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by ripley12 7y ago
This is a strange comment to read as a Vancouverite. Amazon’s has thousands of employees for years now, they had 600 jobs open last I checked. Microsoft’s main downtown office has one of the most prominent locations in the city, plus a huge
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by ripley12 7y ago
While I don't disagree with most of your points, NuShell's recent popularity seems to suggest that there is a demand for shells that operate on structured data – even in the Unix world. I dislike much of PowerShell's UX (synt
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by ripley12 7y ago
I love the idea, but the underlying data for the Tokyo region is wrong. The author seems to have used the population number for Tokyo Metropolis specifically (13.1M) but the geography for a much larger regional area which is closer to 30M p
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by ripley12 7y ago
It would be nice if the user could specify a title that will be used for all events. I'd absolutely use this to block off some time for project work, and I have no reason not to label the events honestly ("Blocked off" or &qu
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by ripley12 7y ago
This is a very funny idea. Would be nice to see more options for customizing event titles in the future.
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by ripley12 7y ago
I've been using Hugo for a few years. I like it generally, but I have mixed feelings about using Go for templating. Compilation and generation is blazing fast, which is great for short edit-compile-debug cycles. On the other hand, Go&#
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by ripley12 7y ago
Outsourcing it to a search engine is pretty easy. I do something like the following for DuckDuckGo: <form id="search" method="get" action="//duckduckgo.com/"> <input type="t
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Temporal facilities in SQL, and their implementation in commercial DBMSs(www2.cs.arizona.edu)
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by ripley12 7y ago
I read it a couple years ago. Quite good, but I still think Janet Abbate’s Inventing the Internet is better (more technical detail, better analysis of the political conflicts that led to the internet in its current form).
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by ripley12 7y ago
> I would avoid using Unix timestamps or anything that is too implementation dependent (internal sequence numbers, etc.) if you are going to build it yourself. I generally agree, but this might depend on the use case. Timestamps (as they
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by ripley12 7y ago
SQL Server supports only half of the SQL:2011 temporal features – it does system-versioned tables but not application-time tables. When I asked MS engineers about it at Build 2018, there were no concrete plans to implement application-time.
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by ripley12 7y ago
That's quite cool, thanks. Documentation for the temporal chaining features in case anyone else is curious: https://goldmansachs.github.io/reladomo-kata/reladomo-tour-d...
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by ripley12 7y ago
This is one of my favourite topics. Most large DBs I've seen in the wild use some form of temporal tables, but it's often a hacky hand-rolled solution. I'd really like to see more support for bitemporal tables from vendors. A
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by ripley12 7y ago
Software development is a really big space, people can be experienced in certain areas but not others. I have a CS degree but am largely self-taught when it comes to web development; I found the article useful.
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by ripley12 7y ago
The ability to format markup with keyboard shortcuts seems to be gone now. Previously you could select some text, type ctrl-i, and it would add the necessary markup to make the selected text italic. Same for bold text etc. Still, I'll
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by ripley12 7y ago
Andy’s gags are a tiny, tiny fraction of the material. Like, ~5min out of 10+ hours of lectures in a given class. They’re really easy to skip over if you don’t like them.
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by ripley12 7y ago
Interesting, thanks! I have tried DataGrip briefly with Postgres – my first impression was that it's a competent tool for things that are generic across all RDBMSs, but limited in RDBMS-specific management/administration functiona
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by ripley12 7y ago
This is mentioned in the episode.
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by ripley12 7y ago
You’re a little combative, huh? As I’m sure you’re aware, publishing benchmarks of commercial RDBMSs is usually prohibited - I’m just passing on what I’ve heard from an expert about query optimizers.
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by ripley12 7y ago
> What makes SQL Server so much better than, say, PostgreSQL or MariaDB? Tooling and speed. I can vouch for the quality of SQL Server's tooling – SSMS is very nicely integrated with SQL Server. If you watch the CMU DB Group's l
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by ripley12 7y ago
> SSMS is an unusable hog. ...huh? SSMS (plus the free Red Gate SQL Search addin) is hands-down the best DB tooling I've ever used. If you're aware of similarly full-featured equivalents for Postgres (or any other RDBMS), I&#x2
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by ripley12 7y ago
Yup, but I think the problem stems from symlinks being relatively uncommon in NTFS compared to nix filesystems - it just wasn't a priority for the original .NET designers who were mostly targeting Windows. https://blogs.wind
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by ripley12 7y ago
It is still a 2nd class citizen, IMO – but I think that's improving rapidly. Some examples: -IDE support from MS is markedly better on Windows (real Visual Studio) and Mac (VS for Mac). VS Code+Omnisharp is still pretty rough around th
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by ripley12 7y ago
Same for me on macOS.
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by ripley12 7y ago
Personally, HCL is what bothers me. Yes, it’s infrastructure-as-code... but that code is in a niche proprietary language. It gets unpleasant as soon as you go beyond trivial static config. Pulumi and AWS CDK are taking what I think is a bet
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Linux .NET Development in 2019: What You Need to Know(reillywood.com)
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by ripley12 7y ago
I really love Adrian Colyer's presentation of academic papers. He has a knack for summarizing the essential points of a complex topic.
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by ripley12 7y ago
Yes, but it's easy for an organization of Google's scale to de-anonymize those users using browser fingerprinting. https://amiunique.org/
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by ripley12 7y ago
(edit: the source in question has removed the tweet, so I have too)
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by ripley12 7y ago
I don't know how I ever got by without iStat Menus. Very customizable system metrics in the menu bar. https://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/

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