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by qsort 4y ago
I mean, they are kind of the same in a different order. My takeaway is this: - Web technologies still dominate. Never bet against the web. - Java and C# are still the backbone of enterprise software. - People really like Python, much more t
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by qsort 4y ago
Interestingly, this is basically what CPython does to implement its native permutations function. The C source is, as always, extremely easy to understand: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Modu
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by qsort 4y ago
> There is no low-level API to SQL servers to create competition, so this is like saying CSS has no competition in browsers whatsoever. Yes... but there is only one Web, and many databases. Some of them don't use SQL. They are, in m
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Permutation Generation Methods [pdf](homepage.divms.uiowa.edu)
66 points by qsort 4y ago|9 comments
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by qsort 4y ago
Before it went down I noticed it was sending data through a socket, rendering everything at the very end. So basically a worse Blazor.
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by qsort 4y ago
Yes, but a marginal sales tax is impossible to enforce. Countries that do have sales taxes usually have a "normal" rate and several tiers of reduced rates for food and essential goods. E.g. in Italy the VAT rate is 22%, but some l
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by qsort 4y ago
The worst part of SQL is indeed how hard it is to compose. Something like D, where you would keep the relational model but add user-defined types would indeed be a strict improvement. The reason why I'm skeptical of most proposed alter
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by qsort 4y ago
> I have looked around the website and I really have no idea what this is. Judging from the browser developer tools, something that (very slowly) sends the client stuff via a socket.
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by qsort 4y ago
I'm contesting the claim that "in most parts of the world one can live car-free". It isn't the case, even more so in the case of the poorer constituency this subsidy is aimed to.
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by qsort 4y ago
In most of Europe, many people (and especially many among the poorest) don't live in big city centers that are well served by public transport. If you can do without, more power to you, but most people need cars. Not ebikes, not scoote
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by qsort 4y ago
Considering (a) how big and important its domain is; (b) its utter lack of any credible competition whatsoever; (c) the wealth of attempts to displace it, yes, I'd say it says something about the quality of SQL as a language. As a lan
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by qsort 4y ago
It's a spurious comparison. I wouldn't pick COBOL as part of my stack for a greenfield project. I would definitely 100% pick SQL as part of my stack for a greenfield project.
973.
by qsort 4y ago
As much as SQL could be better, it's a very strong local optimum. There is no credible replacement whatsoever for what it does. It's true people try to replace it, but most solutions are of rather questionable quality. I personall
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by qsort 4y ago
GP's reasoning is by modus tollens.
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by qsort 4y ago
Asking "is there an HN for women" is like asking "is there a Github for lesbians". It's implying women aren't welcome. On a website where if you don't explicitly say it yourself, nobody will ever know if y
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by qsort 4y ago
> I'm not entirely convinced with the approach. It seems that there should be some significant discounted concern as you project into the future. I agree, my objection to the serious (say, Bostrom's) version of the argument is
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by qsort 4y ago
It's at best a fringe interpretation, at worst a strawman. The basic argument of a longtermist position is that, similar to how throughout history we extended the set of entities we give moral value to (some humans -> all humans -&g
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by qsort 4y ago
School assignments are so different from the dynamics of a real workplace that I find this point very moot. Always hated them with a passion, but otoh I always enjoyed team math and programming competitions, situations where you have to do
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by qsort 4y ago
This is literally ahistorical. The overwhelming majority of consequential protests/rebellions/revolutions were heavily endorsed by the literati class. Why do you think freedom of speech and expanding education are classically li
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by qsort 4y ago
I think the author isn't a native speaker, that's all. The somewhat broken English is delightful irony if anything.
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10 years of Ecce Homo, the worst artistic restoration that changed a city(archyde.com)
8 points by qsort 4y ago|9 comments
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by qsort 4y ago
- Huge ecosystem. - Common stuff (opening files, dealing with databases, string processing, math, regexps) is very easy. Sane defaults. - Works well with the existing C ecosystem. It's not a "rewrite everything in X" language
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by qsort 4y ago
I think the fatal flaw is that there is no upgrade path towards sanity. If I start from a jupyter notebook or a script or whatever, it's trivial to build upon it. In Excel it's just an endless descent into madness. All those funky
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by qsort 4y ago
It's more about resolving the ambiguity of a negative question. Taking GP's example: You don’t like me, do you? If you just answer "yes", it's unclear if you mean "logical yes" = "It's tru
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by qsort 4y ago
Most famously, Latin has no word for "yes". Different circumlocutions to say "yes" evolved into the words for "yes" in romance languages. "sic" -> si/sim (italian, spanish, portuguese) "h
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by qsort 4y ago
Yes, that's my point. What these articles do is effectively to "hijack" that metric.
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by qsort 4y ago
It has some merit when you are comparing different solutions. For example (and I know people loathe python on here, I'm just using it for the sake of example, please bear with me), writing a simple web service in python takes fewer lin
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by qsort 4y ago
I think what I'm getting at is this: it's wrong to think that there exists any such thing as "the organization". Like "the government" or "the people", it's a useful shorthand but it doesn't
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by qsort 4y ago
I don't think many would say it's how the world ought to work, but it definitely is how the world does work. The coordination problem just gets intractable at a certain scale.
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by qsort 4y ago
> What would you suggest people invest in right now ? A mix of high quality long term bonds and stocks, depending on the desired risk profile, the same boring answer you'll get from anybody else. > Demographic collapses incoming

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