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Comment · 5 years ago

I've only used them while using certain frameworks to dynamically generate queries referencing multiple tables. They end up getting turned into an implicit inner join though. The following queries are equivalent.

  SELECT a.*, b.*
  FROM a CROSS JOIN b
  WHERE a.id = b.a_id
  
  SELECT a.*, b.*
  FROM a, b
  WHERE a.id = b.a_id

  SELECT a.*, b.*
  FROM a INNER JOIN b ON a.id = b.a_id

IIRC .NET's Entity Framework will (or at least used to) generate queries similar to this as well.

Comment · 6 years ago

I mean yes, but also no. I was skeptical that I could get into the game after reading about it, but I played the free demo [1] and got hooked. After "beating" it about 80 hours in I've lost a bit of interest because it seemed a bit more like work than play to really scale things, but the 80 hours of enjoyment was worth it. Might come back to it at some point and try to make a megabase or try some mods.

[1] https://factorio.com/download

Comment · 8 years ago

Carbon tax

Comment · 8 years ago

JetBrains does a pretty good job making this a bit less painful. They have a license server you install that dishes out floating licenses to IDEs. Floating licenses are released after 2-3 days, so if someone isn't using the product it doesn't consume a license.

Comment · 10 years ago

The main issue is that most companies won't spend the time or money to do a full legal analysis and simply don't allow AGPL to be used in projects.

Comment · 11 years ago

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Software Engineer (all levels)

QA/Test Automation Engineer

http://www.jamfsoftware.com/jobs/openings/

We help organizations succeed with Apple! We're looking for software engineers with Java and/or iOS experience to help build the Casper Suite, a leading Mac OS and iOS management solution. At JAMF Software we work hard to turn great ideas into great products and services for our customers. And we have always been devoted to providing the best customer experience. Our team brings passion and dedication to this mission, and we seek out these characteristics in people looking to join us. Together, there's no telling what we can accomplish as we continue to provide our customers with best-of-breed OS X and iOS management software–software that has become the foundation for transforming education and business.

Comment · 11 years ago

JAMF Software | Minneapolis, MN or Eau Claire, WI | Onsite

Software Engineer (all levels)

http://www.jamfsoftware.com/jobs/openings/

We help organizations succeed with Apple! We're looking for software engineers with Java and/or iOS experience to help build the Casper Suite, a leading Mac OS and iOS management solution.

At JAMF Software we work hard to turn great ideas into great products and services for our customers. And we have always been devoted to providing the best customer experience. Our team brings passion and dedication to this mission, and we seek out these characteristics in people looking to join us. Together, there's no telling what we can accomplish as we continue to provide our customers with best-of-breed OS X and iOS management software–software that has become the foundation for transforming education and business.

Comment · 12 years ago

25GB of (I'm guessing) LZMA compressed text. That'll expand to a bit bigger than 25GB.

Comment · 12 years ago

"Despite the protest Uber said it had seen the number of people downloading its app increase by 850% compared to last Wednesday."

Uber gets some free publicity it seems.

Comment · 12 years ago

Most if it is in Java, which is pretty verbose in comparison to many languages.

Comment · 12 years ago

Sony MDR-V6/MDR-7506 http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/the-best-150-over-ear-headp...

Comment · 12 years ago

Too bad there's no first-party app for hardware-accelerated 1080p/DD5.1 streaming on Windows like there is for Netflix and Hulu...

Comment · 12 years ago

Some of the previous work on this involving timing attacks against SSH [1] is particularly interesting because it's so obvious in retrospect, but no one saw it when SSH was being designed.

[1]http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/papers/ssh-use01.pdf

Comment · 12 years ago

Never more relevant... http://xkcd.com/435/