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by gregjor 2y ago
At best Musk suffers from adolescent delusions. At worst the Mars plan amounts to a stock pump and a way to stay in the headlines. The main takeaway from the media coverage of the imaginary Mars colony: the press seems too gullible and too
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by gregjor 2y ago
How will this hold companies accountable or change their screening process? Do you want your name on a site that “calls out” companies that didn’t respond to you? If you have the goal to get a job I don’t see how this helps. If you have the
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by gregjor 2y ago
The FAA gives reasons when it delays a launch. Musk/SpaceX playing fast and loose with the rules, from safety to noise to environmental damage, probably has something to do with it.
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by gregjor 2y ago
According to Apple [1], the M4 iPad Pro has the "world's most advanced display." Whether that makes it better than a MacBook Pro depends on what you mean by "better." You can find the specs and compare them, and the
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by gregjor 2y ago
Sure, that can happen. OP wrote “secure a good academic job.” But I think lazy and unprepared students stretching their adolescence out on their parent’s dime, or on loans they will struggle to repay, offers a better explanation overall. In
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by gregjor 2y ago
Possibly true, though too many separate studies and surveys show the inadequacies of American healthcare for me to dismiss them all. When I last lived in the USA my ACA premium (self-employed, two adults) started at $1,150/mo with $12,
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by gregjor 2y ago
At the university level you have tenured professors, who don’t need to secure a good academic job, and adjuncts, who do. I suppose some professors suffer from insecurity and make their classes difficult on purpose, but at the risk of failin
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by gregjor 2y ago
> In my state the wait is under 8 minutes for ER care. So, I can't relate. That statement doesn't match actual data about ER wait times, for example [1], [2], [3]. It seems anecdotal (one lucky visit) at best, and just made up
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by gregjor 2y ago
Not looking for favors or caring about your opinions. Oracle and SQL Server expertise would come in handy right now for a lot of people laid off and struggling to find jobs because they have narrow skills and ideas like you express. The ori
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by gregjor 2y ago
Look up Oracle sometime, and how entire enterprise applications get developed primarily in the database. Common with SQL Server and DB/2 as well.
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by gregjor 2y ago
Millions of Americans without medical insurance cannot get routine care. That can happen for a variety of reasons, but one of those reasons comes down to hospitals and clinics refusing to give non-emergency care for free. I don’t need to pr
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by gregjor 2y ago
Calling a very common software architecture a hack or “doing it wrong” demonstrates a lack of experience with large-scale database systems, or an inability to imagine other ways to develop software, or both.
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by gregjor 2y ago
You got lucky. US hospitals routinely turn people away for non-emergency conditions. That probably happens everywhere but I was only responding about US medical care. https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/obligat
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by gregjor 2y ago
You have not worked with enterprise systems, I gather. Putting business logic in the database engine makes sense sometimes for performance reasons. Even better, with stored procedures core business logic gets written once, not multiple time
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by gregjor 2y ago
Counter examples that don’t involve fraud, as you describe? Yes, many, but I don’t see any reason to try to refute the nonsense you posted.
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by gregjor 2y ago
github page with a custom domain
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by gregjor 2y ago
As a freelancer with years of experience taking over abandoned, failed, and partly-working projects I can offer some tips and point at some causes of failure. You can find competent freelancers and dev shops, and you can find incompetent de
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by gregjor 2y ago
Not true except for immediate emergency care. Many employers do not provide coverage. They skirt the law by employing people part-time (Walmart, Amazon) or as gig workers. Even if the law reads as you claim that doesn’t mean you can get car
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by gregjor 2y ago
If you aren’t rich you wait, or go to a country with affordable health care and pay out of pocket.
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by gregjor 2y ago
Matches my experience. As a self-employed person health insurance in the US costs more under ACA, and then many doctors, hospitals, and labs won’t accept the ACA coverage. My parents in America have Medicare plus a private “advantage” add-o
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by gregjor 2y ago
Same. Forced to get insurance through state exchange, premiums over $1,000/mo for two people. Very hard to find a doctor that accepted the insurance. And that was in a major US city. Every test and procedure requires a referral to a sp
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by gregjor 2y ago
I doubt this. I don’t have experience in India, but I have had lots of medical care in Thailand. Twice now Thai hospitals have found things that my US doctor and US imaging/diagnostic clinics missed. I can get MRI & CT immediately
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by gregjor 2y ago
You should talk to Chase Bank. They know who purchased the check and why payment got stopped.
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by gregjor 2y ago
My web site generated a few leads over the years (first post in 2007 I think) but not many, not enough for me to live on. I think a few high-profile people get sufficient leads from their web presence but most of us probably won’t. Anecdota
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by gregjor 2y ago
I suppose those of us who have used vi(m) and terminals and command-line tools for years or decades should welcome DHH. Better late than never! I had the good fortune to attend DHH introducing Rails at OSCON years ago. After he finished his
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by gregjor 2y ago
> A relation is an unordered set of tuples. SQL opts for an ordered list of tuples (a table) instead. SQL the language does not require or describe ordering in tables — that happens as a side-effect of the physical implementation. No one
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by gregjor 2y ago
An opportunity to engage in a useful discussion derailed by ad hominem and conflating things. SQL and the relational model (two different things) predate OOP and the need for ORMs (object-relational mappers) by one to two decades. It was
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by gregjor 2y ago
Nothing you wrote has anything to do with ORMs, the actual point of this thread. The shortcomings of SQL with respect to a pure relational model are well-known. For all practical purposes we have SQL. Almost everyone using a popular relatio
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by gregjor 2y ago
“Lonely” describes a subjective experience, not an attribute of a job or whether you work remotely or not.
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by gregjor 2y ago
SQL is a declarative language for working with relational databases. The concept of composability doesn’t apply. SQL does support code reuse and building layers of abstractions. If you only use SQL through an ORM you won’t get to use things

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