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August 20, 2017 at 11:43 pm
This is a timely rerun of this editorial, particularly with the events that have taken place in Charlottesville recently. We have to understand the difference between
August 17, 2017 at 4:03 am
Since the original editorial we've had Solomun Rutzky's excellent Stairway to SQL CLR series which pretty much drove a stake through the heart of a lot of the...
August 11, 2017 at 1:42 am
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
Ideally I'd like a script I can run to do as many smoke tests...
August 10, 2017 at 1:37 am
If it needs doing we raise a user story so that it is visible and can be prioritised. These stories can be relatively minor TODO list type items or something...
August 7, 2017 at 2:23 am
Looking at this I feel that the example starts off denormalised. Rather than have a guide with a language attribute and a team with a language attribute I would have
August 7, 2017 at 1:56 am
I've tried this on MySQL with similar results.
As a homage to Jeff Modem I created a tally table with as least as many number as the longest string...
August 3, 2017 at 2:10 am
Of course, it failed that basic "Turing Test" by asking me why I wanted to know instead of answering the question and the directive I gave it of "Just answer...
August 1, 2017 at 12:23 am
I expect the problems from AI to be the social fallout from the change in employment hits.
In the UK we got a forewarning of this during the late 1980s/early...
July 29, 2017 at 4:22 pm
I've worked on a big personalisation project that produced a distance score between 250,000 products for 5 million customers. That was 1.25 trillion records generating 37TB of scoring data.
The capabilities...
July 19, 2017 at 2:01 am
Even the successful inventors get treated badly. Christopher Cockerell wasn't even allowed to pilot his hovercraft and didn't get much from his invention.
Take a look at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/5158972/Starlite-the-nuclear-blast-defying-plastic-that-could-change-the-world.html...
July 17, 2017 at 1:43 am
There are still some poorly designed user interfaces that make handling long filenames difficult. Apart from that there's nothing much apart from habit that keeps this going.
The max...
July 17, 2017 at 1:33 am
Quite enjoyed building an ETL framework using Python and Apache Spark.
Doing loads with Pandas, HP Vertica & RedShift.
The one I'm most enthusiastic about is encouraging colleagues to...
July 15, 2017 at 4:28 am
Once you've worked in a large hierarchical structure you realise that hell isn't fire and brimstone, it's being teased for ever with the promise that a simple decision with an...
July 13, 2017 at 1:23 am
I've spent some time reading a summarised version of the GDPR regulations. These regulations give HUGE levers to those of us who favour doing things properly. I think it is...
July 7, 2017 at 9:49 am
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