tabtab

8 ms·

31.
by tabtab 3y ago
re: e.g. raising water or rocks. I toldja the Flintstones were ahead of their time.
32.
by tabtab 3y ago
Indeed! I've long been a fan of "table oriented programming" where the common CRUD objects are specified mostly as data. You could also create them in code by calling a RAM-table constructor, so it's not either/or.
33.
by tabtab 3y ago
Anonymous posting has big risks. It gives trolls a green light.
34.
by tabtab 3y ago
An honest book would explain the trade-offs instead of say "design X is always better than Y". Context and domain matter. One-size-fits-all is wrong.
35.
by tabtab 3y ago
Systems software design (SSD) is too different from application design to automatically use one conclusion for the other. Things like OS's and database engines are designed by mostly logical engineers for logical engineers. Business an
36.
by tabtab 3y ago
I don't yet understand the implications or risk of this, but I'm positive the anti-vaxers will use it to spread their cause.
37.
Ask HN: Survey alleged cause of web UI standards pain
1 points by tabtab 3y ago|0 comments
38.
by tabtab 3y ago
When a company monopolizes a market, they almost always turn into jerks.
39.
by tabtab 3y ago
What are the top 2 pain points you encountered?
40.
by tabtab 3y ago
Although a lot depends on personal preference, in general "root" infrastructure is best on strong typing, while "glue-ish" scripts best as dynamic.
41.
by tabtab 3y ago
What's needed is a "C historian" who documents all the attempts to rework or compete with C, and make an analysis and summary of the results and trade-offs. I doubt there's a free lunch (no trade-offs), but studying past
42.
by tabtab 3y ago
Stop your bigotry of Kernians.
43.
by tabtab 3y ago
I bet the forgeries are worth something now that they made the news. I'd like to see a photo comparing them to the original.
44.
by tabtab 3y ago
> It will give customers options to decide for themselves. And because of this, more people will add dodgy apps that compromise the phone. > nothing wrong except that Apple doesn't want to allow them. Like emulators Emulators add
45.
by tabtab 3y ago
Maybe the trick is to spread sun exposure across the body rather than mostly let our limbs and face take most the sun. Protect those areas, but get fuller body sun more often. The parts of my body on the boundary between heavy exposure and
46.
by tabtab 3y ago
I have a skin condition that flares up if I don't get sun. At first the doctor told me to avoid sun, but it got worse. Then by accident I got somewhat sunburned, and my skin improved.
47.
by tabtab 3y ago
I don't understand why co's don't simply give "in office" bonuses and let employees decide their ratio? Why do so many co's make it all or nothing?
48.
by tabtab 3y ago
Plus ID's often have to be given over the phone for support. Long or complicated ID's will drive both sides bonkers. #BeenThereDoneThat.
49.
by tabtab 3y ago
Part of Apple's selling point is a well-managed walled garden that keeps riff-raff out. Opening it up will introduce riff-raff. The well-to-do are okay paying more to have better guards.
50.
by tabtab 3y ago
JSON columns are a kludge. What's really needed is Dynamic Relational (see link). JSON columns are second-class citizens in such RDBMS. Dynamic Relational would make all columns just as powerful. A startup could use something like the
51.
by tabtab 3y ago
A fight against a virus is all-out war in the body. In any big war, there will be significant collateral damage. The body has to "bomb" brain and nerve cells to kill infected cells, and obviously if you have enough of them taken
52.
by tabtab 3y ago
> allows potentially complex ETL statements to be handled within a single merge statement. I'm not saying that's always the best practice, but if things are structured in the right way, it may be. I wonder how often one has t
53.
by tabtab 3y ago
Don't laugh, someday a terrorist or hacker may engineer a fast-eating critter, and half our stuff will become useless in a year. Termites learned to work with gut microbes to speed up wood munching, a home-owner's biggest nightmar
54.
by tabtab 3y ago
Agreement is not to be taken for granted: https://www.wired.com/2010/11/1110mars-climate-observer-repo...
55.
by tabtab 3y ago
Math is merely a mutual agreement. First an agreement on root principles, and then an agreement on notation for these root principles. The rest is built on top of those. Nobody is forced to accept the premises. (Unless you don't want a
56.
by tabtab 3y ago
Is that the ancient Chinese way of sleeping with stones on the eyes, to flatten the lenses?
57.
by tabtab 3y ago
Um, I think those were gerbils.
58.
by tabtab 3y ago
It quickly locked up on me, or at least responds very slowly. I'm curious, what kind of UI is it using? Canvas? SVG?
59.
by tabtab 3y ago
HTML and DOM lack too many common and expected GUI idioms (see link). If our standards had those, then we wouldn't need to use clunky stuff like React to emulate them. We need a state-ful GUI markup language standard. https:/&#x2
60.
by tabtab 3y ago
Amen! Had a nice chuckle. Kudos for self-deprecating humor on the part of the authors.

More ›