You also do not need 64 cores on each machine to deal with billions of rows.

disclaimer: the company I work for runs a little over a trillion (a trillion as in a thousand billion) records in _ONE_ table, which is also our most used one. That doesn't count the hundreds of other tables.

Yes, the primary source of that data is a commercial database (vertica). Its also not an RDBMS (doing the kind of stuff we do even on an Oracle DB would be absurd). But we do use open postgresql and other open source non-relational dbs for the datamarts, and they'll easily take a few billion records.

Sure, you could dump the trillion records in an RDBMS with "hundreds of gigs of ram". But that is downright retarded for anything but the most specialized scenarios. Even big finance no longer do that shit.

Yeah, and IMO its kind of a big deal. In the US, there's probably a bigger cultural difference between someone from San Francisco or NYC and an Australian, than there is between the formers and an Hispanic. Yet if you have a neighborhood full of australian, indians, french, swedish and english and not a single white...they'll still consider it non-diverse.

Seriously @.@

Don't forget that a an area with 65%+ Hispanic is "ethnically diverse".

Wtf.

And this is where things are getting dicey for Oracle. Even an open source DB can deal with billions of rows. And when you go beyond that, people start using multiple interconnected specialized systems instead: a big mismatch of a relational db, hadoop, redshift, dynamo, vertica, spark, etc.

If you need a trillion records in one table, there's better commercial options than Oracle. If you can need specialized tool to handle different data sets of various size, you'll be using a soup of tools, most of which are open source.

There's no reason to use Oracle stuff anymore, aside for legacy compatibility, or if you use their ERP (which for large Retail, is probably the best one, unfortunately)

That can't work for a simple reason. Half of the people working on all these standards are downright retarded, and only failure in the real world gets them to realize it. Google's and Microsoft's representatives are the worse offenders, trying to stick their obsolete development practices in the browser, and failing over and over and over. (Hell, THIS is yet another attempt by them along with Mozilla)

They'll be the first ones trying to manipulate any kind of new standard, and what you'll get will be a weird hybrid of Java Swing and Direct X or some shit. It will be a disaster.

THAT is why web gui idioms keep having to be redone. They go on the right track, then the peanut gallery come in with big names behind them, and fuck it up. Then we have to start over. Over and over and over.

With a tablet, you come to expect a super thin and light experience and when holding them in one hand, the light weight is an advantage

These people must have never worked at a company that uses macbook pros across the board, or a startup using thin lap-tops.

Everyone holds their lap-tops with 1 hand like if it was a tablet, running around holding them by the lid, and all around handling them like they would their ipads.

Light lap-tops that you can carry with one hand without effort is a definite advantage for convenience.

Fewer lines means easier to audit once someone gets down to it, though.

It was pretty popular if your demographic was younger people, design people, or startups/small scale companies that aren't tied to Windows stuff (a lot of HR or sales software are).

If you were in those demos, you could easily get a 20-30% market share.

Had to be careful when taking the metrics though. Safari's splash page showing most popular sizes would render thumbnails by running all javascripts, with only an http header that can only be inspected server side to differentiate it (so pages on CDNs need not apply if using a hosted tracking suite like Omniture or Google Analytics). That would make Safari look like it had 50-60% market share on a bad day and confuse people like crazy.

Still it has a decent share, enough that you need to support it.

How about -- rules are just guidelines, unless they are enforced

Congratulation, you just created a police state, where we have to put enforcement on every fucking thing because we can't expect people to be civil.

Of course. But instead we're in a world of "blindly distrust the rules". And that is just as stupid. (also, in a lot of the cases you mentioned, its a private entity dictating what to do on their own property, which they're fully allowed to)

As someone mentioned, one black woman, but probably a lot more woman. They were probably mostly all Asians.

Where I work, in the last 60 engineering hires (we're a semi-established but still small startup), we hired 100% of the black people who applied. 100% of them are among some of our most senior, respected employees, who are constantly winning every hackathons, prizes, company value awards, and are always present in promotions round. ALL OF THEM.

That is, all of them because only ONE ever applied. And by applied, I mean talk to us. It was a cold call that we poached from one of our -customers- (so we had to do something ethically ambiguous to get him).

It has to start at the cultural level when they're kids. So they stop worshipping hoodie wearing, gold chain dangling rappers that say "dope" as their every other word while making fun of everyone smart. Someone above mentioned it was a white created phenomenon. Fine. Wherever it comes from, you have to stop THAT before anything gets better.

The difference is that merely being a dickhead is relatively low risk

People don't try to understand why rules are there. "Don't park there" could be because the snow truck has low visibility and risks ripping your car off. "Don't jaywalk" has a pretty fucking good reason behind it. Ignoring non-smoking signs isn't just being a dick head. My condo complex has a no BBQ rule, because its a group of historical buildings that are basically dry firewood close to each other. I don't think anyone aside me does NOT have a BBQ. Someday everyone will roast alive.

Thats my point: people cannot make the difference between just being a dick head and putting themselves and others genuinely at risk. Rules are meant to be ignored, no matter how important they are, to these people.

The city where I live, when they had to hire someone to manage the school district and took public opinion, a lot of people were asking for diversity. We are an ethnically diverse city and that is part of the culture and it needs to be preserved.

So we need someone that represents said diversity.

What they repeatedly asked for? "Someone of non-euro-african or asian descent", the spanish community was asking.

Holy shit that's diverse.

When people ask for diversity, what they usually ask for isn't to exclude white christian English speaking males. That would be increasing diversity.

No no. What they want to for their particular group to increase. If you increase diversity via other groups, "it doesn't count. But if they say it that way, no one will take them seriously. Thats why having lots of asians is bad for them. Asians are a proof that people who aren't Caucasian christians can succeed. Hell, southern Chinese are hardly white. And historically they had a hard time, so its not like they were born into riches.

But nope, doesn't count!

but what kind of idiot

You're in a world where everyone is constantly being told to do whatever the fuck they want, and everyone else is told to deal with it. People smoke while leaning on no-smoking signs, people drive through streets clearly labeled as private streets, people scream in libraries, yap on their phones in theaters, and take flash pictures in zoos scaring the animals away and there is fuck all reasonable people can do about it.

So now you have a rule in an amusement park that some idiots don't think apply to them (as usual), and its actually really important. You think they'll get it, after being able to ignore every other fucking rule they were ever subject to?

No, they won't. They'll treat the "No selfie stick sign" the same way they will every other damn sign they ignored.

Anti virus, bad drivers for bad hardware, and piece of shit software like itunes that hijack as much of the system as it possibly can.