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by tabtab 5y ago
> and you start realizing that most modern software development is hard to beat for pointlessness. Indeed. It's kind of like gradually getting the Red Pill and realizing IT is mostly a fashion game where the hammers and screwdrivers
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by tabtab 5y ago
As an older developer, I can say you are facing an increasing headwind from the industry as you age. Yes, you can bust your gonads ever more to both keep up with changes and compensate for the negative stereotypes of "oldbies" to
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by tabtab 5y ago
> Document stores, key-value stores, column-oriented databases, graph databases can all be more suitable for a given tasks than relational databases. Can related features be add-ons to RDBMS rather than leaving the RDBMS world for good?
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by tabtab 5y ago
Testing and prototyping.
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by tabtab 5y ago
A key aspect that RDBMS lack compared to NoSql is dynamism . Dynamic Relational is a draft RDBMS idea that intends to fill that niche. Unlike the NoSql movement, it tries to keep as many "traditional" RDBMS idioms as possible whe
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by tabtab 5y ago
> never have to worry about overnight success bringing your services down. But the chances of becoming a viral sensation are very small compared to the probability of longer-term maintenance headaches you'll likely have under NoSql.
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by tabtab 5y ago
I watched "The Flying NaN" as a kid.
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by tabtab 5y ago
I find it's usually release with the minimum necessary features first. Once they digest those, then add on the next set based on feedback. The more incremental the better. But do keep likely future features in mind, such as leaving spa
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by tabtab 5y ago
Then the evening sun could potentially cause the same thing. There's a gap in houses across the street that may allow sun in at the right time of year.
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by tabtab 5y ago
Our garage door opener has this problem. At very specific times of the year the sun confuses the infrared blockage sensor. The cause occurred to me when I lined up my eye to see what the sensor was seeing when it was failing, and I noticed
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by tabtab 5y ago
> traditional marketing relies on a thing where the marketer tries to sell the consumer some feature of a product in a way that does not involve delving into details of the product...To a nerd, that avoidance is a very bad thing, becaus
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by tabtab 5y ago
Why the hell is there not a stateful GUI markup standard? Mice and desktops did not go away with the advent of mobile. They are still the bread and butter of business, for example. Thus, rather than reinvent the GUI adapter wheel for each a
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by tabtab 5y ago
How one wants to see them could depend; that's why I recommend using an RDBMS. One can "play back" transactions using different orders and filters. If teams get confused or accidentally "step on each others toes", t
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by tabtab 5y ago
> is easiest served by picking some CRDT library. RDBMS A.C.I.D. and transactions are also capable of much of the same.
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by tabtab 5y ago
My observation is that big orgs are full of waste due to bureaucracy and smaller orgs waste because they chase too many marketing gimmicks instead of solving real problems. Both types of orgs suffer each of these to a degree, it's just
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by tabtab 5y ago
If homo sapiens weren't around, then Neanderthals perhaps would have been first to civilization. They would have spread south and started trading and socializing more, as trade was one of the biggest boost to sapiens because one didn&#
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by tabtab 5y ago
People want clearer metrics for when to return to (almost) normal life. Most agree we shouldn't go on like this forever. Humans are social beings who don't like being cooped up and mumbling behind masks. The best metric is hospita
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by tabtab 5y ago
I for one approve the renaming.
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by tabtab 5y ago
A maze and cheese simulator.
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by tabtab 5y ago
They have almost no viable competition in the biz world. But such is needed, for MS will grow stubborn, complacent, and/or lazy without it, as monopolies usually do.
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by tabtab 5y ago
> colleagues are developing novel quantum field theories that try to encompass the weirdness of fractons by allowing some discrete behavior on top of a bedrock of continuous space-time. Try using AI and genetic algorithms to "bree
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by tabtab 5y ago
That sounds more like a computer simulation: you don't directly "move" an object, you copy it first and then delete the original. "God" is the Matrix Server Admin?
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by tabtab 5y ago
Seattle may have or influence tech secrets Russia wants.
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by tabtab 5y ago
I would hope Capitol buildings had better security so that Putin cant randomly put in an arcade claw game with microphones and radar. (Cue SNL's Elf and Shelf.)
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by tabtab 5y ago
What definition of "functional" are you using?
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by tabtab 5y ago
A better DOM. I know this topic is mostly about data transfer, but I'm going to complain about web UI standards. For many uses, a state-ful coordinate-based UI standard is needed. It's why PDF's proliferate: DOM can't fa
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by tabtab 5y ago
// procedural style func foo01(a) { b = x(a); c = y(b); r = z(b,c); return r; } // functional style func foo02(a) { return z(x(a), y(x(a))); } With fo
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by tabtab 5y ago
In theory you wouldn't have many "local variables" if you followed functional practices. Re: "you just have the assurance that the values of any local state are purely dependent on the inputs to the function and not any
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by tabtab 5y ago
Back in the 90's we half joked that we needed a remote controlled robot with 3 fingers to press Alt Ctrl Delete rather than drive down to the data center at 3am to reboot a jammed server. I sketched "R2Reboot".
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by tabtab 5y ago
Somewhat related: it's time to toss out file trees as our primary module management technique: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25347043 We've outgrown file trees.

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