geophile

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by geophile 5y ago
This article seems quite off. First, it conflates browser and desktop. Yes, applets died an early and deserved death. That is different from what happened with desktop apps. A univeral GUI (e.g. Swing) was wrong-headed. I don't actuall
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by geophile 5y ago
I loved SNOBOL4 by Griswold, Paige and Polonsky. Weird language, beautiful book.
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by geophile 5y ago
No, you can't do better than SQL. "Better" must include both compatibility and maturity, and any SQL alternative cannot have either. (Maturity will require a very long time, and compatibility will prevent the alternative lang
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by geophile 5y ago
Can you provide some examples?
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by geophile 5y ago
It's been a while since I read the book, but I don't recall any scientific basis at all. Pure hoverboard.
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by geophile 5y ago
Absolutely. It is hard for me to believe that Holmes didn't intentionally seek out powerful, influential yet clueless men. The fact that she had connections to them certainly made things simpler. I remember first hearing about Theranos
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by geophile 5y ago
I think there is a pretty sharp line separating what Holmes tried, and what legitimate startups do. What she claimed had no basis in reality. It's Borat trying to patent a hoverboard, just like in Back to the Future, and telling the VC
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by geophile 5y ago
And then there’s this: https://web.archive.org/web/20050721081251/http://www.refere...
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by geophile 5y ago
Doing well on the Jepsen tests is a very good sign. But it isn't anywhere near enough. Other things to consider: - The product has bugs not addressed by Jepsen. - Performance is inadequate. - The optimizer is immature, and you find you
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by geophile 5y ago
Having been in or associated with many database startups, I would not invest in one. You need to evangelize a product on which the life of someone’s project or company depends. in such a situation, you want boring technology that just works
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by geophile 5y ago
Yes, exactly. A number of newer shells take this approach. The one I wrote pipes File objects out of its ls command: https://marceltheshell.org
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by geophile 5y ago
I've been in this situation (acquisition 2, below). You will eventually move on to another small company. Acquisition 1: This was a quite insane dotcom acquisition. The VP Marketing loved us and bought us. The VP Engineering hated us,
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by geophile 5y ago
Check out marcel: https://marceltheshell.org . This is a bash-like shell that pipes Python values, and you can write Python functions on the command line. It also has a Python API (a marcel module) that allows you to shell out fa
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by geophile 5y ago
All good, but it took a while, and I think he got the ex-partner to pay his legal fees. The local DA said that a prosecution was unlikely though. Revenge would have been nice.
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by geophile 5y ago
I think a lot of comments here assume that the screen is going away completely. But I think it might be saying that the screen will still be there, controllable with the joystick. But that would still seem to require some silicon, no?
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by geophile 5y ago
DocuSign is obviously crap. When I first encountered it, I couldn’t believe that anyone took it seriously. The only security is that you got the document at your email address. My brother was scammed as a result of this lax security. A croo
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by geophile 5y ago
I refer to my cat as Feline in Residence .
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by geophile 5y ago
Variation: The "VC pet" (love that term) steals an idea. That's how care.com started: http://archive.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2009/...
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by geophile 5y ago
I hear what you're saying, but I think you've drawn the wrong conclusion, from OPs story, and your experience having drinks with clients. OP blew up in his interview and got to the truth. But really, what he shouted when out of co
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by geophile 5y ago
Try to overthrow the government: Harsh prison sentence measured in weeks. Non-violent drug offense: Years in prison.
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by geophile 5y ago
This exact debate took place in the early 70s. There were three major database models: relational, network, and hierarchical. Network and hierarchical had quite a bit of success, technically and as businesses. IMS was (is?) an IBM product b
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by geophile 5y ago
They work for a very specific use case. And if you need to expand that use case, or address others, good luck. Relational database systems are complicated for good reasons. Schemas, which do cause problems, are there for good reasons, and t
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by geophile 5y ago
Of course there is value in revisiting a problem. But you should know that you're doing it, and be able to say how your work relates to the earlier work. (Not denying that reimplementing things can be fun ...)
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by geophile 5y ago
> One downside of both hierarchical and network (graph) models that is not mentioned either in the post or parent comment is, "access path dependence". Network model allows multiple paths but basically just forestalls the issue
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by geophile 5y ago
Lived it. I remember taking my first course on databases, in 1977, and feeling like I was hopelessly and permanently behind because it had been seven years since Codd's paper. I taught an intro database course recently, and only touc
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by geophile 5y ago
The question conflates representation and presentation. To be concrete, let's suppose we're talking about 5-digit, zero-padded numbers. Those are integers in the range [0, 99999]. Any database system will allow you to model this v
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by geophile 5y ago
Have you met COVID?
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by geophile 5y ago
Z-order does this easily, just index on (x, y, t). I wouldn't recommend it for more than maybe 4-6 dimensions though.
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by geophile 5y ago
I think this statement has been true since about 2014. Structs are nice, as they allow for control over locality, to a degree that is simply not possible in Java currently. But there is a second effect, which is possibly more important: If
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by geophile 5y ago
Don't use a mic. For external audio, I use bluetooth.

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