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by LeonB 3y ago
I believe you, but it’s just incredibly naive. If “all things were equal” and there were no assumptions and we were all starting at an equal position there “may” be some merit in this position. But that’s just… nothing, absolutely nothing,
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by LeonB 3y ago
Vat is irredeemably regressive. I suspect you know that. Income tax fails in its progressive goals not because it is inherently bad (like VAT) but because the tax laws are written by the richest players. (Ask a poor person how much influenc
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by LeonB 3y ago
Imagine if — on top of that - we let the undeserving rich invest their wealth in things such as: - owning media - lobbying the government - owning the means of production It could take that dire situation and make it drastically worse. I me
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by LeonB 3y ago
(I just noticed that I emitted the word “iniquitie” above, where I thought I’d written “uniquifier” — and have just confirmed that autocorrect was responsible. Strangely, in context, the word “iniquitie” sort of “appears” to be an appropria
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by LeonB 3y ago
Given the explanation above, it would need to be a funnel that is cheaper than paint. If the analysis above Is accurate (I can’t vouch for it either way) then it’s hard to imagine a material strong enough at such a low price point. It’s pos
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by LeonB 3y ago
I was really thrown by this parenthetical > and analyzing the shortcomings like storage, which haven gotten better since ~2009 But then realised: it makes no sense. You’ve written “haven” — and I can’t tell if you meant to type “have” or
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by LeonB 3y ago
I have had it happen in real data from real systems - but it’s not good — “true duplicates” are a sign that something is missing from your schema or something has gone wrong earlier in the pipeline. Trying to delete duplicates (but leave 1
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by LeonB 3y ago
I remember casting some types to varbinary and then using fn_repl_hash_binary() to generate the hashes. And by “remember” I mean I wrote it down here so that I wouldn’t have to - https://til.secretgeek.net/sql_server/bu
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by LeonB 3y ago
I’ve worked on tools for this a bunch of times and one particular instance was my favorite. Checksums were used for equivalence - but the real fun was in displaying the differences in a meaningful way. We’d show: - which columns were only i
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by LeonB 3y ago
I found that a weird edge case for the original author to fixate on. In mathematics or academia sure, but in “real” sql tables, that serve any kind of purpose, duplicate rows are not something you need to support, let alone go to twice th
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by LeonB 3y ago
If you have a customer who pays more than 50% of your income that’s not a customer that’s a controlling interest. Track record shows the relationship looks the way google wants it to look and behaves the way google wants it to behave.
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by LeonB 3y ago
Aww, I remember SpaceMonger. I’d guess that I found it from a Scott Hanselman recommendation. I switched to “SpaceSniffer” at some point, quite similar a bit more polished. There’s probably a newer/better one now. SpaceSniffer still su
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by LeonB 3y ago
I found in integration/warehousing that if a source system “suddenly” has a new column — it’s best if we can automatically just bring it in. We would tend to do this in a way that it can’t break the warehouse, doesn’t affect people do
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by LeonB 3y ago
The Quine Programming Language is a language for writing quines, or rather, one specific quine. The language has 5 tokens - q,u,i,n,e with specific meanings, and whitespace is significant: there must be none. There is a compiler, which emit
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Show HN: The Quine Programming Language(github.com)
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by LeonB 3y ago
I maintained a POS for a large retail chain - and the variety of transactions that it could handle was far narrower and less subtle than the type of trades that I witnessed working at a weekend open air market. At the market there was all s
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by LeonB 3y ago
Real answer: that’s what the client wanted. > why bother showing the light at all? Probably so that the operator can more easily find the suspended sale in order to resume it. Suspend / resume happens rarely enough that operators ar
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by LeonB 3y ago
I maintained a POS for a retail chain for a few years. Our suspend/resume sale feature assumed that a suspended sale could only be resumed on the machine that suspended it. Then we had to change it to be resumable on any machine in the
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by LeonB 3y ago
A content management system where the content is stored in flat-files like csv. You know, like dos-on-dope - https://github.com/secretGeek/dod
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by LeonB 3y ago
Someone reading the code should also be capable of understanding the problem that it solves and documenting the use of the code. If your code is fairly well written, I mean.
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by LeonB 3y ago
This keeps happening
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by LeonB 3y ago
https://secretgeek.net/
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by LeonB 3y ago
Others have mentioned the mom test - I would like to mention Amy Hoy, “stacking the bricks” and in particular “the sales safari” method of qualitative research that she’s devised. Some further reading/viewing on it here - https:/
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by LeonB 3y ago
Yeh - it’s a bit of a slow boiler that one. Takes, what, 379 pages to establish that 1 + 1 = 2. Still, Orwell took longer to arrive at 2 + 2 = 5. (Edited to include actual page number since you linked directly to it above, thank you!!)
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by LeonB 3y ago
Also notable for its absence was any link to "the cube rule" of food identification, which is, I believe a vital work in this field: https://cuberule.com/
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by LeonB 3y ago
Interesting article, from my pov anyway. The argument put forward is a little like those between "descriptivists" and "prescriptivists" in the realm of grammar arguments. I was expecting to see this Alfred North Whitehea
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by LeonB 3y ago
I’m now very self conscious of using the word “spruik” (a feature of Australian culture is that we look down on Australian culture… this is called our “cultural-cringe”) - and just saw “spruik” used in a headline in an Australian news story
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by LeonB 3y ago
Well done. And I am Australian.
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by LeonB 3y ago
I used to use gitbook to generate til.secretGeek.net but it got slower and slower over time, would take 45 mins to build the site… and then the parts I was using were either deprecated or made “premium” - something happened. The “enshittifi
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by LeonB 3y ago
Very nice … will see what I can snaffle for adding to this list: https://github.com/secretGeek/AwesomeCSV (With credit of course, if I do so.)

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