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Yes, but why? They're up there fighting Boko Haram -- this is a war-torn part of the world. Why is the Cameroonian military killing the people they're charged with protecting? It's…

Yeah, it was a few years ago. That's amazing, though. I'm going to have to show my wife this map!

The thing that's difficult in Ireland is internet access if you're living outside of Dublin. We looked at moving to Dingle for a bit, but we couldn't find anything available (from …

The way this typically works is that they were told from on high that their budget was getting cut, so they had to figure out a way to do so. Not sure if that happened here, or if …

If I have a single-region service, I always put it in us-west-2. It's super reliable, and gets updates after us-east-1 and us-west-1, which means all the kinks are out before they …

So snow is super hard to forecast because snow bands. These happen at a mesoscale, and typically one 1-2 grid points of the models used to forecast. The exact processes that contri…

Soundcloud recovering from this failure and S3 being operational are two separate issues. We use S3 and it will take us nominally an hour to recover after S3 went up, for example. …

What's an example of them? I'm interested to learn.

One of the nice things about the Kiva robots is that they will actually organize the warehouse based on popularity of the SKUs automagically. Things that are low volume get placed …

I don't know enough about the others to make too much of a sweeping statement on them, but the heart of Mythical Man-Month is absolutely true and valid. It just has a bad title, so…

Whoa. Timeout. This isn't political correctness--it's basic human decency. Political correctness is replacing the use of a term for a euphemism. Even putting this in euphemistic te…

From the article: "The patient developed symptoms days after returning to Texas from West Africa and was admitted into isolation on Sunday at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in …

I'd go quite a bit further. Most users have no idea what they actually want. I think the key to building a dashboard is to ask three questions: 1. How do you measure success? -- or…

Interesting. I really like the idea of using the UNIX sockets to be, essentially, a message queue before going to Kafka. This may be used on my next project.

I've been in the BI and data warehousing industry nearly my entire career, so hopefully I can help a bit. 1. Get an MBA if you want to transition more to management. This will reli…

Clearly, no offer (in any realm) will ever be perpetually valid. Giving a reasonable amount of time to evaluate options and make a better decision is considerably less explosive th…

Within Excel, ranges ignore blank cells in computation, but a reference to a blank cell returns 0. The idea being that if you specify a cell in a computation, you're expecting some…

It's really not: https://www.google.com/finance?q=GBPUSD

No; it's post hoc ergo propter hoc: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc

I find that window functions are one of the least used aspects of modern SQL, despite them being incredibly useful. I've used them in T-SQL [1] and PL/SQL [2], as well (MySQL does …

I think what many people fail to realize, in a corporate setting, is that email is asynchronous communication. Email is not chat, and we need to approach it differently. When I sen…

A few points of feedback: A) I would absolutely limit comments and votes based on geography. The last thing you want is a popular event being loaded down with "Wish I was there!" c…

You're also forgetting the biggest thing, I think, standing in the way: Intimidation. Perhaps in their minds, they aren't expert developers, and are just learning, and therefore, t…