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by sago 6y ago
How realistic is it to have no joined letters? Do many people really write large scale texts letter by letter with space between each? Sadly, the screenshot looks obviously artificial to me. Like handwriting fonts, I'd be very surprise
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by sago 6y ago
All these worlds are yours except Ceres. Use them together. Use them in peace.
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by sago 6y ago
> I always get the feeling that people love ORMs because they don't want to learn SQL. I suspect that's the problem. It's neither my feeling or my experience. Every platform/language/OS/chip I know has annoy
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by sago 6y ago
Meh. All analogies are partial. If there was an ORM that dealt with everything but a flaky end of life database, sure start working on it. But this is advocating picking one platform. Like creating Chrome-only JavaScript. I guess the neares
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by sago 6y ago
"Imagine hating databases" ... "just so you don't have to deal with them" Do you normally respond to issues by trying to characterise people? Imagine this fictional world where anyone that disagrees with me is incom
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by sago 6y ago
> That's because you are not using the power of postgresql... Isn't that a potential positive? I mean, yeah, and those darn programmers with their 'platform independent languages'. Why are you not using the power of a
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by sago 6y ago
tldr: If you don't want to scroll down the massive header and repeated statement of the title: 1. Double asterisk is the exponentiation operator. 2. _ can be used in numbers, e.g. 1_000_000 Also (and not in the article) both are also t
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by sago 6y ago
If you are using a negative numbers you can do it in three ways. 1. positive numbers represent the default for an account (A positive number in a debit account is a debit, but a positive number in a liability say, is a credit). This is done
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by sago 6y ago
> Signed values are the way to go! 100% agree! > For one example, read the docs for Beancount, which is mentioned above. Do you have other examples too? You are dead right with this one. It is the opposite way to the way the systems I
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by sago 6y ago
Neat. Thank you. I get what you're saying now. And that makes sense. You can see the balance. Because it will balance. Or you'd know which of the things were debit accounts and which went credit accounts. Yep. But I definitely bet
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by sago 6y ago
> Did it displayed assets It's an API. There are many tools built on top of it, many with UIs. I'm sure they display things in many different ways for people internally and externally. The system I was working was back-end. It
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by sago 6y ago
It's definitely not my idea! It wasn't Goldman Sachs, but I did a consultancy 15 Years ago for a large bank (my little job was a long way from programming the core, but used it extensively). Their system stored debit as negative n
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by sago 6y ago
This has been an interesting conversation with several people. I am really surprised how much negative numbers are confusing or interpreted as my idiosyncrasy. > I’ve seen financial accounts quite more complex than two lines Definitely.
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by sago 6y ago
> Equity is similar to a liability. Ít is owed to the owners of the entity. You can kind of see the easy rationale there. I'm not sure it's very deep though. Revenue is in the same group (Credit). And the assets are like expens
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by sago 6y ago
If the things you're doing are so simple that you don't have to worry about credit or debit, you are free to show it that way. But if you are doing accounting, debits and credits and balancing is important. So yes, if you are happ
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by sago 6y ago
In a conventional double accounting system: Deposit Asset>Cash in Hand CR$1m Asset>Bank: DB$1m House purchase Asset>Cash in Hand CR$1m Asset>Property: DB$1m So all I'm suggesting is to use of negative numb
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by sago 6y ago
A=L+E is true because L and E are Credit dollars and A is Debit dollars. And the total Debit is equal to the total Credit. But instead of using debit and credit unsigned dollars, you can use negative numbers: Credit is Positive, Debit negat
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by sago 6y ago
Yes on both fronts. Thanks for continuing until we've got on the same page. The only slight curve ball in your part one is that transactions are not always between two accounts. The joke is that 'double entry' sometimes has m
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by sago 6y ago
I suspect the misconception might be that you think individual accounts must balance (Or think that what I'm saying). Transactions always balance, companies always balance. In double entry accounting you track where money came from to
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by sago 6y ago
I see, sorry. Thanks for clarifying your question. Transactions always balance. Money always comes from somewhere, and it always goes to somewhere. Total debit always equals total credit. In a double entry accounting system you have to say
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by sago 6y ago
Debit is where you put money. Credit is where it came from. I am not inventing this. Money in your bank is debit in _your_ accounting. You are very welcome to treat it as positive and add. As long as you keep track of where every positive n
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by sago 6y ago
Transaction: Income > Work: $200 (or $200CR) Assets > Bank Account: -$200 (or $200DB) This is exactly how it would be stored in any software system behind-the-scenes, and how it would be submitted in statutory accounts. The only thing
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by sago 6y ago
Except in your case you need all the rules about income and expenses. And loads of grey cases get weird (it is possible to have assets or liability of the wrong sign), and require serious accountancy expertise to know all the rules to get t
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by sago 6y ago
It is not incorrect. To make everything positive (and use the subtraction as you have) you need to have two different types of 'positivity' Credit and debit. And then you have to remember which things are subtracted and added so
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by sago 6y ago
I agree. Except I think you're being generous :) It would not work for a bank. The only reason they 'sort of flip' is that they give your account from their perspective. Your statement is a slice of their accounting.
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by sago 6y ago
I always felt that equation was confusing. Because then the sign has to be taught separately, or numbers have to have two columns (credit and debit) and you need to understand where each one is. assets + liabilities + equity = 0 Seemed much
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by sago 6y ago
> If someone has a fuzzy logic that definitively answers questions such as "what is the boundary between an individual and a system?" Ah, I see. That was our disconnect. That's the opposite of the idea. The logic is just t
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by sago 6y ago
Weird. > Because they're trying to find a solution to the sorites paradox, Exactly and explicitly the opposite! Why assume that dynamics are crisp if 'individual' isn't?
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by sago 6y ago
I suspect the science isn't quite 'seeking the individual'. Rather than trying to find fancier ways to define the lines, are there lines at all? Perhaps fuzzy grouping opens up more powerful models. What began as co-evolution
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by sago 6y ago
> I've heard that a major use case It was. At peak perhaps 10 years ago. It is telling that the game engine citation in that article is from 2009. Now the ecosystem of game engines is very different. Very few games are written in ra

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