nbevans

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by nbevans 6y ago
You misunderstand how enterprise integrations work. It's easy to tell a customer: "your CSV is not compatible with standard off the shelf tooling, indeed the most popular database engine in the world" than "your CSV does
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by nbevans 6y ago
I prefer to use a SQLite database. And if a customer insists on CSV then I still use a SQLite database to import and/or export the CSV without them realising it. SQLite brings sanity to CSVs.
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SQLite has a new homebrewed discussion forum(sqlite.org)
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by nbevans 7y ago
I don't believe PowerShell was 'acquired' - it was built in house. I can recall reading the MSDN blog posts about its development way back when.
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by nbevans 7y ago
There is actually no "lite" word in SQLite. Think of it as SQL-ite. The "ite" is a deliberate connotation to rocks/geology i.e. granite, magnetite, etc. Make of that what you will. This is documented BTW on the SQLi
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by nbevans 7y ago
You can "prepare" a SQL statement and use it multiple times. I.e. you can use the same VM for a statement many times.
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by nbevans 7y ago
We tried to move to Asana when Trello announced their restrictions a while back. At the time Asana had no production grade way to migrate from Trello. The tool they had was just an extension build by a third party and it did a poor job at m
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by nbevans 7y ago
There is also no material difference between say Cisco and the American government. Or Siemens and the German government. Where does it end? The UK is, as of today, currently an independent nation and - on paper at least - nobody is its fri
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by nbevans 7y ago
Whilst .tar files are not an RDBMS. I can assure you that SQLite more than qualifies as a RDBMS. Even the popular vote says it is: https://www.google.com/search?q=sqlite+rdbms
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by nbevans 7y ago
His entire comment was based on empirical evidence. Which is why people are disputing it - because there is room to do so.
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by nbevans 7y ago
Your #2 is wrong (sorry). Enums in most mainstream languages don't "limit"; they merely specify known values. Unknown values are still possible. For a type-safe enum, see discriminated union.
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by nbevans 7y ago
I have a full size Magic keyboard (because my MBP 2018 keys started dying and they couldn't guarantee same-day repair) and it really isn't all that. Sometimes I get a similar feeling as the MBP keyboard in that it seems to "m
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by nbevans 7y ago
They haven't closed it. My friend works for them in the City. These banks aren't going anywhere.
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by nbevans 7y ago
That "8 year old standard" you linked to is just a draft and proposed standard. Nobody implements draft specs in production grade libraries/frameworks. Especially not Microsoft.
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by nbevans 7y ago
https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/01/fsharp-4.6-preview/
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by nbevans 7y ago
It sounds like you are using the wrong language. F# is what you want to be using.
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by nbevans 7y ago
What is pro-Brexit about my post though? :~)
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by nbevans 7y ago
It isn't "spiritually" true. It is factually true to the extent that the High Court ruled 350m was approximately the correct gross figure. Indeed some say that figure is conservative because it was based on projections from
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by nbevans 7y ago
He can SEO the "thigh" one with some sort of sentence along the lines "nobody ever got sick eating the thigh of a chlorinated American chicken!"
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by nbevans 7y ago
You say short sighted. Brexiteers say it is long sighted, so long sighted in fact that Remainers struggle to see any sense in it. Which is where all the "populist" "nationalistic" "racist" "they didn'
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by nbevans 7y ago
Because the EU is still, 3 years after the vote, blocking us from conducting such negotiations for ourselves.
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by nbevans 7y ago
Will Euros even exist when such a business plan is already hedging against the EU?
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by nbevans 7y ago
That is true. I did not realise this, so thanks. Indeed it says mine is a 2018 model in the "About this Mac" screen. All this time I thought I had a 2019 model because I ordered it in 2019 and it came direct from the factory in Ch
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by nbevans 7y ago
I bought mine on an American Express credit card which, in the UK, has what's known as "Section 75" protection. This alone means I can return it for a full refund since it is a defective product within the warranty period wit
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by nbevans 7y ago
2019 model did not fix anything.
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by nbevans 7y ago
I liked my 2019 MBP keyboard too. Until one week I noticed it kept repeating e's and n's. And then I learnt its not fixable unless you are prepared to go without a machine for 3 to 14 days. And then I learnt from Rossman Youtube t
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by nbevans 7y ago
Mine is less than 6 months old and already at least 3 keys are malfunctioning. The Apple rep reckoned I would be without my machine for at least 3 days - and that is unacceptable as I need it for my work. In the end I bought an external key
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by nbevans 7y ago
I think it is because the changes are, currently, considered esoteric and slightly experimental in the sense they want to reserve the right to make breaking changes to them. SQLite has a relatively slow cadence when it comes to things like
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by nbevans 7y ago
In case anyone is curious "BEGIN CONCURRENT" is what is being discussed here (page level locks). There is also a WAL2 mode which is basically the WAL mode operating in a A/B hot swap mode - to facilitate checkpointing without
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by nbevans 7y ago
For one thing it offers a far cleaner user experience than Git does.

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