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by bjarneh 5y ago
> Today economists call this phenomenon “Baumol's cost disease,” I love that economist call rising wages a disease ; I hope they never catch it.
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by bjarneh 5y ago
> but to analyze a query plan directly What query plan? The one belonging to the auto-generated SQL? Then fiddle with Malloy in hopes of it writing better SQL to avoid the bottlenecks?
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by bjarneh 5y ago
> SQL is complete but ugly All these languages that compile to SQL seem to forget one fundamental problem, when this stuff fails (queries becomes slow etc). We are left to debug auto-generated SQL, which is a complete nightmare..
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by bjarneh 5y ago
You can do similarly in Apache with the Perl sections... <Perl> # dynamic perl config goes here.. </Perl>
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by bjarneh 5y ago
> but they don't have a $250k mask lab to make sure the fabric is good Hard to argue against that, but on HN I'm sure someone's gonna try :-)
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by bjarneh 5y ago
> Everyone knew this was going to happen as soon as the sale was announced. At least I feared this would happen; sad to see how it all went downhill. To be honest I think the brand still sells products based on that feeling you got when
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by bjarneh 5y ago
That's nuts. Is that the official policy? Here in Norway, a laptop would have a 5 year "reklamasjon" (not 100% sure what that translates to in English). Perhaps "forced warranty" would be my best translation. It bas
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by bjarneh 5y ago
Yes, but they really shouldn't have touched the original design; it was just right. I haven't seen those later models in person, but when I worked as a consultant 16 years ago in Oslo, we had 2 guys in my company that lugged that
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by bjarneh 5y ago
The corner cutting seems to have started the moment IBM sold ThinkPad to Lenovo. The fact that ThinkPad used to sell laptop keyboards for desktop use, says it all: http://www.notebookreview.com/picture/?f=48072 It didn
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by bjarneh 5y ago
> That's the good part - it's possible, and it's serviceable. Agreed. The way things are constructed now (cell phones are of course 10 times worse), where everything is glued in place in order to break if anyone tries to r
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by bjarneh 5y ago
True; I just feel that most titles are a bit exaggerated these days to sound more sensational then they really are. If I were to write a book, I'd gladly use an old ThinkPad due to the nice keyboard. But I hope I don't write a blo
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by bjarneh 5y ago
After upgrading the display, CPU, disk, RAM, fan, battery it's a bit click-baity to say you've gone back to a 2012 ThinkPad - but interesting read non the less. What surprised me the most is that Lenovo ships something as annoying
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by bjarneh 5y ago
It's even more obvious when it's the other way around; i.e. movies that criticize them have to create war scenes without the all the free fighter jets and Apache helicopters. One of the worst (war) movie scenes in history have to
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by bjarneh 5y ago
Q10 is such a great the device; BB10 OS was something special. Sad that BlackBerry never realized that the only way to become dominant when you have superior technology is to open it up, and give it away; at least if that is what your compe
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by bjarneh 5y ago
> rather than the actual meat of the content To be fair, there isn't much "meat" in that article, it's mainly about the price - and I guess most would agree that when we hear the word "fraction" used like th
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by bjarneh 5y ago
> We were not aware how many different governmental agencies exist and how many of them have a need to protect data Hmm :-)
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by bjarneh 5y ago
Very good advice. I guess the "side effect" of using the same word everywhere is pointless in a technical context; nobody worries about their technical writings being "boring" or repetitive...
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by bjarneh 5y ago
I just took 2 flights yesterday. Not first class; but there was no major difference from before the pandemic apart from the mask, and much fewer passengers.
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by bjarneh 5y ago
Your mortgages are inflation adjusted? That's completely nuts, if you pay the interest only on your loan it keeps growing to reflect inflation; nice! :-) > my house has gone up in value by 100k since I bought it 18 months ago Yikes,
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by bjarneh 5y ago
I stand corrected; I just assumed they were, since others do and inflation has been reported as very low for the past 20 years. It's hard to imagine that housing could be part of this calculation the way the housing market in Norway ha
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by bjarneh 5y ago
> it is because housing is considered an investment Ok, perhaps that partly makes sense for people buying homes. But paying rent cannot possibly be considered an investment; unless you are trying to marry a landlord or something :-)
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by bjarneh 5y ago
Not sure how inflation is calculated globally; but where I live (Norway) we leave housing costs out of inflation. That always seemed very strange to me. Our main cost of living, (which has gone through the roof the last 25 years) is someho
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by bjarneh 5y ago
> It pretty much let everyone on the call know what they needed to do if they wanted a good raise. What did you tell them?
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by bjarneh 5y ago
> C++ has awful syntax full of footguns HN never stops delivering new funny insults about this language :-)
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by bjarneh 5y ago
> This is the DESQview/X File Manager. It's not very friendly (no drag-and-drop and double-clicking an executable opens it in a hex viewer instead of running it) but it has enough functionality to be usable. hex viewer :-)
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by bjarneh 5y ago
Well, if someone want to buy my doomed company; that's not all sad :-)
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by bjarneh 5y ago
> Selling out in other industries is looked down upon That is certainly true. When people have a ton of money and sell out for even more money, that's always somewhat looked down upon I guess? Either its Joe Rogan or Notch, it almos
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by bjarneh 5y ago
I guess you're right; just sounds so sad to sell a company just when things are looking good...
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by bjarneh 5y ago
True; but from what I've seen it seems most people who start businesses have a very hard time letting them go, even when they are doing badly; but I guess there are circumstances where it makes sense to sell out.
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by bjarneh 5y ago
Selling out is common; I just hope and think I would not do it, but who knows. I've never been in the position to sell out :-)

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