johnthescott

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by johnthescott 7y ago
i recall a micro language built around the infamous brainfuck that has a non destructive read for function arguments. seems like a bigger concept exists. let the caller determine what the called can modify.
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by johnthescott 7y ago
the entire design of unix is realized in a moment when a motherboard is seen as a network.
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by johnthescott 7y ago
can i hear an amen? and a huh? who did the research at wsj for this article?
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by johnthescott 7y ago
your hands learn to code.
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by johnthescott 7y ago
be sure to investigate the new "rum" index for text search, which is not in pg core. rum is written by the same folks who wrote the core fts. stunningly fast and flexible. also, a query is a first class data type, allowing for
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by johnthescott 7y ago
change the number of doors to 100 and the reasoning is obvious.
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by johnthescott 7y ago
have you tried both? the oracle eula prevents disclosing performance stats. pg allows user defined indexes to be added to kernel and integrated with optimizer, creating some pretty sophisticated optimization techniques. we have the text
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by johnthescott 7y ago
not really true. postgres supports "insert .. on conflict" which is functionally a subset of sql merge. the feature was introduced years ago and i would not be surprised if eventually sql merge is glommed into pg core.
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by johnthescott 8y ago
argggh, just when i thought no reason existed to learn perl6, i stumbled across conway's talk on quantum computing done in perl6: https://www.reddit.com/r/perl6/comments/4p7bnu/on_the_should...