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by tabtab 4y ago
Centralization is usually cheaper and easier to manage. Don't decentralize because it seems "the in thing". There are exceptions, but they are relatively rare. Everyone wants to grow to the size of Facebook, Amazon, etc., but
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by tabtab 4y ago
I learned to "speak modem" in order to test a bank of modems. The calling station was roughly 100 feet from the modem bank. If a call got jammed up, I needed to know which modem was stuck, being it used a next-modem-up rule. If I
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by tabtab 4y ago
I'm not a troll, I'm an "agitation engineer!"
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by tabtab 4y ago
As mentioned under the other "XML" suggestion, dedicated services can be created to serve up the standard even if DB vendors don't cooperate.
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by tabtab 4y ago
It could have a binary format option (in addition to those formats listed). But also many kinds of apps don't need heavily compressed/compact data transfers. The "old" way won't go away, just have an alternative.
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by tabtab 4y ago
It generally takes roughly 5 years for such standards to trickle into common systems. But separate software could make a server gateway/portal to those database products without it. In other words, a server-based adaptor. Database-vend
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by tabtab 4y ago
Why isn't there an HTTP protocol like "Query:" or "SQL:" such that drivers and ODBC/JDBC are not required to talk to a typical database? In other words, a database web service standard. Here's a sample of
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by tabtab 4y ago
"Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it." I haven't seen any "low-code" tool with technology and ideas noticeably beyond what such tools tried in the 90's. If there were some kind of breakthr
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by tabtab 4y ago
We had a bout of a naive executive who wanted to "replace programmers" with such "instant" tools (MS-Power-stuff, cough cough). His team was frustrated that IT was skeptical. I had to write up a 4 page description of why
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by tabtab 4y ago
Our bodies are designed to live like medieval peasants: work many hours of physical labor and eat mostly unprocessed boring food.
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by tabtab 4y ago
So where is "Fortran compiler written in Lisp"? :-)
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by tabtab 4y ago
> Governments are to blame for...not push for alternative energy sources while they had the chance Here in the US roughly 1/2 the population believes climate change is a hoax or exaggerated by researchers to get gov't grant mon
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by tabtab 4y ago
Per #1, why can't it be per module or per routine? Framework-oriented API's we often want "tighter" while domain-centric glue-code can be looser. Per #2, why not a language that facilitates "lint" style inspect
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by tabtab 4y ago
That's not one of the sample buttons? I was once at a modern "junk art" museum, and came across a light-switch under repair. It took several seconds before I realized it was not an (intentional) exhibit piece.
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by tabtab 4y ago
I thought I spotted the bottom of crypto stocks to buy, but was very wrong. Bottom-detection is a tricky art.
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by tabtab 4y ago
I'd like to see longer-term revenue reports to make sure their P/E ratios (or similar) are decent. The staff reductions etc. have yet to fully play out in terms of costs and results.
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by tabtab 4y ago
Sounds like this feature should be built into the Windows releases of Firefox. Are there downsides? I almost never had Firefox crash for more than a decade of heavy usage, then starting roughly 2 years ago it got janky quite often. Somethin
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by tabtab 4y ago
Western music has certain "rules" that our ears are used to. If the computer limits variation/random-ness to stay within those rules, it will sound at least "pleasant", as the bot won't let you drive outside th
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by tabtab 4y ago
Cool! It's kind of a glorified wind chime.
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by tabtab 4y ago
"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." ― Yogi Berra For every ten IT trends/fads, roughly only one has staying power in my observation. The others often move into niches or fade. If anyone was tha
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by tabtab 4y ago
This reminds me of Oracle Forms: It was by today's standards simple, cheap (overall), facilitated compact code that mirrored close to biz logic, and easy to deploy. It used a kind of "GUI browser" so you didn't have to i
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by tabtab 4y ago
If you don't get it right, you'll get a paleVioletRed-slip.
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by tabtab 4y ago
"Happy little JavaScript errors"
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by tabtab 4y ago
The problem with such frameworks is that they depend on JavaScript, which was not meant as a systems software language. JavaScript is simply the wrong tool for the job. What would help would be a state-ful GUI markup language so JS doesn&#x
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by tabtab 4y ago
> I find web development to be unnecessarily complex, but I refuse to believe that’s true. Sorry, it's true. There are frameworks to make web dev "easy" in terms of less typing, but the learning curve for those is huge. T
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by tabtab 4y ago
He did it on 5th Ave. :-)
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by tabtab 4y ago
I'm looking for a library that draws lines and arrows between boxes, but the boxes can generally be plain old div's or iframe's. HTML can do the box content, it's just the lines & arrows that are the hard part. The b
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Evolution generally requires "extinction events" to shake things up.
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Looks like an "Expert System" builder.
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by tabtab 4y ago
An application (like maps) and an online brochure are two different animals. A brochure for a company with a hundred or fewer products should generally be able to do fine with just HTML. Maybe a generator engine can assist with formatting,

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