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Re:Databases in 2024: A Year in Review by badindentation on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @10:34AM (#42566618)
The section on Larry Ellison is amusing.
Re:Databases in 2024: A Year in Review by leeoniya on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @11:11AM (#42566895)
"Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphising Larry Ellison."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=33m1s&v=-zRN7XLCRhc&feature=yo...

Re:Databases in 2024: A Year in Review by epolanski on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @11:07AM (#42566864)
I couldn't understand if it was satire or something.

Do they believe the guy marries a 30 years old cause she loves him?

In any case, who cares, how was that relevant..

Re:Databases in 2024: A Year in Review by masklinn on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @11:34AM (#42567065)
It's definitely satire, how would you take this sentence as serious:

> I told Larry this especially means a lot to me because my former #1 ranked Ph.D. student is now a professor in Michigan's Computer Science department with their famous Database Group.

Re:Databases in 2024: A Year in Review by CRConrad on Thursday January 02, 2025 @08:30AM (#42574223)
> I couldn't understand if it was satire or something.

The quotes from last year's bit on Ellison in sibling comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42567484 might help you make up your mind.

Re:Databases in 2024: A Year in Review by avinassh on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @12:28PM (#42567484)
Larry always makes appearances in his reviews, lol

> But the real big news in 2023 was how Elon Musk personally helped reset Larry's Twitter password after he invested $1b in Musk's takeover of the social media company. And with this $1b password reset, we were graced in October 2023 with Larry's second-ever tweet and his first new one in over a decade.

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2024/01/2023-databases-re...

> These journalists made it sound like Larry was doing something nefarious or indecent, like the time he made his pregnant third wife sign a prenup two hours before their wedding. I can assure you that Larry was only trying to use his vast wealth as the 7th richest person in the world to help his country. His participation in this call is admirable and should be lauded. Free and fair elections are not a trivial affair, like a boat race where sometimes shenanigans are okay as long as you win. Larry has done other great things with his money that are overlooked, like spending $370m on anti-aging research so that he can live forever

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2022/12/2022-databases-re...