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Re:Databricks to Buy Data-Management Startup Tabular on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @03:35PM (#40578147)
This [1] says Snowflake was also bidding to buy Tabular.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/04/databricks-is-buying-data-op...

This was a great read - particularly the section on the thinking framework / mental model. I think survey papers like this are necessary to keep up with what's going on in the community.
Re:India Is What Happens When Rich People Do Nothing on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @02:45PM (#26959830)
India's population "problem" if it can be called that is in only 3-4 states out of 28 - Uttar Pradesh (230M), Bihar (120M), Maharashtra (120M). Most states in India have population densities comparable to countries in Europe.
Re:Apple commits $430B in US investments over five years on Monday April 26, 2021 @05:34PM (#26948471)
Interesting. How do Apple's investments outside near LA and other parts of US help Sacramento real estate?
Re:Leslie Lamport: Video course on TLA+ on Monday March 20, 2017 @10:54PM (#13919483)
attended a course where @ahewler TA'd. can attest, he is awesome! disclaimer - msft engineer.
Re:Global availability of Microsoft Teams on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @02:57AM (#13818720)
They will probably fix it over time, and also closely integrate with everything else, like LinkedIn, O365, Word / PPT / Task Tracking etc..
Re:CockroachDB beta-20161013 on Thursday February 16, 2017 @05:11PM (#13664038)
big fan of your work! Thank you
Very insightful. In your expert opinion, what are some of the core features / functionality that an IoT database platform should have (that existing solutions or combinations of them on AWS / Google Cloud / Azure don't provide)?