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by taffer 3y ago
If there were other app stores besides Apple's for iDevices, Google would require you to download the Play Store to access Gmail, YouTube and Google Maps. Once there's an alternative major app store where Apple's strict priva
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by taffer 3y ago
Some of these names are actually worse. For example they propose "Unlimited FTP Server" for what is essentially an HTTP-Blob-Storage.
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by taffer 3y ago
> what is shown here can be done with 500 to a 1000 lines of SolidJS If you replace a 22,000 LOC React + Python app with 1,000 LOC of whatever framework you choose, I would be very, very, very, very impressed. I don't believe you.
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by taffer 3y ago
Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by taffer 3y ago
How do we even know how these traders make their money? Maybe they make their money through commissions, i.e. trading other people's money, who maybe believe in technical analysis. Or maybe they make their money through arbitrage or ma
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by taffer 3y ago
When the damage is already done, you need both. You need to address the social problems that cause mental health problems, which, by the way, is not easy, and you need therapy for those who already have mental health problems.
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by taffer 3y ago
> I for one am tired of the therapy meme. If everyone needs therapy, it’s society that’s wrong. What's wrong with therapy? You go to the doctor from time to time to take care of your physical health, why shouldn't you go to a t
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by taffer 3y ago
> consisting of the type of omega-6 that in any but the most miniscule amounts are harmful in a number of ways, and a poor source of metabolic energy to boot. I have been hearing this for years, but I have never found a reputable scienti
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by taffer 4y ago
Temp tables are per session, there shouldn't be any locking involved.
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by taffer 4y ago
No temp_buffers is for temp tables and materialized CTEs. Maybe you are confusing it with shared_buffers ?
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by taffer 4y ago
> It's a shame, then, that there's no way to define at-first-purely-in-memory tables, which only "spill" to disk if they cause your query to exceed work_mem. But isn't this exactly how temp tables work? A temp t
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by taffer 4y ago
41000 now.
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by taffer 4y ago
> they aren't available for purchase in my country As another commter pointed out they are sold as commercial displays and digital signage, but that is a different price range. > Another sibling comment also said that recently Mi
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by taffer 4y ago
> As long as they don't offer warranty for 10 years or 20 years, I consider the machine to be on a 5-10 year lifecycle, like most appliances today. That's not how it works. If a product on average lasts 20 years, you can&#x27
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by taffer 4y ago
Sceptre[1] makes non-smart-TVs, Miele[2] washing machines are made to last 20 years. [1] https://www.sceptre.com/TV/4K-UHD-TV/U557CV-UMRB-55-4K-UHD-T... [2] https://www.mieleusa.com/e/washing-
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by taffer 4y ago
> probably one of the most common questions our support team would ingest was "can product X do thing Y?" which was even just a quick online search away. That's a very biased way of looking at it. Just because some custo
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by taffer 4y ago
If they made an additional trimmed down KDE version for non-technical users, that would be more not less choice. Regarding "Russian-style argument": Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-e
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by taffer 4y ago
Or people who work at government agencies that are forced to use open source software. Or schools or universities or hospitals. Some users have disabilities and accessibility is a requirement.
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by taffer 4y ago
I'm not talking about configurations or defaults. I'm talking about removing features and settings so my grandfather doesn't get confused, but I'm afraid that would go against their philosophy.
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by taffer 4y ago
If you ask them to remove things that confuse some users they won't do it because that would be against their philosophy. That is what 'my way or the highway' means.
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by taffer 4y ago
As another commenter said, employees have been hired in corporate and technical roles that require training to become productive. Hiring is expensive, especially in technical areas, training is expensive and takes a lot of time, severance p
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by taffer 4y ago
The problem lies in the word navigate . The code in the article navigates through a graph. There is simply no way to navigate graphs in an eagerly evaluated language without running into the N+1 problem. A declarative language that can
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by taffer 4y ago
OOP does not have a monopoly on abstraction and encapsulation. What OOP does, namely object-level encapsulation, is just a very extreme way of structuring code around mutable state. IMO the better alternative is to avoid mutable state as mu
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by taffer 4y ago
> But I wonder: wouldn't it be better if the developer has to specify how he wants to retrieve the information? In a regular programming language, typically people don't complain too much about this "missing feature"
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by taffer 4y ago
> VCS for stored procedures and views is usually non existent This is a mindset problem, not a technology problem. Treat your stored procedures/functions/views like code, not like data. Keep a separate "code" schema,
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by taffer 4y ago
This is on purpose. Forcing the propagation of row order from subqueries would make many or even most optimizations impossible.
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by taffer 4y ago
> This sublanguage will either be useless or will not prevent DoS. Thinking in absolutes is not very helpful. PostgREST's API is designed to prevent DoS and it is flexible enough for most of your queries and when it isn't you c
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by taffer 4y ago
> having all your logic in there won't necessarily make this worse but it certainly won't make it better. Logic is a very broad term, and as long as you're talking about number crunching / machine learning, I&#x27
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by taffer 4y ago
The recommended way to use Postgrest is to put a layer of views and optionally stored functions on top of your schema to decouple it from your API. Take a look at this Postgrest starter kit[1] which uses a separate API schema for this purpo
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by taffer 4y ago
I might agree that error handling is business logic in the broadest sense, but control structures certainly are not. Unless there is an explicit business requirement like "use a nested for loop to iterate through an employee array&quot

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