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Tamil Nadu: Traders ban Pepsi, Coca-Cola to support local products(bbc.com)
4 points by rusanu 10y ago|0 comments
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Penguins inspire a novel way of making sure code in smart cars does not crash(bbc.com)
14 points by rusanu 10y ago|12 comments
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by rusanu 10y ago
This is probably the most hot topic for database service providers. Operating hundreds of thousands and millions of databases yields a valuable collateral: operational data (what users are doing, metadata, table shapes, query patterns,
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by rusanu 10y ago
I have a blog article that covers a bit more details: http://rusanu.com/2013/08/01/understanding-how-sql-server-ex...
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by rusanu 10y ago
Being Hawaii though, I don't think he will get a private beach, though :) http://seagrant.soest.hawaii.edu/coastal-access-hawaii http://dlnr.hawaii.gov/occl/beach-access/
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by rusanu 10y ago
Writing high performance applications on Windows has been an 'open secret' for long time. Good free presentation I know of are Rick Vicik ones: - https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/winserverperformance/200
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Mystery cosmic radio bursts pinpointed(bbc.com)
2 points by rusanu 10y ago|0 comments
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by rusanu 10y ago
Looking now at how Windows handles console application arguments, it sure looks broken. But you have to put your mindset in cca. 1990 and think what Windows applications looked like back then, and what was the model Microsoft was betting
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SQL Server on Linux, aka Project Helsinki: Story Behind the Idea(blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
4 points by rusanu 10y ago|0 comments
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by rusanu 10y ago
ESA article: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Swarm/...
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Iron 'jet stream' detected in Earth's outer core(bbc.com)
16 points by rusanu 10y ago|4 comments
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Windows update knocks out internet connections(bbc.com)
97 points by rusanu 10y ago|170 comments
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by rusanu 10y ago
Even ignoring this, I doubt that the sum of all US caused casualties can approach WWII USSR losses caused by German forces.
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by rusanu 10y ago
TL/DR: Email sent to 840k addresses wrecks havock on email servers. For context why I find this particularly funny, here is the famous I Survived Bedlam 3 DL story: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/exchange/2004
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NHS send-to-all email causes turmoil(bbc.com)
1 points by rusanu 10y ago|1 comments
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by rusanu 10y ago
The HN discussion of the article being retorted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12872304
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by rusanu 10y ago
The article addresses this: > Meteorites can churn up the lunar surface in several ways. Along with the fresh craters, Speyerer's team found more than 47,000 ‘splotches’, formed when material gets kicked up by the main impact and ra
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by rusanu 10y ago
My understanding of the article is that the answer is: No. "found that 10 times as many galaxies were packed into a given volume of space in the early universe than found today. Most of these galaxies were relatively small and faint, w
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by rusanu 10y ago
But the infrastructure cost of $200M can go down drastically on subsequent iterations, think how the cost of solar evolved past 5 years. I'm thinking at this as proof of concept. If it works, there are many rich areas of the globe wher
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by rusanu 10y ago
The 'strange' part is clarified better in the Wikipedia page [0]: > The forelimb of Drepanosaurus is highly modified compared to other vertebrates and very robust. Its ulna was altered from being a forearm bone into an odd cres
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Strange reptile fossil puzzles scientists(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by rusanu 10y ago|1 comments
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by rusanu 10y ago
I take you seriously, so the law must be true.
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by rusanu 10y ago
On the topic of ETW is worth mentioning UIforETW [0] and in general Bruce Dawson's blog [1]. [0] https://github.com/google/UIforETW [1] https://randomascii.wordpress.com/
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by rusanu 10y ago
Interesting that you miss checked exceptions. Is one of the most criticized feature of the language, see Does Java need Checked Exceptions? [0]. Also in this discussion between Anders Hejlsberg and Bruce Eckel they are discussing why C# did
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by rusanu 10y ago
But then you need small disks (eg. 2TB). My point is that huge capacity drives are not appropriate in compute environments, as Hadoop is. They're more for cold storage.
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by rusanu 10y ago
60TB at 500Mb/s transfer will take +1 day to read the data. This is the problem of drinking the ocean through a straw. Even with SSD transfer rates, is still a problem at scale. Clusters give you no only capacity, but also multiplicati
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by rusanu 10y ago
I'm speculating and have no evidence, but my thinking is that offering money with no strings attached is a threat to those that offer money (or other help) with strings attached. Spreading rumors would be a defense strategy to protec
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by rusanu 10y ago
Thanks for the feedback. Entering more into performance monitoring dimension is something I hear often. Corroborate observed perf changes with logged configuration changes is something I do not see well covered in the traditional perf monit
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by rusanu 10y ago
Thanks for feedback. I hear the same from some potential customers, and my response is that I'm not opposed to an on-premise deployment (technically the code is prepared for this, eg. how the configuration wizard finds the 'servic
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Show HN: DBHistory.com Simplified Monitoring for SQL Server(dbhistory.com)
5 points by rusanu 10y ago|5 comments

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