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When a tool insist on you cast char fields to varchars before you can test two fields for equality, or keeps changing all your decimals to floats, how is that helping? I'm saying that if the underlying language was loosely typed, those kind of productitvy saps & bug fountains would not happen. In the few instance where you cared about type, a loosely typed language can usually offer something.

Last time I checked, enterprise ETL tools were sold as capable of a lot more than simple OLAP to OLTP. I find the reality provided is somewhat underwhelming. Given that facebook can tell the difference between a photo of Dave and one of Jim, why do I have to manually provide a mask for every single date field flowing through an enterprise?

Talend makes my teeth grind. I don't understand why an ETL tool uses a strongly typed language for a foundation. The number of fun productive hours I've spent swapping chars to varchars, int to decimal & vice versa. In 2017 computers can read a registration plate from a blurry photograph and spot a criminal in a stadium, but a user puts apostrophe in a CSV file and schmoo leaks everywhere.

How relevant are Airflow and similar to those of us who aren't operating at unicorn scale but are shuffling hundreds of CSVs & Excels and wrangling RDBMS with SQL?

I'd be very interested to hear how they implement it, because it's fairly resistant to VPN trickery too.

  - Uganda
  - Costa Rica
  - Colombia
  - Oman
  - The Philippines
  

and they cite [Expat Insider survey](https://www.internations.org/expat-insider/)

    " Most of the terror attacks in the US have been by foreigners"

You sure about that ? http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/12/mass-shootings-m...

Sounds kinda like Pyp http://opensource.imageworks.com/?p=pyp which I've been meaning to get more into, to replace shell foo.

web link don't work. [Here's another](http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-seizes-25-million-worth-...)

do async comprehensions ( https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0530/#asynchronous-compr... ) give you concurrency? Or are they a building block to getting that in the future?

Excellent new name and your pricing plans sound about right. If I may ask, how are you managing the licensing?

Nice. I needed something like that when I was getting started with ML courses.

I had to look up the colon minus syntax, here's the answer http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10390406/usage-of-in-bash

Try one of the bitfusion AMIs on a g2.2xlarge instance.

What happens with someones 2FA accounts that use google authenticator in this scenario?

Another vote for Poor Man's.

But I think it's an important caveat that the whole team use the same formatter and the same settings.

Otherwise diff's turn to useless noise* because Cubicle Bob has personalized his settings.

*Yes, I've tried the Winmerge plugin. It's helpful but not ideal.

X-post from reddit as it might get an answer here...

http://m.imgur.com/pgskG9q?r

This LNG ship got me wondering about a battery equivalent, charged up in a desert solar farm and shipped to a major city.

I get 16 Powerpacks per 40ft container 5100 containers per Panamax ship =81600 powerpacks per ship At 95kWh per pack = 7752MWh per ship ( based on powerpack v1)

So is that like two Hinckley C nuclear reactors worth of energy? How long would that last before having to go back for recharging? How long would it take to charge from a massive solar farm etc etc. so many questions but basically, is it remotely viable?

Interesting. So a NameCoin for QR codes would be progress?

Exactly.

from the FAQ: "How do I add someone to my contacts list?

Look in the profile or settings panel of your client to get your Tox ID which should look something like:

56A1ADE4B65B86BCD51CC73E2CD4E542179F47959FE3E0E21B4B0ACDADE51855D34D34D37CB5"

Yuk! I see this flaw so many products like this, just about anything p2p, blockchain addresses, commit ids, etc. I think there is zero chance of getting anyone who is not technology elite to adopt a product with UX that rotates around these untypeable/unpronounceable/immemorable identifiers. Why aren't Identicons(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identicon) or QR codes used more?

Anyone know of a service / app like these or Zipcar that could be used to share a car between a group of friends & associates? My city is way too small for Zipcar but I could probably round up a car sharing group if it wasn't too much hassle to administer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Series_5 form factor with modern phone hardware.

An alarming number of business spreadsheets contain Excel errors. But it's the linga fraca of businesses, departments & teams everywhere.

I wonder if a snap election could be called before article 50 is invoked? One of the major parties could campaign on "Remain" and if they won, they'd have a democratic mandate to ignore the referendum.

Clever use of flask & ngrok was news to me too. Thanks.

I can imagine asking alexa "whats the best 2 man tent on the wirecutter; order it for me, delivered to work by Friday"* Do you think the technology will get there anytime soon?

*other review sites are available

A daily rate is usually for a "professional day" and not prorated. If they're paying £600 and up, you're going to be going 60+ hour weeks.

I was expecting theater tickets http://chicagothemusical.com/

Impressive stuff. But um, about that project name; ever watched "Bo Selecta" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo%27_Selecta! ?