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Justify that with actual math, please? I don't think you know how computers (processors, bus, memory access, etc) work. How exactly do you think an RDBMS can query an index at a hu…

Why not PostgreSQL? (Sorry, someone had to say it.)

I'm the article's author. I don't think the headline HN chose is great but I don't mind if people have different interpretations of what I write. Hopefully all the commenters here …

This is an excellent point. The distribution of the measurements are the distribution of the sample, not of the population. In my experience very few non-statisticians understand t…

I've been crossfitting for years at kylered's gym. I've also judged at the competition series he mentioned, and traveled and worked out at crossfit gyms all around the country. I'v…

I agree -- I dislike when important technical concepts are redefined for marketing purposes. It's a bit like lightweight marital fidelity, where your spouse is faithful to you in s…

I'm a sometimes-coder at VividCortex. Yeah, there are endless potential issues with this that make it a non-general solution. I mean, it works for us -- so far -- but it's easy to …

Link to the Moleskine pocket notebook? IMO Moleskine is the Starbucks of notebooks. It's a crowded category, but for me, the Leuchtturm is the clear standout for quality and fit-an…

Yes, the Whitelines notebook is a little bit self-promotional. It makes sure you don't forget that you're holding a Swedish, patented, revolutionary notebook.

You're awesome :-D Come work for us! https://vividcortex.com/jobs/

That's a good example, yes.

It's tough to give examples of this in Perl without a lot of narrative (and sometimes a lot of code), but the technique I'm referring to is currying: programs that write programs, …

I didn't put much code into the article, but ask me if you'd like more details on exactly what I'm talking about -- in terms of real code.