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by porker 9y ago
> Product X having a stupid schema is not a good basis for an argument for or against a particular product. What other way could Magento have implemented user-defined columns at the time, using a RDBMS? In 2009 when MongoDB was released,
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by porker 9y ago
Sure: http://mikehillyer.com/articles/managing-hierarchical-data-i... Joe Celko popularised them. I've been unable to find when they were first introduced; but a search of my source code archive points to having w
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by porker 9y ago
> NoSQL really fits best around the margins, like as an auxiliary system for analytics. I'd say it also fits well in two niches: document datastores (so long as there's some JOIN support, via referencing nested documents vs dir
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by porker 9y ago
> We send hundreds of thousands of emails every month With that volume, wouldn't a dedicated Mailgun IP have been worthwhile? You've got enough mail to gain reputation on it, and the flat fee + lower per-email charges could mat
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by porker 9y ago
Have you looked at Quill https://quilljs.com/ ? I was looking at text editors yesterday for a new project, where I want to represent images as either custom tags or placeholders that get transformed (in the system the image
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by porker 9y ago
If someone would re-implement Age of Rifles, that would be fantastic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wargame_Construction_Set_III:_...
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by porker 9y ago
I've been gluten free for 10 months. To start with I thought it made a difference - sharper mind, not constantly bloated (and I'm not talking minor, but '8 months pregnant' bloating after any meal). The mind maybe, but t
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by porker 9y ago
> Exactly why ORMs are a bad idea I'm not a full-out fan for ORMs but... this is not an ORM issue. It's an issue with an ORM of the ActiveRecord variety that pushes database-logic back to code level for some strange reason. The
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Understanding Uber: It's Not About the App(londonreconnections.com)
221 points by porker 9y ago|242 comments
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by porker 9y ago
That sounds very much like the "just following" orders defence, also known as "Superior Orders". More details @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders
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by porker 9y ago
I need to get into this Docker malarkey for dev machines. Running on Windows, how do you share files between the Docker image and the host machine? With Vagrant I use NFS.
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by porker 9y ago
What are the other options, and when would page-level encryption in Community Edition be useful? If I'm understanding it correctly, page-level encryption is to protect against someone gaining access to the DB server and copying the fil
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by porker 9y ago
I didn't realise a few of these existed, so thanks. > - page-level encryption This got me excited, but for anyone else looking: to keep the key securely (not in a file on the DB server, where an attacker can get it + the DB files) y
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by porker 9y ago
> there are only a handful of computation approaches that have stood the test of time. Pipes in unix, spreadsheets, data management systems like MS Access or FileMaker. Had concepts from those programs made it into programming, our lives
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by porker 9y ago
Is there a way to share the encryption key between computers (manually set the key)? See my aside @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15075063 for why
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by porker 9y ago
$10 per device is the backup world's "per-CPU" licensing. Scenario: say I have multiple computers. I have a family's computers, plus parents and in-laws. The amount to backup on everyone else's computers is small (
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by porker 9y ago
> Amazon basically did the same thing recently removing unlimited storage. I'm working out what to do next since they did this. I use Arq ( https://arqbackup.com ) and back up my desktop (Windows) and laptop (OSX) to Amazo
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by porker 9y ago
It's not just changes to stop data being thrown away. This issue has been painful: https://github.com/doctrine/doctrine2/pull/6143 Across multiple businesses, they've upgraded servers and got MySQL
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by porker 9y ago
Ditto. I still choose it for small to medium sized webapps because - let's face it - the data storage is not their pain point. MySQL is fast enough, usually has enough features, I know how to tune it and queries, and I normally only bu
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I'm proud to be a programmer(dev.to)
1 points by porker 9y ago|0 comments
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by porker 9y ago
> So why don't we use BSD everywhere, or Linux everywhere? There's no single reason -- it's many reasons -- and it's serious engineering time to document them all and do the topic justice. I'd like to, but I don&
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by porker 9y ago
I don't get it. In what scenarios would this be useful?
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by porker 9y ago
> even when (as is so often the case) the cycle lane is unsafe or unsuitable. Near me there's a mixed-use cycleway alongside a main road (put in 10-15 years ago). Driveways cross it regularly and you have to stop at every side-road
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Straight Talk About Sex Differences in Occupational Choices and Work-Family(ifstudies.org)
24 points by porker 9y ago|2 comments
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by porker 9y ago
In which countries could you host, where the DMCA isn't applicable or enforced?
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by porker 9y ago
> While there's still time, escape to TypeScript (though it will be flooded by crap from TC39 soon enough), ClojureScript, Kotlin, Scala.js, Elm, Purescript And dartlang
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Micro 8: Better for Production, Easier for Development(zeit.co)
1 points by porker 9y ago|0 comments
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by porker 9y ago
Wasn't that the goal of Flattr?
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by porker 9y ago
Interestingly the FT's paywall is immune to this in my testing. Device fingerprinting?
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by porker 9y ago
There's always http://cloudinary.com/

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