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by gen220 4y ago
Postgres FDW [1] seems to me to be a crazy cool (i.e. unexpected and good) feature of Postgres, but I haven't seen much chatter about it on HN in the rdbms stories. Has anyone here used it? What is/was your experience like? [1]:
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by gen220 4y ago
I think this craft is well-documented in books, even if it's disappearing from common practice, no [1]? In general, I've found books are an underrated source of technical information like this. The library of congress is probably
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by gen220 4y ago
I think you could solve this with a `sale_id` for grouping transactions together, no? The benefit of row-level guarantees on balancing is considerable, even if it somewhat complicates the application layer (the layer that translates your fi
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by gen220 4y ago
The experimental directory of `beancount` has some code for converting beancount data structures into SQL structures [1]. You could also take a look at the data structures used by GNU Ledger (e.g. account [2]) and transcribe them to SQL. A
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by gen220 4y ago
If you type `exit`, it takes you the `welcome.htm` site! Looks like some geocities bootstrap skin.
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by gen220 4y ago
I think most people who use postgres in their personal projects have a snippet like one that they copy from project to project, I know I do. Curious to see others' scripts! Mine logs in as `postgres`, creates the database and extension
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by gen220 4y ago
I think it's that crack, porn, and painkillers are, to varying extents, counterculture or taboo. Whereas an "innocent" Candy Crush addiction is more socially acceptable. It's fun to speculate on why that's the case,
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by gen220 4y ago
Every "contract" language (e.g. .graphql) I've used so far has it's ups and downs. One that keeps biting us in GQL, for instance, is that it won't let you define a union type for mutation inputs, so you end up needi
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by gen220 4y ago
I think people dislike XML precisely because it's so flexible and unopinionated. It means that when you're parsing a new XML source, you have to look for data that might be encoded in two or three little niches. God help you if it
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by gen220 4y ago
The value vs volume is such an important insight. Facebook and Instagram know a lot about which cat memes my friends and I send back and forth to each other. In contrast, my RSS feed knows a lot about what content I think is valuable to c
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by gen220 4y ago
Hi Philip! I love the idea. I've thought about working on some similar project in the past, too. Just a feature suggestion, can you please make it easy for people to setup RSS feeds? Email-to-RSS solutions exist for technical people, b
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by gen220 4y ago
Not if you’re partially valuing your position in the stock as an option on that black swan event. If you think there’s a X% chance of this happening, and that this event will be the catalyst for intel’s value appreciating by Y% of TSMC’s ma
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by gen220 4y ago
In this instance, Google is freezing people below the Staff-Eng level who have already done their onsites.
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by gen220 4y ago
As far as I understand, the freeze is applying to standard SWE roles at levels below staff. If you're interviewing for something more specialized (security, sre, production engineering), the freeze may not apply to you. The hiring pipe
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by gen220 4y ago
Having a counter-cyclical business is helpful but not strictly necessary and actually not sufficient. What is actually most important are a long-term outlook, backing from shareholders to pursue anti-fragility at the cost of short-term grow
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by gen220 4y ago
I've had a timbuk2 (Spire, I think?) for 10 years, and it was my daily driver for maybe 8 years, on and off. It's a little visually obvious that I've used it for ten years (worn down in predictable spots) but it's struct
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by gen220 4y ago
Read this book for the first time a couple years ago (before COVID). My memory of it is admittedly hazy, but I recall it putting me in a pretty gloomy place, emotionally. The premise of the book is that technological progress coupled with o
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by gen220 4y ago
I get what you're saying, I just don't see how it's substantially different from Microsoft buying Bungie. And even if it's the same and we've decided we don't like that practice today (which I'm OK with!),
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by gen220 4y ago
I'm all for checks on abuses of power, but this particular deal didn't feel abusive to me, unless I'm missing something? The acquired company [0] appears to be a VR content+game studio, developing experiences for a variety of
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by gen220 4y ago
Sure, this is true for every abstraction: some are more air-tight or leaky than others, but IME Poetry and go mod are fairly solid. I haven’t had to use pip in a long time. Just like I haven’t had to use `go get` in a while. I mean it’s not
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by gen220 4y ago
Poetry requires pip in the way that `go mod` requires `go get`, i.e. Poetry allows one to operate at a higher level of abstraction, where it's harder to make mistakes and generally easier to manage your dependency tree.
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by gen220 4y ago
I guess this hangs on your definition of "came to America rich". America was a frontier, not the kind of place that rich people came to for fun, but the kind of place that people went to escape glass ceilings and exploit natural r
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by gen220 4y ago
Can you expand on "poor support for lots"? I maintain a ledger with GNU Ledger; until now, I'd assumed hledger and GNU Ledger were basically at feature parity. Can you not do something like this in hledger? 20 AAPL {$100.00}
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by gen220 4y ago
At least they offer OFX at all now... in the first few months, IIRC, they only supported PDF statements or something similarly difficult to work with. I'd love for "shortcuts" to include a statement hook. "Every month, c
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by gen220 4y ago
It depends on your definition of dynasty, but they absolutely did. Similar to the UK, most of these dynasties were based on real estate and failed to safeguard their wealth during the transition to the postindustrial era (post-civil war), u
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by gen220 4y ago
Web archive link: http://web.archive.org/web/20220714195035/https://www.nytime... The new 409A valuation is reportedly $74bn, down from last year's fundraising at $95bn.
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Stripe lowers internal valuation by 28%(nytimes.com)
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by gen220 4y ago
Paper available here: https://research.facebook.com/publications/owl-scale-and-fle... . Cool to get a peek at a large-scale CDN's implementation, even if it's an internal-facing CDN. Also of note was that thei
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Owl: Content Distribution at Meta(research.facebook.com)
1 points by gen220 4y ago|1 comments
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Intentional Design (and Complicated Systems)(seths.blog)
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