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by bazoom42 3y ago
Yes but a rewrite by the same team who is unable to write mallable code will not sove this problem.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
It sounds like most of the application complexity was the UI layer? In a typical app, the UI is an interface to some functionality or business logic which is the actual value of the app. But if the application was something like a GUI build
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by bazoom42 3y ago
HN comments often complain about incompetent management, but in my experience these misguided rewrite-from-scratch projects are initiated by developers who want to explore some new framework or platform, or who just think green-field devel
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by bazoom42 3y ago
Why can’t the existing code just be adapted to the new requirement? Code is supposed to be mallable. But perhaps the code was designed too rigid to support changing requirements. In that case you will have exactly the same problem after the
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by bazoom42 3y ago
Copying text verbatim is copyrigt violation. Plagiarism (copying ideas) is a different issue and much more of a gray zone. In general ideas are not protected, but it can be prosecuted in blatant cases. The described case seem to be a bit of
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by bazoom42 3y ago
Yes, you can definitely lose a lawsuit for plagiarism if you write material too close to the original inspiration, e.g same universe and characters.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
Their first product was a programming language for a hobbyist computer.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
What is degrading about that? Would you rather sit in meetings than develop?
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by bazoom42 3y ago
I belive in using the right tool for the job, and this might somtimes be document databases, key-value stores, xml or json values or whatever is needed to solve the problem. But let me point out that hierachical databases (which document da
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by bazoom42 3y ago
For example Date redefines first normal form to allow nested tables, while in Codds paper it is defined as eliminating nested tables. Why don’t they just give their concept a different name then? It just creates confusion.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
> I think most of the motivation for normal forms is to avoid 'update anomalies', which is essentially, don't represent the same information in two places This is true for the second and higher normal forms, but not for fi
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by bazoom42 3y ago
The motivation behind first normal form is to keep the query language simple and powerful at the same time. Allowing nested tables would require extensions to the query language but wouldn’t give any additional expressive power since you ca
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by bazoom42 3y ago
> No one has provided convincing evidence that Codd intended to exclude nested tables entirely. See Codds original paper (linked in a sibling comment) section 1.4. Note that the relational algebra developed by Codd does not support query
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by bazoom42 3y ago
When in doubt, check the primary source: https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~zives/03f/cis550/codd.pdf See section 1.4 about eliminating “non-simple domains” (which means nested tables) through a process of normaliza
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by bazoom42 3y ago
No, he explicitly disallows nested relations. This is the definition of first normal form. Hierarchical databases (which predate relational) can be understood as nested relations, and Codds first example of normalization is how to extract t
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by bazoom42 3y ago
What principles are you talking about then?
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by bazoom42 3y ago
A relation is by definition a set of tuples (informally called a table where the tuples are the rows). Codds relational database model adds the further constraint that nested tables are not allowed (first normal form), instead representing
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by bazoom42 3y ago
Interesting move, but I think a likely outcome is that nothing happens. In theory other publishers like Marvel are now able to publish Fables content, but why would they? They have their own IP.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
Both functions take an order and return a pizza. This seem perfect for testing. Why would you care where the oven comes from, if the function deliver perfectly baked pizza? A unit test should test against the public interface and not be cou
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by bazoom42 3y ago
> its also the source of bigotry, suffering and death for thousands of people But are you afraid reading it will turn you into a murderous bigot?
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by bazoom42 3y ago
> VB(.NET) is terrible for large or complex systems. C# and VB.net are semantically 100% identical. Only difference is surface syntax, like begin end instead of curly braces. It scales exactly as well as C#.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
The article states: > Project 100,000 soldiers saw combat at a rate nearly twice as high as other soldiers and were killed at a rate three times as high.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
The web happened. VB was great for builing stand alone desktop applications, possibly with database integration. But they never managed to deliver a similar slick and self-contained solution for building web-based solutions. It didn’t help
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by bazoom42 3y ago
Typescript has conditional types, which means it can be used as a programming language itself. In theory you can write any arbitrary program - game of life is just an example. You have to define numbers and arithmetics from scratch though,
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by bazoom42 3y ago
I’m surprised this rethorical trick is so hard to recognize. It is as old as the hills and you will hear it from people from conspiracy nuts to priests, salesmen to politicians. So it is a good thing to understand and be aware of. The crux
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by bazoom42 3y ago
It suggests they are reacting negatively because they are in a cult.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
> I'm sure my comment will trigger negatively a ton of developers, because talking about JS like this it's going to feel like I've insulted a cult. Just FYI this line of argument is called “poisoning the well”. Definition
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by bazoom42 3y ago
Historically, census was typically done for taxation purposes. Kids, homeless etc was just not that relevant since households were taxed. Slaves counted as property, not persons.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
Doesn’t “well-written” imply “good”? Or is there a nuance I’m missing?
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by bazoom42 3y ago
Since English intellectuals at the time included both Orwell and TS Eliot (and I suppose Tolkien and Chesterton and Aleister Crowley) is it really fair to paint them with such a broad brush?

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