Monthly Archives: May 2017

DNA for Data Storage

Posted on May 31, 2017 by way0utwest

In all my years of working with data, there’s one think I’ve learned: it always grow. Over the years, I’ve gone from having to store data in these sizes: A few KB on cassette tapes as a middle school kid … Continue reading →

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Quitting VIM

Posted on May 29, 2017 by way0utwest

I saw this post from Joel Spolsky lately, noting that Stack Overflow has been helping 1 million developers exit VIM. It’s a funny post, but one that has some truth in it. I’ve gotten into VIM, almost always from git, … Continue reading →

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The 2017 Laptop Search

Posted on May 26, 2017 by way0utwest

It seems that I’m often searching for laptops. I used to get more time out of them, but as technology changes, and my job changes, I find myself refreshing hardware more often. This usually comes about because of some issue. … Continue reading →

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Do I Need to Learn Linux and R and Python?

Posted on May 26, 2017 by way0utwest

The big changes coming in SQL Server 2017 are the Linux version and the addition of Python as a language used to analyze data. In SQL Server 2016, we had the R language added, and quite a few people have … Continue reading →

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