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by eirikbakke 3y ago
Dedicated separator characters don't solve the problem--you'd still need to escape them. Or validate that the data (which may come from untrusted web forms etc.) does not contain them, which means you have another error condition
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by eirikbakke 3y ago
The great thing about comma as a field separator is (1) the character is visible and (2) the character is common, so if there are escaping bugs in either the generator or the parser, they will quickly become apparent. Much better to fail fa
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by eirikbakke 3y ago
I had a fun time generalizing sticky headings so they work for forms and nested tables: https://vimeo.com/566181649 . Though that was in a Java app.
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by eirikbakke 3y ago
The legal concept is called "Apparent authority". The test is whether "a reasonable third party would understand that an agent had authority to act". ("Chatbot says you can submit a form within 90 days to get a retr
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by eirikbakke 3y ago
When I ordered an official PDF copy of my college diploma, the order form had an option to enable "tracking" in the PDF file. Sure enough, when the recipient opened the PDF file (and when I tried it myself on a different machine),
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by eirikbakke 3y ago
For some AWS services, such as Elastic Beanstalk, there appears to be no way to avoid consuming a public IPv4 address on the EC2 instances, except by introducing a NAT gateway. (And "NAT gateways are an extremely cost prohibitive devic
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by eirikbakke 3y ago
Bug report: Typing Oslo, Bergen, or Trondheim shows "Bouvet Island" instead of "Norway". (Bouvet Island, while Norwegian territory, is an uninhabited arctic island.)
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by eirikbakke 3y ago
You can edit data in existing tables, but there is not yet a "Create Table" action. In fact, Ultorg does not currently host any data at all; it is all assumed to be existing in an external data source. So for now I'd recommen
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by eirikbakke 3y ago
> Question: Do you plan to implement valuable enhancements over the coming years Yes, absolutely. The current release marks the productization of a long backlog of features that were previously developed only to the prototype stage--due
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by eirikbakke 3y ago
Ultorg has a bundled internal PostgreSQL database that is used for query execution over Excel/GSheets/CSV/MS Access sources. The tables are automatically dumped into PostgreSQL in an efficient manner when necessary. If you hi
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by eirikbakke 3y ago
Thank you for your thoughtful comment! I always thought of relational databases as a tool for businesses; normally we don't need them as individuals--except perhaps when planning a wedding! Thus the pricing is targeted for businesses a
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by eirikbakke 3y ago
Looking at IntelliJ Ultimate, they do $599 for the first year, $479 for the second, $359 for the third and onwards. But then they have a "perpetual fallback license"... so I assume many people will buy just the first year and then
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by eirikbakke 3y ago
It's Swing--same as IntelliJ.
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by eirikbakke 3y ago
A friend on Hackernews! Thanks!! Kriti also has a wonderful project in this space, which is non-commercial and organized as a 501(c)(3): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34999774
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by eirikbakke 3y ago
Founder here. I launched Ultorg a few days ago, so I still haven't quite figured out if there ought to be a free or reduced-functionality tier yet. There was a big "The fallacy of freemium in SaaS" post from another founder a
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by eirikbakke 3y ago
Ultorg founder here. Traditional BI tools work like an Excel pivot table: Put some fields on the X axis, some fields on the Y axis, and get an aggregation or visualization in the middle. The input is always a single table (or, if you have m
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by eirikbakke 3y ago
"Types and Programming Languages" by Benjamin C. Pierce is a good textbook that covers this kind of stuff.
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by eirikbakke 3y ago
Exactly. In the words of Mike Stonebraker, "stake out a controversial claim and prove it true" is pretty standard career advice for junior faculty who are trying to get tenure. (At least in Computer Science.)
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by eirikbakke 3y ago
Whether you're playing by ear or by sight, having the current scale baked into muscle memory makes it a lot easier to hit the right next note on the first attempt. Otherwise you'll be frequently off by a semitone, or end up using
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by eirikbakke 4y ago
Switching from brewing to steaming takes about 4 minutes on a single-boiler Rancilio, during which I can prepare the rest of the breakfast or empty the dishwasher. For home use, this is very practical. Besides, a single boiler means less wo
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by eirikbakke 4y ago
Products like Microsoft Office, OneDrive, and Exchange are commoditized--their price has been driven down, over many years, by competition, and profit happens only at volume. So these products can't really follow the "value-based
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by eirikbakke 4y ago
That logic will indeed get you into the elevator faster, though.
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by eirikbakke 4y ago
This is exactly my use case for SumatraPDF as well; seamlessly refresh a PDF that's been regenerated from LaTeX.
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by eirikbakke 4y ago
> Decreasing dynamic range, increasing the contrast, is trivial. How would I do this on MacOS or Windows? Most people have one adjustment easily available--the screen brightness setting. This setting can decrease the contrast of pure bla
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by eirikbakke 4y ago
It's a lot easier for the user to reduce contrast than to increase it.
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by eirikbakke 4y ago
I think the designers are coming from the CMYK world of newspaper printing and such, where, due to alignment issues, text must be printed using a separate black ink ("K" black) even though it could theoretically be produced by mix
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by eirikbakke 4y ago
This completely depends on the reader's lighting conditions and time of day. If I'm sitting on my laptop in daylight, outdoors or in a room with large windows, I'd really like to max out the contrast while reading. Later in t
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by eirikbakke 4y ago
There's "overhead" in every profession: time spent in cars and airports, time spent in boring meetings, time spent writing grant proposals, time spent on the day job while auditioning, etc. If you can spend 20 hours per week
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by eirikbakke 4y ago
Another shameless plug, then: https://www.ultorg.com This one is another desktop app, with a slightly different approach: in the CSV file case, the data is parsed and dumped into a bundled PostgreSQL database, which you can then
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by eirikbakke 4y ago
There's been a lot of cosmetic improvements in NetBeans in the last few releases, including this latest one. In particular, a while back the default look & feel was switched to FlatLAF ( https://www.formdev.com/flat

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