Comments on: Sleep while you can, because it won’t last long http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2011/01/15/sleep-while-you-can-because-it-wont-last-long/ Stay curious! Thu, 02 May 2013 12:36:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ronald Bradford http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2011/01/15/sleep-while-you-can-because-it-wont-last-long/#comment-19075 Ronald Bradford Tue, 18 Jan 2011 22:58:04 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=2149#comment-19075 I understand the original post, it was about MySQL and the MySQL Community and the math show a decline. How we interpret this and what to do about it I feel defines our contributions to the MySQL community. This post is really nothing about MySQL and is not contributing to the quality of improving the curve.

]]> By: Darren Cassar http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2011/01/15/sleep-while-you-can-because-it-wont-last-long/#comment-19073 Darren Cassar Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:21:33 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=2149#comment-19073 Baron, my intention was not to trend the number of posts to a halt but rather to nudge the community and prompt people to blog again! … But, it seems I was misunderstood! Oh well, no harm in trying to do a good deed.

]]> By: Xaprb http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2011/01/15/sleep-while-you-can-because-it-wont-last-long/#comment-19072 Xaprb Mon, 17 Jan 2011 02:51:16 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=2149#comment-19072 John: I know someone who would say that. I was thinking more along the lines of “just because you can fit a curve to it, doesn’t mean you should” and “I don’t give a hoot what the curve looks like, you need to understand the underlying mechanics before you start fitting stuff.”

Daniel, I’ll take that as a compliment!

Everyone/nobody-in-particular: Obviously the blogging curve isn’t a polynomial, because we aren’t going to start negative-blogging no matter what. And there is actually a really good reason why a parabola is an extremely good fit for the minutes-of-daylight curve. (A 3rd-order polynomial would fit even better, and there’s also a good reason for that; does anyone know why?)

]]> By: John Allspaw http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2011/01/15/sleep-while-you-can-because-it-wont-last-long/#comment-19071 John Allspaw Mon, 17 Jan 2011 01:50:30 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=2149#comment-19071 Data comes from the devil, only models come from God?

:)

]]> By: Daniel Gary http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2011/01/15/sleep-while-you-can-because-it-wont-last-long/#comment-19070 Daniel Gary Sun, 16 Jan 2011 16:35:49 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=2149#comment-19070 Baron, sometimes you’re a really strange guy.

Not that its a bad thing.

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