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by pdubs 5y ago
I've only used them while using certain frameworks to dynamically generate queries referencing multiple tables. They end up getting turned into an implicit inner join though. The following queries are equivalent. SELECT a.*, b.*
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by pdubs 6y ago
I mean yes, but also no. I was skeptical that I could get into the game after reading about it, but I played the free demo [1] and got hooked. After "beating" it about 80 hours in I've lost a bit of interest because it seemed
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by pdubs 8y ago
Carbon tax
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by pdubs 8y ago
JetBrains does a pretty good job making this a bit less painful. They have a license server you install that dishes out floating licenses to IDEs. Floating licenses are released after 2-3 days, so if someone isn't using the product it
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by pdubs 10y ago
The main issue is that most companies won't spend the time or money to do a full legal analysis and simply don't allow AGPL to be used in projects.
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by pdubs 11y ago
JAMF Software | Minneapolis, MN or Eau Claire, WI | Onsite Software Engineer (all levels) QA/Test Automation Engineer http://www.jamfsoftware.com/jobs/openings/ We help organizations succeed with Apple! We&#x
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by pdubs 11y ago
JAMF Software | Minneapolis, MN or Eau Claire, WI | Onsite Software Engineer (all levels) http://www.jamfsoftware.com/jobs/openings/ We help organizations succeed with Apple! We're looking for software engine
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by pdubs 12y ago
25GB of (I'm guessing) LZMA compressed text. That'll expand to a bit bigger than 25GB.
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by pdubs 12y ago
"Despite the protest Uber said it had seen the number of people downloading its app increase by 850% compared to last Wednesday." Uber gets some free publicity it seems.
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by pdubs 12y ago
Most if it is in Java, which is pretty verbose in comparison to many languages.
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by pdubs 12y ago
Sony MDR-V6/MDR-7506 http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/the-best-150-over-ear-headp...
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by pdubs 12y ago
Too bad there's no first-party app for hardware-accelerated 1080p/DD5.1 streaming on Windows like there is for Netflix and Hulu...
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by pdubs 12y ago
Some of the previous work on this involving timing attacks against SSH [1] is particularly interesting because it's so obvious in retrospect, but no one saw it when SSH was being designed. [1] http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/
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by pdubs 13y ago
Never more relevant... http://xkcd.com/435/
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by pdubs 13y ago
If you look at the difference in surface area between traditional men's/women's models of the same watch [1] there's a pretty massive difference in what you'd be able to do with the space. However, you do see more w
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by pdubs 13y ago
>(For a humorous take on nation-state threat models, read the hilarious usenix article This World of Ours by James Mickens: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/thisworld... ) "Security r
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by pdubs 13y ago
No query optimizer would look at this and say "1M rows? Let's group and aggregate before filtering." Not to mention, the question specifically states that a=? would return 100 rows and a=? and b=? would return 10. Regarding O
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by pdubs 13y ago
Regarding #5: >That caught me by surprise. Both options “roughly the same” and “depends on the data” got about 25% — the guessing probably. I don't think it was guessing so much as reasoning that fetching 100 rows (and filtering by
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by pdubs 13y ago
Unless I'm misreading this decision it merely upholds the FCC's right to classify ISPs as "information services" instead of "telecommunication services" because the Telecommunications Act is a bit fuzzy and lea
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by pdubs 13y ago
Generally AMEX is known for better customer service, but YMMV. AMEX is often seen as a good choice for people looking to build credit because they're often willing to give out a 3x credit limit increase (without a hard credit pull) f
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by pdubs 13y ago
The VAIO Z used to fill those requirements. Looks like the VAIO Pro replacement for the Z now has all ULV processors. :(
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by pdubs 13y ago
If you keep categorizing transaction from, say, checking to credit card or savings to checking as transfers it'll pick up on it after a bit and automatically categorize them.
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by pdubs 13y ago
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT ...) is a very different thing. It's counting distinct values of a particular column in a result set and totally not a square peg/round hole situation.
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by pdubs 13y ago
UMN also allowed some Schedulizer website (now defunct :() to pull their schedules so you could just plug in your courses and search for optimal schedules.
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by pdubs 13y ago
The HTC One S (released at the same time as the One X) didn't get anything past Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. I've taken my money elsewhere.
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by pdubs 13y ago
>Netflix cooperated with my quest to understand what they internally call "altgenres,"
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by pdubs 13y ago
I know Crashplan will let you mail them a hard drive for the initial seed. I think other services have this too. The solution posted isn't really much less than Crashplan from what I can see.
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by pdubs 13y ago
>Just makes me sad that they're not publicly traded I used to think that too, but then I read about Elon's opinion on that and changed my mind. Being privately owned allows them to take huge risks and whether the inevitable cat
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by pdubs 13y ago
It's not quite what you're asking for, but SQL Server Tuning Advisor will recommend indices. Hell, SSMS recommends a missing index if you display the execution plan for a query. Oracle has a tuning wizard too (though I've no
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by pdubs 13y ago
I agree...except that if you select any text it prompts you to tweet it. For readers that compulsively select text as they read (like me), it's infuriating.

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