And recently all over again with the EDM kids and their Javascript. My lawn, etc.

The SQL gap is not what let MySQL take off. PostgreSQL didn't get a good Windows port until version 8.0 in 2005. That delay is what let MySQL get such a major installed base ahead of PostgreSQL being usable for the typical desktop app.

VividCortex is a commercial tool similar to JetProfiler. The company is run by guys who are also MySQL experts, so I expect them to assimilate all the interesting JetProfiler features into there eventually. And the core Postgres profiling keeps getting better each release too.

Postgres stopped using OIDs for regular tables in version 8.1, many years ago. You can force the old behavior with default_with_oids, but no one does that anymore. OIDs haven't been needed for referential integrity in quite a while. Only the system tables still use them to connect tables on a typical server, which is mainly because those need to be read during bootstrapping before all the SQL features are available.

The pgAdmin developers agree, and have already started on a full rewrite in Python. The goal of having a GUI app that's cross-platform used to take tools like C++ and wxWidgets, and that's what the current pgAdmin III is written in. The new one doesn't need to be so low-level in its library use.

Oracle has features like Edition-Based Redefinition for this job. They are a lot more work for the simple job of transactional DDL.

There's an old but accurate at the time page comparing this feature across databases at Transactional DDL in PostgreSQL: A Competitive Analysis.

I live very close to the Baltimore distribution center. What they've done there is position it right in the middle of where all the major highways here intersect. You really can get to any other part of Baltimore in 25 minutes from there. I suspect they're going to limit this service to popular items in cities where the layout makes things feasible.

And I can't get 4 quarter horses to run as fast as a whole one, no matter how much duct tape I use.

That's not how Chrome works. The only answer to all Chrome issues is "get the latest Chrome version where that's fixed". The concept of fixing a problem in an older version just doesn't exist in that mindset. It's rather fundamentally at odds with how Debian manages releases due to that, which is why I'm not surprised at their lack of fucks here.

Demonstrating how easy it is to manufacture guns with modern equipment shows the futility of trying to stop it with simple restrictions, such as the silly shipping restriction. As a related example, some people in the US think that a useful answer to gun violence is stronger rules on who can purchase guns and how they are registered/tracked. That's just ridiculous when any yahoo can whip out an unregistered gun this fast. (Our yahoos are similar to your chavs, but with even worse outfits)

The US is close to having a gun for every single citizen. It will take more than any of these "think of the children" laws to make that go away. And media hysteria here is actually leading to more gun sales. We had a spike in talk of banning "assault weapons" again a few years back, whatever that means. The only result of that was a giant increase in AR-15 sales.

I have a similar playlist with all of the Alan Parsons Project albums. But for coding at high speed, nothing beats power metal.

You know what else minimizes the risk of musculoskeletal problems caused by weight-training? Not doing it, and instead training with something that's considered a less hardcore workout.

Workout intensity has a large range of activity in it, each with a corresponding risk. I don't think it's appropriate to talk about the benefits of serious strength training without also noting the associated dangerous parts. If you're young enough that you only have been lifting for 12 years (hint: half as long as me), you're unlikely to know about how tricky this gets when you get older yet.

You'd have to browse Pubmed with blinders on to miss all the studies of how weight training leads to injuries. Just picking one author who writes about them, here's 1 2 3 4 studies on it. I only do body weight exercises now, and I count myself lucky that I only have one mild uncorrectable shoulder injury from my lifting days.

Wow, there's an unexpected back-door entry at every step of that plan.

Whoa, thanks for the flashback. I remember reading about your work in some of Abrash's columns.