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Whether it is the lack of an ORM or lack of a "algorithm" that pleases you, this comment has made my day :-).
by mc3 7y ago
Whether it is the lack of an ORM or lack of a "algorithm" that pleases you, this comment has made my day :-).
- npo9 7y agoIt’s the pure simplicity.
- anonytrary 7y agoPure simplicity works well when you have little to no users. It's reasonable to think that ORDER BY tweet.time DESC would result in a impractical experience for a site that has millions of DAU.
- lvturner 7y agoOnly if you subscribe to everything - if you keep your follower list small, the individual experience doesn't change regardless of the overall size of the platform.
- Nextgrid 7y agoWhy would it be? It'll naturally keep your list of followings small (as a large one will be unmanageable) and promote quality over quantity.
- hombre_fatal 7y agoI believe they're referring to the lack of algorithmic sorting.
- Jaxan 7y agoI’m not even sure what to think of the term “algorithmic sorting.” Is quicksort considered as algorithmic sorting ... ?
- hombre_fatal 7y agoI'm referring to "algorithmic" in its negative usage as short-hand for what you can see as of late with regard to Twitter, Youtube, and Facebook's suggestion engines where more complex sorting and filtering is happening than a simple ORDER_BY. Sure, not the best short-hand, but it seems most people understood what I meant. For example, https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=algorithm%20youtube&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... Like this submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20184282 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20184282 where people will shorten the "evil" to just "the algorithm".
- redwall_hp 7y agoThat SQL statement is literally algorithmic sorting...
- mc3 7y agoYes, I hate it when they manipulate the masses like that. They're so time-ist! Show me that old stuff!
- dblohm7 7y agoPersonally, I’m pleased by both!