Comment A possible bright spot in the looming default... (Score 1) 69
of the US dollar and other currencies is that funding for this nonsense will disappear.
of the US dollar and other currencies is that funding for this nonsense will disappear.
A few rich eccentric megalomaniacs is NOT "Silicon Valley." If you want a clue as to when serious longevity activity is happening then look for an extremely well-funded project from the genomics sphere not a bunch of self-congatulatory crackpots going to feel-good conferences and taking too many vitamins.
Absolutely PostgreSQL has always been a serious RDMS. My SQL was a joke when it came out and is still a joke years later. They have always been years late and several dollars short when it comes to functionality. They only got stored procedures last year! LOL Typical.
Stick completely with stored procs for production database access. You can tune them and it keeps messy queries out of the application code. It also makes the impact analysis of database changes much, much easier to track and deal with.
Do your programming in LISP if you have the nads and smarts (few do.) S-expressions match almost seamlessly with both SQL queries and with HTML/XML.
"1. you can't kill"
No, you can't murder.
Actually not; Marxism has.
Nah, it's just those cut-rate H1B programmers from the Indian subcontinent who suck.
Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius.
Blackberries are easy to type on because of their real keyboards.
"One model entities"
Entity modeling predates OOP.
I'm not particularly in favor of the F-35 but EOTS is stealthier because it is a passive detection system that does not emit a signal. It is not always wise to do active "pinging."
[T]he rules would allow the largest Internet giants to continue scooping up data about users on their own sites and on other sites that include their plug-ins, such as Facebook’s “Like” button or an embedded YouTube video. This giant loophole would make “Do Not Track” meaningless.
So Google is indeed being optimized..for its own advertising. The message to all but the very biggest vendors is that you must pay to show up. No more getting in the back door by being picked up by an price listing service that gets on Google’s first page, or by matching the search terms well.
But as a user, it looks like Google is cooking its own goose. These crappy results makes me much more inclined to go to Amazon and look at Amazon merchants, and compare price at 3 or 4 Apple vendors I know are reliable with returns in case I get a bum machine. The fact that I’m not getting remotely usable results from Google searches and that means I’ll skip them.
How long will it take for advertisers to realize that they are effectively being scammed by Google, that they are often paying for bad clickthroughs because Google is putting them on search results where they don’t belong but the retailer has written successful clickbait ads so they get bad visits? My impression is that Google Adsense reporting is opaque enough that they might not recognized Google’s culpability (indeed, I can see Google optimizing its algos to keep the bad clickthroughs at the highest level that an advertiser would tolerate).
One small step for man, one giant stumble for mankind.