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by A_Person 8y ago
Yes indeed. I haven't checked his research dates, but I was writing database software in the late (uh) 60s and early 70s. I think that was even before "goto harmful". I still remember our standards officer saying, let's
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by A_Person 8y ago
Nope! I've never used postgres at all. Most of my RDBMS work was done on HN NSFW ALERT - oracle :-) But your comment supports my general point, which is, that data modelling and relational schema design skills are product agnosti
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by A_Person 8y ago
All of the websites concerned have strict authorization requirements and none have public APIs afaics. At the start, it just seemed easiest to automatically scrape them. I guess I could have reverse engineer their private APIs and used thos
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by A_Person 8y ago
Gosh, I must say there seems to be some misunderstanding of RDBMS concepts in some posts in this thread! I was writing database systems professionally, back in the days before the RDBMS concept was even a thing. So here's my (enormousl
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by A_Person 8y ago
Nope, never heard of it. My software certainly has to click lots of thing! But it also has to do lots of data processing behind the scenes. So the clickety click is only part of the story :-)
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by A_Person 8y ago
I'll certainky take a look at it
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by A_Person 8y ago
The rubber hose would fail!
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by A_Person 8y ago
Thanks for the reference to sekenium etc. I know nothing about other browsers' automation capabilities, so i'll takee a look at some stage.
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by A_Person 8y ago
Onya!!
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by A_Person 8y ago
To wafflesindeed (there's no reply button): > I'm not OP, but I suspect they meant that Python and some libraries would have solved your problem in a few days of work. I wrote software professionally for 30 years. I have a good
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by A_Person 8y ago
A lot of it is in fully-franked shares in a self-managed superannuation fund. The fund is now in pension mode, which means it pays no tax on earnings. Where I live, fully-franked shares, in a zero tax environment, get a refund , from the t
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by A_Person 8y ago
I don't think that would make it much simpler (if that's what you're getting at). There's tons of grunt work that just has to be done - eg. calculating expected dividend payments (by automatically matching portfolio deta
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by A_Person 8y ago
I've no idea what they are! They're all random strings within the integrated password manager that I wrote as part of the package!
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by A_Person 8y ago
Well put :-) I was actually taking a subtle dig at folk who say, "just ditch IE, how hard can it be?" If you have an enormous corporate or personal application, the answer could be: "impossibly hard", unless a good fairy
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by A_Person 8y ago
Ok, I'll bite! About 20 years ago I inherited enough money to retire on for the rest of my life. But the only evidence of those assets was, a dot matrix printout that anyone could have done in five minutes. So over the next few weeks,
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by A_Person 9y ago
Most people do not have car accidents. But seeing one might reasonably cause you to wonder how that happened, whether it might happen to you, and if so, how you might reduce your risk. Seeing what happend to Stephen Martin, I ask myself, co
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by A_Person 9y ago
I'd say they only dropped it because of high-level pressure and adverse publicity. I wouldn't assume the same outcome with, for example, a random ozzie instructor on a diving holiday. The concerning issue, IMHO, is that such serio
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by A_Person 9y ago
Good writeup. This is probably a silly question, but: The article says he has to use performance.now . But isn't one of the mitigations for Spectre and/or Meltdown, to reduce the accurance and/or resolution of performance.n
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by A_Person 9y ago
> Malta is awesome ... the scuba diving is some of the best in the Mediterranean. Not after this: https://www.theguardian.com/law/2016/jan/17/briton-fights-ex... I won't summarize that article, s
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by A_Person 9y ago
Hmm, I see that Mr Google has lots of info on, uh, "lcd screen polarization", but I'll leave my question up regardless!
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Ask HN: Polarized LCD screens?
2 points by A_Person 9y ago|1 comments
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by A_Person 9y ago
I can't stand comment systems with anonymous downvotes. It's like being in a group discussion, then someone else, hidden behind the curtain, calls out "You're an idiot!" Most people wouldn't stand for that. The
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by A_Person 9y ago
I've always been slim and not eaten much. But a few years ago I started to develop a paunch! For the first time in my life, I started to check the sugar content of what I was eating. The results surprised me greatly. For example, I lik
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by A_Person 9y ago
Yes, great catch! Perhaps Tom said "3 weeks" to Dick, Dick said "4 months" to Harry, and Harry said "5 years" to Jane! :-)
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by A_Person 9y ago
> "He guessed that the problem might take him a few weeks. Instead, it took him five years" >> Perhaps the key to their success was typically programming work estimations ;) No, you should always normalize programmer esti
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by A_Person 9y ago
A 'C' in column 1 - FORTRAN's comment indicator! So the statement was there, but commented-out. The 'C' was exactly under the thumbprint at the start of that line on the dirty old listing. No-one had thought what mi
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by A_Person 9y ago
One of my early jobs in the late 60s/early 70s was with a small government group providing online data processing services to various local hospitals. The system ran on two CDC computers, a 1700[1] and a System 17. These were originall
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by A_Person 9y ago
> The hope is that once assembled and weighted it can't be moved easily. It's amazing how heavy a burglar safe is - even a small one. I have one just big enough to store some documents, spare phone, keys, and some cash. But it
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by A_Person 9y ago
> wouldn't it be better you told [your relative] so that he can either get a burglar proof safe if that's what he wants or get a new fireproof safe that he then doesn't destroy by drilling through it? Fair comment. But I g
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by A_Person 9y ago
> Does it matter if I don't bolt it to the floor? It depends on the type of safe. I'm not a locksmith, but I have researched this, and this is how I understand it. There are "security" safes (aka "burglar" s

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