[dba-Tech] OT, definitely, but priceless

Ahh, yes excellent subject.

Have you ever considered doing a matching book using Postgres? As this
database seem to be the next step in OS SQL database evolution. 

Right now Larry is in the process of throttling the goose to wring out the
last drop of profit, MySQL adoption has gone totally flat and at least three
or four forks are now under development, until king Larry sues them to
oblivion. New developers are looking for the next set of options and
Postgres is really hot now.

Jim

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Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] OT, definitely, but priceless

On 2012-11-04 11:31 AM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> "Our book" ?
>
> Jim

http://www.artfulsoftware.com/

PB

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> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Peter Brawley
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> On 2012-11-04 8:58 AM, Arthur Fuller wrote:
>> Recently I came upon the following sentence, which reminded me of why I
>> dreamed of becoming a writer; but sadly, never achieved such exquisite
>> sculpture as this:
>>
>> The spread of secondary and latterly of tertiary education has created a
>> large population of people, often with well-developed literary and
>> scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to
>> undertake analytical thought.
>>
>> -- Peter Medawar
> Interesting.
> http://www.online-utility.org/english/readability_test_and_improve.jsp
> gives that sentence a Fox Index of 27.
>
> The Fog Index is said to indicate the number of years of formal
> education that a person requires in order to easily understand the text
> on first reading. Many decades ago, a secretary (yep, that long ago) was
> quietly cursing a paper she was typing into the computer. When she was
> done, I put it through that year's version of the Fog Index. It said
> understanding the paper would require 82 years of education.
>
> By way of contrast, the first para of our book, which you wrote, gets a
> Fog Index of 10. Seems you accomplished your goal.
>
> PB
>
>
>
>
>> Arthur
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