His comment was specifically aimed at martial arts and I think could be extended to any contact sport.
The on average smaller stature, different bone structure etc are giant disadvantages and would most likely lead to a higher potential of harm and damages.
I think nobody cares if differently gendered people run a race, you would see who is the fastest and people can draw their own conclusions if that is fair or not. I think this is very different if people start punching or run into each other at full speed.
I'm also rusty on my assembler because I generally use high level languages and compilers/interpreters; that's what abstractions do, and not really a reason to avoid them, since people can generally solve the problem anyway, it just takes a bit more time (more than saved by using the abstraction most of the time).
But assembler is the wrong analogy for SQL. SQL isn't a lower level version of procedural code, it's a domain specific language.
When you write a technical paper in English, you switch to math equations when appropriate. Math isn't assembly language, its the correct language. It's the native language.
Yes, you can always describe your equations with English prose—and if you're doing simple addition and subtraction, it's probably nicer to write that in English. But once you want to do anything remotely complex, writing it as a math equation is more terse and less ambiguous.
> Yes, you can always describe your equations with English prose—and if you're doing simple addition and subtraction, it's probably nicer to write that in English. But once you want to do anything remotely complex, writing it as a math equation is more terse and less ambiguous.
Right! But 99% of the time, I do not want to do something complex - I just want to load a few rows based on simple search parameters, and save a changed values (which may involve heavy data processing, but not relational). Hence only using SQL rarely, and therefore getting rusty.
If you're only doing basic CRUD operations, then fair enough.
That said, based on my experience analysing applications, "loading a few rows" to perform "heavy data processing" and then "save a changed value" smells suspiciously like "the entire task can be rewritten as a single, moderate complexity query and the data never even had to leave the database server."
I'm not saying that's the case in your own generic hypothetical, as there are indeed forms of business logic and advanced manipulations that exceed the scope of a database server. But you might be amazed at what you can do within the SQL language. For example if you aren't intimately familiar with window functions like DENSE_RANK() then do yourself a favour and learn about those—and then contemplate how you could use them within a subquery joined to a table that you're updating.
Well, my current "heavy data processing" is generating a 3D render from some metadata stored in the database. Postgres is amazing, but I don't think it can do that yet :)
My experience over my career has been this: there's CRUD, lots of IO, and a bunch of data processing that just needs specialized software (image, video, weather simulation, etc). I try to offload what I can to the database - and yeah, I know about window functions - but other than for the occasional report, it just doesn't move the needle.
I would love to do this, but judging by the last couple of months of interviews this would not work out most of the times around here, even though I am currently only interviewing for senior positions.
It is mind boggling how little interest some people are showing or how seemingly unprepared they come to an interview.
That's my fear as well. A matte screen is the most important property of a computer, in my opinion. It's like rear-wheel drive on a car: it's not worth having one without it.
I've seen it some months ago and I would lean to the manipulation side.
There are a lot of heavy-handed comparisons (e.g. to the holocaust) and things like that just to get their point across.
I agree that the imagery is powerful and will most likely haunt a lot of people for days or weeks, but the narration bothered me at a number of points during the documentary
I've stopped playing games regularly, but I still listen to Ryan and the bombcast crew on my commute because they create such an enjoyable podcast. I'm sad to hear the news about Ryan.
It's the same with other games and especialy dvd/Blurays. Even with extra shipping cost you normaly have to pay less than on amazon.de.
Never quite understood why, but I order a lot over uk since I know that.
I think nobody cares if differently gendered people run a race, you would see who is the fastest and people can draw their own conclusions if that is fair or not. I think this is very different if people start punching or run into each other at full speed.