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Other than the CLI tools others mentioned before no. But they have started to treat OSX/iOS as first class citizens which is awesome. Shows a huge culture shift over there in Redmond.
I know you're being sarcastic but I would legitimatly buy something like that if it was under $100
Increasing interoperability may increase their Windows server share rather than reduce it. One hypothetical: a dev starts a new project. He's got a Windows box and loves Visual Studio, so he starts there. VS makes using MSSQL easy, so he uses it. Previously he wouldn't have because he figures they'll probably deploy on Linux because that's what everybody does.

Come deployment time, they decide to deploy on Windows to minimize unnecessary differences with their dev stack and there are better deployment tools for MSSQL on Windows than on Linux.
If you're just using it, it isn't restrictive at all is it? You just have to say that you used it.

If you modify it, you must provide source code for the version that was distributed. Not the source code for anything else.

... unless I totally misunderstand LGPL
For its eco-system, of course.
Their BI tooling is pretty well integrated, as well as (comparatively) easy to pick up.
Individual contributor, as opposed to team lead or manager.
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Microsoft, you devil! That is awesome news. It will definitely push others to up their db game.
One thing is DB engine, other is a suite of tools that goes along with it.
This was my favorite part, and a good lesson for every startup. Skip over all the overrated recent Stanford grads and Box alumni, THIS is the guy you want to hire:

"Only one person in the entire Department of Defense, a technical officer in a Marine unit in the Pacific, responded to the attack in an effective manner: seeing that something odd was happening with the computer server, he pulled it offline at his own initiative."
ms sql is better than mysql. downvote me all you want, but you can't possibly disagree if you've tried both like I have. transaction isolation anyone?

don't have much experience with postgres, but my money is still on mssql
And God said Let there be text, and there was text
I would read a blog filled with advice from this Council of Space Bats.
For anyone unaware, SQL Server is a 'fork' of Sybase after an agreement between Sybase and Microsoft ended in 1993. At that point, "Sybase SQL Server version 4.2 and Microsoft SQL Server are identical."

Sybase runs happily on Unix, Linux or Windows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybase
How many is tons? I've not had such problems with hundreds of snapshots. There are reports on the btrfs list with problems involving many thousands. I have no idea how ZFS snapshots perform when there are hundreds to thousands.

The other thing that matters a ton is kernel version, the development is so heavy there are thousands of insertions+deletions per kernel cycle that even in a year it's ordinary to consider those kernels "old" on the list. Most distros by default use old kernels by Btrfs development standards. The exception is Fedora, and openSUSE who do lots of backports explicitly to support Btrfs.
With such a dent in their profits I'm sure Verizon will learn their lesson.
I'd presume that integration with ASP.NET (core) is good, so now you can run pure Linux MS web stack.
Thanks for the note about chroma subsampling. I was already sometimes wondering why some line-art JPEGs had artifacts and others (almost) not. Is there an easy command-line argument to, say, cjpeg to do this? (The manual page doesn't seem to be clear on this?)
Well, I missed the cloud boat, so it's no wonder I can't be employed in this market.
Title is attractive but misleading. What they did was change the entire user flow not only change the button.
> He was recorded saying that he would develop such a persona, were he ever to deign to run for office.

Source? There's a quote about him claiming that he'd "run as a republican, since they're the dumbest voters in the country." but that quote has been debunked.

http://www.snopes.com/1998-trump-people-quote/
Punitive damages comes to mind.
SQL Server on a virtual Windows server is like the de facto set up within the non-IT-but-still-kind-of-technical groups of large organizations. There's just a ton of UI tools built for it and it's a nice transition from Access to something more robust.

But it means having a separate windows-server team set up to handle builds and all that. The crappy thing is that the rest of IT uses Linux or Unix based OSs for their software, so Cygwin ends up getting installed on most Win Servers to open them up to the NFS shares that drive most of the data movement. I could see this being pretty huge to be able to migrate the various SQL server versions and Win OS versions over to Linux and ditch the need for dual environments while still supporting a RDBMS that most of the business is comfortable using and has tons of legacy data and apps built against them.

But.. yea I agree. If you just need a database, drop Postgres on a linux box and role. It's free and there is a huge community. If you've got the money and need something managed for you with support built in and lots of horsepower then go with something like Teradata. SQL Server feels like the Sears/k-mart of RDBMS. I'll just go to Walmart, thank you very much.
Price fixing doesn't just mean the fixed their own price, otherwise the dollar store would be in trouble.

When Amazon has 90% of the market it's silly to call what Apple did price fixing. Apple didn't work with competitors to fix prices for consumers, they told publishers to get on board or get bent.

That should be an option every company has, unless they own the market, IMO.

Edit: Somehow typed the word "eBay" instead of the word "what" - for THAT I do blame Apple ;)
Probably the same group running Cardboard.
I'm in the middle of Thinking Fast and Slow which revolves heavily around ego depletion and this is very surprising. They cite a ton of evidence and the guy won a Nobel Prize for his work. Hard to imagine so much of it could be flat wrong.
It'd be ridiculous to charge different amounts for a license based on the OS. Has that ever happened before?
I had a startup about a year ago whose "product" was collecting the career wisdom of alums 5-10 years out and sharing it with undergrads so that they didn't have to make the same mistakes that everyone else did. All of the alums, professors, and mentors we talked to about loved the idea, and were more than willing to share their wisdom. We built it, we collected stories, we launched...and students derived basically zero value from it. The problem was that without actually being in the situation that lead to those mistakes, they were unable to contextualize the advice: it was all just random words, good in theory but not interesting or actionable. Some things can only be learned by experience.

Ironically, though this meant the death of the startup, it actually served its intended purpose for me and my cofounder - the experience of actually doing the market research, building it, responding to feedback, and launching taught us a lot about what we wanted out of our careers, what we were good at, and what would be a blind alley.

I suspect that finding product/market fit is similar. I know about 8-10 people who have successfully built a startup. In all cases but one, they spent at least a year, usually 18-24 months floundering around without any idea what they were doing. These were not uninformed people - they had all read Hacker News, Lean Startup, every blog post and Paul Graham article they could get their hands on, etc, and in most cases had worked for or even founded startups before. In my case, we actually did the 100+ or so customer interviews, we got great initial feedback, we put mocks of our preliminary product designs in front of prospective users and got "Oh yeah, we'd definitely use that, let us know as soon as it's done!", and still got no users once we built it.

It just takes 18-24 months to develop the kind of deep knowledge necessary to build something innovative. That's working full-time and assuming you take all the shortcuts available to you. And that's time to the point where you have a viable idea - on top of that, it's usually 3-6 months to build out a prototype, and unless you've gotten very lucky with social connections, that's the beginning point of where you might viably get seed funded. Profitability is usually 2-3 years beyond that.

Budget accordingly, and don't get discouraged when you're a year in and don't have a clue what you're doing.
Many of which are considered creative works in the public domain.

We ought to be very cautious when using public laws to enable otherwise non-viable business models to exist.

There is a large variation in museum attitudes toward amateur reproduction, largely because there is no international consensus on the correct balance between a museum's duty to remain financially solvent as curator of valuable antiquities and its duty to maintain the broadest possible access to the public for works in the public domain.

It is likely that a public law having nothing to do with copyright could encourage quality professional digitization of works in the public domain, by extending limited monopoly privilege on the digital copy until the cost of creating it can be reasonably recouped. If a museum cannot recover the costs of making quality scans, it won't make them. But copyright is the wrong way to go about recovering costs.
I mean, i think most people might agree. it's the pricing that's pretty different though. :)
I would love for this to be baked in with repo hosting, it would make reviewing PRs easier.

Also ruby/python support would be awesome, although a huge can of worms.
To solve the mystery of the significance of the p-value:

If mankind were to make one unique experiment a p-value would be a useful tool, but if many experiments are realized and people hide the results only showing those results that they want to show for self-promotion, then selecting a part of the real information (purposely or not) is a lie.
> modules in the base install, which is important for things like installing on ZFS root

Ah yes, the bootstrapping problem.
I read this while I'm right in the middle of trying to figure out why a linked server query which is a simple join on the same table, on two indexed columns, is taking 5 seconds.

I'm not saying MSSql isn't really nice. I'm just saying I found the timing of reading your comment amusing.
Thanks, I will read.
I will agree with you on that one, but one is free and the other isn't. Postgres, however, is free and blows MySQL out of the water. Each has their pros and cons though.
Besides confusing advertising and marketing, this marketing article contains a few other inaccuracies. E.g. it says: "In China alone, points out Luis, there are 400 million people learning English who require some form of certification to prove their proficiency for a job or studies abroad."

Perhaps it should read "... people learning English who may require some form of certification ..." because not all of those 400 million Chinese are looking to work or study abroad.
Rights fights are indeed fun to watch. I particularly enjoy the idea that a violation of human rights as a category includes things like forcing someone into slavery and as per the EU charter's 17.2 or the UN charter's 27.2 also includes music piracy.
I didn't read your article as making that case. My riff was more on the exponential size of the dependency space. Even if someone is only using 5 external libraries, if one of them is among the 25 listed, the dependency chain can easily become burdensome.

To a first approximation, I think the default for JavaScript development is to treat taking on dependencies lightly. And because the JavaScript zeitgeist moves from project to project so quickly, there's often no historical base to take on supporting open source projects when the original author moves on. I mean Jeremy Ashkenash can take a motorcycle trip in part because of his decision that Backbone is not evolving quickly. The idea that things must evolve quickly equates to more work and more work is a recipe for burnout.
> ms sql is better than mysql.

That's one hell of a benchmark, up there with "eating paste is better than being on fire" and "missing a hand is better than missing a head".

> don't have much experience with postgres, but my money is still on mssql

Obviously, since postgres is FOSS.
How does a maths PhD compare with being a Product Manager?
React makes me sad
>To what extent is cold sober engineering actually art, an expression of who we are at the time?

Beautifully put.
Maybe you could combine it with static analysis or code coverage output?
He also said there "you cannot argue with the evidence"... I'm glad someone is trying.
It's simple: we're living in a heterogeneous computing environment now and Microsoft cannot ignore that any longer now.
For years I told my boss: "I'd love to use SQL Server like you suggested, but it doesn't run on Linux".

Now I'm finished.
I don't know for sure but I bet it is, or could be exported to, any existing object model file formats. Like fbx.
This can be used to make a user's fingerprint stand out based on their browsing patterns. However, it is very fragile in practice. The tracker would need both a rare fingerprint, as well as a rare browsing pattern in order to identify a user.

This is pretty hard, considering the Tor Browser does a good job at having a common fingerprint at it's highest security setting (Javascript disabled, which is what this tracker is for).
I'm currently working through Cryptography 1 on Coursera and struggling with some of the maths involved, so hopefully this will help.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/crypto
An often missed feature is the seed device. Any Btrfs volume can be flagged as a read-only seed. Mount it, you can add a 2nd device, and now re-mount. It's a union filesystem like thing. Changes only go to the 2nd device. If you used 'btrfs remove" on the 1st device, data is migrated to the 2nd device and the 1st is removed, so it replicates the filesystem. The seed setting can be applied to multiple device volumes. So you can add this 2nd device, make that volume a read-only seen, and add a 3rd device for read-write, and so on.
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Who?

Edit: Oracle seems to have very little reason to do anything for precedent. Canonical is both competition and a largish business, that would be done for the money, suing proxmox would look like being a bully.
Wow, congratulations!
> Think Standard Oil

Throughout SO's antitrust trial, its market share was declining, and Rockefeller was unable to stop it. See "Titan" by Chernow.
Unfortunately, Comcast can be exceptionally stupid. I decided to try running pfSense in a VM to do my firewalling for a while in place of a D-Link DIR-825 running DD-WRT. I decided to give IPv6 a try while I was at it - only to discover that Comcast gave me not a /64, /80, or even a /120, but ONE LOUSY IPv6 ADDRESS. Needless to say, that ended my IPv6 experiment.

As a side note, I went back to the DIR-825, due to performance issues (one of my NICs was an onboard Realtek, and wasn't up to snuff).
Until Microsoft changes its licensing model so that it's not ridiculously expensive, I'll still keep preferring free software over their stuff. But that's something they'll never do.
Surely, it only works if pleading innocence is riskier, otherwise everyone would do it?
Are you serious? You're not serious.

Are you?

What?
Maybe it was just bad luck but my transaction took 2 days to get confirmed even though I added the standard fee of 0.0001 BTC.

Edit: Yes, the multilayer approach with Bitcoin as a backbone makes sense.
With the unseasonable March temperatures, I actually thought April fools day had crept up on me...
Care to serve something more substantial than just a summary of your opinion in a flaming manner?

* A list of advantages vs mysql? (Bonus if you can admit faults of MSSQL as well)
* Some blogs or articles perchance?
* Performance metrics or % of SQL standard it implements vs the accused?

I'm genuinely curious if it is good but one half-screamed pledge is hardly trustworthy.
In Bernie's defense, being poor isn't the same as living in the ghetto.

Also, most people that are successful didn't have everything handed to them either. Privilege and hard work aren't mutually exclusive. And they're aren't binary either.
LinkedIn helped me make a career move. I am using it for my next move. Recruiters should be looking into stackoverflow careers as it showcases the real you.
And 4chan itself is just a clone of a Japanese imageboard, 2ch.
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Interesting. That definition seems like a bit of a stretch in this context to me. Results of trials aren't "fitted or designed" to signify -- they are or are not significant by the p-value standard, and whether they are or are not is random (which is the whole point).

In any event, I suspect that, among most currently living English speakers, the second definition is what comes to mind.
innodb has four levels of ACID-compliant transaction isolation. what's your complaint?
> That feels like a bigger problem to me than people actually getting good data but then using it too confidently

P value alone does not tell you whether you have good data. It just tells you how well a particular model fits the data that you have. It won't (and can't) tell you if your data set is missing data that would alter the P value were it to be included.

P value alone is not enough to say "good" or "bad." That's why this statement matters.
Reverse your thinking. Think of a business that's dependent on MSSQL -- now they can run in on Linux, and also, they won't need to think about DB server migration. Many businesses are gravitating towards Linux on the server for many reasons, but they don't necessarily want to change their DB technology.

In other words: MS isn't just trying to acquire new users, it tries to keep existing ones.
Nevermind that perhaps the most prescribed class of psychiatric drugs has been called into question:

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/are-antidepr...

Psychiatry is a really, really hard field for canonical drug research. Mechanisms of disease are for the most part completely unknown, the mechanism of action for the drugs is often unclear in the patient (why stimulants treat ADHD? it's complicated...) and you've got the additional complication that diagnosis for the disease is purely symptomatic (in fact, that diagnosis process is nearly identical to that of psychology) so two people with the same symptoms may have radically different diseases, but hey, they'll both be in your clinical trial!

Drawing a difference between Psychology and Psychiatry doesn't really hold up. Doing research on people is extremely difficult to get right, all medical and psychology research is subject to these problems.
The Role of User Experience in Business
I don't think there's one right answer for that.

Buffering is a terrible experience everywhere.

On my desktop, I'd rather wait to get the best quality video that I can get. On mobile though, I probably prefer for video to start NOW at a lower bitrate if need be. It will save bandwidth, and battery, and time and the quality is probably good enough.
> 90% of control of the market of a highly elastic good was controlled by a single entity engaged in dumping

Do you have a source for that accusation of dumping? To my knowledge, the ebook division was profitable.

> If I could buy a car at 9 out of 10 places I go for $5000, why the fuck would I seek out the one place selling an identical car for $5300?

There was no place to buy the car for $5000
I for one am excited to hear about this move and was wondering if it would ever happen. This will help keep SQL Server alive and growing (I think) and who knows, maybe bits and pieces will even become open source some day (that's optimistic perhaps).

I am an equal opportunity consumer of database technology - something we all should be (e.g. use the right tool for the job when appropriate). I have used MANY different databases, open source and commercial, and there are better ones and worse ones across the spectrum. I think it is naive to criticize this move in any way - it is giving more choice so should be supported.

That said, SQL Server has a low barrier to entry, a very good implementation of the SQL language, an advanced optimizer, strong storage engine, management tools and a lot of nice BI features. Although you don't hear about it much, SQL Server also has Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) which is their MPP database - ironically which used to be built using Ingres and Java of all things.

In my experience, SQL Server <-> PostgreSQL is the closest commercial to open source comparison (core database engine-wise) I can think of. This makes sense when you consider - both of them started as Ingres! Of course, Postgres and SQL Server have totally different user experiences (database management, tooling, etc.) and many different features.
Lots of gotchas yes, but it's about as rare to see data loss on Btrfs as it is on say linux-raid@ list for mdadm or LVM and those are much more mature. More often is the case of some suboptimal behavior and the recommendation to get the data off the volume and onto a newly created one. Very inconvenient for some users to be sure, but also not data loss. About the worst I've seen lately that wasn't hardware related needed data scraped using btrfs restore (the tool the extracts data from an unmountable filesystem).
I'm thinking more of, that human-rights basis may be applicable to DIY bio mods. Where it is going to get interesting is in how it intersects with things like gene editing for humans.
I'd like to know more about this too. Data storage and retrieval is such an important and integral part of an RDBMS and the switch to Linux suggests that they've had to tear up a lot of their low-level logic. How well they've done optimizing storage for EXT3/EXT4 seems to be pretty important. It would be interesting to see what's changed and how they managed this.
They mentioned a preview available today, but I'm not seeing it on the Partner or MSDN portals. Anybody got a link?
This is the problem. The pendulum swings too far one way and then eventually swings too far back the other way, this is a classic example.

We started with little or no security and the NSA barely had a budget for information warfare - now many people think they have an unlimited budget to do this and some of the stuff they're doing has been demonstrated to be pretty sketchy.

At some point, more oversight will reign them in a little, until something else happens to push the pendulum further back in the direction it just came.
very interesting move strategically.

would I use it for my own project's? no.

would I use it for some random software that requires mssql? yes.
Just the other day I was discussing with some folks that Microsoft has made an amazing effort of the last two years to win back the hearts and minds of developers. This is another great step in that direction.
> Just two of the [24] research groups produced a significant, positive effect

If only they had used green jelly beans instead [^1]...

This is not limited to social psychology. Scientific publishing has a strong bias towards positive results. As long as null results are filed away, this kind of thing will continue to happen.

[1]: https://xkcd.com/882/
Seems Firefox OS is missing a killer app.
I think the word "naive" is problematic here. Have you seen instances where Bayesians choose a prior that isn't at least somewhat informed by exploratory analysis?
PostgreSQL is pretty amazing. MySQL isn't even in the same league as PostgreSQL. I'm sure MSSQL is nice, but my money is on PostgreSQL being even nicer.

http://www.pg-versus-ms.com/

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2mhpwp/postgre...

MySQL is hardly a relational database, it's not quite the benchmark you're looking for.