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How does that apply to the wage disparities in, say, the UK? From what I gather the wages there seem depressed moreso than, say, in the US.

Wow, I love how this is presented. Kudos to the NYT for creating new ways for us to consume this information.

I'm disappointed that this fails to mention the impact on locals who relied on the food as a staple and can no longer afford to eat it.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/quinoa-boom-offers-hard-less...

I hate to break it to you, but the amount of work that goes into a product is completely irrelevant. It's all about the usefulness to the end-user.

If the amount of work mattered, we would be digging holes with spoons instead of backhoes.

Seeing the same thing in Firefox 24.

http://d.pr/i/6uwO

In my case, this was inadvertently a good comparison. Most of the "ad-hoc" queries we're doing are AVG, SUM, or similar operations that require scanning the entire table.

I may try to edit this post to compare those operations, as it may be more meaningful.

Thanks for posting the link. TIL.

Interesting. I will definitely check out Impala. Thanks for bringing it up.

It uses similar data types and has a similar API. The differences between the two are summarized in the documentation.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/c_redshift-and...

> These are very different databases..

Sure, they are. The point is that the API is similar, so developers already familiar with SQL, or libraries that speak SQL (SQLAlchemy in our case) can speak to Redshift. I attempted to make that point in the post, hopefully I can make that more clear.

> For reasons unknown, the article dismissed Hadoop without listing any reasons.

I didn't feel that it was the place for it, but the basics are that we didn't have the skills in place to restructure our system to use Hadoop. Second, our data structures are constantly changing, which Hadoop didn't accommodate very well. Third, we were not able to accommodate ad-hoc queries as every reduce operation needed to be figured out prior to running. Last, we were looking for something to handle "large" data sets, but not "big data." Hadoop works great for "big data" (petabytes) but it was overkill for us (working with terabytes).

I'm sure all of these problems could have been resolved, but the point of my write-up is not to kick dirt at Hadoop so much as to explain how Redshift fit our needs. Other companies, I'm sure, have different needs and should of course make their own evaluations.

Whoops, thanks for catching that. I didn't actually have a space there, but it did get interpreted that way.

He mentions that they dropped the RSS functionality, but this is not the case at all. If you edit one of your existing alerts, you can change it to a feed.

Ref: http://www.google.com/alerts/manage

Is this just a link to the Firefox OS marketplace? I had no idea these could be installed to the desktop, too.

You could set it up on a tablet.

Am I the only person in the galaxy that wants a car that simply gets me from point A to point B with reliability? The more gadgets and whiz-bangery built into the car, the more possible points of failure, which leads to a higher cost of maintenance. I'm still driving a 1995 Honda Civic with a stick shift, no power windows or power steering, and nearly 200k miles on it.

As much as I'd like to get a newer vehicle I'm not sure I want to buy something with a dock that will be obsolete within the first quarter of the car's life.

I'm rather surprised this hasn't already been mentioned, but if you want to read more on this thread of thought written by an economist, check out the ebook, "The Great Stagnation" by Tyler Cowen. Alternatively, watch his Tedx talk.

Now if we could just get a JS version of the Johnny Castaway screensaver, reliving my youth would be quite possible.

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I got a technical error on checkout, but when I re-submitted it went through. Go figure.

USAA has the same policy, too. They refund your ATM fees paid to /other/ banks, up to $15 a month.

I know a lot of Memphis residents who have relocated to Nashville. One guy described it as "life-changing." The cities are completely different. The problem with Nashville is the same as the problem with Austin - it's surrounded by rural hicks. On the other hand, I moved here because housing is cheap and it allows me to do the things I want to do (like travel) while keeping my overhead low.

It is a good book. Check out "Selfish Reason To Have More Kids" by Bryan Caplan (economist at George Mason U). He goes through all the research supporting the idea that you shouldn't worry about parenting too much. The biggest predictor of a kid's success is genetics, not private schooling and piano lessons.

Sure, I'm biased because I moved here from NYC, but also check out Nashville. You can live like a Columbian drug lord on NYC (or California) freelance rates.

I completely agree with you. But are they really selling enough Kindle Fires to make up for the potential purchases from the Android legion?

I'll be the first to ask: Why not on Android?

What does this strategy get them? Are they afraid of cannibalizing Fire sales? It would seem to me that this would be a short-sighted concern, given the number of Android owners out there that would happily pay for Instant Video (myself included).

I don't think the higher-ups at Amazon are slow in the head, so I assume they have some reason for this, but I can't think of it.

How did this get on the front page?

- The headline is sensational (goes from "Django doesn't support NoSQL" to "Django is falling behind").

- Author says Django "claimed to be SQL-agnostic" then goes on to conclude that it isn't because it doesn't support NoSQL data housing. What? SQL-agnostic doesn't mean storage agnostic. It means /SQL/-agnostic.

Stratasan - Full-Time (contact to hire), Nashville, TN - Remote possible for the right candidate.

We're looking for a upper-mid to senior-level Python developer who is also familiar with the web stack. More information on who we are and what we're looking for here:

https://gist.github.com/1028734

I'm going on an offline vacation this week so it may be next week before I can respond to emails, but I will attempt to respond to each one as soon as I return.

I want to second this. The benefits of riding are not quite as apparent if your are seriously injured or dead.

Ride safely. Leave the headphones in your pocket and pull them out when you're safely at your desk hacking some code.

Did someone manage to grab the text from this article? I couldn't find a cached version.

Why didn't you just buy a big ol' honking external monitor and hook that up to your Macbook?

I develop on a Macbook Air, and that works quite well for me.

Probably a good thing since it makes you think twice about submitting your plain-text password to an unknown entity.

It would be nice if they offered a bulk download. Selecting individual photos to download is less than optimal.