mmsimanga

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by mmsimanga 3y ago
+1. I work with data from different applications dumped into one database. Analytics. Often you cannot enforce foreign key relations and you need to define these relationships. Jailer allows you to define these relationships and then you ca
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by mmsimanga 3y ago
I just took a quick look at condenser application you linked. Only supports Postgresql and MySQL. This is often the case with none Java tools. They tend to support a select few number of databases. With tools that support JDBC you will be a
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by mmsimanga 3y ago
Sigh. What you describe is an issue that I have experienced too. I work in Business Intelligence and only discovered Apache Hop by accident. I think the issue is lack of SEO pushes some great products down the search results list. I actuall
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by mmsimanga 3y ago
The assumption you make is that all these devices you use have a good internet connection. This isn't always true for a lot of people.
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by mmsimanga 3y ago
You hit the nail on the head when you mentioned WhatsApp. In my country in Africa WhatsApp is so popular so much so that mobile network providers even sell WhatsApp data bundles. If I want to find something, like wire fencing I start by ask
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by mmsimanga 3y ago
Not an American. Watching from afar. We have a problem of too many teenage pregnancies in South Africa. Some of it is due to economics some of it due to social issues. What I don't understand about the US is how loud the extreme voices
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
You are right. I can confirm that South Africa has similar problems. A few Uber and Bolt drivers have met sad ends. My nephew a driver has been robbed a few times. Both Uber and Bolt allow you to pay in cash so drivers are targeted for the
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
I am a budding woodworker. Not very good at it. Spent too much money on tools I have never used. My most used creation is a tablet stand which is basically two pieces of wood with a hinge joining them. I wish someone had given me similar so
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
I think most geniuses are flawed. Yes Elon is a genius of sorts. I can't say what exactly but he definitely is smart to have gotten as far as he has. Luckily for geniuses of yesteryear social media didn't exist so they couldn&#x27
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
This. And imagemagick.
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
I tried both and ended up with WordPress of all things. I really don't blog and after a year without making a post I couldn't figure out my own Hugo site. I had also changed computers and my site wouldn't build anymore. I thi
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
Rights come with responsibility. If you can fend for yourself then you can probably do as you please even as a child. However if you need someone to feed you and protect you then surely you concede some rights.
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
In no way do I intend on defending the doctors. I am glad you quit and you don't have the moral dilemma. What has become murky for me is that often the truth lies in the middle. Doctor who killed someone isn't the best example so
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
I don't have any reference but I expand it from any war to any crisis. Ask for a new server at work and you are ignored for years until the old server crashes and cannot be recovered. Suddenly they will be funding for new server and ap
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
You lament the decision by FB yet you say out of the hundreds of managers you worked with only two were good. You are saying most managers aren't good and it sounds like FB agrees with you and hence decision. I also think this might be
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
Good point. Data is one aspect of making a decision. The other aspect is understanding the industry and environment. Often data scientists give just one variable needed to make a decision. In health care for example you need to factor in a
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
You have just described Pareto's principle[0] the 80/20 rule. It takes 20% of the effort to get to 80% but it then takes 80% of the the effort to finish the final 20%. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
I see you decided on Wordpress, if you were going to use a CMS I think Drupal 7 would have been a good choice. Drupal has concept of entities and views. An entity as the name suggests is essentially a table and you can add all sorts of diff
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
Came straight to the comments expecting breakdown of why a closed source application failed.
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
> a great way for a duopoly of companies to skim 1-3% off the economy I mean by all means use your card everywhere but I think we should make a concerted effort to keep our options open.
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
This. I am a legal immigrant and have the papers and job to open an account. Some of my relatives aren't so fortunate so I have opened accounts in my name which they use as theirs. It get convoluted and I would rather I didn't hav
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
Having read most of the comments debating the pros and cons of the system this is an astonishingly simple solution! Sometimes I think those of us in technology look for problems to solve.
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
I am paraphrasing a quote I have heard before, "Pioneers get the bullets and settlers get the land." Might not be actual bullets but pioneers today have to deal with legislators, put up charging stations, develop most components f
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
I agree that most things aren't invented by one person. We stand on the shoulders of giants. I am okay with recognising all 20 or 100 people who contribute to an invention. Heck even the 1000 people. I am just having a hard time with n
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
Interesting. In my home country in Africa building in the cities and towns is also quite difficult. There are all sorts of regulations along with corruption you have to deal with. From as far back as I can remember most people still wanted
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
I think you are conflating things here. The gentleman who came up with the polio vaccine is the "crazy" person who decided not to accept the status quo. That polio should be literally a death sentence. I am not saying the hard wor
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
Feels good to be ahead of the US for a change . Happy new year
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
DuckDb has the feature to exclude columns in the SELECT statement [0] [0] https://duckdb.org/2022/05/04/friendlier-sql.html
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
This is the question we should be asking. As an African I know a few people, qualified teachers who migrate to UK and US to care for elderly there. I don't think the world wants to answer that question. I see headline after headline on
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
IMHO you can be a genius in a few areas of expertise but you cannot be a genius at everything. There is no such thing as a person who is a genius at everything so every person we call a genius is actually a genius at a few things at most an

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