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OP may well be super talented, but he may also just have a specialized skill set that is in demand. My personal experience is that I regularly get contacted by companies that are interested in my skills (DevOps, Chef specifically). In fact, I found my current job through LinkedIn.

LinkedIn most definitely has its warts, but I think as an online resume and a way to connect professionals, it succeeds.
I very much understand that there needs to be developer buy-in, that management can and will attempt to derail the process, and that dominant personalities who don't understand their purpose may use them as a pulpit.

I would still argue, that those particular issues will create worse outcomes under other management approaches. The distinguishing feature of scrum is that it is a bottom-up approach created by developers. itil and prince look ridiculous in comparison - and in terms of their rigidity in trying to formulate a set-of-rules that can be used to cover all software management processes.

At the very least scrum is a baseline of principles, created by developers for developers that can be used to argue against unproductive intrusion by management.
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The question now is, will they offer up a free edition to compete with MySQL? And when will they open-source it?

(I can't believe I'm actually saying that.)
> Apple gets sued for charging more than a retailer that owned 90% of the market in an Anti-Trust case and is fined $450 million.

No, Apple and the publishers were sued for colluding to fix the prices in all the stores, including the ones from Apple, Amazon, B&N or Sony
I wasn't being sarcastic...I actually would love a toaster that could make breakfast while I was still in bed upstairs.

Although one key point that I'm sure IoT entrepreneurs will forget: I want breakfast, not a toaster with an Internet connection. If it doesn't make me breakfast, I'm not interested.
If you ever become a comedian (unless you're already one) I will gladly shovel money at you to tell me jokes ... I was thinking the same thing, but could not express it as viscerally.
Research psychologists are at the forefront of science, the scientific method, and statistical methods.

Haven't you ever wondered why all of these articles by psychologists have been questing the very fundamentals of the way science is practiced? Psychology, as a field, is our day's premiere example of a science that examines itself. The issues with reproducibility are being illuminated and confronted by - who else? - psychologists.

You're wrong on virtually every count. The scientific method is the primary philosophy practiced by psychologists. I would encourage you to read more before making easily falsified statements like "psychology is ... fundamentally outside the scope of the scientific method."
> ms sql is better than mysql.

Well, gosh. I'm convinced.

(Full disclosure: I abhor MySQL. But if you're paying attention, you'll notice that my position is a statement of opinion, while yours is a statement of "fact". The reality is, every RDBMS has strengths and weaknesses, and should be evaluated for their applicability to a given project on a case-by-case basis — at which point, I'm sure, you'll conclude that PostgreSQL is the best choice, anyway.) ;)
> What prevents new signals from being backwards compatible with the old system?

Nothing, of course, despite the naysayers. You wouldn't, initially, try to replace - just augment; record and report the inputs and be a test-bed for the eventual digital replacement. In this case, because the originals are physical switches, it'd be more like a modern-machined duplicate of the original with a micro-controller stuck on the side.

The data it would send be immediately helpful for arrival timers and such.
This looks like it could integrate into Nethack somehow.

The minefield could be a dungeon in which the Nethack character can move around as usual. The mines blow up if stepped on. Stepping on numbers is safe, and stepping on an un-numbered square which is not a mine "opens up" the field, as usual.

There must be some way of placing a flag to a neighboring square in any movement direction. The semantics of dropping an item almost work; except that item dropping takes place in the current square. Throwing an item takes a direction; throwing a flag could be used, implicitly limited to a one-square range. Flags could be part of the character's inventory.

This version of minesweeper, of course, adds the additional difficulty that you don't have random access: you cannot click on any square you want, because you have to traverse the minefield with your Nethack character.

It could be a requirement that you have to cross some of the minefield to get to the spot where you can pick up the flags (you don't just get flags automagically when you enter a mine field dungeon, and they are not available at the entrance). Until you get the flags, you have to use some substitute objects in place of flags, or just rely on memory.

The character could be simultaneously required to engage monsters that roam the mine field. Some monsters could be affected by mines; however, they know where the mines are and avoid them; if you can remember a square where such monster has stepped, you can safely step there yourself. Other monsters could be unaffected by mines (flying creatures or ghosts).
I do agree with your point; but traffic must very quite a bit along the line. My VTA commutes are almost always full up, to standing room only, unless I go outside of the to/from-Caltrain schedule (and even then, it's almost never empty south of Convention Center).
Funny thing is that the debunking of ego-depletion theory has some interesting intersection with another article posted on the front page of HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11231371
Doesn't EF just use an ODBC connection? I can't imagine that the OS upon which the Server is running would have any effect on something as high up the stack as ODBC/OLEDB.
Throw away this type of thinking and start renewing your mind. Understand that the cloud is as much about thinking different as is it is about items on a resume or hosts in a datacenter.

Take a project you've done and start figuring out what it would take to do it at 100x the traffic. Now figure out what it would take to make each of the instances stateless. Lastly, how can you make it work through network partitions, latency, and eventual consistency?

These are real problems people in the "cloud" are working with. Just being able to talk about these types of problems excitedly says a lot about where an engineer fits.
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I work on a software product that supports MySQL, PgSQL and SqlServer (if they run it on Windows, since we only support the official Windows PHP drivers).

SqlServer has always been the best performing and least troublesome database in terms of weird edge cases, backup, restoration, and (especially!) performing expensive SELECTS on databases that have grown into the 100's of Gigabytes in size.

Based on my experience, for all the (often deserved) hate on M$, SqlServer is really a shining star.

That being said, I am a little scared to support SqlServer on Linux, as I imagine it will have to be different in quite some potentially fundamental ways to work on Linux - I'd love to hear if anyone has opinions on that aspect.
Naughty words: What makes swear words so offensive?
...and Sybase, which is a descendant of Ingres that also runs happily on Unix, Linux or Windows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingres_(database)
TIL that having a cup of coffee on the BART can lead to a $250 fine.

Now I know why everyone was staring at me when I was on my way in from the airport...
This is why it's so amazing to me Google has come through largely unscathed for so long. Between their extremely competitive (often free) pricing, and their deals to mandate preinstallation of all of their products on various platforms, it's kinda amazing. If it wasn't for someone previously paid by Google running the FTC for a couple years, I imagine Google would already be facing some pretty hefty charges.
FWIW, the same thing goes on in Miami. I've been in the electronics shop for Miami-Dade Transit and there are always a bunch of electronic signs and signals of different vintages under repair.
Well maybe they should stop supporting their local Catholic parish quite so much, who argues against making birth control affordable, and tells them they're sinful people for using it. The reality is men are not in favor of it, and you have to fight to make it both legal and affordable, while working on the cultural problems too. It's not only about one of these things.
> Ok, I simplified the wording and the meaning was lost. Let me fix it. I meant, I got a binary but that binary was produced from a BSD/MIT/Apache/whatever-licensed source code. If that source isn't available to me (like on the almost every single Android phone we have out there), I'm basically powerless.

The BSD/MIT is the agreement between original devs and binary provider. There is no BSD/MIT between binary provider and you. If all the company is giving you binary but not source I dont think there can be BSD/MIT. So if someone gives you something labeled as BSD/MIT its going to be open source with no string attached.

> This is certainly wrong. Unless you're not using OSI definition of open source, but something of your own. Or if we mean something different under the term "proprietary".

It appears I am using my definiton for open source. To me open source means something whose source files are available.

So proprietary can come with sources which is likely for dev centric software.

> It was predicted long ago - as most users don't possess any engineering skills, they don't exercise their freedoms to access the source code, modify it and distribute the modifications. The freedom to distribute the original software lost it to the unauthorized distribution ("piracy") and freemium-type software. Users don't care (actually IIRC it was shown that they tend to cope with whatever inconvenience they find, rather than try to fix it - that's also how privacy wars were lost), and developers find it that proprietary software has a well-known business models to bring profits, while free software requires to tread carefully.

I agree GPL is user-friendly but it is so at the cost of dev-unfriendliness.

> Yet, it's wrong that "all it does is stop devs from using it". The word "all" is surely incorrect. It does stop some devs from using it - two groups, actully: a) those who want to develop proprietary software and b) those who just can't stand it for any personal reasons. But that's not all it does - I've mentioned what it also does above.

We are on HN so almost all devs are people who develop proprietary softwares. Even HN aside, all most all software development is proprietary. Hence the trend.

In my ideal world open source development works like this. We come togther, do our part while asking nothing in return and solve a common problem. Thats it. No strings or condition or anything.
> Apple didn't work with competitors to fix prices for consumers

No, they worked with publishers to fix the prices for consumers
It's an enterprise product. It has orders of magnitude more features than postgres or mysql.
Very cool, very interesting. Regarding systemd, we here in the BSD camp welcome you. :) No such issue like systemd with its binary nonsense in FreeBSD or OpenBSD. And, one config file (plain text) to rule them all in /etc/rc.conf
If you don't mind, what is this extension?
The section of the article discussing paternalism, infantilization, has some interesting connection with that other article on HN, about debunking the ego-depletion theory: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11239674

I can easily see the ego-depletion theory being used as a basis for the idea that people just can't control themselves.

Though the problem is also that drug policy makers have been ignoring research. The current argument, as brought up in the interview, is that "illegal drugs are bad because they are illegal."
I bet a lot of Microsoft's push to Linux is that something like 98% of the internet runs on non-windows OS's.
What CLI tools are you talking about? Can you please clarify and or provide a link?
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It's interesting how so many people say "let individuals do what they want" without accepting the fact that society is made up of individuals who do not live in a vacuum. My wife always used to say that it should be, "your rights end where someone else's begin," but that's a difficult line to draw without risking incorrectly removing someone's legitimate rights.
I think it is a problem endemic to all science that requires human experimentation. Human experimentation is extremely expensive in both time and money, and so often the power of experiments is quite low relative to the effect that one wishes to measure.

Then, all of the original problems (expensive, ethical review board &ct.) still exist for those who might want to reproduce the effects, along with the fact that there is not only no incentive for researchers to reproduce an experiment, there are active disincentives.
They took the former vp of Azure, and made him the CEO. Microsoft is very serious about Azure.
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If you're going to disagree with the source, disagree with the source, not the website that cited the source:

"Researchers from the Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City examined four journals: American Journal of Psychiatry, Archives of General Psychiatry, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry and Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology. They found drugs were favored in roughly:"

Is Beth Israel full of quacks?
What does this financing do to my ownership?
This precisely. MySQL has made headway in recent years but is still miles behind PostgreSQL. No commercial database is in the same league when it comes down to it either.
Oracle has some nice stuff that PG doesn't have yet but PG is still the nicer database overall.
Are you in Australia or it like this the world over?
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I have thousands of books, constantly buy more, and have no trouble at all buying them from sources other than the Apple and Amazon alleged monopolies.
I'm all for paying for great software (whether it's open source or not) I prefer open source however. I love how fast development is moving on Postgres lately.
Does anyone know if this potentially includes a replacement for FreeTDS. A replacement would mean open source in this context.
Wait, what makes you say GG started on 4chan? There's plenty of places that are more pro GG than 4chan.
Why ZFS on Linux when FreeBSD ships with ZFS by default, without any legal quagmires? Also, we need a real open-source, non-GPL competitor to Linux if there's any hope of not being taken hostage by overzealous GPL enforcement by SFC and other GPL right-wingers.
The trouble with below-market-rate requirements is that they distort the market by inhibiting price discovery and imposing a hidden tax on property developers. A fairer solution would be for cities to use their general funds to directly subsidize housing for certain residents. Cities could purchase residences at market rates and then rent or sell (with deed restrictions) to low-income people.

One of the key drivers for BMR requirements is that municipal workers can't afford to live in the cities where they work. So the obvious solution there is to simply pay them more.

Of course with Proposition 13 imposing a straitjacket on city budgets it's nearly impossible to put market-based solutions like these in place.
At the end of the article (although it's not stated, and the link was down about when this was posted): https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/sql-server-on-l...
Could have said the same thing about releasing on Linux as well :D
I'm honestly not sure how much of that would be related to the query planner vs linked server network code.

Speaking of which, linked servers (cross OS, cross SQL type database queries) are native in MSSQL, but require a third party odbclink in postgres, which does not appear to have been updated since 2010[0].

[0] - http://www.cybertec.at/en/media/downloads/
I can't wait to try this in the FreeBSD Linuxulator!
Why don't you take a bit of time to read about multiple values in Common Lisp?

CL-USER 76 > (nth-value 1 (values 'a 'b 'c 'd))
B

While you are at it, check out the feature of 'Macros' in Lisp, which allows everyone to write code to shorten this stuff. See my code in this thread for a macro which then allows you to write:

(multiple-value-bind-some (NIL b)
(foo bar baz)
b)

One then can name ignored variables as NIL in the source code...
There was an announcement a few weeks back about their Python JIT VM that they're developing, which is currently only for Windows but they say they're planning for other operating systems as well: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/pythonengineering/2016/02/1...

And also a few months ago they posted to the Django developers mailing list about developing MSSQL as a first-class database for Django: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/django-developers/Fb...

It seems pushing MSSQL for Linux is the next step.

Meanwhile, I hope they can get things running ported to FreeBSD, since that's what I use for the server.
Because it did, when Zoe Quinn's ex-boyfriend posted on /v/ to get people to start harassing her.
n other words, Linux Kernel developers could sue because the GPL license terms aren't met, but Oracle couldn't sue because the CDDL license terms are being met.

As Oracle has contributed to the Linux kernel as well, they are in a position to sue over GPL violation.
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This 10x. We're a very large consumer of MS licenses, and even so, we're pushing out to Linux where we can. And of all the MS technologies we use, the one we'd never give up is MSSQL.

I'm really happy to see this.
It is pretty relevent. I am not being sarcastic here, I will elaborate. Outside of the 1970s in switzerland when an influx of capital poured out of Russia into banking safe havens, there has not been many negative interest rates. So typically to get out of a poor economy you employ a range of tactics. Monetary policy being a main one. Of course we can't do that as we can not really lower interest rates as they are essentially 0. This is also a component of the risk free rate, which is essentially negative.

Fiscal policy being the other one. However, we don't have money, and since the amount of money in the economy grows exponentially, when you have outsize lending the amount of money gets ratcheted the fuck up.

So you have no more levers to pull here.

Russia, I beleive their equivalent of secretary of state, that there was "a new cold war", just google that phrase. Also, the people Motherfucking Security Board of the Bulletin of Economic Scientists[0] have set the doomsday clock the closest to midnight it has ever been. recently? no, ever.

No one is talking about the ban China just laid down on any foreign entity competing in technology. Happens on Thursday. In a loose interpretation, it would only be all media companies, anyone with published works and media, and any imagery. Darker interpretations have it being interpreted as "publishing" being the app store. However, it is all based on a single reuters qoute and the law which has been published, which you can look up.

Then you have US banning china from selling their flagship phone (happened today/yesterday).

Unemployment is insane.

At this point a rougue agency has near complete control over the entire worlds communications.

N. Korea is firing nukes and shit, but honestly that isn't even a big deal at this point.

We created a fucking rogue state in the middle east, and hundreds of thousands of people are fucking stampeding through the world to get out of there.

Stock market is "up" from the 3.3 TRILLION dollar nose dive the world markets took in the opening 2 months of trading.

According to 538[1] it looks like we have effectively grasped this as a nation, and have identified the economy and a poorly run government as the top 2 issues.

Now I am about as cynical as they come. However, I am a fucking patriot even with my fairly contrarian views. I refuse to believe that Donald Trump as a person is how the nation succeeds, and I hope most people believe this as well. HOWEVER, the verizon/apple thing (btw just currently going to trial to prevent the governemnt from getting the last 1% of the phone) is indicative of how fucked up everything is. So, yes I do think the election is fairly relevent to this. If you will notice in history, people will put up with horrible consistent conditions, but they do not fare well with uncertainty. So that was my point.

[0]http://thebulletin.org/press-release/doomsday-clock-hands-re...

[1]http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/year-ahead-project/#part...
I believe Apple like to buy up software and then charge more for it on non-Mac OSes.
Sorry I didn't reply to this right away. I don't believe I made the assumption that learning English is a prerequisite to coding, can you explain what made you think I made that assumption?

Of course I see the diversity of the rest of the world and want their ideas in the marketplace. But their ideas are so useless to me that they might as well not even exist if I can't read them or hear about them. So it is very important and good that if you care about your ideas getting exposure, and want to cultivate the exposure of more foreign ideas, those ideas need to be expressed in the most widely available language, which in the programming world happens to be English. I don't particularly care too much that it's English and not French or Cantonese, but I do care that it's something. Diversity of spoken language is not important in itself, diversity of the brains beneath the language (and to a possible extent how brains are shaped by different mother tongues) is.

(Semi off-topic, but I do agree with the late Lee Kuan Yew that China should make its official language English. ;))

Edit: I should also link to this as it's an argument along the same lines, and also includes a bit for why English in particular is useful over something else like e.g. German. http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#skills4 Second edit: and yeah, humans have been communicating despite language barriers since the tower of babel fell, but it's inefficient.
This is a fantastic point. Sometimes when someone hands me a study I will ask what is the effect size. In some studies, even if there was a discernible effect, there is no hope for it to be anything but a small effect.
Certainly it's the right direction, but, you have to wonder about a company that took until 2016 to realize that Linux was an important platform to support for an enterprise RDBMS.
A uniform prior would be one example. That's just saying "I've got no idea what the value is".
You are correct. However the rules are determined by what the majority of miners say the rules are. If the miners decide to change those rules and they have enough others who agree with them then they can do so. And the economic incentive for everyone else is to agree with that or get left on a worthless network or a greatly decreased in value network.

The economic incentive is that if you play nice with others and follow the majority ruleset then the coin that you mine will be worth something.
It is the world over: http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/MJO/enso...