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by candu 5y ago
As stated in the post: these steps make complete sense if you're aiming for a nice, smooth zero-downtime transition from the old data model to the new. However, if you can get away with some downtime, you can instead notify your user
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by candu 5y ago
It's a fair remark, but like any large organization, government isn't this single homogenous entity: it's a collection of groups with imperfect communication and sometimes conflicting / separate goals. (That doesn'
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by candu 5y ago
IMHO if you want to understand what an effective response looks like - don't look at North America or Europe. Think Vietnam, Australia, New Zealand, and many parts of Africa, all of which had vastly better outcomes. Of course, I&#x2
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by candu 5y ago
Re: renaming tables - yay! It's essentially double-buffering for databases. I've used a slight variant of this in the past: I'll have a table (e.g. my_schema_new.my_table) that gets updated by an ETL pipeline. I'll the
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by candu 5y ago
Agree with others here that "web development" isn't quite as neatly bounded as "core computer science principles". That said, I'll add MDN Web Docs [1] to the pile of links here as a good resource for practical
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by candu 6y ago
YMMV, but I've also found that treating all side projects as potential businesses sort of...takes the intangible quality of magic / fun / joy out of those side projects for me. For OP: it's OK to not want to monetize e
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by candu 6y ago
> unless an alternative sargable predicate is too complex or not possible... As you note, functional indexes can sometimes be the best solution - some common examples: when working with different geospatial projections in PostGIS; when b
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by candu 6y ago
Actually, yes - you can find this and many other excellent historical medicine tidbits in Quackery [1] (and then be really, really grateful that both science and medicine have advanced significantly since we thought it was a good idea to, e
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by candu 6y ago
Personally, I dislike IKEA for registering as a non-profit, when they're very clearly not. To me, this belongs in the same bucket as any number of tax avoidance schemes that ensure wealthy individuals pay far lower tax rates than the
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by candu 6y ago
I don't have optimism about the diligence of politicians. I have optimism about (and direct experience with!) the diligence of the bureaucracy that advises those politicians, and that carries out the actual operation of policy, mainte
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by candu 6y ago
Thanks for posting authoritative sources! IMHO it's unfortunate when the kneejerk reaction to "governments / leaders do thing X" is "but did they think about obvious edge case Y!?" Yes, they thought about obvio
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by candu 6y ago
I was curious how realistic the advice to dress in your finest would be, so... In the US, at least, union wages would have brought in $20-30 or so per week. [1] Looking through [2], you could get a whole gentleman's outfit for roughly
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by candu 6y ago
It reminds me a lot of the excesses of software patents, many of which in effect say "it does (insert mundane thing X)...BUT WITH MORE TECHNOLOGY".
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by candu 6y ago
As far as a practice of mindful examination: yes, this makes sense. Examining your thoughts, and the spoken assertions of others, is valuable if only to train critical thinking. I do think it's possible to prize independence in this r
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by candu 6y ago
There's a fascinating study on orchestra auditions, where it was found that performing blind auditions (where the interviewee's identity is hidden to the interviewer) led to more equitable gender representation: https:/&#x2F
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by candu 6y ago
Exactly this. From one viewpoint, https://pad.riseup.net/ is just a worse version of Google Docs, and most people will never use it. From another, it's a vital service for preserving the anonymity and security of act
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by candu 6y ago
Yes - there is likely a "high-risk, high-reward" dynamic here, which is entirely consistent with both your and OP's descriptions: the long tail will toil uselessly, while the lucky few will a) discover that they were right ab
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by candu 6y ago
...yes? This is an automatable process these days, AWS / Amazon certainly have the resources to do it, and under many OSS licences it's a legal obligation to give attribution.
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by candu 6y ago
1. Yes, we will largely return to offices. Digital tools remain sub-par as replacements for direct human contact / communication, and that isn't likely to change soon. (Mayyyyyybe mixed reality will finally make a dent here, but
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by candu 6y ago
This is a deeply false equivalence. In the workplace, employees have (broadly speaking) a _legal_ right to be free from discrimination on the basis of protected grounds. If your boss (or their boss, or their boss, etc.) makes it clear they
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by candu 6y ago
Lots of competing opinions on what the big question in politics is, so I figured I'd add my own :) To me, the biggest question in politics is: how do we build political / societal systems whose impact on human society is consisten
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by candu 6y ago
Well, if you want to be _extremely rigorous_, there's always https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principia_Mathematica ;) Less flippantly: pedagogically, there's a big difference between "here's your addi
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by candu 6y ago
I've definitely repeated that line in the past to justify tech industry interviewing practices - but sometimes it goes beyond "setting a high bar" to something more toxic: an interviewer using the interview as a chance to sho
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by candu 6y ago
Assuming charitably for a moment that you're posting in good faith: if you're wondering why you're being downvoted, it's likely because these laws, their effects, and exceedingly strong evidence of racist intent behind t
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by candu 6y ago
One could extend that logic to argue that all package managers are red flags: after all, you're downloading third-party code from external servers; you just happen to be doing it ahead of time, rather than at runtime. In principle, the
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by candu 6y ago
OTOH, you end up with a great Shadowrun campaign hook generator?
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by candu 6y ago
That works in certain fields - for instance, many of us here on HN can indeed walk across the street and get a new job if our employers are teetering into miniature surveillance states. To be honest, though, the average worker doesn't
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by candu 6y ago
There are also practical reasons to stuff everyone in one box. With class sizes steadily growing, teachers are often stretched thin - from speaking with a few friends who happen to be teachers, they also often get lots of well-intentioned
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by candu 6y ago
Among HCI researchers and UX practitioners, it's well-understood [1] [2] that consistency and standardization in interfaces often improves user experience by helping users lean on pre-existing mental models. (That said, the question of
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by candu 6y ago
As a user, I'm all for browser choice in the abstract: it sounds like a good thing, but it doesn't often deliver me tangible benefits in usability, performance, etc. (And, to wit, the only real exceptions are when large organizat

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