I am in a worse group. Changed my blogging platform, wrote the obligatory post detailing why I changed platform and couldn't even get that obligatory post out. I hang my head
IMHO if ClickHouse had Windows native release that does not need WSL or a Linux virtual machine it would be more popular than DuckDB. I remember for years MySQL being way more popular than PostgreSQL. One of the reasons being MySQL had a Windows installer.
Windows still runs on 71% of the desktop and laptops [1]. In my experience a good number of applications start life on simple desktops and then graduate to servers if they are successful. I work in the field of analytics. I have a locked down Windows desktop and I have been able to try out all the other databases such as MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL and DuckDB because they have windows installers or portable apps. I haven't been able to try out ClickHouse. This is my experience and YMMV.
Fair point, but if your desktop is locked down then you might not be able to use administrator privileges that many programs require for installation (especially software that uses DRM and licenses). So you might be not able to run the software even if there was a Windows version.
Not OP but OP seemed to be talking about analytical queries. Which typically summarise data over a period of time. For year on year comparisons this is summarising data over two years. So the query would have at least one aggregate function.
I had a professor firmly in the Linux camp. Whenever he had to touch a computer running windows he wore gloves and goggles just like people working in biohazard environment would dress. I found it amusing rather than antagonistic. It was also a great conversation opener to discuss pros and cons of Linux.
In my observation kids with older siblings tend to develop faster. As in they walk at an earlier age. I guess they get fed up with watching the older kids running around and being left behind. Older kids also often act as deputy parents. So I don't think kids from large families surfer from attention deficit. I am a single dad and often struggle to keep my child attention right through the day.
Great to see BIRT mentioned on HN. I use BIRT to generate PDFs for clients. Modern BI tools are about interactivity and real time but PDFs still have a role in BI and BIRT does the job. As it uses JDBC to connect to data sources you can connect to most data sources. For many tools these days one of the first things you have to check is which data sources does it connect to. If you use a less popular database chances are your database will not be supported. I have worked in organisations that use DB2, Sybase, Oracle and so on and these tend not to be supported by modern BI tools. PDF generation also seems to be a snapshot of the page. So yes BIRT is a great tool, old school and a bit clunky but it does the job.
How long have you been at the company? Did you just join? I ask because no company is perfect. The hardest part which is what many comments seem to be saying is figuring out the "real" problems.
Let's take documentation. I tend to be the person who onboards people for source control. There is indeed a document buried in previous version of SharePoint that was not migrated to the new SharePoint. We only get new a couple new employees a year so it is just quicker for me to have a 30 minute session with new employees than to figure out how to migrate all the documents from the old SharePoint site. The 30 minute session is better than any documentation I will ever write. New employee gets to ask questions and so on.
In South Africa you could get a za.net domain for free. They stopped new registrations quite some time back as the spam era of the internet was getting started. I still have my domain and use it for all sorts of different things. From email to experiments.
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