yangyang

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by yangyang 12y ago
They employ several of the main developers of community PostgreSQL and also sell commercial versions of the database. Why does that make this article suspicious? Obviously they stand to benefit from more people using PostgreSQL, but they&#x
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by yangyang 12y ago
I don't think MongoDB would have much left to do, if PostgreSQL was doing the storage duties. The converse - implementing the MongoDB protocol within PostgreSQL, as mentioned above (mongolike), sounds like a more sensible proposal.
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by yangyang 12y ago
Nitpick: PostgreSQL, or Postgres for short. Never "Postgre".
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by yangyang 12y ago
What's wrong with DB2? I know it's commercial and a bit arcane in areas, but it's a far more powerful database than MySQL.
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by yangyang 12y ago
Someone's already done a proof of concept of this, see https://github.com/JerrySievert/mongolike
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by yangyang 12y ago
Are you confusing MySQL and MongoDB? InnoDB is a MySQL storage engine.
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by yangyang 12y ago
http://pyxll.com/ already does all of this, better In particular it's in-process and does UDFs. Admittedly it isn't open-source but it is free for non-commercial use.
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by yangyang 12y ago
That can work both ways though. Sometimes if you chose a less popular option it can make it easier to find outstanding candidates.
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by yangyang 12y ago
I think there is some truth in it though; that and the inertia it currently has. If you're picking up a framework, do you use the default database or try to do something non-default on top of what you're already learning?
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by yangyang 12y ago
> Definitely not. Have you used both professionally? Not being arsey, seriously interested.
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by yangyang 12y ago
Just wait for the plane to turn.
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by yangyang 12y ago
Consider aligned colons, something like { a : 10, ab : 40 } If space and "b" are not the same width, that won't look great in a proportional font.
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by yangyang 12y ago
Alignment probably more than anything, though obviously the necessity for that depends on the language and style.
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by yangyang 12y ago
And SQL Server.
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by yangyang 12y ago
Interesting. I've been monitoring my clusters with a custom Python script that grabs a lot of the data from the pg_stat_ tables, along with the current xlog location and table / database sizes, at regular intervals and saves it in
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Assange 'to leave' Ecuador embassy(bbc.co.uk)
83 points by yangyang 12y ago|114 comments
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by yangyang 12y ago
Windows licences are not cheap.
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by yangyang 12y ago
SQL is always the query language, though. You still have to use it with pl/Python, pl/sh etc.
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by yangyang 12y ago
I fully agree with this. I used pgAdmin for a while but have recently switched to psql and it's much more useful. In particular, learn the \ commands. It's extremely useful to be able to quickly look at the structure of a table, d
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by yangyang 12y ago
QUEL? http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUEL_query_languages :-)
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by yangyang 12y ago
Also see Camelcamelcamel ( http://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/ ) - they do a great job of price tracking on Amazon. They have historical data for a surprising number of products too.
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by yangyang 12y ago
On a related note, Realtime Trains is an excellent website (and app) for showing current (and historical) train running times: http://realtimetrains.co.uk/ It often shows platforms before they're announced in-station,
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Virtual Free-Range Chickens (VR for animals)(motherboard.vice.com)
1 points by yangyang 12y ago|0 comments
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by yangyang 12y ago
You can also run Emacs as a daemon, and connect to it from both graphical and tty sessions. So you could ssh into your desktop and (with emacsclient), work with the same instance running on your X desktop.
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by yangyang 12y ago
A frame in Emacs terminology is actually a top-level window.
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by yangyang 12y ago
You can't invoke binaries on the host that way, though.
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by yangyang 12y ago
I wonder what would happen if someone tried that now. I suspect officials may not be so flexible.
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by yangyang 12y ago
Yes it often looks like casual labour, occasionally we see someone from the depot though. They made a few mistakes at first, delivering to wrong address and leaving parcels in inappropriate places. They seem pretty much fine now. They don&#
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by yangyang 12y ago
They've been doing this for quite a while ("Amazon Logistics") in London, UK. They have a depot in Croydon. Since late 2013, at least.
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by yangyang 12y ago
Switzerland is not part of the EU.

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