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I've seen people do this in the SELECT portion of SQL queries too.

Personally, I hate this.

[1] http://www.agroman.net/corkscrew/

https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html

or just search ddg for !bang

  !php strstr
  !python os.makedirs
  !pypi requests
  !js String

This gives you a single search bar for all documentation, which is amazing.

edit: formatting

This video is a good introduction to the ideas presented in the book http://youtu.be/jTYkdEU_B4o

The only way I found to get around this was to open a new workbook, change the column type to "text" and then paste the data in. I believe this was excel 2010 on windows.

I'm not saying RDBMS is the best solution for everything and neither is OP. But it's appropriate when you don't necessarily know every way you want to access your data up front.

No, but I do. What if I want to analyze my data in some way I hadn't expected? SQL lets me do that with a single query.

2. I think the main point of the post was that you can run ad-hoc SQL queries no matter how much you've denormalized. You can't necessarily do that with a NoSQL database.

Not having a gun isn't going to stop a person who wants to hurt someone else from doing it. It's just a tool.

Range: bytes=100-200, 600-800, 1500-

If the server supports ranges, it will respond with a 206 Partial Content status, and send a multipart/byteranges response body, which looks like this http://www.freesoft.org/CIE/RFC/2068/225.htm. Basically a delimited string containing all the ranges.

This is useful for some streaming audio/video formats and especially for large pdfs. IIRC, pdfs typically have header information at the end of the file, so it's useful for a pdf reader to get the end of the file first.

Of course they should. But that's no the issue here. The issue at hand is whether or not the government can compel you to give them information.

Consider this. You have a box, buried in the Mojave desert, with some documents in it. You've memorized the gps coordinates of this box. Should they be able to compel you state those coordinates?

Sure, they could search 100s of square miles looking for your box, and they might stumble upon it. But they shouldn't be able to force your to tell them where it is.

An encryption key is the same. They can try to brute force it if they wish. They're just looking for a much smaller box in a much bigger desert.

In order for good people to be free, some bad guys might also get away. Such is the price of a free society.

from remote machine:

  ssh me@macbook pbcopy < foo.txt

I once had mistakenly setup a transfer from one bank to another and I wanted to cancel it. So I called up the destination bank and they said there was nothing they could do. I called the source bank and had to pay 30 bucks to put a stop payment order on the account AND they couldn't guarantee it would stop the transfer.