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by F_J_H 6y ago
Some people are quite good at increasing their "luck surface area".
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by F_J_H 6y ago
Reminds me of "Buridan's ass" named after a 14th century French philosopher who described a donkey dying of starvation while standing between two perfectly good stacks of hay, because it couldn't decide which to eat.
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by F_J_H 6y ago
This otherwise insightful response would have been more persuasive and effective without the first paragraph.
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by F_J_H 6y ago
Curious, are you a boss, or have you ever been?
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A New Hypothesis Challenges Dark Matter(scitechdaily.com)
17 points by F_J_H 6y ago|0 comments
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by F_J_H 6y ago
Then move on and find something that is more helpful for you? Why the need to trash it, (complete with fashionably dragging in gender, race, economic inequality and political ideology), because it doesn't resonate with you? I got a lot
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by F_J_H 6y ago
To riff on a quote originally about unix: "Excel doesn't stop you from doing stupid things because then it would stop you from doing smart things."
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by F_J_H 6y ago
.. for free . Would you have paid $60K - to $100K plus for the same? That is what students are facing now. Very few would disagree with the intangible benefits of a university education. They question is, how much is it worth, and how much
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by F_J_H 6y ago
Agreed, but how much debt should one take on to learn these other skills? (Scott Galloway has been talking about this a lot lately - university degree cost inflation, which has skyrocketed without a commensurate increase in the quality of t
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by F_J_H 6y ago
>> ...individual with not much future unless of course they keep learning This is now true no matter what level of education. Just need to start somewhere, and this is a great option for those without access to funds or the desire to
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by F_J_H 6y ago
A farmer's donkey dies. His son gets an idea on how to make some money. Sometime later he turns up at dinner with $200. "Where did you get that money?" His father asks. "I sold raffle tickets for the donkey" his son
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by F_J_H 6y ago
No need to apologize. What you said was very clear, and the other commenter has apologized for not fully reading the information, which led to a misguided interpretation of your comment.
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AWS Honeycode: no-code mobile and web app builder(techcrunch.com)
1 points by F_J_H 6y ago|0 comments
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HTTP Is the New Narrow Waist of the Internet(systemsapproach.org)
1 points by F_J_H 6y ago|0 comments
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by F_J_H 6y ago
As options proliferate, it's nice to have a recommendation. I appreciate this post for that reason.
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by F_J_H 6y ago
Animations and transitions are very easy to abuse for sure, yet I've also seen them used very effectively in delivering a message. (Just was in a data presentation today where, without the animation, would have been very hard to grasp.
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by F_J_H 6y ago
I see this differently. If I go to a "business meeting" and someone has not taken the time to summarize their message in a succinct presentation, and instead hands me a document, I'd "nope" out of there. "...to
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by F_J_H 6y ago
Yes, I was expecting this comment. A tired cliche I've been hearing for years...
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by F_J_H 6y ago
Well, wait until you have to maintain a system where someone has "reinvented the SQL/database wheel" with a "this is gonna be so awesome" custom ORM, complete with totally re-invented referential integrity enforceme
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by F_J_H 6y ago
Meh. We use Oracle's (newish) autonomous database offering, and haven't really experienced any bugs at all. No worries about backups, very little DBA time, and the on-demand licensing makes it quite economical. We just get on wit
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by F_J_H 6y ago
Oracle Application Express (APEX). Comes as a no-cost option with the database, making Oracle the only complete, end-to-end, data management system I know of, where you can build and deploy rich web apps, "out-of-the-box", withou
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by F_J_H 6y ago
I'm puzzled by how many people seem to have a huge "mental block" when it comes to SQL. It is trivially easy to learn, (a weekend), and it is so incredibly powerful. To me, it is a skill like learning how to type properly -
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by F_J_H 6y ago
Yep, you could do that and I'm sure it will work well, just like you don't need dropbox because " you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and
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by F_J_H 6y ago
Who's "we"?
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by F_J_H 6y ago
Yep - agreed. It's "pick your poison". No matter what tech stack you select, migration away from it is a may be a consideration. (Whether it is a JavaScript framework, PHP to python, C++ to Go, or one DB engine to another.)
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by F_J_H 6y ago
So far, yes. APEX in this case is used for data visualization and dashboards, mostly using Plotly.js. And, the oracle database is the data store for clean/structured data. They use python notebooks and all the other python based goodi
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by F_J_H 6y ago
That is somewhat of a concern, but less so now that they support web services. So, you would still need a basic oracle DB set up in order to run APEX, but you could just use OracleXE, which is a quite capable free version, and then connect
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by F_J_H 6y ago
I have not been an Oracle fan in the past, especially because of their complicated (and expensive) licensing, but late last year we moved to their hosted autonomous database. The on demand pricing model makes it quite economical, and the pe
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Low code in practice – a surprisingly quick launch from Oracle?(zdnet.com)
1 points by F_J_H 6y ago|0 comments
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by F_J_H 7y ago
I see the benefits of touch screens, but I really miss tactile controls, like the temperature controls on my Dad's 1978 GMC pickup truck, which is the vehicle I learned to drive in. Three super simple, super intuitive slider type cont

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