quizotic

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by quizotic 6y ago
Thank you for the pointer to DB fiddle!
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Ask HN: What Happened to Sqlfiddle?
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by quizotic 7y ago
Bridgewater is famous for valuing a culture of almost brutal honesty and fierce internecine warring over ideas. It argues this combination is vital to reaching the deep understanding that is critical to the success of its investments. While
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by quizotic 7y ago
This seems so much more clear to read, with less typing.
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by quizotic 7y ago
Do you do that by memory? Or do you have some text indexing tool that helps?
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by quizotic 7y ago
This is Dan Abadi we're talking about. More importantly, the points he makes are important, clear and true. If that causes heartburn for Vendor A and pride for Vendor B, that's secondary. The primary goal is to help users of distr
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by quizotic 7y ago
Does anyone remember Larry Harris and "Natural" back in the 1980s?
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by quizotic 7y ago
The only problem with singular nouns for table names is that they occasionally conflict with SQL keywords. The canonical example of this is from the TPC-H benchmark which has tables named REGION, NATION, SUPPLIER, CUSTOMER, PART, PARTSUPP,
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by quizotic 7y ago
So true. And so deliciously snarky. Confession: I'm guilty of far greater stupidity. I've asked "Ship of Theseus" questions when interviewing candidates for object database companies, and conservation puzzles, like tesse
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by quizotic 8y ago
Don't C++ 20 modules solve this problem?
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by quizotic 8y ago
Do you have any insight into the reason for the unequal access? Is it that poorer or uninsured patients cannot afford non-emergency healthcare? Is it that they are too far away? Is it education/knowledge/social - belief that they
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by quizotic 8y ago
Agree you need all of these things and more... but if you could do this above the microservice level, as a piece of K8S or whatever the MSA, then you might have an advance over RDBMS. The result would be the same features/guaranteed yo
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by quizotic 8y ago
If you never need to coordinate two or more microservices, then sure. But that means you're dealing with a monolith. In the original article, you could combine Orders and Users into a single microservice. That would resolve all the iss
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by quizotic 8y ago
There's a bit of an emperor's clothes problem with microservices. If microservices are never combined together, they are essentially monoliths under a cooler name. But as soon as you combine them, you run into the same problems th
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by quizotic 8y ago
Is there any protection to be had by a corporate shell game? Suppose I put my technology assets in one corporation, my revenue and monetary assets in a 2nd corporation, and my customer facing presence in a 3rd corporation. The patent trolls
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by quizotic 8y ago
Not getting this at all! How does it help find competitive websites?
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by quizotic 8y ago
So I just had an experience of being forced into "vertical slice" development (not quite the same as architecture, but still). This seemed initially as crazy as erecting a multi-story building in vertical slices. But it turned o
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by quizotic 8y ago
Glad to hear about the FDWs ... but wouldn't foreign keys be your friend here? What else would you need, really, to layer this on an existing DB?
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by quizotic 8y ago
Well ... I kinda like the query syntax's ability to traverse relationships, nest objects/sub-headings, and apply filters at the level of projected expressions! This has been done before of course, but I'm not sure I've s
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by quizotic 8y ago
404?
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by quizotic 9y ago
Beautiful. Data Flow + Functional. Love the idea and can't wait to try it out!
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by quizotic 9y ago
Heck of a title. Wish the article was better at explaining what was actually done.
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by quizotic 9y ago
The article argues that conservative views are correlated with fear/concern over physical safety, and that increasing the feeling of physical safety moves conservative views toward more liberal views. If true, it makes me wonder whethe
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by quizotic 9y ago
+1 for the idea of tuning query optimization based on ML. I don't know of any DBMSs that take this advice, and that's remarkable in this day and age.
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by quizotic 9y ago
The prescription of changing sequential_page_cost to equal random_page_cost is certainly reasonable for SSD, but I wonder if the underlying issues aren't somewhat deeper and more interesting. One difference between a sequential scan
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by quizotic 9y ago
Jim Starkey (founder of NuoDB) is rumoured to have said that any adjective before the word "consistency" is equivalent to the prefix "in" as in "eventual consistency is inconsistency". A bit harsh, and not comp
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by quizotic 9y ago
Yeah, another case of "blame the person" instead of "blame the lack of systems". A while back, there was a thread here on how Amazon handled their s3 outage, caused by a devops typo. They didn't blame the DevOp guy,
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by quizotic 9y ago
While it's good that you know about this optimization, the key point is look at the evidence first. It's surprisingly hard to temporarily ignore what you know, and just use your eyes, but it's so important.
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by quizotic 9y ago
In the early 1990s, I'd co-founded an object database company, with a standard "east-coast-style" non-compete, which among other things, granted us injunctive releif. Our top developer left to work for our main competitor. We
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by quizotic 9y ago
Gosh I like this! Eliminates the artificiality. Eliminates the competition and the anxiety. Replaces all that with something natural. Why is this approach so rare? What's the downside?

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