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I am a Hindu.
But first, I am an Indian. ๐ฎ๐ณ
United we rise. Divided we fall.
Let's stand together beyond religion, caste, and politics.
Jai Hind. ๐ฎ๐ณ
#India#Unity#JaiHind
@atifnav38@narendramodi This Pakistani is concerned about Indian ๐ฎ๐ณ people and the Indian PM, while in Pakistan they have a prime minister who constantly takes loans from other countries and bends over to Donald Trump. Also, they have a Field Marshal and a begging community. Please mind your own country
He got frustrated on a Navy battleship. Wrote a database to fix it and gave it away forever. It's now on 4 billion devices. ๐คฏ
Meet D. Richard Hipp. ๐บ๐ธ
> Born in Charlotte, North Carolina.
> Got a PhD in Mathematics from Duke University.
> Academic market was too crowded for PhDs.
> So he started his own tiny consulting company instead.
> Just him. And his wife.
> Signed every share of the company over to her. ๐
> In 2000 โ took a contract job for the U.S. Navy.
> Working on software for an actual battleship. The USS Oscar Austin.
> The ship used a database called Informix.
> Every time Informix went offline โ his program crashed.
> He got the blame. Every single time.
> Got tired of it.
> Said โ why can't I just talk directly to the disk?
> No server. No setup. No dependencies.
> Just a database file that sits quietly and works.
> Spent a few months building it himself.
> Called it SQLite.
> Put it on the internet. For free.
> Public domain. No license. No strings. Anyone could use it.
> Didn't expect much.
> AOL found it. Used it. ๐
> Symbian found it. Used it.
> Then Google called โ before Android even existed.
> Before iPhone existed.
> SQLite ended up in Android. Then iPhone. Then everything.
> It's in your browser right now.
> It's in your car.
> It's in commercial aircraft.
> Your iMessages live in an SQLite file.
> Your WhatsApp messages too.
> Every app on your phone uses it quietly in the background.
> 4 billion devices. ๐
> Most widely deployed database engine in all of human history.
> Built by one man.
> On a Navy contract.
> Because a server kept going offline.
> Said "I just needed a database that worked without a server. So I wrote one."
> No startup. No VC. No team. Just one frustrated developer on a battleship.
Database Goat ๐๐ฅ
Most people think oil is just oil.
Itโs not.
US WTI: ~40ยฐ API (light, golden)
Iran Light: ~34ยฐ
Russia Urals: ~31ยฐ
Venezuela: ~8โ12ยฐ (almost tar)
The lighter the crude โ the cheaper the refining โ the bigger the profit.
Quality drives oil politics.