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by lukev 7y ago
Unfortunately it was on a consulting project with an NDA.
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by lukev 7y ago
Datomic is interesting in the context of event sourcing, because it can be thought of as a highly generalized event store system itself, with each database transaction being an event.
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by lukev 7y ago
A word of caution for anyone considering an event-sourced architecture. I was on a large government project where the decision was made to use event sourcing, and it was disastrous. It ended up being a big contributor to several years of ti
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by lukev 7y ago
Good article, but it and a lot of the comments here seem to be conflating SQL as a language and Postgres (or other RDBMS implementations.) For the record, I like both these things and they often go together well. But once your data gets too
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by lukev 7y ago
This advice is very wrong for many states. In NC, for example, you will have your license suspended if you refuse a breath test (regardless of actual intoxication.) And sure, you could sue, but if your defense rests on invalidating implied
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by lukev 7y ago
I think the only reason to hold out for Bitcoin over something like Stellar is an extreme libertarian ideology. Stellar is attractive to me precisely because it works with society, rather than against it. It uses the trust relationships al
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by lukev 7y ago
The headline article talks extensively about how this is not the case.
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by lukev 7y ago
The energy consumption of Bitcoin isn't new news. What continues to disappoint me, however, is how many people immediately jump to its defense with arguments based on the value it provides, as if that offset its cost. What gets neglect
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by lukev 7y ago
While I understand being annoyed at these neologisms, they do add information: the writer didn't just didn't just feel interrupted and patronized, she felt interrupted and patronized in ways that fit into specific patterns of gend
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by lukev 7y ago
Rather than building enough prisons, what if they just set target incarceration rates, built capacity for that, and then required that the justice system sentence and parole accordingly? There's no reason to have over half a percentage
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by lukev 7y ago
We are reaching a point where digital delivery is objectively the best way to consume music. It maximizes each of quality, price, convenience and availability. No physical media, including CDs, can compare. There is only one thing digital d
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by lukev 7y ago
I don't find the console that frustrating, or when it is, I understand why. UIs are hard. What I do find frustrating is how much of the docs are written in a console-first way. In most cases, the straightforward definitions of resource
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by lukev 7y ago
There are definitely some API-only things. Mostly edge cases. For example, last week I ran into the fact that it's only possible to associate a Route 53 Hosted Zone with a VPC from a different account via the API.
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by lukev 7y ago
Storage is one part of it. Flexible demand and load-shifting is another, and something that's getting more feasible with automation and better coordination with markets.
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by lukev 7y ago
All the tab advocates in this thread are like "Tabs are great, all you have to do is..." That's why spaces are better. There's no "all you have to do." There's nothing. Just use spaces. Your code will look
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by lukev 7y ago
This... doesn't have to be the case. Some markets already have way higher renewable penetration. Solar and wind represented about 20% of all generation in California in 2018 ( https://ww2.energy.ca.gov/almanac/elect
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by lukev 7y ago
GP is obviously not talking about HFT on the NYT, but HF arbitrage between different global exchanges.
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by lukev 7y ago
If this concept is interesting to you, Greg Egan has written an entire scifi novel (Dichronauts) set in a 2+2 universe. Weirdness abounds, but quite rigorous.
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by lukev 7y ago
I reject the premise of your statement. It's only a failure when implemented on top of relational databases which are (obviously) not optimized for it. What are the failures of EAV except when applying it to a database optimized for so
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by lukev 7y ago
I can't believe there is a whole comment thread on this, when it's actually addressed (at moderate length) in the original article. Are people only responding to headlines, anymore?
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by lukev 7y ago
It isn't clear that this leads to "better" outcomes, though. The larger denominations are pretty standardized, the smaller churches with more independence are where you find more sectarianism, extremism, and even cult-like be
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by lukev 8y ago
I don't have a good answer here. I was mostly trying to clarify the positions involved. I would say at a minimum we need to proceed carefully, fully understanding the implications and the way results are going to be co-opted.
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by lukev 8y ago
It might be an accusation of the same form, but both the nature of the claimed bias and the potential ramifications of getting it wrong couldn't be more different.
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by lukev 8y ago
I think the article misrepresents the feminist position a bit. When they protest the study of "sex differences", it's not (usually) in a flat-earth or creationist sense of literally denying the science and claiming a-priori t
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by lukev 8y ago
Code of conducts are simply not for people who feel like you do. And that's fine. For certain classes of people, attending a small, relatively intimate group with strangers represents a material risk that someone in the group will be
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by lukev 8y ago
Clojure is far from perfect. But a lot of people are using it and will continue to use it effectively. It sounds like you're just salty for some reason. I'm sorry you had a bad experience, but that has no bearing on the usefulness
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by lukev 8y ago
Wow. That will come as quite a surprise to the dozens of Fortune 50 companies out there using it as part of their core systems, let alone all the smaller companies and startups. Source: Worked as a consultant almost exclusively in Clojure f
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by lukev 8y ago
That's rather the point though. The people saying "YAGNI, just use Postgres" aren't, a priori, any more correct than people saying "You definitely need Hadoop if you're gonna scale!" You need to analyze ou
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by lukev 8y ago
This is really a very good article, and I've seen this same behavior manifest on numerous client projects. BUT. I have also grown a bit skeptical of the "Just use a RDBMS!" mantra. The same advice applies. Think about your u
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by lukev 8y ago
It is the obligation of the tipped employee to report their tips as income and pay taxes on them. True, it's difficult to audit so sometimes they don't, but that's hardly my problem. The notion that you should overpay your ow

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