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"Wow, it's easy to forget how much complexity there is, even for a technologist."

Complexity is there every day, we just abstract it away in order to focus on the task at hand.

If you are widely read or have worked in multiple fields, and/or multiple levels of the "stack", both hardware and software, then it's a bit more apparent.

Google forgot who the "small" number of users were. Reader is/was a power tool for many users. I was one that wouldn't mind paying some money for the time that Reader saved me. But now I have to consider that Google can kill any of the tools that I use for any reason. There are alternate choices in all Google "strengths". And many of us will switch to them.

"In the new design a row's primary key directly contributes to its physical key, meaning lookups and iterations on the primary key involve only one scan (rather than an index scan followed by random lookups in SQLite 3.x/most DBMS)."

Isn't this basically the same concept as a clustered index in MS SQL Server?

I see no problem with either side, Nvida or the hardware hacker.

As someone who spent nearly a decade in the semiconductor industry, testing wafers and packaged die, the economics of binning and market segment are understandable. As a electronics and RF geek, I've done plenty of mods and customization that voiding plenty of warranties.

The only issue would be if a third party did this mod in volume and repackaged the card as something it was not originally.

Guido lets Enthought, Continuum and programmers of that ilk take care of the science side of Python.

After they captured a good chunk of the RSS eyeballs, then pissed off the users, I'm wary of anything Google does. I'm going to have to spend a significant amount of time decoupling myself from their existing services.

There's a few things that I could have patented in the '80s and 90's, but didn't, becase they were in my engineering supervisors word's: "F______g obvious." Later I went back and found out that someone elsewhere did receive a patent on some of these ideas. Don't know if they received money for any licenses, but somewhere in a corporate vault/storage are my engineering logbooks in case of a legal dispute.

Mark Cuban is interesting person. Back in the day (Web 1.0 and Audionet), I had lunch with him and a few others at the Infomart. I questioned his business, since at the time a single radio station had more listeners than what was capable with the bandwidth of the Internet then. He said, "X, we don't sell the steak, we sell the sizzle."

I'm not sure if it's arrogance or ignorance. Consider that Google has access to an extreme amount of user data and usage data. Did they analyzed that, then draw conclusions? Did they "assume" they knew best, since they are some of the smartest folks around? Actually asking users for opinions after the deciding to shut Reader down and getting a backlash seems to be a misstep on their part...

Wow! Google appears to be out of touch if they haven't actively been doing user research and surveys. Makes me wonder if it's not arrogance...

I like Scheme, but I have this desire to be productive without reinventing the wheel or most of the automobile. If it's not in the core Python language, chances are it's a feature in one the almost infinite selection of third party modules. Or can be done in C and called from Python.

I'm not missing Scheme-like recursion from Python that much since Guido borrowed features from Icon and other languages that helps me do much of the crap that used require nasty loops. (Love me some iterators!)

My clients will once Unixy programmers port over all the productive applications they rely on to *nix/bsd. Get working!

Yes, but it's extremely silly since most hg users are also git users, not of their own choosing, since many popular OSS projects are hosted at GitHub.

There's a "winner take all" rally amoung certain git fans, whom have lost their sense of history, equating popularity with quality. Ironic, since the creater of git should have just switched to Windows in the '90s, because it "won already".

Corporations "souls" are only as good as their current leadership and "legal" obligations allow them to be. Mostly they are amoral, since the purpose of mostly all corporations is to make money. (Not books or widgets or software...)

There's only three types of folks that contact me on LinkedIn: bots, recruiters and prostitutes.

Correction, that's only two types...

Actually it means that you may need to consider a solution like Azure if you have a public facing site or app and if you want a MS solution.

There's other ways of patching servers besides all-at-once...

And the rest of us are working on fancy "CRUD" applications.

I enjoy working on hardware and RF projects as a hobby. Not much fun doing it at a large corporation anymore....

I've worked at a couple of jobs (telecom, semiconductors) with environment chambers and equipment of that ilk. Heat guns were a common bench testing tool.

Fast forward ten years and I'm doing contract work for a local company. Of course the contractor got the shittiest workstation, which dies every afternoon like clockwork. So I move the POS white box away from the window and out of the sunlight. "Magically" it only crashes once week. So I send a ticket into the queue, stating the obvious, then the IT folks quibbled and finally admit the motherboard needs to be replaced.

If they forced to change the domain name, a hexy alternative might be: BADC0FFEE

I was having flashbacks to my days and nights spent testing wafers at a semiconductor fab. Spend a shift using a misaligned microscope and walk outside and see THREE moons. But I have mad soldering skills from building probe cards.

Really?

Is it too hard to ask for separate checks or figure out Basic Dining 101? Call me an old fart, but when I read about apps like this I want to do my Samuel L. Jackson imitation and say; "Arithmetic, m-----f-----, can you figure it?"

Thanks for the update. I was concerned that Guido leaving Google meant more than just Guido leaving Google.

I thought that Google was migrating to more towards complied languages, (C++, Java, Go), and away from Python?

I remember something similar from game programming years ago...

JIT isn't funny.

"(no who moved my cheese)"

Try migrating from Windows 7 to Windows 8. Whole wheels of cheese are moved around and the flavor has changed... :)

I'm enjoying working through this book. I admit I got it to fulfill a need, to quickly analyze huge text files before squeezing them into a RDMS and data warehouse for "proper" analysis and reporting. (Which is a more time consuming process require all sorts of meetings, approvals and effort.) A couple of fellow MS-DBAs threw a "shit-fit" when they saw it on my desk. (NIH Stockholm syndrome?)

"The Sky So Big and Black" by Johne Barnes is also a interesting read about Mars-forming. (And memes, too!)

You would be amazed if I told you how many "vital" services are like the blog writers former employers: One button push from destruction.

Think of the drug test as a responsibility test. If you aren't resposible enough to be clean, why should I hire you?