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by pradocchia 14y ago
I have a love-hate relationship w/ column prefixes like you describe. One on hand, they make searching the codebase much easier, and if you can search the codebase, you can refactor w/ confidence. On the other hand, it bakes the schema into
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by pradocchia 14y ago
I try to be the guy who interops between the reactionary DBAs and the happy-go-lucky developers--two parties that optimize for different ends. So most recently, we had an app that started off with direct table access via an ORM. Once the da
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by pradocchia 14y ago
I'm sympathetic to this argument, to a point. For database code, executing in the database (ie, stored procedures and the like), table prefixing does make the code more searchable, and reduces the amount of context one needs to grok a singl
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by pradocchia 14y ago
Yes. Or alternately, creating a set of views to alias the base tables, and only allowing direct access to the views. Either way gets you some degree of surface area management. Procedures have some added benefit--it's a lot easier to inspec
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by pradocchia 14y ago
I don't know how many times I've read one of your comments and thought, "I should move to Pittsburg so I can work with this guy." Your sentiments about programming and what makes it so compelling resonate deeply with me.
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by pradocchia 14y ago
if you can't prove me wrong, I am right. Unless you are wrong, that is. Good listening mitigates against information censorship, and improves coordination. Your reports might do better if they listened better, and they might listen bett
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by pradocchia 14y ago
> At a hacker conference, people are generally more interested in talking about hacking and less about flirting; Even if I were trying to pick someone up at a conference, I'd talk about hacking, engage their interests, ask them what the
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by pradocchia 14y ago
This is merely an issue of reciprocity. Reciprocal interest takes time to develop. Don't get ahead of yourself, and don't use the alpha male as your personal frame of reference--they are outliers.
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by pradocchia 14y ago
I think we've all had our John Galt moments. A righteous indignation at rentiers, large and small. It comes from a good place--the sense that you are giving something to others. But there is a lot of give and take in the world, some easily
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by pradocchia 14y ago
> If you think science is just everything we can fit in a box... no, I don't. you misunderstand. willfully? or just hubris? box == frame of reference == paradigm == system of thought == set of axioms, habits, etc, that fit together into
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by pradocchia 14y ago
if you could fit foucault into that box, he would no longer be foucault, yes? Just another piece of science. perhaps there is a single box of knowing--explicit, falsifiable knowing--and everything else is noise. this is attractive: learn a
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by pradocchia 14y ago
I've avoided installing any facebook mobile apps out of fear of specifically this kind of thing. I'm much more comfortable keeping it quarantined in a web browser, away from my real contacts list, even if that browser interface is compara
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by pradocchia 14y ago
Likewise, some people are born ugly, and ugly people are more likely to be poor, and why didn't TFA mention all the research on this? Contra-point: the rich have more resources to invest in beauty. Contra-point: but surely there are some be
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by pradocchia 14y ago
if that's the best they're genetically equipped to do Gosh I'd be ashamed to make such an argument. It's a) incredibly loaded, and b) carries incredible risk in the event that someone takes it to heart and actually starts acting along tho
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by pradocchia 14y ago
FYI, Microryza is a pun on mycorrhiza, "a symbiotic association between a fungus and the roots of a vascular plant": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycorrhiza http://mycorrhizas.info/
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by pradocchia 14y ago
if you replace "productivity" with "effectiveness", it feels even more true, with the emphasis on doing the right work, rather volume of work. as programmers, if we do the right work, our software "produces" more, so we readily conflate the
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by pradocchia 14y ago
In Peopleware , they also observed that some programmers did not themselves appear to produce much, but their presence on a team made others more productive. They were not managers, they were not leads, they just helped the team work bet
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by pradocchia 14y ago
It is axiomatic. Maybe I could prove it directly, but as an axiom, it is more productive than "some people are smart, some people are stupid". For example, when you look at children, or look at history, or look at other cultures, you see pa
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by pradocchia 14y ago
I can have patience with people that have limited capabilities, but people who choose to act stupid? You assume it's a choice, as if at the brink of decision, someone says, "I'll do the stupid thing." But in real life, you see people moti
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by pradocchia 14y ago
Sivers has it right, and I'm disappointed by the reaction here. People are smart. This should be your baseline. From there, people may do or say stupid things. It may become pathological. But the person has not lost his capacity to be smart
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by pradocchia 14y ago
To a database person, the database is all about business rules: what we recognize as a "thing", what we record about these things, and how they relate to other things. ie, what are the facts about the business, and how do we reason about th
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by pradocchia 14y ago
If we have strong evidence against hypothesis X, we should require at least moderately strong evidence for hypothesis X before we accept it. That's a normative position: "We should require..." And a normative position with an excellent
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by pradocchia 14y ago
Others can quibble over definitions, but yes, it's effectively a fudge factor in favor of whatever we believe ought to be so, and against whatever we believe ought not be so. So on one hand, given the nature of statistics, it is necessa
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by pradocchia 14y ago
That's a fashionable yet very narrow framing of the matter. If you insist on this formulation, then indeed many many problems are insoluble.
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by pradocchia 14y ago
Please be charitable.
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by pradocchia 14y ago
I've found some places where OO works (the traditional UI widgets still tend to work pretty well) And that's where OO initially gained traction. At the time, UI was a major pain. OO was a good fit. UI elements have state, and can do thing
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by pradocchia 14y ago
I'll summarize the interesting part: Analytic thought appears to suppress intuition, with religious belief as a casualty. Ignoring religious belief for the moment--seems like a side effect, really--intuition is a really valuable thing. No
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by pradocchia 14y ago
I am not a 501 developer, but I work with a very good one, and he is an invaluable source of stability and perspective.
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by pradocchia 15y ago
just seems like epic procrastination to me.
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by pradocchia 15y ago
Just played for 15 min with my 5 year old. Line dot line dot hahaha. Good times.

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