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by stana 3y ago
That Scala SQL syntax parsing/validation is neat. Anything equivalent in Python?
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by stana 3y ago
'custom' part is the problem. Dealing with few vendor service APIs everyone has a different idea and syntax on how to implement simple AND, OR filter. Few weeks back spent half a day trying to figure out what the correct syntax is
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by stana 3y ago
We are Borg.
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by stana 3y ago
Romanticism of 19th century can be thought of as rationality winning over less rational religion. The 'God is dead' sort of thinking. Yet in the midst of all of this rationality and scientific progress we end up with 2 world wars?
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by stana 3y ago
My daughter made me watch Nosferatu (1922) on a hundred year anniversary of the movie. Very interesting use of shadows.
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by stana 3y ago
As cheap money era seems to be ending, long term quality product/service might be the only viable strategy going forward.
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by stana 3y ago
"Age is no better qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost. One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living." Henry Thoreau
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by stana 5y ago
"If I move out, and I rent out my home, it covers monthly payments approximately exactly." You cannot borrow for rent, so rents follow income growth more closely. So in some expensive real estate markets, if no income growth, rent
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by stana 5y ago
"The price tag is only justified when there's no end in sight to the appreciation." Isn't that pretty much the definition of an asset bubble. Prices have decoupled from underlying asset utility (eg. rent) and it has beco
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by stana 5y ago
*Linus Torvalds quote
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by stana 5y ago
And according to Alain de Botton we have replaced this artistocratic snobbery with snobbery of profession - "Meeting someone first question you likely to be asked - What do you do? - And you will become subject of interest, of be left
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by stana 5y ago
There seem to be many non tech savvy people who were shocked by docos like Social Dilemma and don't understand they are the product. They think they are 'just looking at cats'. Maybe these companies should clearly display on
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by stana 6y ago
"One person remembered that he ate a lot of sticky buns; another said that he loved ketchup." Searching github for 'sticky buns' reveals what seems to be unused account - ghostmachina "dna. deep learning. info theo
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by stana 10y ago
Admin is an app written in Django. Don't see how evaluating admin app applies to evaluating Django.
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by stana 10y ago
Aren't interest rates reduced to stimulate a struggling economy, and increased if economy improving?
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by stana 10y ago
"... property owner, who will just pass on the tax" Rental market is more of a market than say, buying a house. It is very much determine by salaries people make in the area. Unlike buying a property, which also has the element of
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by stana 10y ago
I guess I naively see it as an umbrella identity for the other ones and it makes sense if your parents from different parts, or don't like the divison of the 90s (It pretty much means - south-slavic). But it has been heavily politicize
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by stana 10y ago
Many who identified as Yugoslavians left in 90s and are now Americans, Germans, Australians or Canadians. They don't live in the Balkans because ethnically clean countries and ethnicity ranking so high on the political agenda is offens
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by stana 10y ago
No mention of share allocations at the company which could affect salaries?
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by stana 10y ago
Brutalism not back according to the authorities in Sydney. The Sirius building waiting for the wrecking ball as we speak. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius_building
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by stana 10y ago
Isn't the finance industry in conflict between supporting stable growth of 'real' economy by providing capital vs. their ability to gain during volotile times. Or can someone enlighten me why they are so oblivious to asset bu
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by stana 10y ago
So how do you rate the situation in Libya before and after Gaddafi?
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by stana 10y ago
As mentioned in this article, in most cases, father and the business do not move, only part of the family. Apart for spending in property and luxury items, looks like wealthy migration are passive participants in the economy - not starting
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by stana 10y ago
One important benefit of using an ORM is not being locked in with a particular DB server tech. Good luck migrating large app not using ORM, from, say, MySQL to Postgres if, for example, Postgres replication is something you are all of sudde
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by stana 10y ago
Surely if you expected someone to open your Yahoo mailbox other side of the world to read your draft email, it would have to be saved on their servers.
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by stana 10y ago
Sometimes you just want to share a photo from your daily routine with your family to just let them know you are ok. So not so trivial. In this context why should I have to think about how relevant this stuff is hanging around 5 years from n
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by stana 10y ago
I grew up in the Balkans and was taught in school that assassination of Franc Ferdinand in Sarajevo was jusified act to free South Slavic people from German oppression. To justify the aftermath of WWI - the education at the time said the Wo
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by stana 11y ago
Wow! Thanks for this link. Reading this makes me question if relational db-s best way to design accounting software.
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by stana 11y ago
In Australia within a few visits to the dentist the cost could easily start going over $5000. I am hearing more and more stories of people going overseas to do dental work - and a lot of these I would say reasonably well off people - upper
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by stana 12y ago
Not prevent it. But around half the purchases in housing being for investment seems a bit distorted. As far as regulation I would start by encouraging lending to productive parts of the economy (business, innovation, startup, infrastructure

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