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by ttz 5y ago
anyone know how get that miller column KFinder app outside of installing RedStar? Don't actually think anything exists like that for Linux (minus Elementary File Manager)
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by ttz 5y ago
Whatever concept you can think of, it is likely that there is already a German word for it ;)
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by ttz 5y ago
> It's more accurately a common law problem. European states with Napoleonic law appear to avoid the cost spiral. Asking out of genuine interest - do you have any ideas as to why this might be?
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by ttz 5y ago
Funnily enough, this is what I did, except I built an app where I write the queries as "pre-built" parameterized ones (sanitized, of course). People still do a bunch of stuff in Excel, though, and every once in a while, it breaks,
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by ttz 5y ago
> MBA types I chuckled. Then cried, because at least his MBA types can use SQL. My MBA types use Excel. OT: Good article. Like and agree with the push for centralizing data first, then building outwards so external teams can move towards
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by ttz 5y ago
> far above even surgeons or lawyers or engineers, who work very hard and are just as smart as the ultra-rich I've been seeing this assumption float around quite a bit around HN. Where is this coming from? Where is this belief that
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by ttz 5y ago
I think if you've got good evidence that it is actually effective, it is "net better" to promote its usage.
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by ttz 5y ago
To add: in my experience, programmers who denigrate R think of it as a software engineering language. Not all programming languages are meant to be languages for building large scale applications. Programming is not just about building busi
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by ttz 5y ago
Am I misreading something here? > Namely, you can’t write a query whose result updates every time the underlying data change Yeah, you can. With triggers. Or just a plain old view.
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by ttz 5y ago
Intelligence is a precisely defined and precisely measurable notion, so of course we can precisely correlate it with physical measurements [/sarcasm]
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by ttz 5y ago
Emptiness, in some cases. Imagine living a life of poverty, or being trapped in a situation you realize you don't have the tools or privilege to escape (having to care for many dependents, no time to go to school, or can't afford
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by ttz 5y ago
> fight trafficking The message the cartel is sending to those who are trying to do exactly this seems like a strong deterrent. Not saying it's a bad idea. But there is ample evidence of police not being paid enough and accepting &q
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by ttz 5y ago
the key principle to query optimization is understanding your data, considerate indexing, and keeping your statistics up to date. not avoiding slow JOINs and doing denormalization. super, super, super bright people who have been working on
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by ttz 5y ago
>If everyone prioritized wealth equally, then the overall statistics would show higher IQ correlating with more wealth. This seems like unjustified conjecture. There are so many variables at play in determining the ability to gain wealth
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by ttz 5y ago
In my experience (which doesn't mean I'm disagreeing with your experience), it's not that upper mgmt doesn't recognize the value of BI - they just don't want to invest in it. They want their cake without having to p
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by ttz 5y ago
> It’s well worth it to make the BI team go through an API, even spend the effort on a well-designed one to give them a nice experience doing so. In an ideal world yes. But sometimes, the engineering team wants nothing to do with the dat
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by ttz 5y ago
So if engineering team uses an ORM, pushes a massive API change that renames columns and removes others, and drops FKs, and leaves it as a change item in a release list in an access controlled repo without notifying anyone, it's BI tea
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by ttz 5y ago
Fair point. I was specifically comparing "regular" stream calculus vs a special "gifted" class (in the elitist, "my parents have more money" sense) ; I see now you were thinking more of "a subsidized oppor
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by ttz 5y ago
If you're gifted/have qualities that will enable you for success, I struggle to see how not taking advanced calculus will be to your detriment, or affect your ability to be noticed. Ramanujan read a bunch of textbooks. He certainl
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by ttz 5y ago
Maxwell was - to put it mildly - a pretty bright guy.
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by ttz 6y ago
Reading some of the comments here (and the vitriol), am I wrong in thinking that this site was meant as a joke? Because I totally read it as such...
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by ttz 6y ago
If Holmes and Sunny walk, then it will be the Nth time we are reminded how broken the criminal justice system is with regards to white collar crime...
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by ttz 6y ago
I'm quite aware of the etymology of the word "slave". Why is that relevant at all to this discussion? It's about socioeconomic and class status. There are lots of poor white communities that suffer serious oppression and
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by ttz 6y ago
Oh please. Spew this BS elsewhere to people who are actually gullible enough to not see through this rhetorical regurgitation. Human experience is not universal. Try going back in time and be a slave. Or a victim of the Nanjing rape. Tell m
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by ttz 6y ago
Yes, if they said they were going to. > whats wrong with our politics Lobbyists, the need for fundraising by officials putting them in the pockets and interests of corporations and entities... do we really want to go there? Corporations
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by ttz 6y ago
"Barely usable for daily tasks" Is a pretty strong statement, especially given many tech companies use it exactly for this purpose. Git might have a learning curve, and sure, it's not the simplest. But "barely usable&quo
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by ttz 6y ago
Git is used prolifically in the tech industry. What on earth are you talking about?
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by ttz 6y ago
Using LIMIT N is a great habit to develop to prevent yourself from hogging resources too, during exploration.
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by ttz 6y ago
Priors matter here, as we have no good data to actually verify or refute the issue, because Chinese gov't won't release the early data for scientific community at large around the world to analyze. So you can only rely on: - do I
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by ttz 6y ago
Down votes or up votes don't matter to me - I'm just glad (and surprised) that what I thought was basically an innocuous "IMO" comment generated so much discourse. Isn't this the point of public forums? To encourage

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