This Week I Learned - Week #30 2019
This Week I Learned -
* SQL Server Azure VMs can use Automated Patching to schedule a maintenance window for installing important windows and SQL Server updates automatically, take advantage of Automated Backup. High availability can be configured using SQL Server Availability Groups
* Matt Felton has shared his AZ 300 & AZ 500 exam prep notes and it's very useful
* Employers are mining the data their workers generate to figure out what they’re up to, and with whom. People/workplace analytics tools like TrustSphere help with the analysis of digital interactions. It doesn’t look at the content of emails or chats but it can identify which employees have strong relationships with peers. It can highlight an organization’s internal influencers by identifying those whose messages get quick responses and who have strong, ongoing relationships with peers throughout the company - WSJ
* Usually when a person eats, their blood glucose rises. In response insulin, which is a hormone secreted by the pancreas, is released. Insulin helps cells in the body absorb glucose from the blood, which will be used for energy or stored as fat. People with diabetes either don't produce enough insulin, their bodies don't respond to the insulin, or both. As a result, glucose remains in the blood, depriving the body's cells of energy they need, and causes damage throughout the body - Go Ask Alice!
* The white, smoke-like water vapor that follows the path of an airplane is called a contrail. This artificial cloud created by an aircraft is caused either by condensation due to the reduction in air pressure above the wing surface or by water vapor in the engine exhaust. The word dates from 1945, a shortened version of "condensation trail," and they're sometimes also called "vapor trails."
* There are 94 unicorns in China and 19 in India. Nine of India’s top 10 unicorns by value are in the online-consumer space. Among the newer Indian unicorns are Druva Software Pvt., a cloud data-protection provider with a suite of global clients, Icertis Inc., which makes cloud-based contract-management software
* Clear and present danger was a doctrine adopted by the Supreme Court of the United States to determine under what circumstances limits can be placed on First Amendment freedoms of speech, press, or assembly. The test was replaced in 1969 with Brandenburg v. Ohio's "imminent lawless action" test.
* Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos notes that it takes five to seven years before the seeds his company plants—things like expanding beyond media products, working with third-party sellers, and going international—grow enough to have a meaningful impact on the economics of the business; this process requires foresight, early commitment, and tenacious faith in the power of R&D - HBR
* The S-curve mental model makes a compelling case for personal disruption. We may be quite adept at doing the math around our future when things are linear, but neither business nor life is linear, and ultimately what our brain needs, even requires, is the dopamine of the unpredictable. More importantly, as we inhabit an increasingly zig-zag world, the best curve you can throw the competition is your ability to leap from one learning curve to the next - HBR
* Scientists are working on developing at least two approaches to deflecting potentially harmful asteroids. One strategy involves gently pushing the asteroid slowly over time off its course and away from Earth. The other is the gravity tractor. If an asteroid is detected early enough, it could be possible to divert it using the gravity of a spacecraft. The challenge with blasting it with a nuke is that it may or may not work, but it would definitely make the asteroid radioactive - Washington Post
* In 1954, the Comics Code Authority would review every issue of every title before granting permission to display a “Seal of Approval,” without which the comics could not be sold. No EC titles survived the purge except Mad, which escaped the Comics Code by expanding its trim size to become a “magazine”—and this new, adaptable hybrid format was the key to its longevity - New Yorker
* Charles Schulz's comic strips explored adult neuroses through the prism of a fancifully eloquent childhood
* "..a good cartoon, a funny carton consists of something familiar and something very unfamiliar. You take a situation that everybody is familiar with, but you express it or draw it or present it in a way that's surprising. When those two things happen together, that kind of combustible mix is what make a really great cartoon and a really funny cartoon" - David Sipress
* SQL Server Azure VMs can use Automated Patching to schedule a maintenance window for installing important windows and SQL Server updates automatically, take advantage of Automated Backup. High availability can be configured using SQL Server Availability Groups
* Matt Felton has shared his AZ 300 & AZ 500 exam prep notes and it's very useful
* Employers are mining the data their workers generate to figure out what they’re up to, and with whom. People/workplace analytics tools like TrustSphere help with the analysis of digital interactions. It doesn’t look at the content of emails or chats but it can identify which employees have strong relationships with peers. It can highlight an organization’s internal influencers by identifying those whose messages get quick responses and who have strong, ongoing relationships with peers throughout the company - WSJ
* Usually when a person eats, their blood glucose rises. In response insulin, which is a hormone secreted by the pancreas, is released. Insulin helps cells in the body absorb glucose from the blood, which will be used for energy or stored as fat. People with diabetes either don't produce enough insulin, their bodies don't respond to the insulin, or both. As a result, glucose remains in the blood, depriving the body's cells of energy they need, and causes damage throughout the body - Go Ask Alice!
* The white, smoke-like water vapor that follows the path of an airplane is called a contrail. This artificial cloud created by an aircraft is caused either by condensation due to the reduction in air pressure above the wing surface or by water vapor in the engine exhaust. The word dates from 1945, a shortened version of "condensation trail," and they're sometimes also called "vapor trails."
* There are 94 unicorns in China and 19 in India. Nine of India’s top 10 unicorns by value are in the online-consumer space. Among the newer Indian unicorns are Druva Software Pvt., a cloud data-protection provider with a suite of global clients, Icertis Inc., which makes cloud-based contract-management software
* Clear and present danger was a doctrine adopted by the Supreme Court of the United States to determine under what circumstances limits can be placed on First Amendment freedoms of speech, press, or assembly. The test was replaced in 1969 with Brandenburg v. Ohio's "imminent lawless action" test.
* Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos notes that it takes five to seven years before the seeds his company plants—things like expanding beyond media products, working with third-party sellers, and going international—grow enough to have a meaningful impact on the economics of the business; this process requires foresight, early commitment, and tenacious faith in the power of R&D - HBR
* The S-curve mental model makes a compelling case for personal disruption. We may be quite adept at doing the math around our future when things are linear, but neither business nor life is linear, and ultimately what our brain needs, even requires, is the dopamine of the unpredictable. More importantly, as we inhabit an increasingly zig-zag world, the best curve you can throw the competition is your ability to leap from one learning curve to the next - HBR
* In 1954, the Comics Code Authority would review every issue of every title before granting permission to display a “Seal of Approval,” without which the comics could not be sold. No EC titles survived the purge except Mad, which escaped the Comics Code by expanding its trim size to become a “magazine”—and this new, adaptable hybrid format was the key to its longevity - New Yorker
* Charles Schulz's comic strips explored adult neuroses through the prism of a fancifully eloquent childhood
* "..a good cartoon, a funny carton consists of something familiar and something very unfamiliar. You take a situation that everybody is familiar with, but you express it or draw it or present it in a way that's surprising. When those two things happen together, that kind of combustible mix is what make a really great cartoon and a really funny cartoon" - David Sipress
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