mamcx

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by mamcx 8mo ago
FoxPro/dBase (that has some of the same ideas) are more approachable and probably has better mind-share time ago. Is also a very productive way to program!
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by mamcx 8mo ago
> years of bug fixes and edge-case improvements can't be accounted for by simply using a newer/better code-base. Partially is in fact true: Just because the Rust use a better type system (after ML) + better resource model (ak
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by mamcx 8mo ago
Yeah, in special if you "stop-start-stop" constantly. Give time to ramp-up. I like to start 2-3 days with things like the "7 minute workout" before dive in into anything more complicated. Is better quantity than "qu
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by mamcx 8mo ago
> Additionally it is quite remarkable the productivity that xBase offered Yeah, is still unmatched . My dream is to revive the spirit of it ( https://tablam.org ) and looking for partners or funding!
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by mamcx 8mo ago
> This article is about people using abstractions without knowing how they work. This is fine. This is how progress is made. The big problem is that now exist an actual risk most will never be able to MAKE abstractions. Sure, lets be on
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by mamcx 9mo ago
Nope, normal insanity of mine!
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by mamcx 9mo ago
Even more accurate (I work in this space): 3. Bugs creep in, feature request pile up. 4. Employee continue in the company and request help (or the managers see the need): 4.1 They hire more, but if all are vibe-coders too 4.1.1 The product
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by mamcx 9mo ago
*Senior Rust / Database Engineer* Location: Medellín, Colombia Remote: Yes! Willing to relocate: No Technologies: * System engineer: Rust · query engines · programming languages · VMs · transactions · storage · performance optimizat
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by mamcx 9mo ago
Certainly, there is a whole industry if you count support, sales, infra, testing, etc. But I suspect that is developers the main problem for the bootstrap phase (ie: that is already the case here in LATAM)
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by mamcx 9mo ago
What I wonder is if there will be the pay for enticing developers to build it. I think many of use will love to do this kind of stuff, but is mostly US companies that pay for it. For example, I like to make RDBMs and ERPs kind of software,
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by mamcx 9mo ago
Alternatively look at https://dlang.org/articles/exception-safe.html . The problem of mixing paradigms is that get confusing. Ideally all is represented equally (ie: All errors are `Result`) but is the handling that
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by mamcx 9mo ago
Because a SQL query encompasses an arbitrary combination of MANY different sub-programs that are expected to be auto-solved. Attempt to implement them, manually, and you see how hard is it. PLUS, not only you need to account for the general
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by mamcx 9mo ago
Yeah, this is how we survive. I even dream of build tools for business to make apps (like Air table, but better) and even if you can do anything that do, perfectly, the software they need not means they want to babysit it all the time. Is
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by mamcx 9mo ago
Yeah, this is a hard problem, in special because Standard SQL databases only partially implement the relational model, have not good recurse for deal with relations-in-relations and lack of ways to (in user space) build your own storage (a
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by mamcx 9mo ago
I only need 1 million. 10 as much!
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by mamcx 9mo ago
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by mamcx 9mo ago
I work independently as consultor/solo dev ( https://www.elmalabarista.com ) for years now, so with that much money (even 1 million) I just be set for life!. But I actually love my job (programming) and do it in my spare ti
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by mamcx 9mo ago
+1 `jj` is the only tool that make me use `rebase` personally. Before, I see as the punishment given by my team wishes :)
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by mamcx 9mo ago
And if a major problem, `jj op log` + `jj op log restore` fix it. This is the major super power of jj: Before I need to nuke the git repo on bad rebases (not chance in hell I can find how undo the massive 20+ steps bad rebase)
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by mamcx 10mo ago
Poor. My dream is to build such tool, I slowly doing in the side ( https://tablam.org ). Probably need to ask for funding too. In concrete, what I want is a real alternative to Fox/Access that work, unrestricted, locally (i
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by mamcx 10mo ago
Senior Rust · Databases · compilers · business applications engineer Location: Medellín, Colombia Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Rust, RDBMs (PostgreSQL · SQL Server · SQLite), Swift, Python Résumé/CV: ht
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by mamcx 10mo ago
> I wonder, at which point it is worth it to make a language? AT ANY POINT. No exist, nothing, that could yield more improvements that a new language. Is the ONLY way to make a paradigm(shift) stick . Is the ONLY way to turn "disci
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by mamcx 10mo ago
My theory is that the best, absolute best predictor if someone could be a good programmer (or is) is the ability to read exactly what is written. Is not math, logic or any of that asides. Is the actual ability to read, exactly, without ad
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by mamcx 10mo ago
The sentiment is good but the solution is wrong. The ideal flow, IMHO: 1: Emit warning, and include if possible a deadline ("will be removed in the next major version") 2: After X time, BEFORE the deadline, turn it into a compile
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by mamcx 10mo ago
Something that helps, I think, is to make something practical that demands it. I used to think alike (I'm +30 year programing) until I decide to do https://tablam.org , and making a "database" is the kind of projec
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by mamcx 11mo ago
yeah, this is the actual good mindset. C has never been a particularly good language, and is so good that finally (with tons of pushbacks!) there is an alternative that make the case so strong that is at least considered the possibility
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by mamcx 11mo ago
I'm on the hunt to build such thing ( https://tablam.org + "excel" + "access OR fox pro", ...) and I have never consider the "all in one" a paradigm for end-users. As you discovered, is for you
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by mamcx 11mo ago
And is even worse, this is stuff that I have seen in ERPs (I integrate with several). One of them, not even use "date"/"decimal" types and all is mostly strings, there is not views or anything else, and the tables A
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by mamcx 11mo ago
Yeah, that is what I think on https://tablam.org , where I consider everything could be a relation, so like "hello world" ? where #chars != " " == ["h", "e", ...]
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by mamcx 11mo ago
Because JS is bad, and JS have a MASSIVE user base, so whatever they do is the web. And because JS is on the frontend, solutions are front end , even the ones that eventually run on the (js) back-end. Is like how people use a RDBMS but nev

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