Re: [FRIAM] Subject: Re: Friam Digest, Vol 180, Issue 3

One of the best books on data management and databases that few have read: Data and Reality by William Kent. first published in mid-1980s, Third edition published in 2012. davewest On Thu, Jun 14, 2018, at 10:17 AM, uǝlƃ ☣ wrote: > Not to pile on to MySQL or anything. But I just landed on

Re: [FRIAM] Subject: Re: Friam Digest, Vol 180, Issue 3

Not to pile on to MySQL or anything. But I just landed on this: https://medium.com/@adamhooper/in-mysql-never-use-utf8-use-utf8mb4-11761243e434 > My [Hooper's] take-away lessons > > 1) Database systems have subtle bugs and oddities, and you can avoid a lot > of bugs by avoiding database

Re: [FRIAM] Subject: Re: Friam Digest, Vol 180, Issue 3

Robert writes: “Remember that Oracle acquired MySQL. It is now a free product (likely with no meaningful updates, not sure) but with an option to upgrade to supported Oracle extensions at a premium.” MySQL is distributed under the General Public License, so all it takes is someone to fork it

Re: [FRIAM] Subject: Re: Friam Digest, Vol 180, Issue 3

Steve writes: < Whether we call it democratization or egalitarianism (I prefer the latter, as the former implies the "will of the majority", while the latter implies equal opportunity and support to every individual in a group), paying attention to these strong positive feedback loops and

Re: [FRIAM] Subject: Re: Friam Digest, Vol 180, Issue 3

> It seems silly to say that one would democratize elite bicycle racing. This reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut's satirical and dystopian science-fiction short story *Harrison Bergeron * (1961).  Full text

Re: [FRIAM] Subject: Re: Friam Digest, Vol 180, Issue 3

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron > > /In the year 2081, the 211th, 212th, and 213th amendments to the > Constitution dictate that all Americans are fully equal and not > allowed to be smarter, better-looking, or more physically able > than anyone else. The

Re: [FRIAM] Subject: Re: Friam Digest, Vol 180, Issue 3

On 06/06/2018 09:52 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > It seems silly to say that one would democratize elite bicycle racing. Exactly. It's equally silly to talk of "democratizing information" or knowledge or whatever. In fact, it may even be silly to talk of *democracy*, at all. I think this is

Re: [FRIAM] Subject: Re: Friam Digest, Vol 180, Issue 3

Glen writes: "This reminded me of my (postmodern) criticism of open source (in spite of any of my advocacy of it), that open source *can* be exploited by an elite set of people who are elite by their capability to know how to read, use, and think about code, or design google queries, or SEO.

Re: [FRIAM] Subject: Re: Friam Digest, Vol 180, Issue 3

philpapers.org alerted me, yesterday, to the forthcoming book "Extended Epistemology" by Carter, et al. In trying to find a downloadable copy of one of the already published chapters of that book, I ran across Chalmers TedX talk on the extended mind/self, wherein he called our cognitive

Re: [FRIAM] Subject: Re: Friam Digest, Vol 180, Issue 3

Russell writes: "Given the undeniable success of GitHub in creating such a commons, recreating that same commons in the event of some corporate overlord (doesn't matter who) destroying it should not be difficult, and will be done." People do this to themselves, like idiots. Handing over their

Re: [FRIAM] Subject: Re: Friam Digest, Vol 180, Issue 3

On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 11:41:13AM -0600, Jon Zingale wrote: > I was being a little bit cheeky in my response to Microsoft's > acquisition of Github, though I am disappointed. Two salient > and moderate responses seem to be that: > > 1) One could always migrate to another cloud service, gitlab

[FRIAM] Subject: Re: Friam Digest, Vol 180, Issue 3

I was being a little bit cheeky in my response to Microsoft's acquisition of Github, though I am disappointed. Two salient and moderate responses seem to be that: 1) One could always migrate to another cloud service, gitlab perhaps? Another option could be to take the 30 seconds it takes to setup