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Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective
Update, 2017-09-25 Hi! This essay is undergoing a long-overdue rewrite. In the meantime, consider my 2015 follow-up essay, Obergefell v. Hodges: the database engineering perspective....
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Scalable ACID
(This post is coauthored by Alexander Thomson and Daniel Abadi ) It is a poorly kept secret that NoSQL is not really about eliminating SQL ...
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Data visualization - 9 Years of Sleep
For the last ten years or so, I used to turn on my PC when I came home from school or work and shut it down again right before I went to bed. So most of the time when my PC is running, I'm awake. I've also been idling in IRC for as long as I had Internet – when my PC is running, so is my IRC client.
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Racket vs Clojure (it's all about the data structures)
I've been asked by several people to explain why I use Clojure for my professional work rather than Racket. ABOUT RACKET I have been using R...
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mrjob: Yelp open sources its Elastic MapReduce framework for Python
mrjob: Distributed Computing for Everybody Dave M Search and Data-Mining Engineer Oct 29, 2010 Ever wonder how we power the People Who Viewed this Also Viewed… feature? How does Yelp...
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W3C Working Group Just Killed Web SQL Database
Copyright © 2010 W3C ® ( MIT , ERCIM , Keio ), All Rights Reserved. W3C liability , trademark and document use rules apply.
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A Collection Of Redis Use Cases
Interested in Redis? You might be interested in the Redis Handbook I’m currently working on.
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Stop Words as Social Signals (a result that goes against IR common knowledge)
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When to use Excel, when to use R?
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