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by sjwright 6y ago
> Elon, on the other hand, has a very clear vision, and it can be communicated in simple statements That’s only because Elon’s particular house style lends to such vacuous motherhood statements. I have no problem with vacuous motherhood
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by sjwright 6y ago
> I differ, in that I don't think Steve Jobs had a clear vision that he could communicate to others. I never said he was a good communicator of vision. That said, just because Jobs failed to steer Apple from the grave isn’t evidence
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by sjwright 6y ago
Steve had personality flaws at least as severe as Elon. The difference was Steve was a much better showman and had a laser focus on the nuances of messaging. Whereas Elon embodies the age of Twitter. Yes, there are plenty of specific even
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by sjwright 6y ago
I personally feel there's a big overlap between Jobs and Musk—but none more so than the fact that they had the key combination of sufficient intelligence, clear vision, high self-confidence and (most importantly) strong influence over
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by sjwright 6y ago
I still write web in ColdFusion and (mostly) plain JavaScript. Seriously. I’m not cool at all.
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by sjwright 6y ago
You’re the one who wrote the logic; YOUR code is what has forcibly collapsed the null to false. It’s absurd for you to write code and then complain when it works exactly as written. If you want the lack of data to be acknowledged in a case
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by sjwright 6y ago
A colleague has an S10 which I've spent a lot of time using. It's certainly a massive improvement on what typical Android screens have been like in the past. It's about on par with the iPhone.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Tweeting is (generally speaking) a public performance, not something which is "sent" to someone. The same applies to most open platforms, including Hacker News comments like this one.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Null can mean whatever you want it to mean. It can mean not dead yet if you want. And the logic of NULL works in that case too—two people who haven’t died yet don’t have equal dates of death. The problem with having a value called “none” is
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by sjwright 6y ago
No, the answer must be false. Since null = null is false, your case statement will return the else value. You hard coded it to be false, therefore it will return false.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Hard disagree. It should be impossible to make any truthful claim about a NULL with respect to any other value including NULL. Thus it is correct that both foo = bar is false and foo <> bar is false. Were it any other way, joins would
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by sjwright 6y ago
You should always think about NULL state for every field when designing your schema. If you don't have a clear sense of what the NULL state shall mean for a given field, the field should not allow null values. For example: a shopping c
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by sjwright 6y ago
Admittedly non-string fields do make me wish for two kinds of NULL so I can differentiate between zero, confirmed-nothing and unknown. But it's never been an issue for me in practice.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Seriously? That's the sort of thing I'd expect to find in MySQL 3-point-something, not Oracle.
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by sjwright 6y ago
I disagree, because while I agree there are multiple conflated concepts within NULL (which can be rehabilitated in the schema if necessary) in practice it works correctly either way. If two different products have the price of $0 and theref
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by sjwright 6y ago
The end user isn't the distro though.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Interesting. The SQL concept of null always made perfect sense to me. Two people with the same middle name would have equality with respect to the string value of middleName. The same applies with two people known to have no middle name—whe
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by sjwright 6y ago
A Chromebook?
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by sjwright 6y ago
If that’s your threat model, stop carrying a smartphone.
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by sjwright 6y ago
And the huge number of severe cases will overwhelm health care systems by an order of magnitude, risking the lives of other people who will need medical care to survive.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Hard disagree. I love my OLED TV and I appreciate its vast superiority over LCD TVs. But I upgraded my iPhone this cycle and agonised between the 11 and the 11 Pro. I wanted the OLED screen to be way better and it just wasn’t. Maybe the dif
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by sjwright 6y ago
In fairness, the 10.2 inch iPad with cellular is $459 ...and only has half the storage.
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by sjwright 6y ago
And the real question is: will history repeat itself with Netflix, et al? HBO demonstrates that it’s still an open question.
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by sjwright 6y ago
The problem is that Word is a WYSIWYG editor, so it can’t ignore second spaces. It must affect the layout. (FWIW, I think WYSIWYG editors are a bad hack and should be avoided wherever possible. Either use a semantic editor or a real page
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by sjwright 6y ago
Apologies for not being clear. I wasn’t thinking about any specific French car, just that it had a bulgy, mid-2000s Peugeot/Citroen feel about it. Beyond that I’d describe its body shape as almost painfully generic. I was not accusing
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by sjwright 6y ago
True, from that Autocar gallery the Xpeng's body shape looks more like a bad copy of a French car with a few incidental sprinklings of Tesla that could have been described to Xpeng's designers over a brief telephone call. From the
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by sjwright 6y ago
> Need to work on this. For what possible reason? During normal times there would be no reason to maintain beer stockpiles. During "challenging" times, those who would benefit from a long life supply of alcohol should look at w
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by sjwright 6y ago
Though the social results will be fascinating... I'm sure there are researchers salivating over this opportunity.
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by sjwright 6y ago
My theory would be that they’re the highest volume sellers, and where the margins are thinnest.
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by sjwright 6y ago
No, because while the CDC did incorrectly dismiss the value of masks and recommended that people focus on hand washing and distancing, they never said you must not wear a mask.

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