andrea_s

> Back to topic. In Russia it is believed that after taking Berlin soldiers should have fought Allies. That's liberation war for you.

And they were not the only ones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Unthinkable

Yandex ClickHouse also should be on the list!

No pricing and no self-hosting option (either/or would be fine of course). A pretty neat tool for hobbies, maybe...

MongoDB is not well suited for OLAP-style workloads - have you considered Yandex ClickHouse?

404 not found at the moment - does anyone has a snapshot?

edit: nevermind, it is available again - weird

To be fair, Spark is way too slow to be used as a back-end database system (there's a big bap between "lightning speed computation", as they put them, and a common workload for a database serving data to a user-facing application).

Now of course Spark makes up for it with its great flexibility and scalability, but I do not really see the two technologies as competing ones.

This even without getting into the other parts of the data model (insert, update, delete) that do not exist in Spark (or "kind of" exist), by design.

Honestly I don't know, I do not work for Thoughtspot.

My assumption is that it works on metadata coming from a relational schema with a rule parser on top.

Honestly I don't see how it would work well enough if it was based on NLP of unstructured data.

Kind of goes in the direction of what Thoughtspot (https://www.thoughtspot.com/) is doing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-y_EjFsDuk)

I have tried it ~1 month ago and was quite a bit underwhelmed - direct connectivity with Google products is nice, but the data manipulation capabilities themselves lag behind Tableau a big deal (especially when it comes to clicking around in charts and tables to slice your dataset, which is admittedly something in which Tableau excels).

I do believe it is a valuable addition to the GA enterprise tier (especially for customers savvy enough to use BigQuery too), but at the moment I don't quite see it as a serious competitor to other off-the-shelf BI tools - would be very happy to be proved wrong in a few months, though.

Perhaps that's closer to ClearScript (https://clearscript.codeplex.com/) in the .NET environment - although ClearScript has a broader area of application and supports multiple engines.

It's a bit odd there's no mention of the PG columnar store in this article (https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2014/04/03/columnar-store-for...) - especially since it's from the same company.

It would be interesting to see how much the performances improve once you use cstore_fdw (especially since 1M records is quite small when talking about OLAP workloads).

disclaimer: I've never used cstore_fdw, but I have evaluated a number of columnar databases in the past.

What about Selenium? Is it already covered in point 2?

"I'll tell you now, kid, it was all so much better when I was your age!"

There, I've saved you from reading the article.

I've recently switched from a Windows Phone back to an Android one, and from my experience WP keyboard suggestions are usually more on point compared to the Android ones. Only thing I miss about the old phone, really :-) I will be trying SwiftKey now.

Wrecking any hope of retrocompatibility considered harmful (who could have known?)

Stay classy!

Ambiguity clickbait is the best clickbait :-)

That would be like estimating the world population to be 1B instead of 7B, though...

Nothing, really (if it works for you!). It's just extremely far removed from the usual way pizza is consumed in Italy. I'm usually annoyed by the many culinary debates we like to have (e.g. when should you put cheese on your pasta), but this one I can relate to :-)

I think I might have met a few, as I am Italian myself :-)

To be honest the story would be much more believable if the writer weren't a foreigner - that kind of reaction from the shop owner is usually reserved for much stronger violations of the "pizza code" (pineapple pizza being the go-to example!)

I can't quite imagine anyone (Italian pizzaiolo or otherwise) getting so worked up over a pizza order. I think the situation described in the piece was either much friendlier than the author makes it out to be, or a fantasy that nicely plugs in the eat-pray-love-style "Italians are all about food and simple life and being passionate about everything while gesticulating" memes.

sponsorships

Making money with software is not very correlated with said software's quality - or popularity. I think yours is an unanswerable question, you should probably start from the other side of the equation (i.e. what's the target marget? who would be willing to pay for the software? and, given that we are talking about open source, what would you sell - and to whom - to beat the possibility to just use it? What would the licensing options for commercial usage look like?).

Perhaps - but to me, the article goes like this:

[premise] society loves to hate on poor people and considers them stupid for buying luxury

[tweet that states nothing of the sort, not even remotely]

[thesis]

so, given that I've never heard of this trope myself (perhaps it's a bit of a US thing?) I felt turned off and commented on that, nothing less, nothing more.

I've skimmed through it after the blatant straw man in the first paragraph, which prompted me to post. I might read it later if the resulting discussion on HN is interesting :-)

edit: downvote away, but I doubt I'm alone in feeling turned off by this kind of clickbaity behavior

This piece hinges on the premise that "not filthy rich" is the same as "poor", and goes on a tirade from there. Is it really that controversial to state that you shouldn't buy what you can't afford?

Yes, but the character who gives that advice is very blatantly portrayed as a moron (by the way, does anyone know who are the inspirations for the character?)

My colleague (sitting in front of me) found it casually by exploring the area with the peeing Android icon - it's very close :)

And in the same area... https://goo.gl/maps/5t9br

Compared to MMAPv1 or compared to WiredTiger?