May’s Brexit plan is falling apart and the press are talking about Easter eggs
Now the prime minister has embroiled herself in a negotiation in which we are at a disadvantage in terms of time and negotiating capacity. There will of course be no admission from Brexit MPs about this. They fixate on the one prediction economists got wrong – the surprising resilience of consumer spending – while ignoring everything their side was wrong about, like the fall in sterling, the announcement of a second Scottish independence referendum, the threat of a sudden hard border in Ireland or the crisis over Gibraltar. This is not point scoring. Unless there is a sober assessment of what is going right and wrong on both sides there can be no realistic negotiating posture. We are condemned to keep making the same mistakes again and again and working ourselves into ever-more disadvantageous positions.
When Boring is Awesome: Building a scalable time-series database on PostgreSQL
Nice. we built something along these lines atop MySQL before — partitioning by timestamp is the key. (via Nelson)
(tags: database postgresql postgres timeseries tsd storage state via:nelson)
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‘A Desktop Viewer App for Tabular Data’ — pivot CSV data easily; works well with large files; free, from Antony Courtney