saxenaabhi

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by saxenaabhi 16d ago
You mentioned elsewhere "But PL/SQL is a horrifying language. You have barely any facilities for modularity, encapsulation or composition" That's not true about PL/SQL. You can modularize/encapsulate and compos
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by saxenaabhi 16d ago
Why wouldn't you use stored procedures for it? For internal teams why is it better to have a API? I can see usecases in which API could make sense, but it doesn't matter in most cases. SQL already has authorization/authentica
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by saxenaabhi 16d ago
This is very poorly written and is wrong on basic facts. > So what does a stored procedure get us? > Absolutely nothing! Well, I mean, headache for one. > ... we have to deploy migrations to update our queries, and we have to run
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by saxenaabhi 26d ago
I have had many fitbits, but for my mom I purchased an Apple watch because it had sleep apnea notifications. I think that's essential for almost everyone. I can't imagine why google would skip such a critical feature in Health Tra
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by saxenaabhi 1mo ago
Punjab and Rajasthan have the highest proportion of vegetarians and also rank on the top of male/female height charts. Admittedly it's not fully vegan but still. Indians have long recognized the virtues of a vegetarian diet: both
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by saxenaabhi 1mo ago
I prefer following: 1) CDC for archiving/recovery or as an audit log 2) downstream consumers consuming a business-events table. Kind of like inverted event-sourcing pattern. CDC is sound for sure but only in the lowest technically sens
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by saxenaabhi 2mo ago
with a much higher chance of dying in 1975 Cessna 182? I suspect most rational consumers won't. Because of safety improvement they aren't comparable goods.
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by saxenaabhi 3mo ago
Maybe acceptable in some cases but the original example in this thread was about accounting and they use software to do the counting not humans. And even id humans/llms do it there would still be a need for systems of record with thing
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by saxenaabhi 4mo ago
IPO within year of founding? It it normal for startup in China?
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by saxenaabhi 4mo ago
Probably it's based on similar architecture as SAP HANA? With a main store and an in-memory delta store. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2213836.2213946
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by saxenaabhi 4mo ago
> I'm having a lot of trouble with distribution Maybe add a link to playstore/appstore under the generated promo code small things like this have outsized effect
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by saxenaabhi 4mo ago
Your app didn't silently break when you upgrade rails or any other gem? If ruby was statically typed the typechecker would have caught it.
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by saxenaabhi 4mo ago
Sure, but i don't think it's reasonable to hold given level of capability constant in a landscape where a give consumer of AI also has competitive pressures. I can't use last year's SOTA model when my competitors can use
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by saxenaabhi 4mo ago
Hey vira28, thanks a lot for your work. This is a very promising project because other alternative like supabase/etl, Kuvasz-streamer, Sequin all have some subtle issues. Few questions: 1) For a supabase project can we setup replicatio
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by saxenaabhi 4mo ago
As someone who uses dbos.dev, restate.dev, cf workflows here is a snippet from our Agents.md: Restate.dev: for payment integrations on northflank since its faster than cf workflows, independent of cf and its downtime and self-hostab
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by saxenaabhi 7mo ago
For those looking for a PaaS instead of VPS provider like hetzner I can suggest Northflank. We moved from Render to Northflank and couldn't be happier. Again non affiliated with either.
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by saxenaabhi 7mo ago
I did this search a month ago on Linkedin. Show number of jobs if you search for "Software Engineer". US: 77,000 European Economic Area: 58,000 India: 51,000 China: 48,000(probably undercounted) UK: 9,000
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by saxenaabhi 7mo ago
> It's almost impossossible to screen for "high performers" though That's not true? leetcode is crap, but usually you can learn a lot about a person from how they approach problems and on what kind of questions they
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by saxenaabhi 9mo ago
yes and I think animejs and others used this modal effectively.
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by saxenaabhi 9mo ago
Isn't 1.9k a bit high? Or is it a mid/high range bike? I heard in china you can get a escooter for 750$ on road, so I would have thought it would similar in vietnam?
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by saxenaabhi 9mo ago
> There won't be new intermediates or seniors any more to replace the ones that age out or quit the industry entirely in frustration of them not being there for actual creativity but to clean up AI slop, simply because there won&#x2
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by saxenaabhi 9mo ago
Why not post a github gist with prompt and code so that people here can give you their opinion?
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by saxenaabhi 9mo ago
Ah, Human beings! Famous for their determinism, reliability, and for not making logical errors!
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by saxenaabhi 9mo ago
> There are legitimate reasons for the startup ecosystem to focus firstly and primarily on getting the users/customers. I'm not arguing against that. What I am arguing is why does the industry need to be dominated by startups i
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by saxenaabhi 9mo ago
sir, you can search for "software engineer" on linkedin jobs and verify the count
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by saxenaabhi 9mo ago
I don't believe this sample to be representative. Linkedin shows the following US: 77,000 European Economic Area: 58,000 India: 51,000 China: 48,000(probably undercounted) UK: 9,000 Canada: 7,000 Brazil: 6
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by saxenaabhi 9mo ago
Linkedin shows the following US: 77,000 European Economic Area: 58,000 India: 51,000 China: 48,000(probably undercounted) UK: 9,000 Canada: 7,000 Brazil: 6,000 Mexico: 4,000 Aus & NZ: 2,000 East
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by saxenaabhi 10mo ago
I'm not sure you can make that assumption even when a human wrote that code. LLMs are competing with humans not with some abstraction. > The issue is that if it's struggling sometimes with basic instruction following, it's
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by saxenaabhi 10mo ago
fyi that happened to me with codex. but, why is it a big issue? if it does something bad, just reset the worktree and try again with a different model/agent? They are dirt cheap at 20/m and I have 4 subscription(claude, codex, cur
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by saxenaabhi 10mo ago
You give no reasons why you think it's a sound advice. My experience is following 1) Tx are faster when they are executed a sql function since you cut down on network roundtrip between statements. Also prevents users from doing fancy s

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