johnnyhillbilly

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by johnnyhillbilly 9y ago
My personal take on this is that high IQ quickly turns into a liability in childhood. Particularly when entering the school system. I believe the words "bored to tears" summarize the experience quite well. While the majority of pu
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by johnnyhillbilly 9y ago
I'll chime in. Most chemical processes happen faster with a higher temperature. Some drugs decay into harmful substances (e.g. Aspirin). Other factors, such as humidity or UV, may play a part as well. Rather than testing every permutat
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by johnnyhillbilly 9y ago
These guys know what they are doing. The guide rope coming undone may lead to safety improvements for other divers. The divers found themselves in a quite difficult situation, and through skill, resourcefulness and chance managed to find a
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by johnnyhillbilly 9y ago
This appears construed. LIFO: The human rights do not include a right to _enter_ any country (except maybe one's own). You may also not leave a country if you are subject to lawful arrest. Sending money home is a most human thing to do
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by johnnyhillbilly 9y ago
Thank you guys for your answers :) I am charting the landscape of distributed database systems (federated and homogenous). Node interconnectivity is just one of many potential bottlenecks. With a sufficiently complex query, redistribution o
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by johnnyhillbilly 9y ago
Looks like a sound design based on a cursory inspection :) Question(s): Do you offer any appliances? The reason why I am asking is for computationally intense workloads where the same data may be shuffled around multiple times between proce
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by johnnyhillbilly 9y ago
Unless you are a master of corporate-fu: You're going to be so popular! :)
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by johnnyhillbilly 9y ago
Can anybody give me an example of any dbms that spans the OLTP/OLAP gap properly _on the same data_? Potentially added constraints: -ACID for OLTP -## TB+ -30-way analytical joins on complex criteria and multiple data sets with billion
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by johnnyhillbilly 9y ago
Proper risk management is serious business. "Risk" "management" in smaller businesses may just be pretended. This illusion will cost some time, focus and money to keep up. I believe that's the market referred to.
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by johnnyhillbilly 9y ago
SQL is the best when it comes to reasoning about information as tables. If you want to reason about tables as graphs, SQL becomes impractical for many applications. Performance characteristics of different RDBMSs varies by orders of magnitu
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by johnnyhillbilly 9y ago
Regarding favours: People that feel entitled to one's time can go think about their own attitude. The goodwill you mention is not good will at all. Whether the declining party's true reason is laziness is literally none of your bu
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by johnnyhillbilly 9y ago
Sounds like they spend a lot of money on questionable "marketing". Also, one never knows where the true profits are recorded in the days of ubiquitous tax avoidance.
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by johnnyhillbilly 9y ago
The real problem is that the concept of "hate speech" is nonsensical. It is a term created exactly to polarize debates and prevent rational discourse. Calmly explain that to any one that attempts to use the term - or ask them to c
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by johnnyhillbilly 9y ago
How are we to know which words you mean, and which words you don't mean?
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by johnnyhillbilly 9y ago
I assume this is one-sided, but since Dr. Laskar didn't get to present his side of the case in court, I believe it's appropriate to link to it: http://joylaskarstory.com/chronology/
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by johnnyhillbilly 9y ago
You are mentioning implementation-specific issues that may have more than one solution. If one goes to the heavy contenders in this space, e.g. Teradata, you may expect: - DMA for data retrieval - A suitable and linearly scalable network la
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by johnnyhillbilly 10y ago
Hear, hear! With quantitative analytics being used and abused by ever more businesses, the advantage will go to those that can apply qualitative checks to their assumptions - and scale it.
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by johnnyhillbilly 10y ago
Well, the CBP should bloody well train their staff on the rules they're tasked with enforcing.
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by johnnyhillbilly 10y ago
I agree with this. Furthermore, the bright youths of the nineties spent a lot of time putting hardware (and software) together. Now a lot of this is on a commodity level, open source packages abound, and the theory is more accessible than e
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by johnnyhillbilly 10y ago
I believe the first thing to understand about SQL is that everything is a table (aka relation). Once one understands that, the idea of modelling entities as relations and relationships as references starts making sense. Also, the tenets of
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by johnnyhillbilly 10y ago
So, the specifics: - The guy takes his time to offer high quality advice - The guy offers a lot of high quality advice - No real specifics are given on _why_ he's a jerk - Higher throughput is taken as a proxy for better performance wi
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by johnnyhillbilly 10y ago
I like the irony of Heisenberg leaving a legacy of uncertainty. Hitler's policies in Poland and elsewhere from 1939 on may have swayed Heisenberg from contributing to the German war effort. Thankfully, there never was a nazi A-bomb - p
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by johnnyhillbilly 10y ago
lutusp is referring to this study in particular. There are many variables that potentially should be corrected for that aren't mentioned in the article.
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by johnnyhillbilly 10y ago
Is that so strange?
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by johnnyhillbilly 10y ago
Interesting definition. Do you have a source for it. It seems ambiguous. From the Wikipedia article on relational databases, subsection relational model. "This model organizes data into one or more tables (or "relations") of
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by johnnyhillbilly 10y ago
"Relational" means "tabular". (A "relation" in relational theory is a table with a name, fields with names and types, and the data in the table.) A "relationship" in an ER diagram maps to a "refe
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by johnnyhillbilly 10y ago
That's why ASCII was designed with record and field separators. Unfortunately, it's not used (de facto) for delimited files.
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by johnnyhillbilly 10y ago
Sounds like you needed better sales people.
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by johnnyhillbilly 10y ago
Any US taxes due to their US H1-B operations can also be reduced to zero by inflated internal pricing / profit shifting to their Indian operations. Check the tax rates and median IT salaries in Indian service export cities. Also, they
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by johnnyhillbilly 10y ago
I understand. The projection you link to here is the one I keep in my living room. About satire and/or parody: I would try to master the form first, as well as finding out where it's effective. 'Allo 'allo and Candide ar

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