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Quora does the dodgy 'Experts Exchange style' answer blurring crap when a google search links you to them. I've blocked them from my google results because of this nonsense.

You might be interested in the SARTRE platooning project currently being tested in the EU: http://www.sartre-project.eu/en/Sidor/default.aspx

Prior art.

> ...you still have to do an ALTER TABLE if you change the underlying type of a column.

I don't see why this is a problem? How often do you update really big (hundreds of millions of rows) columns' data types in practice? Most of the time you'd change type early in development when you don't have that much data in the table yet which makes it pretty much instantaneous. If you really need to update the data type for a supersized table you could always make a new column instead and migrate lazily to that in the background. But all of this happens so rarely that in my view it's a silly excuse to dump all the great benefits you get from having an enforced database schema.

You can't do chargebacks on purchases from 10 months ago.

There's still no flash on my iPad though.

Which of the rules specifically are a major pain?

What's currently the cheapest way to get a full (99%+) sequencing done privately?

If everything is special, nothing is.

If a dollar a week is too much for what you get from this service then maybe you're doing something wrong, especially for startups where you're not going to have hundreds of employees.

You could pay for it?

They're not shutting down their Oracle DBs though. Or at least I hope not.

I have, eBay ignored all my complaints and requests. Never got anything but the odd automated 'we have received your report' emails. I'll never use eBay again for any reason.

Every tonne of paper is a tonne of carbon that's not in the atmosphere right now.

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wtf

He obviously means a foot in a nanosecond.

That's an instant 'unfriend' for me.

Here's my question: How many of the top 10 Ruby speakers in the UK are white males? What about the top 20? Top 50?

Thank you Apple! Good decision there. If your site needs special tweaks just because the screen is a mere 19% smaller then your design sucks. Just my opinion.

Best I can do is some more CGI aliens in the background.

Why not just skip the milk?

> Running a public company that's doing badly is extraordinarily painful. No one would bring that on himself.

I would openly run a company into the ground if I got hundreds of millions of dollars in the process like they Zynga or Groupon guys did.

We're only hearing one side because Amazon refuses to say anything.

Best of both worlds: Order the physical book and download a digital copy from The Pirate Bay.

Australia and NZ wineries use screw tops almost exclusively even for high-end wines. In the US market buyers still believe that cork is better though so the wineries must accommodate that.

Easier to open too!

> When you have so many writes that sharding isn't enough.

Does Mongo still have a global write lock?

'Trying is the first step to failure'

-- Homer Simpson

> The only sort of data that would let us actually use it to generate a meaningful answer would be the discovery of more intelligent life.

Yes but since we don't have any of those discoveries the Drake equation is really the best we can do right now.