Recently, I read this Stack Overflow blog post about how they have some of their infrastructure laid out.
I was curious to know, does Stack Exchange use caching (both at the application layer and/or database layer) and if so, how?
This happened because you had an account that was blocked from asking questions, and returned after requesting deletion of your account, which we obliged.
We're happy to give you an almost clean slate, but we must also protect the quality of the resource that we're building. To this, we just ask...
The suggestions from stb and xiowl are fine if you're looking for a constant. If you need to use existing fields or parameters which are integers, you can cast them to be floats first:
SELECT CAST(1 AS float) / CAST(3 AS float)
or
SELECT CAST(MyIntField1 AS float) / CAST(MyIntField2 AS floa...
I watched Krepo's stream and he said, "That guy has double tenacity. He doesn't jungle."
And I saw some threads bashing people with double tenacity.
Can someone tell me why you shouldn't build double tenacity?
The past few weeks there have been many news articles about the introduction of chip & pin in the United States; most of these articles are against it and citing such 'issues' as:
"Some people are experiencing a 20 second wait times with these
chips," said Avivah Litan, vice president and a...
You probably are familiar with Malthus' Theory of Population Growth.
If you are not, Malthusian model has the following mathematically form:
P(t) = P_0e^(rt)
A basic graphic representation is:
Note that population is growing in a exponential form where as the resources are growing only l...
