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Postscript: Bill Campbell, 1940-2016 – The New Yorker

In 1997, soon after Steve Jobs returned to Apple, following a twelve-year absence, he asked Campbell to become the company’s lead outside director. Campbell became both Jobs’s mentor and perhaps his closest confidante. Most Sundays they took long walks in the hills around Palo Alto. Although he was neither an employee nor a director, for […]

How to digitize a graph

Suppose you have a graph of a function, but you don’t have an equation for it or the data that produced it. How can you reconstruction the function? Source: How to digitize a graph

vitaly-t/pg-promise-demo: Advanced example of using pg-promise.

This is an advanced demo of the best practices of using pg-promise, and managing your database architecture. It shows how to organize an enterprise-level database application, with consideration for ever-growing database complexity. Source: vitaly-t/pg-promise-demo: Advanced example of using pg-promise.

Goodbye MongoDB, Hello PostgreSQL

This brings me to the requirements of a good database, more specifically the requirements Olery has. When it comes to a system, especially a database, we value the following: Consistency. Visibility of data and the behaviour of the system. Correctness and explicitness. Scalability.   Source: Goodbye MongoDB, Hello PostgreSQL