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by lbriner 3y ago
I think this article glosses over quite a number of different things so the conclusion doesn't always follow. It says that people who copy stuff without thinking are consumers instead of creators. The implication is that this is wrong
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by lbriner 3y ago
A strange conclusion for something that has been around for so long. It's a bit like saying the horse-drawn carriages are no good because cars. When UML was released, waterfall was pretty much the only model for Development and was und
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by lbriner 3y ago
We have built out some of the things you said were missing for our email system at SmartSurvey. The biggest annoyance is random blacklisting from email providers. Mimecast almost always greylists us, which is annoying because it creates an
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by lbriner 3y ago
It depends why you think there might not be a solution. If you have enough experience and have a gut feel then do something simple and quick to prove the gut feel or put your hand up and say that you don't know how to approach it. If y
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by lbriner 3y ago
The arguments are attacking the people but it's the organisation that should be questioned. If I am a private company and I am struggling to keep profits, I can justify an expensive Director, ideally with good experience, whose relativ
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by lbriner 3y ago
It's a bit tricky for me. Suggestions like "fly them to the office" is great if you have lots of people in an office, we don't. I also don't agree with "give them the power to fix things" since one person&
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by lbriner 3y ago
Lots of pedants like to dump on these sorts of articles but there are enough interesting things to see, even in a relatively trivial comparison like this. It is interesting that some systems allocate more memory up-front but this doesn&#x27
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by lbriner 3y ago
That's what I was just thinking, same as people complaining in Scotland about heather and bracken. If you don't do anything proactive to plant native spieces and help them establish then you have to let nature do it however it wan
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by lbriner 3y ago
Not sure why you are downvoted, this is one of the best comments I've read in a long time. How idealism turns into realism and the sweet spot is probably somewhere in the middle.
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by lbriner 3y ago
I find it funny that in the age of "User experience" my experience of most software is terrible. I don't use all the programs out there but apart from games, which often need to perform well to sell in the first place I hav
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by lbriner 3y ago
I think part of the problem is that a lot of people still seem to think there is a knowable/measurable/learnable source of absolute truth but since any learning is almost always implicitly "Appeal to the people", then yo
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by lbriner 3y ago
My concern is that Windows is already a massive dumpster fire of random bits and bobs. They haven't completed the migrations from the very earliest versions of Windows, they just increase the complexity at all points. The same is true
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by lbriner 3y ago
As others have said, the main problem is that 1) There is too much flexibility which means that "name" might be "firstname" or "first_name" somewhere, which is why you need so many different implementations and
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by lbriner 3y ago
One thing that caught me out is that if you are doing an operation on a string like "lower(email)" then the query planner will not use an index on the email column, instead you would need an index on "lower(email)", whic
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by lbriner 3y ago
These debates have been done to death and mostly I also think that the article is a fairly typical strawman argument. Take the worst way to do a live coding test, point out the problems and then dismiss the whole idea. What else are we supp
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by lbriner 3y ago
This is definitely not true. They are not generic at all. * work_mem is postgres specific * stored procs and functions don't perform as badly in SQL Server * Triggers behave differently * NOTIFY is postgres specific etc.
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by lbriner 3y ago
Personally as someone who has only ever used SQL Server, once I accepted that Postgres is different in certain ways, it has been great. Stable, predictable and I have had no performance surprises. For me, the big win is to have a cluster wi
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by lbriner 3y ago
The first suggestion is not to gatecrash a random thread in a random forum with an off-topic question. You could have asked it as a HN question and got better results and not distracted from the topic being discussed.
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by lbriner 4y ago
It's not a great question and I'll explain what business is then you will understand. Paul Graham famously said that success is selling something people want. Period. A lot of "ideas guys" might have an idea that seems g
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by lbriner 4y ago
I think some of the others have alluded to the potential to suck your time and goodwill dry for not necessarily a lot of gain. If people don't have to pay, they could easily expect you to build junk or invest time in something that is
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by lbriner 4y ago
Not really bizarre. You can regulate rental companies and insist on certain safety requirements, max speed etc but as soon as you let everyone ride their own, it's all out the window and the Police have enough to do without arguing abo
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by lbriner 4y ago
With the amount of money that MS makes, it is hard to imagine they do this for revenue. Are they trying to be "useful"? At very least, since many of us have enough to concentrate on as Developers, the install should either ask you
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by lbriner 4y ago
I think the comments just make another proof that the OP assertion was correct and also that we live in a Wild West industry. One day, I hope there will be a much more standardised way of doing things properly, perhaps caveated with "m
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by lbriner 4y ago
It should do but I am worried it won't. Just look on social media when a cyclist posts something about dangerous driving and they are hit by a combination of: * Indifference from the Police most of the time * Extreme vitriol from motor
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by lbriner 4y ago
Using FAANG to determine the job market is like using Monaco residents to work out the state of the world's wealth. They are outliers with enormous amounts of cash and they can spend in an illogical way to reduce risk that market chang
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by lbriner 4y ago
Those are the same thing! Investors care about profits, which are dented by over-hiring.
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by lbriner 4y ago
A couple of companies like boxt did it in the UK with gas boilers. The appeal is a fixed price quote online, next day installation by a qualified plumber and not having to spin the roulette wheel of trying to call plumbers, negotiate a &quo
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by lbriner 4y ago
I think there is probably more psychology going on than people think. I know people are assure me that some weird Swiss water contraption (a piece of wood) makes water taste noticeably better and "aligns molecules" and what have y
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by lbriner 4y ago
Exactly my thoughts. Why do people buy iPhone cases with diamonds in them? Because they can and they hang around with people who are impressed by such stuff.
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by lbriner 4y ago
Proptional to their prices, probably very proportionate. If you want better service, choose another provider and pay the price that it costs to pay 1000s of customer support staff, sometimes to only answer things like "why can't I

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