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by mgummelt 4y ago
Yep, it's a one-to-many autogenerated backlink, helpful for seeing every e.g. purchase for a user. The lack of backlinks is one of the big frustrations I've had in other DB apps, since "this thing has many of these" is s
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by mgummelt 4y ago
Oh, yes. We load pages of 50 rows at a time, with lazy scrolling that loads more on demand. If you keep scrolling to load dozens of pages, sometimes perf can suffer, but we don't see that to be a common usage pattern. Most users use ou
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by mgummelt 4y ago
All queries are made directly to your Postgres or MySQL database, so those systems define the limits. We never store your row data. We've had users running Plato with 100M+ rows. No image support yet.
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by mgummelt 4y ago
Thanks! Happy to trade notes. Shoot us an email.
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by mgummelt 4y ago
I can't say I've used Baserow, but looking at their website it seems like they let you create new databases (like Airtable does), rather than connecting to existing SQL databases.
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by mgummelt 4y ago
I agree that open access is not always the right approach. Most of our users don't in fact run Plato with open access. Databases are read-only by default, and many provide write-access to only certain tables. We're also working on
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by mgummelt 4y ago
Hey deepspace. Check out my response here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35074506 The killer feature for many users is the ability to track new data with *virtual columns*, which stay in Plato and never touch your ba
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by mgummelt 4y ago
Respect to the OG
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by mgummelt 4y ago
Hey. Good questions. Pkey/Fkey joins are supported in Plato by "expanding" foreign keys. You can log in, connect our sample DB, and play around with how it works. It's pretty easy. We're soon adding support for gene
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by mgummelt 4y ago
It's more that requirements change faster than the engineers can respond. These internal tools often aren't prioritized, and the role of any ops team (e.g. accountants) is very dynamic. At that particular company, the accountants
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by mgummelt 4y ago
Thanks! One advantage is that Plato is SaaS so you don't have to run it yourself. NocoDB's cloud offering is still in private beta. Others: - Multi database support - Virtual columns for tracking new data without modifying the DB
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by mgummelt 4y ago
No, but accounts are free! As for security, the short of it is that you whitelist our IP, and your DB will need a public address we can connect to. It's similar to how e.g. cloud Retool works. We're shipping on-prem soon. Here&#x2
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by mgummelt 4y ago
Yep, that's another good comparison. It's been a while since I used Django Admin, but based on my memory these are some of Plato's advantanges: - Virtual columns that track new data w/o modifying the DB (Great for ops) -
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by mgummelt 4y ago
Of course. Metabase is the first product I recommend for easy BI, but Plato isn't a BI tool. It's an ops tool used for more "transactional" workflows. Startups use us to diagnose support issues, track new user data for o
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Show HN: Plato – Airtable for your SQL database(plato.io)
100 points by mgummelt 4y ago|64 comments
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by mgummelt 4y ago
Plato | Founding Engineer #3 | Onsite/Remote | San Francisco | https://plato.io Today's OS's are based on metaphors from the 60s. The web was invented by a physicist to share Sangria recipes. Smartphones are desig
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by mgummelt 5y ago
Plato | Founding Full-Stack Engineer | Onsite/Remote | San Francisco | https://plato.io Today's OS's are based on metaphors from the 60s. The web was invented by a physicist to share Sangria recipes. Smartphones a
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by mgummelt 5y ago
Plato | Founding Full-Stack Engineer | Onsite/Remote | San Francisco | https://plato.io Today's OS's are based on metaphors from the 60s. The web was invented by a physicist to share Sangria recipes. Smartphones a
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by mgummelt 5y ago
Plato | Founding Full-Stack Engineer | Onsite/Remote | San Francisco | https://plato.io Today's OS's are based on metaphors from the 60s. The web was invented by a physicist to share Sangria recipes. Smartphones a
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by mgummelt 5y ago
Plato | Founding Full-Stack Engineer | Onsite/Remote | San Francisco | https://plato.io Today's OS's are based on metaphors from the 60s. The web was invented by a physicist to share Sangria recipes. Smartphones a
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by mgummelt 5y ago
Losing one's job is not mutually exclusive with drug addiction and mental illness.
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by mgummelt 5y ago
The laws aren't the only factor. They also have to be enforced, which they often aren't in SF.
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by mgummelt 5y ago
Social services, with punishment for not participating.
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by mgummelt 5y ago
The reviewed author does not advocate for imprisonment. He advocates for treatment and housing programs that require the addicts to follow the program and make progress. A "carrot and stick" approach, which has worked in other c
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by mgummelt 5y ago
The author argues that housing prices are not a significant factor: "Throughout it, they emphasized that the homeless were just like you and me, just poorer. Today, many of California’s leading homelessness advocates insist that the cu
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by mgummelt 5y ago
Author here. You've probably read more smart contracts than me, but this hasn't been my observation. Rarible, for instance, is very popular and uses proxy contracts. Axie as well.
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by mgummelt 5y ago
I'm actually not taking a pro or anti centralization stance. I'm only pointing out that many services people think have decentralized power in fact don't.
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by mgummelt 5y ago
I'm the author an I agree with everything you've written, so I'm not sure what specifically you think is nonsense. FWIW, I'm fairly sure Compound does have an update mechanism, from a brief perusal of their source code.
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by mgummelt 5y ago
It's not a conflation. The article is explicitly differentiating Ethereum services from the Ethereum protocol, just like aboodman says.
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by mgummelt 5y ago
Isn't Axie centrally upgradeable? https://github.com/axieinfinity/public-smart-contracts/blob/...

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