by newt0311 18y ago
Welcome to the world of mega corporations. The economies of scale in these are great but so are the dis-economies of scale often due to information defects. The nth upper level manager has no idea of the individual capabilities or the indiv
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by newt0311 18y ago
insane.
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by newt0311 18y ago
This is like ActiveX but managed and therefore with only 1% of the original brain deadness of the ActiveX design. Note: I would still be concerned about security with this. Even though python scripts can only be executed from trusted locati
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by newt0311 18y ago
Very very nice. I would like it better if it used the native python environment already floating around in the system instead but that would probably make compatibility a nightmare. Still, kudos to the ones who wrote this.
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by newt0311 18y ago
This is complicated by the fact that most doctors don't know jack squat about statistics. Since most medical data nowadays is collected through statistical means you end up witht he embarrassing situation where a economist or a mathematicia
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by newt0311 18y ago
Apple gets competition (it seems). About time. Wonder how this will affect the iPhone in the future.

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