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by jarym 8y ago
Looking at these great PL* languages makes me wonder if it would be feasible to use something like GraalVM to write PL functions in R/Java/JS/etc. Oracle DB supports this already (it seems, I've not tried it): https:&#x
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by jarym 8y ago
Personally I love big screen phones - I don’t talk much on them but do use he web a lot so it makes sense. My mum thought only talks on her phone and she really likes something small and simple. We got her an SE to avoid going the Android r
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by jarym 8y ago
I really resonated with this article and didn’t find much to disagree with from my own personal experience. Thanks to the author for writing it.
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Equally, one could argue a 'good' developer would not in any way be put off by an example that demonstrated good security practice. And 'good' needs to be put in context: e.g. a 'good' hardware or kernel engine
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> Sometimes things get simplified in tutorials That’s putting it nicely. What’s happened is you’re showing users the wrong way to do something without it being explicitly clear to them. Then we wonder why people write crap code... My vie
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Very exciting stuff happening in the PG world. One of the items I'm watching is support for foreign keys in arrays - https://commitfest.postgresql.org/17/1252/ Author is currently stuck and I hope someone wi
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by jarym 8y ago
There are many fields where a formal education is quite important (e.g. Legal, Medical, etc.) But there's many more where the requirement to have a degree seems counter intuitive. Universities were about expanding and democratising lea
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by jarym 8y ago
Spin maybe... but they weren’t planning for the 10nm process CPUs to be delayed and they weren’t prepared for the increase in demand on the 14nm parts. Poor management decisions have collided here it would seem. Not the same as when a manuf
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Yes, this aspect of CORS is not nice. I've used https://github.com/jpillora/xdomain to get around this and thought it was a thoroughly excellent workaround. There are other libraries that do this too (and accordi
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Right, but that's not what this article (and several others I've seen) are doing - they are measuring the performance of some AI by putting on some unnecessary (and quite likely impossible) constraints on what it is supposed to be
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Predicting price means you’re predicting one variable with no idea of hot likely you are to be wrong and how wrong you’re likely to be and says nothing of where your expectations are for price to go after. It is semantically different to sa
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by jarym 8y ago
For example this blog post (not mine): http://jon.io/machine-beats-human-using-machine-learning-in-... Talks about the Mean Shift algorithm described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_shift
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Why does everyone naively try to predict price? No ‘traders’ are interested in predicting it - what traders do is identify good locations to enter or exit the market. I.e. places with defined risk where you will know if you’re wrong if it g
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by jarym 8y ago
It’s easy enough to add items into enums. But I agree - removing or renaming - safely - is an arse since you have to create a new enum, add it to every table with the old enum, update old to new column, drop enum, drop old columns, rename n
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by jarym 8y ago
I read the related article about Postgres SELECTs causing writes sometimes - I've used Postgres for years and never knew this! Anyway, I spend most of my time in the software world and occasionally have to setup hardware (or more commo
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by jarym 8y ago
Yep - once I got beyond 'EJBs' and other JavaEE stuff and eventually to Kotlin life has been a joy. Maven can be bewildering but to me that's the price of flexibility and I've learnt to deal with it. I love JavaScript t
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by jarym 8y ago
Some corporations derive a huge benefit from the gig economy - either as a central part of their business (Uber drivers) or enticing more customers from competitors (Amazon with great a delivery service). The losses on the gig worker (benef
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by jarym 8y ago
Security is hard. I’d take a commercial system that has years of history and that many major governments have rallied against (BES) over a home-grown system that obviously got tested in the field... and cost lives!
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I am fairly sure the 'secret' is One Rich A Called Larry Ellisson. Quite possibly in a knock-off suit provided by Hammer Industries...
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I dunno.. whenever I read ‘don’t do this in production’ I spend ages trying to really understand why - only when I feel I’ve got a real handle on what the pitfalls are would I go forward. I’ve done that ever since I started programming over
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by jarym 8y ago
There are two* UK government departments that are full of incompetent decision makers and absolutely no culture of common sense or doing the right thing: 1. The Home Office 2. HMRC (aka Her Majesty’s arseholes) This doesn’t surprise me. I h
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by jarym 8y ago
Maybe they should have used BBM/iMessage/WhatsApp - all the civilian gear governments are screaming they need backdoors into because they’re too tough to crack... Yes I say this partly in jest and also partly as a ‘why didn’t they
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by jarym 8y ago
So given that IBM’s only big commercial bet is (was?) Watson and it is clearly not going to drive significant revenue.. what do IBM do next? They ballsed up cloud, they let the rather impressive DB2 wither, and their software suite is... me
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Yup. I’ve seen this - customers who insist every package has to be installed in some special place because /opt is ‘reserved’ - have to have non-standard ports for everything because it might slow down attackers - have to have an Apach
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by jarym 8y ago
Better tooling can help, but so can 'not' forcing everything to be side-effect free. Honestly, I'm getting downvotes for this but probably from the same types who thought CQRS or micros-services should be taken to the extreme
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'cos all the kewl kids are doing it! I agree with you, functional programming and pure functions have a lot to offer but they have a place and as soon as you start pushing them into every corner of an app you end up just creating probl
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by jarym 8y ago
Maybe they need to go back to 'old fashioned' law enforcement - i.e. haul in the suspects for questioning, put out media adverts to urge victims to come forward, etc? The example provided is pretty poor: "Enquiries showed tha
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by jarym 8y ago
as @nickthemagicman says - except (at least in Europe) you have to write to the merchant (hotel) asking them to refund all charges and explain why. If they refuse or don't reply you call your credit card company and tell them you dispu
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In most hotels I've been to in more volatile parts of the world they just search bags on entry to the property - which would seem an easier and more thorough approach. If security are so concerned why aren't they doing that here?
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Crap this article jogged my memory - I now remember Xinu from when I was a teenager! It’s a fantastic bit of code for anyone interested in how operating systems are designed and built. Glad to see it’s still being kept alive!!

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