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by munk-a 3y ago
The join syntax in particular seems really clunky compared to what it could have been - it's unclear if they support joining on different column names (i.e. fooid = foo.id or even fooid = parentid) which would be really restricting if
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by munk-a 3y ago
Do you mean that NULL <> NULL and NULL infects boolean logic? NULL is always an awkward thing to deal with - how you want to handle it depends on the specific thing you're trying to accomplish. I'd probably prefer it if NUL
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by munk-a 3y ago
Instead of a subsidy why not just make companies ineligible for security breach liability insurance if they continue to use a memory unsafe language. It'd be a quite trivial change and we'd see an immediate shift from the largest
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by munk-a 3y ago
As a company that's invested into this. Would you mind talking as to why you don't want to use raw SQL - are there particular deficiencies you've found in it?
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by munk-a 3y ago
Does this really appeal to developers? SQL is an extremely expressive language and while there are things in it I would change they are mostly minor points. Writing a query in english where the actual SQL it translates to is dependent on
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by munk-a 3y ago
Tcl wants its namespace back - it predates all these. Additionally there is PECL (again, ancient) but the popularity of that has been waning for quite some time with composer being the main package management system for PHP now.
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by munk-a 3y ago
I disagree - I think this act was amazing and great but it only happened because of one person's personal decision. Plenty of billionaires chose to spend their money in other ways and, while we could afford to freely educate everyone
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by munk-a 3y ago
It's sisyphean though - if your friends aren't sharing random crap you'll still have "sponsored content" injected to your feed once every... three items? Sometimes more often? Facebook refuses to give you content w
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by munk-a 3y ago
This feels like one of those activities that's so drastically different that there may be serious health concerns about it. Wearing a VR headset to play a few hours of games a week still lets your eyes mostly exist in a natural light
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by munk-a 3y ago
I think this is a great example of what I had mentioned as social differences of freedom between the EU and NA - in NA the freedom of businesses is often well protected up until it causes actual harm to human beings[1] - in the EU the freed
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by munk-a 3y ago
I feel like this is a win for consumers - I'd much rather there remain more OS competition on mobile devices[1] but if Apple wants to pursue a business model that excludes large portions of the world from their customer base that'
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by munk-a 3y ago
Non experts have to rule on expert subjects all the time - sometimes this goes hilariously wrong (like the internet being a series of tubes) but usually what happens is that the non-expert relies on the testimony of experts to make their ju
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by munk-a 3y ago
Por que no los dos? I mean - why don't we just integrate the dongle signal being necessary to unlock the car into the existing process and still require a physical key. As a bonus the key could be designed to interface with the car to
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by munk-a 3y ago
Device signing can be used very effectively to tell if a particular devices was involved in an action - but it is far more difficult to tell if some non-specific device was the source or whether it was generated. When it comes to fabricate
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by munk-a 3y ago
As a PHP developer I am frankly disappointed you think that we only do that with strings. I've got an array[1] full of other tools. 1. Or maybe a map? Those keys might have significance I didn't tell you about.
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by munk-a 3y ago
Twitter tends to lend itself extremely well to indecipherable and vague statements - I think I now value medium posts over that platform.
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by munk-a 3y ago
I programmed in C++ a while back - I was given constant warnings about how pointers were dangerous and to treat them with respect. I followed the Qt habits and primarily used references for everything - but there were problems I encountere
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by munk-a 3y ago
Hopefully it'll still inform me of the optimal ways to kill orphans. I'm just waiting until it starts refusing to talk about `fsck` because it thinks checking a file system is rude - we should always politely assume that our file
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by munk-a 3y ago
If they end up hanging up and texting me out of confusion then that's the best outcome I could've asked for... otherwise the call is either from a receptionist (who generally speak first anyways) or a relative that has learned of
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by munk-a 3y ago
Sorry for the breach of phone etiquette but I am on the same page here - the caller needs to speak first so I can tell whether they're a real person or not. If it's an automated system I'm happy to remain silent in the hope
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by munk-a 3y ago
There are certainly valid syntatical criticisms you can have of SQL[1] but on the whole SQL is expressive and rather concise while being solid enough to remain the default expression language of choice for fifty years. 1. The order of the p
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by munk-a 3y ago
When you decide to use a non-default format you adopt all of the responsibility to make that work: How do I select text from this image to reference it in a discussion? How does my screen reader handle the information? Does this text sca
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by munk-a 3y ago
The knowledge we're testing is related to how well you can do your job. Work isn't closed book - if you can quickly formulate a good query to grab any missing information off the internet then more power to you. I've worked
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by munk-a 3y ago
I understand that you have no control over who you're interviewing with but... if you're a good fit and the interviewer leaves thinking you're a terrible fit that's a sign of a bad interviewer. Obviously there are non-p
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by munk-a 3y ago
And the diplomacy also consisted of the fact that in revenge for their defeat the Japanese didn't launch a long campaign of violent resistance. The cycle of violence continues as long as people seek revenge and at some point somebody
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by munk-a 3y ago
It's my opinion (but one I strongly hold) that good maintainable code is modularized and clean - with strict types and a heavy emphasis on clean contracts between different components (since in an organization/large open source pr
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by munk-a 3y ago
I work extensively in PHP, am rather fond of it, and have built out quite a lot of tooling in the language. The reputation it has from the early 00s is quite mismatched against its current capabilities and I'm glad to see more people
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by munk-a 3y ago
I agree the ruling is politically ambiguous like pretty much all things political - but it does pretty clearly signal that the international community has soured on the IDF's actions. This feels like a great opportunity for the Isreal
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by munk-a 3y ago
Yea, I think it's pretty odd how little awareness of tribal councils, discussions of self-governance, and resistance from Native Americans there is in the modern America but it feels like the US almost wants to forget it has reservatio
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by munk-a 3y ago
That's exactly the point, at least how I'm reading it. Between the US and Japan peace and diplomacy was allowed to rule instead of constant violent retaliation. With France and Germany the same - the two countries have, in a pre

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