Category Archives: Editorial

Adapting Privacy

Posted on July 21, 2020 by way0utwest

Lawyers will be lawyers. That’s a quote from a piece at Ars Technica on how and why search engine startup Neeva changed their privacy policy. Their business model relied on users paying Neeva to keep their data private. The goal … Continue reading →

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A Dedicated Space

Posted on July 20, 2020 by way0utwest

Years ago I had a friend that was starting a consulting business. This person had worked for various organizations over the years and was ready to run a solo business. The city where this person resided was somewhat expensive, so … Continue reading →

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Digging Into Internals

Posted on July 18, 2020 by way0utwest

Hugo Kornelis is a fellow Data Platform MVP and friend. He runs SQL Server Fast, and we recently put up an interesting page with this title: Debugging with debugger: investigating SQL Server’s internal structures. That’s a great title, and it … Continue reading →

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Changing Computer Retail

Posted on July 15, 2020 by way0utwest

When I was a child, there were a number of small computer stores, including quite a few that were authorized retailers for Apple, selling Apple IIs, software, dot matrix printers, and the loud 3.5″ external disk drives. I’d go and … Continue reading →

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