F_J_H

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by F_J_H 7y ago
Check out Oracle application Express (APEX). HN loves to hate Oracle, but it is a great tool for a building crud applications and dashboards.
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Oracle launches completely autonomous OS(sdtimes.com)
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by F_J_H 7y ago
Or shared curation, just like Wikipedia. Depends on your view point I guess.
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by F_J_H 7y ago
It's a GitHub hosted shared document, open to all. Feel free to add as many others as you'd like! I've been enjoying ancient Chinese proverbs lately, such as: "It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness&quot
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Biggest Myth Ever on Why Bridges Collapse(forbes.com)
4 points by F_J_H 7y ago|0 comments
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A Problem with Libra: Libra and Financial Inclusion(creditslips.org)
3 points by F_J_H 7y ago|0 comments
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by F_J_H 7y ago
You'd probably like Milton Friedman's ideas, and I'd be surprised if you've not already come across his work and YouTube lectures. There is something to be said for small government, but also can go too far: actors actin
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by F_J_H 7y ago
I had not heard of "emergent architecture" until you implied you hated it, and so I thought I would Google it. I have no idea what emergent architecture is in the agile context, but the idea of emergence is fascinating to me, and
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A New Twist on Recruiting(youtube.com)
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by F_J_H 7y ago
And while the discussion takes place and the debate rages between classes vs. data structures, there's some poor analyst or data scientist who just needs access to the damned data to load it into a pandas data frame to do things that t
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by F_J_H 7y ago
Something I've speculated on - being a student provides a person with an identity that is reasonably "high status", or certainly higher status than an entry level position one might be forced to take in absence of a finding a
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by F_J_H 7y ago
Plotly works well for me - interactive plots are great, and can produce HTML to embed elsewhere.
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by F_J_H 7y ago
Plotly plots saved as html?
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by F_J_H 8y ago
yeah, search is really bad. Not sure if it's still possible, but a few years ago when trying to find something I knew I captured, I just wrote my own SQL against the local DB - found what I was looking for pretty quickly.
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Fish on a Blockchain = 'Fair Trade' Tuna(fortune.com)
1 points by F_J_H 8y ago|0 comments
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by F_J_H 8y ago
Obligatory Feynman quote Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
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by F_J_H 8y ago
Good point re: PostgresSQL foreign data wrappers (aka "linked tables"). I've used this with data in an Oracle database, and it worked well.
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by F_J_H 8y ago
Deal with it at the time? Key is to get your project up and running quickly. Worrying about problems that might happen down the road, the solution to which may hamper your speedy launch, is the heart of premature optimization. In many ca
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It’s ideology vs. science in psychology’s war on boys and men(nationalpost.com)
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by F_J_H 8y ago
What good is a newborn baby? Benjamin Franklin [1] [1] https://www.americanheritage.com/content/“what-good-new-born...
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by F_J_H 8y ago
Years ago, from somewhere I have forgotten, I copied the following: Among the first Anglo-Saxon poems, from the eighth century, is “The Ruin,” a powerful testament to the brokenness inherent in civilization. Its opening lines: The masonry
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by F_J_H 8y ago
I hesitate to say it on HN as everyone seems to hate Oracle (and for good reason), but the tool is Oracle Application Express. ( https://apex.oracle.com/en/ ) In my earlier consulting role, and now as a CDO, it's my
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by F_J_H 8y ago
A point that often gets missed with "low-code" tools, is that it's not so much that they enable "non-coders" to build applications, but that they enable experienced developers to go so much faster. I've been us
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by F_J_H 8y ago
Two economists walking down a street. One spots a $100 bill and says "Look, a $100 bill!" The other says, "Probably fake. If it was real, someone would have grabbed it already..."
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by F_J_H 8y ago
Wow - well worth a watch.
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by F_J_H 8y ago
>Each mine that deploys our software saves, on average, 6 figures per year (after the product cost). Where do the savings come from?
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by F_J_H 8y ago
Reminds me of the great story of the ingenious baby incubator developed from Toyota 4 Runner parts: https://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/23/neonurtures-car-...
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by F_J_H 8y ago
In the area I'm most family with, (business applications), many, many systems/applications are basically relatively simple CRUD apps with reporting and dashboard features, and maybe a bit of work flow management. With the rise of
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by F_J_H 8y ago
Sad that this happened to the OP - some good coaching would have helped to smooth his transition into the team without raising hackles. >>"But I don't like to criticize without showing a better way, so I decided to immediate
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Popular Use Cases of Blockchain(hackernoon.com)
2 points by F_J_H 9y ago|0 comments

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