historyloop

6 ms·

31.
by historyloop 5y ago
It can be tricky in that fuzzing your program to discover race conditions seems to behave perfectly on one compilation target where these atomics are detected and reified, while you later discover on another platform surprisingly your app c
32.
by historyloop 5y ago
The gist of the article is that software projects have more ad-hoc decisions and more flexibility. This is due to the nature of software. To claim this as a justification that software engineering is not engineering seems rather shallow to
33.
by historyloop 5y ago
Standards can only happen when an industry has matured and moves slow enough for these standards not to be obsolete by next year. We have plenty of laws and standards regarding handling private information, payment systems, independent pen
34.
by historyloop 5y ago
Question: why do you claim EdgeDB is a "relational" database when you can't actually do relational algebra with it? How do you join? Materialized edges (i.e. what you call "links") are not part of any relational mod
35.
by historyloop 5y ago
> EdgeDB, a relational database with strongly typed schema Relational database without relational algebra wouldn't be useful, would it? So... uhmm. How do we join? There's no JOIN statement.
36.
by historyloop 5y ago
False dichotomy. Introverts on average took less of a hit, as they didn't see much change to their lives and many of them already had remote jobs they were able to keep during lockdowns. This doesn't mean they're loving it. W
37.
by historyloop 5y ago
It's interesting that you know SELECT being first is clunky, without understanding why. SELECT in SQL is clunky because it comes before FROM and JOIN. Do you see FROM or JOIN anywhere here? No. The collections you're selecting fro
38.
by historyloop 5y ago
Did the author forget that we had this entire "NoSQL" period that lasted well over a decade, where SQL was the worst thing ever, and everyone kept coming with the superior alternatives to SQL? What happened? What happened is many
39.
by historyloop 5y ago
SQL isn't immutable, it's always evolving. I find it awkward some of the arguments in the article read like "you couldn't do that before CTE was added". But it WAS added, so? If you want to fix SQL, contribute to th
40.
by historyloop 5y ago
We need to go back to fixed width all caps green text on black background for everything. Eventually blue text on black background, but that's as far as I want to go.
41.
by historyloop 5y ago
Black Widow is destroying opening expectations in cinemas as we speak. Barry Diller is clearly disillusioned with the process, this happens a lot with veterans. But there's a constant supply of wide-eyed youngsters to fill-in those pos