abraxas

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by abraxas 6y ago
I'm making no statements about ORMs. I'm just picking apart the mindless "SQL is the bee's knees" mantra so prevalent on HN.
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by abraxas 6y ago
I think SQL gets a lot of undeserved praise that I’m having a difficult time understanding. The only impressive thing about SQL is its prevalence but that’s a pretty poor yardstick unless one thinks that an appeal to popularity is an indica
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by abraxas 6y ago
I want to live in that world again. It ended for me about 19 years ago when I left my last "desktop software" job. How do you manage to avoid "web stacks" in this day and age?
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by abraxas 6y ago
Well, the robber barons of the 19th century used to buy up the local press. The 21st century ones are going planet scale.
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by abraxas 6y ago
This is an amazing board because among other things it lets you add an NVMe drive making the Pi4 a perfectly reasonable computer for day-to-day tasks that don't push the graphics too hard.
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by abraxas 6y ago
I don't think you experienced NodeJS development. There isn't a built in collections library. They all had to import a string leftpad function which then broke half of the world when it was pulled from their repository by the orig
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by abraxas 6y ago
And just like mold this expansion will continue until we hit resource limits and then it's colony collapse.
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by abraxas 6y ago
Is there a Linux distribution for it? Because I'm not putting up with Windows.
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by abraxas 6y ago
is that stuff like Presto?
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by abraxas 6y ago
The trouble for newcomers starts at _which_ framework to hang your hat on. Unless that decision has been made for you by your employer choosing between, Vue, React, Svelte, Alpine, Angular or some additional ankle biters is overwhelming. Wh
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by abraxas 6y ago
Your answer makes a lot of sense. I think you've made the right compromise.
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by abraxas 6y ago
My last job did not use maven. We checked in the required jars into the repo and everyone cloned their copies from there. Builds took seconds and were always predictable. My current job uses maven and I'd swear a good 20-30% of develop
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by abraxas 6y ago
If you think one gets to know React or Angular because one can follow a "Getting Started" tutorial for a couple of hours and get it to show an example page then you're in Dunning Kruger territory.
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by abraxas 6y ago
I’m going to personally flog any researcher who titles their next paper “Predictive Coding Is All You Need”. You’ve been warned.
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by abraxas 6y ago
Jony just parroted what Microsoft had been doing a couple years prior. We can once again blame Redmond for awfulness that somehow the rest of the industry found very endearing. I'll never understand why.
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by abraxas 6y ago
I don’t think it’s a good language as the first programming language tbh. Way too many gotchas owing to its early design decisions. Python or even Java are much more accessible IMO.
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by abraxas 6y ago
Depends if they know any other programming language. As a programmer coming from another language I found the course by Mosh is really good. Also I think the web dev simplified YouTube channel is a good resource.
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by abraxas 6y ago
Your site is brilliant and works really well. I’m also going to check out your YouTube channel.
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by abraxas 6y ago
There absolutely was a remote part to most VB6 apps. Usually they fetched data from some MS flavour of a RDBMS. Of course they were desktop apps and had to be installed individually but this “webify everything” mania seems to have smothered
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by abraxas 6y ago
Immediately it’s the sleep deprivation which is basically a form of torture, remember. Then there are anxieties about their well being and their health on occasion. Later in teenage years about how they are starting to run their own lives a
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by abraxas 6y ago
Some of those dudes (eg MMM) do go without health insurance. Personally I think they are nuts unless they are OK to pack it in the moment their appendix bursts.
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by abraxas 6y ago
That’s just one dimension of it. If I’m a mega live streamer I can be servicing millions of viewers all at once. As a dentist I’m most likely to be serving 1.
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by abraxas 6y ago
Youtubers are from extremistan but dentists are from mediocristan[1] The distribution of outcomes in the two job categories is a different curve with Youtuber jobs having a very strong “winner take all” inclination. The problem with any pr
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by abraxas 6y ago
It was the first assembler that I learned and thus have a big soft spot for it. But I never actually owned a 6502 based computer. My first machine was a Z80 based ZX Spectrum. Personally I think the 6502/6522 architecture is about the
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by abraxas 6y ago
It's in the middle of the book and is a very important spoiler. You very much summarized the first half of the book.
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by abraxas 6y ago
And you spoiled an excellent book for others on the site, why?
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by abraxas 6y ago
Not familiar with the term. I'll read up on it.
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by abraxas 6y ago
I always wondered if we could achieve greater success in server hardware by having boards with truly massive numbers of tiny CPUs all with their own RAM and maybe even individual storage. Since most web apps are very simple at an individual
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by abraxas 6y ago
What killed of Microsoft's near hegemony on all personal computing was them losing the mobile wars. Until then they had a total dominance over the browser. IIRC IE6 had more than 90% market share some of which competed with older versi
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by abraxas 6y ago
JS before V8 was painfully slow. But yeah the startup times of Applets were an issue on a whole another level. I'm glad we have WASM now so maybe powerful and clean languages for coding web UI will be in our future.

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