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History of System R (1981) [pdf](people.eecs.berkeley.edu)
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And these people were not always happy[1] with the way things are in UNIX. An example of something missing from UNIX is a service or job subsystem, which is why SMF, launchd and systemd were invented. [1] https://web.mit.edu&#x2F
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by taffer 6y ago
I think you make good arguments, but #1 is a typical techie argument: Why would I ever use $SaaS if I could just cobble something together with rsync and Excel? Well, because $SaaS is a much more polished product with all the headaches remo
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> it's interesting that _something_ happened in 1971 Why do you believe that this is true at all? Someone on the Internet just cherry picked some numbers and shoehorned some graphs to make a point. You could pick any year, and with
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by taffer 6y ago
Until Deng's reforms in the 1980s, China remained economically irrelevant.
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Essentially, this website wants to make you believe that going off the gold standard (which only existed on paper at the time) is the root cause of all the bad things in the world. All documented by cherry-picked numbers and shoehorned grap
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by taffer 6y ago
> PostgreSQL + Ruby Backend + JS Frontend is still the easiest way to get started. With JS, do you mean React or jquery or literally JavaScripting the DOM?
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It was also co-authored by Adam Wathan, the creator of the tailwind css framework.
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The PostgREST documentation makes it pretty clear that for decoupling and security reasons the data schema should be separated from the API schema. You should only provide the client with views and functions and keep all data in a separate
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Since WWII, the British economy has developed at a similar pace to the French economy. Also, was it not more that the industrial revolution made the United Kingdom rich enough to finance the entire military and navy than the other way aroun
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TLDR: - We are comparing the dot-com bubble with post-brexit and post-corona. - Though taking dividends into account we are still 77% up.
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The problem is that with a real-world project like V8, with its 2 million lines of code, it is impossible to tackle and discuss it in detail. What you really need is a model, i.e. a simplified version of reality that you can discuss, i.e. u
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by taffer 6y ago
I don't understand what you're trying to say. What do the nodes and vertices in your model represent? Lines of code? Functions? Why is everything fully connected, why not make it a star or a tree?
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by taffer 6y ago
> But in general, it seems you are still learning the craft. This is a completely unnecessary personal attack on OP.
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by taffer 6y ago
I honestly don't see how SOLID avoids the problem I mentioned, but let me clarify this: When I say dependency , I mean it in a general sense, i.e. if a stateful object A uses a stateful object B, e.g. by composition, then A depends on
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by taffer 6y ago
Here are some thoughts about OOP I had recently, maybe someone here had similar thoughts: It seems to me that the biggest cause of maintenance problems in object-oriented programming is that it tries to manage global mutable states by parti
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by taffer 6y ago
According to the 2017 USDA census, more than 97% of all pigs come from farms having > 1000 animals [1]. This is what I would call factory farming, and you will find similar figures for European countries. [1] https://www.nass.
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by taffer 6y ago
I think you can achieve this with pg_stat_statements and auto_explain.
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by taffer 6y ago
Interestingly, DAWs have always had flat UI designs, something that many HN commentators seem to frown upon.
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by taffer 6y ago
Do you just copy and paste this text in different places?
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by taffer 6y ago
Easy: People are getting older. Older people have a higher risk of getting cancer.
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by taffer 6y ago
> Vegetable oils are most likely carcinogenic, amid other health issues Strange. Why do I only ever see this claim from esoteric websites and blogs and never from serious organizations? E.g. "No need to avoid healthy omega-6 fats&qu
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by taffer 6y ago
> Corn $2.1B, Soybeans $1.6B Almost all of this is turned into animal feed or fuel.
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> Typical usecase: a large fleet of IOT devices with a write-only access to a central database, feeding new data every second. No visibility of the current transactions is needed. Can't you queue and serialize those writes in a midd
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by taffer 6y ago
OTOH this article [1] argues that clustered indexes are overrated and actually worse than heap tables for most use cases. [1] https://use-the-index-luke.com/sql/clustering/index-organize...
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Desktop Application assumes that the server is running on the user's workstation and is very conservative in terms of memory usage to avoid interfering with other applications. Web Application , on the other hand, assumes that the s
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What is "ss on ni"?
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Just about every larger company has an IT department where people write business or web applications. But not every larger company has people programming embedded systems. The TIOBE index simply does not reflect reality.
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by taffer 6y ago
That C is supposed to be the most popular language makes the whole ranking questionable. The stackoverflow ranking[1] corresponds much more to my own experience in real life. [1] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey&#x2
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by taffer 6y ago
SQL Assertions are incidentally the most requested feature for the Oracle database: https://community.oracle.com/tech/apps-infra/discussion/4390...

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