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Adobe went through a period where they laid people off every November. They seemed quite addicted to it.

The most common error I've seen in this area is that most GIS systems use (Lat, Lng) but most systems written by non-GIS people use (Lng, Lat), which they think of as (x, y).

In my first job I used Ingres/Quel. Probably because of that, I still find SQL hideous. Quel was a lot more orthogonal and clean, but by now SQL has so many more features that they're not really comparable. The first version of Ingres ran on a PDP-11/70, and the different components (parser, query optimizer, query executor, etc.) ran in separate processes connected via pipes (this was pre-socket Berkeley Unix) because each process could only be 64K 16-bit words. It was hideously slow--ran a lot faster once it was ported to the VAX and everything could run in one process. INGRES originally stood for something like Interactive Graphics Retrieval System, IIRC because the original funding agency wanted a graphics database. Stonebraker wanted to build a relational DBMS so he just went ahead and did it, but gave it a grant-compliant name and wrote some bullshit about graphics to make the funding agency happy.

That used to be his house. The construction technique was interesting: make a pile of dirt, pour/spread concrete over it. When the concrete cures dig out the dirt.

Patterns in Network Architecture: A Return to Fundamentals by John Day. There's not a lot of criticism of technology at this level.

I have been using 39dollarglasses for quite a few years, good service, and I've gotten quite a few unsolicited compliments on the frames.

The maximum Pell grant plus the maximum Stafford loan will not even cover UC tuition, let alone housing or other expenses.

An instructor told me around 1977 that there was not going to be much need for programmers in the future, because every piece of software that was needed had already been written.

Take a look at The Garbage Collection Handbook by Jones et. al. ISBN-13 is 978-1420082791.

Right, so you get an effective rate of 1.2% of FMV for class 1, 5.8% of FMV for class 2. So the rate is just a bit higher than California for class 1, which might explain why brownstones are so expensive in NYC relative to larger buildings.

I've had attempted scams at the Rome central train station at least three times. "Meter is broken."

I have Cree recessed modules in my kitchen, and they're fine when not dimmed. They don't change color temperature when they dim, which incandescents do.

Yeah, there are fluorescent lights with very high CRIs (for example those in professional light booths) but they cost more because of the phosphor sets.