wallyhs

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by wallyhs 12y ago
> Or are there some advanced Postgres features that I'm not aware of that would allow all these combinations in some kind of prepared statement? I can't speak specifically to Postgres, but, in my experience, there is nearly alw
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by wallyhs 12y ago
Now I know where my bias comes from: I did not consider going wrong with semicolons in C. Perhaps that is because C is my oldest friend. You are of course correct that the C style is not perfect either. Thanks for the reply.
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by wallyhs 12y ago
I am - I think - looking at this from a safe-by-default perspective. Everyone will forget to include a semicolon eventually as you pointed out, but shouldn't your default strategy be the safest one? Maybe I am missing something. Th
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by wallyhs 12y ago
Don't forget about the tooling: unit testing, benchmarking, generated documentation, code formatting, and emacs+vim plugins are included in the official package. I think these are often overlooked when describing its benefits. You ca
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by wallyhs 12y ago
When I mentioned intent, I was mostly referring to the use of an "if" statement vs. short circuiting in the referenced example. But I mean it in general. Every code base is different, of course. > If you use a no-semicolon st
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by wallyhs 12y ago
> No problems. Except that there actually was a problem in this case as evidenced by the surrounding discussion. If the code had been written with a semicolon (or an if statement!) from the beginning, there never would have been a p
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by wallyhs 12y ago
From the conclusion at the end of the article: "We aren’t going to abandon DVCSes. And honestly, at the end of the day, I don’t know if I want you to. I am, after all, still a DVCS apologist, and I still want to use DVCSes, because I h
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by wallyhs 12y ago
The complaints as I read them are: * Large repository size because of blobs, large histories, or many files * Difficulty of using git * Pull requests aren't easier than patch bombs Only the last one has to do with Github.
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by wallyhs 12y ago
> If you implement in house then you've just given yourself an extra burden for the life of your project. That is true, but maintaining third-party dependencies is also a burden for the life of your project, especially if your proj
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by wallyhs 12y ago
If you are primarily using stored procedures, you are probably viewing the database as a "persistence API" with its own encapsulated logic.
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by wallyhs 12y ago
This "hack" is also supported by Oracle and SQL Server.
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by wallyhs 12y ago
I consider that to be asking for feedback, not help.
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by wallyhs 12y ago
You can't control what other people find offensive, and you can't avoid offending other people. You can control your own reaction to what you find offensive.
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by wallyhs 12y ago
Haha, very true. That is one reason I like underscores: you can distinguish between setup_instance, set_up_instance, and set_upinstance. Or maybe set_up_upinstance. In context, it probably wouldn't matter unless you have both "
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by wallyhs 12y ago
setUpInstance vs. setupInstance. Because "setup" is a noun, setupInstance looks like it could return a setup's instance. setUpInstance looks like it performs an action.
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by wallyhs 12y ago
Our restaurant also uses Groupon's POS and payments system. "Moderately successful" is how I would put it, although version 2 has improved things considerably. There is pressure to find a better POS, but I have yet to see o
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by wallyhs 12y ago
Why do you need to lock a binary on disk when a copy of it is running in main memory? Because the copy in memory may still want to use the old version. Raymond Chen explained it here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/