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Notes on data modeling from Handbook of Relational Database Design.
September 18, 2019 14:55 - 11 minutes - 719 BytesI’ve been working through Handbook of Relational Database Design by Candace Fleming and Barbara von Halle, first released in 1989, which ambitiously attempts to define best practice for both modeling data in a database agnostic way and also address implementation concerns for implementing and tuning databases. I’ll write up note for both eventually, and these are my notes on the first half of the book on defining data models. https://lethain.com/handbook-relational-db-design-on-data-modeling...
Facebook unveils its judicial system
September 18, 2019 00:41 - 6 minutes - 409 BytesThe Interface - About a year ago, after Mark Zuckerberg floated the idea on a podcast with Ezra Klein, I argued that Facebook needed some kind of Supreme Court. https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/199883 Facebook needed some kind of Supreme Court offered us the most details we’ve had on the plan to date draft charter for the organization summarized some of the key decisions that went into it described some of the rationale for its design published a letter in a Twitter...
Weirding Diary
September 17, 2019 22:41 - 15 minutes - 953 BytesIt is now clear that the intellectual class has been caught entirely flat-footed on the wrong side of the Great Weirding in the US. Almost all discourses at higher levels of abstraction — nat… https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2019/09/17/weirding-diary-10/ I recently dubbed premium mediocre formal structure as myth and ceremony The Unraveling of Scripts, Frederik Pohl had to point out paranoid Pareto Foxes or Pareto Lions Speakeasy Imagineering Network
Raising Prices is Hard
September 17, 2019 17:48 - 23 minutes - 1.4 KBEvery company is faced with the decision to raise prices at some point. Here's an inside look at the process behind a recent price raise at Backblaze, including the why, how, and when. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/raising-prices-is-hard/ Personal Backup Business Backup services price increase announcement market cost of storage Rapid Access Release B2 Cloud Storage product open as possible storage pod hard drive failure statistics Thailand drive crisis almost acquired February ...
Re: realistic but short and simple LISP examples?
September 17, 2019 17:32 - 4 minutes - 252 BytesSubject: Re: realistic but short and simple LISP examples? From: Erik Naggum Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 11:37:09 GMT Newsgroups: comp.la... https://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/[email protected] prev plain text next 2001 Erik Naggum comp.lang.lisp archive search random
Email Fwd: Money Stuff: WeWork’s IPO Doesn’t Work Yet
September 17, 2019 17:05 - 16 minutes - 1010 BytesWeWait Well, but, what changes in a month? The We Co., the parent company of WeWork, filed to go public last month, and it has been ruthlessly and con... decided postpone passive-aggressive statement suggested recently has already improved WeWork issued IPO prospectus the bonds fell consumed about $2.6 billion of cash replace Libor the standard U.S. dollar interest rate weird stuff happens tweeted Bloomberg’s Tracy Alloway announced this morning Institutional Investor article ...
Email Fwd: “I just gritted my teeth and smiled.”
September 17, 2019 13:17 - 5 minutes - 322 BytesA SPECIAL OFFER Click here to get 12 issues of Harper's Magazine for only $21.97! John Bolton, who flew to Florida to be present during the 2000 presi... here Read the footnoted version. Constitution in Crisis Good Bad Bad Good Power of Attorney Secrets and Lies
Yes, there's a tech backlash
September 17, 2019 05:41 - 12 minutes - 720 BytesThe Interface - Is there a backlash toward the technology industry in the culture? I tend to think so, having written about its various twists and turns most wee https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/199209 There is no tech backlash increased by 8 percent over the prior quarter added about a million new daily users in the United States alone added reported use Within a few months of Harris’ work gaining attention Carroll Doherty and Jocelyn Kiley write since then post...
Face recognition, bad people and bad data — Benedict Evans
September 17, 2019 03:18 - 23 minutes - 1.38 KBWe worry about face recognition just as we worried about databases - we worry what happens if they contain bad data and we worry what bad people might do with them https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2019/9/6/face-recognition?utm_source=Benedict%27s+Newsletter&utm_campaign=9cc43056ad-Benedict%27s+Newsletter+304&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4999ca107f-9cc43056ad-70353329&mc_cid=9cc43056ad&mc_eid=13ed40f989 Benedict Evans Home Archive Newsletter Contact Face recognition, bad people ...
Email Fwd: Things that happened in August
September 17, 2019 01:16 - 13 minutes - 799 Bytes---------- Forwarded message ----------From: Nadia Eghbal Date: Monday, September 16 2019 at 4:39 PM CDTSubject: Things that h... “You will probably not understand this” why the multiverse is religion, not science “How Life Sciences Actually Work: Findings of a Year-Long Investigation” “The Twitter Transparency Paradox” Sonya’s email to Rick “A Party Room and a Prison Cell: Inside the Friends writers’ room” Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better Th...
How do managers* get stuck?
September 16, 2019 17:19 - 7 minutes - 462 BytesTechnology, startups, programming, technical management and software architecture http://www.elidedbranches.com/2017/09/how-do-managers-get-stuck.html
Email Fwd: Money Stuff: Never Mind About That Lumber Buyout
September 16, 2019 16:42 - 22 minutes - 1.29 KBThis is how you do it Elon! Tom Sullivan is the founder and former chief executive officer of Lumber Liquidators Holdings Inc.; he left at the end of ... left generally Sullivan did the owner of another lumber-related company some scandals amended filing another amended form amended Schedule 13D go to prison pretend offer to take Tesla Inc. private being sued by settling for a $20 million fine went and tweeted too much to ask of Elon Musk Overstock.com recently ex-CEO I origi...
The “Republican” ActBlue Already Exists
September 16, 2019 14:42 - 13 minutes - 786 BytesRepublican leaders are afraid of ActBlue. Since the election, news articles had the following snippets: When Bernie Sanders sends you a fundraising email, that’s his (digital/fundraising/etc.) team… https://medium.com/political-moneyball/the-republican-actblue-already-exists-fab5e99629b0 This was widely reported on in 2017. Campaign Inbox Hines Digital Strategic Partners and Media Harris Media Acquire Digital Majority Strategies OnMessage Push Digital Go Big Media Cavalry LLC “Th...
Randy Pausch Lecture: Time Management
September 16, 2019 13:45 - 1 hour - 4.47 KBCarnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch gave a lecture on Time Management at the University of Virginia in November 2007. Randy Pausch -- http://www.randypausch.com -- is a virtual reality pioneer, human-computer interaction researcher, co-founder of Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center -- http://www.etc.cmu.edu -- and creator of the Alice -- http://www.alice.org -- software project. The slides for this lecture and high-res downloadable versions of this and other lectures can be f...
Hidden cities
September 16, 2019 02:17 - 9 minutes - 559 BytesPersonal writing, links, and other things by Nadia Eghbal. https://nadiaeghbal.com/hidden-cities Via SF Gate / The Oregonian downplays the term ‘postrationalist’ fostering a community published an article second
An important quantum algorithm may actually be a property of nature
September 16, 2019 02:16 - 7 minutes - 449 BytesEvidence that quantum searches are an ordinary feature of electron behavior may explain the genetic code, one of the greatest puzzles in biology. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614259/an-important-quantum-algorithm-may-actually-be-a-property-of-nature/ Apoorva Patel at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore showed how Grover’s algorithm could explain these numbers arxiv.org/abs/1908.11213
The Product-Minded Software Engineer
September 13, 2019 17:41 - 11 minutes - 701 BytesProduct-minded engineers are developers with lots of interest in the product itself. They want to understand why decisions are made, how people use the product, and love to be involved in making product decisions. They're someone who would likely make a good product manager if they ever decide to give https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-product-minded-engineer/ Home About My Reading List Talks Newsletter RSS Feed twitter linkedin github Home About My Reading List Talks Newsl...
Email Fwd: Money Stuff: We Is Sorry About the Weirdness
September 13, 2019 16:40 - 24 minutes - 1.41 KBWeDidIt Well there you go: Corporate governance is important to our company. We are making a number of changes to our proposed governance structure in... amended initial public offering documents the WeWork of a month ago suggested the pattern It’s a big moment was giving investors enough information $65 billion make money every day venture capitalists Wall Street Journal analysis an odd statistic for you put out a big statement I was like reports Business Insider notes Bob Bry...
Everyone fights over encryption
September 13, 2019 14:41 - 7 minutes - 462 BytesThe Interface - Around the world, countries and corporations are rethinking their relationship with encryption. In the wake of terrorist attacks, legislation in https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/199044 India Australia even when they belong to terrorists private messaging Stanford Internet Observatory not end-to-end encrypted
Everyone fights over encryption
September 13, 2019 04:42 - 7 minutes - 445 BytesThe Interface - Around the world, countries and corporations are rethinking their relationship with encryption. In the wake of terrorist attacks, legislation in https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/199044 India Australia even when they belong to terrorists private messaging Stanford Internet Observatory not end-to-end encrypted
Everyone fights over encryption
September 13, 2019 00:41 - 7 minutes - 462 BytesThe Interface - Around the world, countries and corporations are rethinking their relationship with encryption. In the wake of terrorist attacks, legislation in https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/199044 India Australia even when they belong to terrorists private messaging Stanford Internet Observatory not end-to-end encrypted
Email Fwd: Money Stuff: Picking the Good Stocks Isn’t Enough
September 12, 2019 16:36 - 18 minutes - 1.06 KBESG In general there are two ways to make money investing in public stocks: Figure out which stocks are going to go up and buy them, or Buy some stock... could convincingly say they devote some time ESG funds that don’t vote for ESG-ish shareholder proposals advertises weird life insurance contracts Bloomberg’s Katia Porzecanski we did it have called that is probably securities fraud occasionally it might be securities fraud T. Boone Pickens David Swensen Faulty Metric LSE Bid ...
Senators cry bias, and Facebook crumbles
September 12, 2019 00:41 - 10 minutes - 626 BytesThe Interface - In 2016, Facebook killed off a part of the service that highlighted trending news articles, following a hysterical overreaction to a Gizmodo piec https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/198900 elevated misinformation above journalism human beings will rejoin the ranks of Facebook editors news service reported this week in The Information around here Alexandra DeSanctis today in the National Review You can read the fact-check here pre-eclampsia HELLP syndr...
Predictable Identities
September 11, 2019 18:41 - 1 minute - 112 BytesA review of the first half of the blogchain: the principles of predictive processing and how we apply them to other people. https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2019/09/11/predictable-identities-17-midpoint-review/ Predictable Identities predict sensory inputs using a hierarchy of models so painful in the short term we will fight against updating fight the people who force us to update all models all-explaining ideologies to exploit and act on it to do nice things for us stereotypes for st...
Organizing team offsites.
September 11, 2019 16:34 - 4 minutes - 290 BytesLast week, the team I support had our quarterly offsite. I’ve been running team offsites more and more frequently over the past few years, and have finally been able to nail down an approach that consistently feels like an essential, effective use of time. https://lethain.com/offsites/ journey lines exercise Emergent Strategy get so busy few key points
Email Fwd: Money Stuff: We Can Be Weird, or It Can Be Public
September 11, 2019 16:30 - 20 minutes - 1.23 KBYou win some, you lose some Let's start with the bad news: In yesterday's newsletter I told you about a hilarious lawsuit between the estate of Lehman... yesterday’s newsletter hilarious lawsuit Monday’s newsletter as low as $15 billion here we maybe are also talking say things like facing new competition bondholders are getting nervous marking its WeWork stake Dan Primack suggests Nellie Bowles writes about disgraced pressing right on there is dual-class stock tell it to com...
Apple braces for impact
September 11, 2019 01:41 - 6 minutes - 410 BytesThe Interface - Today was Apple Day, the charmed 24-hour period in which enough traffic is printed by curious would-be iPhone buyers to cover the cost of several https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/198738 a new watch, a new iPad, and several new phones, in multiple new colors compare cameras between the iPhone 11 and the iPhone 11 Pro a three-camera array could trigger trypophobia three ways Apple has become vulnerable to antitrust action New York Times Wall Street Jour...
Elderblog Sutra
September 10, 2019 18:41 - 6 minutes - 386 BytesI’ve been thinking a lot lately about the general problem of why creative work gets harder over time, beyond the specific challenges of elderblogging, and how that growing difficulty manifest… https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2019/09/10/elderblog-sutra-8/ Act 2 is harder than Act 1 a junkyard media empire
Email Fwd: Money Stuff: What If We Wants to Wait?
September 10, 2019 16:44 - 22 minutes - 1.3 KBWeWait One thing you could do is, you rent some buildings, and then you make them fancier, and then you convince people to rent offices in the buildin... raised about $12.8 billion had a net loss and of about explains here is Bloomberg News tell CNBC’s David Faber makes an effort to value WeWork WeWork Drop Below Par at Stratechery underwater on Uber many investments not being tech companies Why Positive Cashflow Matters AHHHHHHHH the judgment from Billy Bambrough at Forbes ...
Email Fwd: “Actually pretty good!”
September 10, 2019 15:39 - 4 minutes - 299 BytesA SPECIAL OFFER Click here to get 12 issues of Harper's Magazine for only $21.97! At least 44 people were killed and 70,000 left homeless after the Ca... here Read the footnoted version. The Wood Chipper Common Ground Love and Acid The Black Axe
Running GitHub on Rails 6.0 - The GitHub Blog
September 10, 2019 03:30 - 3 minutes - 226 BytesOn August 26, 2019, the GitHub application was deployed to production with 100% of traffic on the newest Rails version: 6.0. Read more about our process for upgrading, what we learned, and what’s next. https://github.blog/2019-09-09-running-github-on-rails-6-0/ the final release of Rails 6.0
The states take the fight to Facebook and Google
September 10, 2019 00:41 - 9 minutes - 584 BytesThe Interface - In July, when the Federal Trade Commission settled with Facebook over privacy issues, I wondered whether our strange era of regulation would amou https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/198077 settled I wondered passing the sort of privacy legislation that could expand the FTC’s authority punish the president’s political enemies to a news release. in a news release. Lauren Feiner at CNBC a handy new tracker from the New York Times break down the nature o...
Email Fwd: Money Stuff: We Might Not Be Working
September 09, 2019 17:06 - 17 minutes - 1.03 KBWeWhoosh I used to be a capital markets banker, and while I do not think anyone would have said I was particularly talented at it, I at least had a gr... Bloomberg News on Friday the Wall Street Journal yesterday I said that absolute limit case employing his family members borrowing money separate fund an elementary school charging it $5.9 million a state of consciousness canceled the $5.9 million payment a good case to be made there are occasionally penalties the Aramco IPO he...