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by lucio 10y ago
I'm 45. I'm so old that I'm proficient using (+) to code outer joins in oracle :) Comma-join was the standard for me, and I had a hate-phase towards LEFT/RIGHT JOIN. But I must admin that once I've really tried th
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by lucio 10y ago
The "comma join" disconnects the join from the condition. It is hard to find the actual join condition between all the "where" conditions. By using JOIN ... ON .., you explicitly link tables with their join condition an
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by lucio 10y ago
please do not ignore the "out-of-the-ordinary" part. I'm not talking about "all programmers". Read this interview of the creator of Nginx: http://mindend.com/index.php/interview-with-the-creator
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by lucio 10y ago
http://mindend.com/index.php/interview-with-the-creator-of-n... This interview seems to confirm St.Johns obervations
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by lucio 10y ago
Then it is good to consider autism an advantage in programming jobs, so people that are actually autistic have special treatment in the sector. The question is: How many out-of-the-ordinary programmers have some form of mild arperger's
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by lucio 10y ago
What's the myth that's being "dispelled"? I see the "Alex St. John's infamous PowerPoint" image, pasted in the article, as more valuable than the entire article. St John is harsh an direct, and seems to co
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by lucio 10y ago
Having internal consistency or logic does not mean the framework is rational. If you're destroying your menas of living beyond repair, causing misery, you're irrational, even if there's internal consistency as in communist re
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by lucio 10y ago
Shouldn't his be a "reversible debugger" ? or a time-travel debugger as the Elm debugger is called?
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by lucio 10y ago
The DB is an excellent product. It is not just sales and/or execs relations. I've used ORACLE, Postgre, MySql, SQlite, MS-Sql, and also Firebird. From the bunch, ORACLE is not only the expensive one, it also delivers.
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by lucio 10y ago
MS saw the rise of java in the enterprise business as a real threat to their core revenue stream, so they copied the entire idea. .NET runtime is akin to the JVM, the architecture is the same. What MS did for differentiation is to decouple
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by lucio 10y ago
Nice to see that the rules are applied consistently, news.ycombinator.com has earned many respect points
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by lucio 10y ago
funny thing, the Burke one seems to be a misquote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke#False_quotations
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by lucio 10y ago
> At least Trump is willing to talk about the fact that the US is not on an acceptable growth trajectory. The Big Truth in Trump’s slogan is “Again”—we do need a fundamental change to get back to where we were. Clinton’s dangerously ba
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by lucio 10y ago
But he price is changed. You're forced to tip a specific amount regardless of quality of service. Most people do not fancy to be forced.
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by lucio 10y ago
So, by following your reasoning, a sound-economy country, should receive aliens until such receiving country has no room, is broke, and everybody are on the edge of starvation?
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by lucio 10y ago
Why is everybody talking as if the communist experiment wasn't already tried? If you forcibly remove "freedom" to keep the fruit of your labor, you'll get general misery and poverty. It's false that "things wil
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by lucio 10y ago
"And most were actually working even harder because they were working as a team for Arc, not themselves" Give me a break!
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by lucio 10y ago
tipping is not rational?
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by lucio 10y ago
So you're hiding from the consumer the fact that the govt is taxing 20% on your consumption. In the USA system, tax is clear and present. The difference in style can be associated to a republic vs monarchy style => citizens vs subje
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by lucio 10y ago
Intel vPro page is way more scarer than the OP article :) http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-tech...
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by lucio 10y ago
slowly the browser is becoming an JS IDE, and that's nice. Ctrl-Shift-I can become the "READY" prompt of the C64. The "next thing" is CDT auto-saving your changes to css and js for a website, and optionally re-apply
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by lucio 10y ago
"Covenants, without the sword, are but words, and of no strength to secure a man at all" - Hobbes I see Hobbes as closer to reality
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by lucio 10y ago
In the Soviet Union, everybody was working "for the state".
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by lucio 10y ago
If you're "driving" (a scooter?) just off the road, or walking alongside a road, it is better to doit counter-traffic so you can see the traffic comming. If you switch sides, the traffic will aproach from your back, and that&
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by lucio 10y ago
the elm debugger seems also impressive http://debug.elm-lang.org/
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by lucio 10y ago
Honest question: How useful is that all functions are curried by default? Does this impose performance penalties?
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by lucio 10y ago
I don't know why, but the flyboard has a waaay much cooler "air" to it... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNKRxsNyOho
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by lucio 10y ago
It's preferable to be lenient, than to abuse power
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by lucio 10y ago
It's because women have specific preferences, and men just want women.
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World tweet map demo(mapd.com)
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