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by le-mark 6y ago
WAL is journaling mode set on the connection. It’s not a db level setting.
842.
by le-mark 6y ago
Using a single write thread and multiple readers gives perfectly sound and high performance concurrency in SQLite. Of course the particulars of how one actually does that depend on the language in use.
843.
by le-mark 6y ago
It’s easy to imagine there are a lot of these type of time bombs out there, particularly in really old legacy systems (> 20 years for example). I was at one place where even building the application for deployment led to a one week outag
844.
by le-mark 6y ago
The most fun I had with applets was the java4k gamescompetition that for a few years required the entries to be applets. At the time I thought there was something really cool about deploying a game on a static html page that anyone could cl
845.
by le-mark 6y ago
Ocaml also has a long standing claim to being an oo plus functional language for the future that hasn’t seen a lot of uptake. It would have been heartening and reassuring for the author to explore more candidates than Scala.
846.
by le-mark 6y ago
I propose a third moral, don’t use scanf when a dfa would suffice!
847.
by le-mark 6y ago
Wouldn’t a robot with the adaptability and trainablility of a human be, in effect a human? I say this only partially in jest. At one time I drove an old jalopy that developed a broken throttle cable, being poor i contrived a fix by splicing
848.
by le-mark 6y ago
This analysis is spot on, and well worth the time to consider.
849.
by le-mark 6y ago
This x1000, I was/am a particularly dense student and the only way I learned was by working loads of problems repeatedly until the “tricks” became second nature. The worst are solutions manuals with hand wavey solutions.
850.
by le-mark 6y ago
Seems like there are two different things here; launching passengers and freight, and returning passengers in comfort and without neck injuries. One could easily envision a passenger only winged glider similar to the space shuttle to serve
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Ask HN: How to Handle Impossible Situation
2 points by le-mark 7y ago|2 comments
852.
by le-mark 7y ago
Indeed, B-2 doesn't fly particularly high, this comment seems a bit inaccurate.
853.
by le-mark 7y ago
Redisql sounds interesting, are you getting any customers/tranction?
854.
by le-mark 7y ago
Really interesting, odd move imo. As others have said, this is a highly diverse industry, with entrenched players and smaller players as well. I think it's interesting to consider 'why'? Clearly Bezos thinks he can make money
855.
by le-mark 7y ago
That's also why when companies start talking about "cost cutting" on the order of $millions, it almost always means layoffs. That's a big lever to push on earnings, for example.
856.
by le-mark 7y ago
No triggers, no constraints (excepting maybe PRIMARY KEY and NOT NULL) Could you not then simply use a nosql solution?
857.
by le-mark 7y ago
It's an odd phenomenon I've seen before. For some reason, execs think they need Java. I had one guy say that customers didn't want to hear cobol; so for him there was a marketing component. Otherwise, I think a lot of execs b
858.
by le-mark 7y ago
It's still a win if they can go from procedural COBOL to procedural idiomatic Java. Goto's and "fall through PERFORMS" make idiomatic java impossible.
859.
by le-mark 7y ago
The second one immediately lowers the TCO for obvious licensing reasons How true is that though? They'd still have software licensing, they still need an OS to run on Hercules after all.
860.
by le-mark 7y ago
This is the part that piqued my interest. I've seen cobol to java translated source, it looks like java used as an assembler for cobol. Certainly there's a spectrum of cobol-y-ness. One would be hard pressed to go from cobol to ev
861.
by le-mark 7y ago
Now, this thought — we’re killing off the only life we know anywhere in the universe — is impossible to hold. It’s literally quite impossible to process for, I’d say, 99% of people on the planet. You can try, but you’ll fail. What does tha
862.
by le-mark 7y ago
Spring is built on the good parts of JEE; servlet api, jdbc, etc.. so it's not immune to churn in this area.
863.
by le-mark 7y ago
My kids have these stick horses, a relative got them for a Christmas gift some years ago. They never play with them. The stick is long and counter balances the head so you have to sort of squeeze your legs together to actually ride the thin
864.
by le-mark 8y ago
Thanks to the XENON1T dark matter detector lodged under the Gran Sasso mountains of Italy, scientists have recorded one of the rarest events to ever be detected: a special type of radioactive decay in xenon-124. It's an amazing feat,
865.
by le-mark 8y ago
Generally these insurance policies have requirements or cluases for things like training staff on good security practices, documenting that this training happened. Helps to lower exposure to lawsuit (ie we weren't negligent). I know of
866.
by le-mark 8y ago
Back channels would be one way, but then how to verify the back channel? Sibling "I know and your dumb" response not very illuminating here.
867.
by le-mark 8y ago
You have to admit there are loads of unscrupulous people out there who will take the compensation you're referring to, deliver nothing and leave. I've seen it myself at one start up I was at. The founders recieved a generous inves
868.
by le-mark 8y ago
I did this back in 2010 or so. I wanted to diversify out of the stock market so I put some money into 20% down on a single family home. My sister was a single mom at the time renting an apartment in a good school district for her daughter.
869.
by le-mark 8y ago
Anyone know when xfce screensaver will make it in? I'd upgrade for that!
870.
by le-mark 8y ago
Indeed, it was always a military application, v-1, v-2, launching sputnik was demonstrating the ability to put a warhead anywhere on earth. It was called the 'red scare' for a reason.

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