Data Yojimbo

I always assumed Heaven 17 was a cult you wanted to bring back

i think american life would improve significantly and quickly if society was more encouraging of people to have Hobbies. the most perfect and serene state of mind that exists is when one is Doing one's Little Things

The Other Way the ‘Super Woke’ Left Discriminates Race and gender aren’t the only categories that determine who gets special treatment.

it requires an absolutely staggering lack of self awareness for chatterton to complain that he has lost elite opportunities because he has anti-woke views.

the problem with america is that our political systems are designed to favor and incentivize extremism. we need to stop empowering the extreme left and the extreme right and work together to shape a civic-minded politics that centers the common-sense middle

Need to cheer myself up so here's the best Twitter post ever. It spawned one billion bad ripoffs but it's a beautiful magic trick. You don't just read it in his voice: he said it now. This quote is real.

absurd question to ask for a senior role

Goethe is perhaps the most exulted fanfic author in the pre-Internet era

Excel is a repl #databs

saas products love to add immediate abandonware features then highlight them in sales

Hug Lovers

Excel cultists will tell you this is impossible

I'm going to build the NAND plane. Add armor everywhere in the world except to the parts of the plane that were hit.

this feels like it should have been a layup

Their stores seem designed for stealing! No clear lines of sight, inventory spilling off the shelves, hardly any employees. And I'm supposed to subsidize their choices by waiting for someone to unlock the deodorant jail?

Just incredible things from the VLC folks

Definition of making up a guy to get mad at

A woman seated at a computer and a woman standing over her saying, “no, you need to export the SAS files into sql before compressing”

You need to export the SAS files into SQL before compressing

Is there a band connection here? I imagine the den as full of real “cowboys from hell” types

Google Cloud Pushing BigQuery to Superstar Status Google Cloud's BigQuery is poised to lead in enabling businesses to leverage real-time data analytics for faster, more informed decision-making in today's rapidly evolving landscape.

I simply don't believe real time analytics is all that important. I'm sure the use cases exist! but advocates never seem to get past "fast is good" cloudwars.com/ai/google-cl...

Video is changing e-commerce

Many in the data profession still harbor Kimballist sentiments around efficiency of storage and compute. It’s sentimental nonsense; just throw the query at the warehouse and see what comes out.

lol

one of many gems in the yacht rock dockumentary is this SCTV sketch on michael mcdonald ft. rick moranis

Dick Cheney quoting Judith Miller quoting Dick Cheney about Iraqi WMDs

Why don’t your knowledge graph and ontologies talk each other? They need a semantic layer — an api that compiles sql for downstream models, reports, and business users #databs