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by dventimi 4y ago
I'd settle for him never having been President.
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by dventimi 4y ago
If there was inflation crisis, it was probably less of a crisis than was reported at the time. At the time, the annual average inflation rate was reported to be 13%. In hindsight, it was probably more like 10%.
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by dventimi 4y ago
There's no such thing as an unambiguous policy win. All public policies have winners and losers, and every public policy has alternatives. I would give a very poor evaluation to any economics professor who seemed not to understand thos
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by dventimi 4y ago
Considered an appropriate choice by whom?
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by dventimi 4y ago
Everybody dies.
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by dventimi 4y ago
Perhaps you're joking, but I'm not. The personal computer revolution began in earnest with the Apple II in 1977, joined by the Commodore 64 in 1982. Gen-X boys shoved Gen-X girls aside, shoved the computers into their bedrooms, an
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by dventimi 4y ago
I blame the Apple II computer.
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by dventimi 4y ago
Evidently DO is doing layoffs and their support may be suffering for it. So there's that.
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by dventimi 4y ago
Nobody knows future cash flows.
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by dventimi 4y ago
> tech companies which make most of their profits in the future Nobody can predict the future, not even you.
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by dventimi 5y ago
This looks pretty great! Do you have any sense of its performance? Very roughly, what kind of latency can one expect over, say, 1M, 10M, or 100M vectors? Ballpark: milliseconds, seconds, days?
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by dventimi 6y ago
Many commentators seem to be getting hung up on "stored procedures." That's understandable given the title of the original post, but it's also unfortunate because it mixes independent concerns: business-logic in the da
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by dventimi 6y ago
I once replaced a Hadoop ETL process that took several hours with a GNU Make ETL process that took several tens of minutes and loaded well more than 1.4GB of data, at a company that shall not be named. Its Java developers working on Window
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by dventimi 6y ago
Buzz Aldrin took a more direct approach with skeptics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrtye8nhC30
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by dventimi 7y ago
Don't bother. https://hasura.io/ https://www.graphile.org/postgraphile/ https://www.prisma.io/
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by dventimi 7y ago
> You and I didn't earn it. Speak for yourself.
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by dventimi 7y ago
Hire database developers.
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by dventimi 7y ago
Personally, I would prefer that the allocation of the nation's (or the world's) wealth be assigned to the democratic process, rather than to the whims of a few people, irrespective of how wise and noble they are or aren't. H
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by dventimi 7y ago
If we're indulging in idle speculation, then here's my contribution. I think Lisp failed for the same reason that ORMs exist, and to be even more provocative, for the same reason that women are underrepresented in programming: the
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by dventimi 11y ago
First, what Thiel is trying to do (which neither of us will know for sure) is irrelevant to the question of what other approaches we might adopt for answering variations on the question, "How has the pace of technological development c
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by dventimi 11y ago
As an alternative to the subjective impressions of Peter Thiel or of people here, perhaps we could adopt a more objective approach, relying on empirical evidence. I propose looking at productivity growth: https://en.wikipedia.o
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by dventimi 12y ago
I'd choose "Door No. 3": neither C# nor stored procedures, but declarative db business rules using appropriate data types, constraints, default values, views, access controls, and triggers.
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by dventimi 12y ago
Here's a question. WHY do we even bother with ORMs? Put another way, what problem are they trying to solve?
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by dventimi 12y ago
I disagree slightly about working at a services company like McKinsey. Much of what he writes is true, of course. However, life is about trade-offs and one of the benefits of a services company is broad exposure to many clients facing man
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by dventimi 12y ago
Oh, God. Trust me, the swiftness or tardiness with which insurance companies replace their Guidewire stack will have nothing whatsoever to with Gosu.
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by dventimi 12y ago
The question as asked is too much like, "When did you stop beating your wife?" It presupposes something that isn't necessarily true. More concretely, it doesn't establish how it came to the conclusion that "America
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by dventimi 12y ago
> Another in the long line of languages that are created to solve a problem that doesn't exist. I assure you that the problems Gosu was created to solve did indeed exist at the time that it was created. > Even worse, created as a
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by dventimi 12y ago
'ctrl-r' is bound to isearch-backward in my Emacs. 'meta-r' is bound to comint-history-isearch-backward-regexp
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by dventimi 13y ago
From what I can tell (I could be wrong), Meteor has templates (view layer) that are reactive to data model changes. Espresso on the other hand both doesn't seem to impose a view layer but also introduces reactivity WITHIN the data mod
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by dventimi 13y ago
The author lost me when the article demoted astronomy away from being a science.

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