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Comment · 6 years ago
1) актуалли портабле екзекутабле

2) αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε

What is easier to comprehend?

Comment · 6 years ago
I doubt that it is like an object store. I think that it is built around the notion of multidimensional array (matrix) by focusing on data science tools. Yet, they use the term "table" which is somewhat confusing because there are significant differences between tables and arrays. Maybe they use (sparse) arrays at physical level and then support other data models at the level of operations. For me it is not clear.
Comment · 6 years ago
Probably this introduction is good for some purposes but for me it is too informal and too far from (my) reality. I would say it is 90% identical to many other introductions to OAuth.

I have been trying to comprehend and formulate the main idea behind the usage of this technology, for example, as follows:

    OAuth allows us to use surrogates (like JWT) instead of the original credentials (like name and password) with the main benefits that once it is available, the original credentials are not needed anymore: neither by the client nor by the server
Why it is the central idea? Because we do not consider where and how the tokens are obtained: you can get it by USB stick or maybe forge somehow artificially. It is important only that access to resources requires a special piece of data rather than (traditional) credentials. The main question for the client is whether the server will accept this token or not. For the server, the main question is whether it can trust this client and its tokens.We aslo abstract from what is inside this token and how the server decides what to do - these are considered details.

Do I miss something more important?

Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
It was a separate data processing engine within Excel developed by another team (SQL server) for the purposes of self service BI (Power Pivot/Query). Most probably, this engine is not used for normal (traditional) calculations.
Comment · 7 years ago
> A time-varying relation is just what it says: a relation that changes over time ... Critically, the full suite of existing SQL operators remain valid on time-varying relations

Any relation by definition is supposed to change in time. So why do we need to introduce a special kind of relations? The authors essentially confirm that there is no difference between classical relations and "time-varying" relations.

Also, it is not clear how does it relate to EPL (in CEP) which is also based on SQL.

Comment · 7 years ago
> The heavier the ball, the quicker it falls. But if it’s too heavy, it can get stuck or overshoot the target.

This explanation of momentum is somewhere between misleading and wrong. Momentum is about inertia and acceleration, i.e., the ability to quickly change speed.

Comment · 7 years ago
> Russia to disconnect from the internet as part of a planned test

This is precisely what I would do as an engineer if I was responsible for operating such kind of network infrastructure

Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
So what these countries are currently doing is replacing the "Russian Empire" by the "NATO Empire" (NATO/US invasion) instead of simply turning into a democracy and asking people how they want to live.
Comment · 8 years ago
Purely statistically you cannot even compare them:

    |US invasions| >> |Russia invasions|
But maybe it is because of the difference in GDP:

    |US invasions| / GDP ~= |Russia invasions| / GDP
Comment · 8 years ago
In 1)-3) you assume that US is the world's global policeman who is always right because it is right.

4) The democratic way: ask people in this "another" country and if the opinions split then restructure it: either convert it peacefully into two countries (like Czechoslovakia) or confederation/federation.

Comment · 8 years ago
In ancient Greece, a great deal (or even most) of the population were slaves. Yet, it does not prevent us from treating their system as democracy and compare it with the modern democracies and "democracies".
Comment · 8 years ago
> Poland was liberal for it's time

It depends on how you define liberal. For example, Afganistan, Somalia, the Ukraine are very liberal nowadays: weak central government, weak central censorship, weak currency. Instead, warlords and gangs having the same functions – but it can be treated as liberal and democratic construction - you can always do the same and everybody has equal rights (kind of early US).

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