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by rowls66 4y ago
I was thinking the same thing, which leads me to say "This is where I came in." That is to say, I have seen what happens next. Maybe it time for retirement.
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by rowls66 4y ago
I have worked on a system that took exaclty this approach for ~17 years. The database was Oracle, at the time we started 'SKIP LOCKED' was not even a documented feature of the Oracle DBMS. It is now. The approach worked quite well
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by rowls66 4y ago
XA scales well enough for many workloads. I believe that too many developers discard solutions like XA because it "scales quite poorly" without doing serious analysis of how much scalability they are likely to need and whether XA
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by rowls66 4y ago
This is a little off topic, but related. Does anyone know of any tools that would allow information about the size and shape of expected data to be provided along with a database schema so that developers could get instant feedback if queri
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by rowls66 4y ago
Based on the natural language query provided, "Who were the largest biotech investors in 2022?" I can think of at least six possible answers based on these questions: 1. Does largest mean dollar amount, or number of investments?
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by rowls66 4y ago
I stand corrected. However, I don't believe that the class source file needs to be in a directory (or hierarchy of directories) that matches the package name. Many IDE's enforce this as well, which I believe is not correct.
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by rowls66 4y ago
Yes, commonly used ClassLoaders do care about file names and directories. The Java compiler javac does not. The javac compiler compiles compilation units which are generally files, but name does not matter.
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by rowls66 4y ago
More importantly is what functional languages leave out or restrict. Imperative languages can add functional language features, but functional purity is not enforced, the full benefit of functional programming is not realized.
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by rowls66 4y ago
Recent versions of Java have type inference.
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by rowls66 4y ago
I think that he means generating application code from a database schema. A tool like Jooq ( https://www.jooq.org/ ). If so, then I agree with him.
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by rowls66 4y ago
There was no .NET in the 90's. It was Java vs. ActiveX vs. Flash. I agree that Java support in browsers was never as good as it could have been. Sun never had direct control over a mainstream browser, and the companies that did each ha
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by rowls66 4y ago
You can do it with YAML, and when you do, you end up with something big and complicated like XML became.
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by rowls66 4y ago
That is true, so the library should throw the checked exception, and if the caller has no way to handle it, it should wrap the checked exception in an unchecked exception and throw the unchecked exception. Not too hard, and library clients
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by rowls66 4y ago
I agree. When Paypal was founded, there was amazement within the industry that they were able to run a money transfer service without being completely overrun by fraud. I was told that Paypal's real secret sauce was their fraud detecti
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by rowls66 4y ago
This problem does not seem unique to railroads. Any business that depends on human labor to deliver a service would have this problem. Airlines, restaurants, theatre companies. The way to deal with this is to have excess labor available (sl
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by rowls66 4y ago
Not sure if NYS generates 70% of its electricity from hydro, but is possible that 70% of the electricity that NYS consumes comes from hydro. I believe that NYS imports a lot of electricity from Canada where it is generated from hydro.
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by rowls66 4y ago
Most financial companies have large balance sheets, a small amount of equity that is highly leveraged, and asset values based on many assumptions. If the assumptions change, a business can go from everything is great to insolvent really fas
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by rowls66 4y ago
Isn't this article talking about "mega-stars"? Only mega-stars can charge $600 for a concert ticket.
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by rowls66 4y ago
Not sure if it has been mentioned, but the increase in ticket prices is probably directly related to the collapse of record and CD sales over that past 20 year. Back in the day when live concerts were "cheap" it was partially beca
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by rowls66 4y ago
Agree, love that tool. Unfortunately it does not fully support Java 8, and that seems unlikely to change. I have never used it on a large project, I don’t think that compile times are good.
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by rowls66 4y ago
I doubt that Japan would like to have them.
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by rowls66 4y ago
The early days of the web were over by the time Microsoft got involved.
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by rowls66 4y ago
Disagree. The issues described are not with the underlying payment system, but with the integration between the merchant and their payment processor. These integrations are complex, and with thousands of merchants integrating mistakes are l
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by rowls66 4y ago
From my experience in cross border payments, sanctions screening (Office of Foreign Asset Control - OFAC) is the most likely source of the problem. Most likely, your customer's bank uses a US bank as a correspondent for all of their US
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by rowls66 4y ago
This is right, therefore, in most cases, a library should throw a checked exception, and the caller should decide whether it is an expected error and either handle it or rethrow it, or it is unexpected and rethrow a RuntimeException.
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by rowls66 4y ago
If it were a single job, it would be easy, but: The Federal Reserve System has been given a dual mandate—pursuing the economic goals of maximum employment and price stability.
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by rowls66 4y ago
Bank's make money on loans. In order to make loans, a bank needs money to lend which it needs to borrow. A bank's customer deposits are often an inexpensive source of borrowing for the bank. It sounds like Volt was trying to grow
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by rowls66 4y ago
Maybe you should retitle your article "Why Rust is one of many great choices for startups"
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by rowls66 4y ago
BTC price still over 24,000. Far from the bottom.
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by rowls66 4y ago
I assume that the USDT holding of the big exchanges are on behalf of their customers. I those customer begin asking to convert their USDT to USD, that could be a massive run.

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