EMM_386

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by EMM_386 3y ago
> User can open the application, get the database, the frontend does all the offline updates the user want to perform. "get the database" How small do you think these databases are?! You're going to download the entire hot
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by EMM_386 3y ago
I've been doing this for a long time and all I can say this after reading this multiple times ... "I don't get it". I mean, I get it, from a technical standpoint. Ok, so you're going to send read-only Sqlite databa
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by EMM_386 3y ago
For my first software engineering job, I was hired to replace a Microsoft Access system that had grown too big. I decided to just write it in .Net with SQL Server, since that's what Microsoft was saying to do at the time. That was 22 y
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by EMM_386 3y ago
I was involved in a merger with the platform I architected on one side, and a platform that does the same thing on the other side. We were told the company wanted one platform. I do everything I can to follow KISS. These are important ent
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by EMM_386 3y ago
I was a VB6 developer in the 1990s, and I actually wrote a pretty well known product with it (I bet most people didn't know it was VB6 underneath!). When I got my first job in software engineering, it was when .Net was in beta. Since
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by EMM_386 3y ago
Edge was even automatically sending every image URL you viewed to their servers to "enhance" the images via the "Enhance images in Microsoft Edge" setting, which was on by default. It seems like this has since been remov
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by EMM_386 3y ago
What I find most intriguing about the JFK assassination is the fact that parts of it still can't be declassified. In 1992, Congress passed a law saying everything was to be declassified in 25 years. October 2017 came and went, and t
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by EMM_386 3y ago
Many ages ago, at my first software engineering job, I was tasked with building a new replacement system for an aging platform. I decided to write this in the new-thing at the time, C# and .Net. I managed to put together the overall framew
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by EMM_386 3y ago
TypeScripts Type System is Turing Complete #14833 https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/14833
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by EMM_386 3y ago
> But, I don't know that it's ever truly helped me move faster It's incredibly helpful to move fast on large projects. It's not about missing null checks and other simple things. If you change code in one place, that
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by EMM_386 3y ago
Remove TypeScript, change linting rules, remove Prettier, breaks all PRs ... seemingly with no discussion and merged within 2 hours of the PR. Sounds like a project I'd stay away from. With comments like "Also, TypeScript hurts to
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by EMM_386 3y ago
> I am fully aware TypeScript exists, and there are transpilers where the syntax (modern ECMAScript) and rules are more appropriate to current times, but these aren't "native" of the browser. You must still transpile to th
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by EMM_386 3y ago
> Yes, and for decades, it's been a bad idea for SQL Servers that grow over time. I never said storing BLOBs was a great idea, but for smaller databases, like you say, and with small files, it is an option and it won't wreck yo
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by EMM_386 3y ago
So things like AI can't be conscious, this is some sort of biological process? What is so specific about "biological" (which is a fairly meaningless term) that can't be replicated if we do the same thing with silicon or
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by EMM_386 3y ago
"Databases can now store files and images" Just with SQL Server alone, for decades now you can store BLOB data. Need more than 2GB? There's FILESTREAM, where enormous files can sit on the disk, outside the DB, but be referenc
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by EMM_386 3y ago
> Posts like this are almost something to be ashamed of “we rewrote an entire subsystem because we wanted to use a language we like”. That’s really failing in your responsibility to the company. I would tend to agree. I don't under
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by EMM_386 3y ago
> Sure I’m getting old and it sometimes feels tiresome that software is a treadmill Precisely. Sometimes, I wonder if people are curious why after all these years am I apparently still working? Have I not become a "VP" or a &q
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by EMM_386 3y ago
> Trying to do this Next 12 -> Next 13 upgrade is not fun Oh, the horror! In all seriousness, I have been at this since the late 90s. 1996 specifically when HTML/JS/CSS all became a thing. Do I want to write another comp
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by EMM_386 3y ago
> Factorio performance is also fantastic I still don't know how they pulled this off, and as a software engineer I've read all of the development blogs. It is still impressive that you can scale this thing to huge mega-bases, w
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by EMM_386 3y ago
> I wouldn't put trains and smooth in a single sentence. I had over 500 hours in Factorio before I felt comfortable with signalling. I got so frusturated with it originally I just ignored it as best I could. But the "chain in
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by EMM_386 3y ago
Unless you are extremely experienced with Factorio and want a challenge that will last you close to another 1,000 hours (at least) ... don't even attempt Pyanodons. It's for a very specific type of hardcore player and very few p
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by EMM_386 3y ago
How does something infinite "expand" though? It's not expanding into anything, because it's infinite. I always hear "space itself is expanding" but how does that work with topology? When you travel in a given d
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by EMM_386 3y ago
I was a Firefox user since Phoenix/Firebird and only recently switched to Brave for performance (although I think I'm going back, given the recent performance gains). I have also been using uBlock Origin heavily since the start. I
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by EMM_386 3y ago
That's what I took away from this. I'm not sure I really see anything interesting here, except this: > The numbers are significant in that wages increasingly have been recognized as a driving force in inflation Rising wages are
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by EMM_386 3y ago
Hah, that was great! It's weird as both a commercial pilot and former ATC, I understood absolutely every acronym in the song. We sure do have a lot of them.
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by EMM_386 3y ago
Yes, US in the late 90s. I went to colllege to become an airline pilot, and I was shocked that I ended up having to fly an NDB approach in actual conditions to minimums. You just don't see that anymore. And the tolerances on the chec
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by EMM_386 3y ago
I'm a dinosaur and I'm always amazed at the technology that pilot's have available to them these days. While complex to learn, having huge glass navigation systems sitting in front of you in a single engine plane seems so for
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by EMM_386 3y ago
> One is "do you know what's going on under the hood?" Why should I need to? Let's take Microsoft's .Net sort implemtation. It will intelligently determine which is the optimized sort given the conditions it&#x2
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by EMM_386 3y ago
I've been told I'd have to have my wisdom teeth extracted by every dentist I've seen. Over 10 of them as I've moved around. Oral surgeons saying the same thing. The first one to recommend this was 35 years ago . I sti
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by EMM_386 3y ago
> just like they lost all the other battles they fought over the past 10 years or so. History repeats itself. I'm old enough to remember the IE lawsuit in 2001. Now I'm reading articles about how Microsoft is abusing its deskt

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