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by yen223 2y ago
The no-money argument is less convincing to me, because I see this happen in well-financed companies. A very common scenario is that some person leaves, and is replaced by a new person who ends up getting paid more for doing the same role.
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by yen223 2y ago
As a backend engineer, I've always thought building decent-looking UIs would be beyond my abilities, until I read Refactoring UI
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by yen223 2y ago
Americans are helping the rest of world get used to 70 degrees being nice weather
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by yen223 2y ago
IntelliJ doesn't use LSP as far as I know. It does usually make that kind of DogModel -> WolfModel refactoring.
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by yen223 2y ago
https://docs.python.org/3/library/pprint.html
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by yen223 2y ago
Every time I'm tempted to go raw SQL I always remember that a) It is tricky to make raw SQL composable in a safe way, and b) I still need to map all those rows into objects somewhere, but now i have to do it by hand
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by yen223 2y ago
Kotlin Android app with a Python backend for ML stuff, maybe? Or maybe they're in one of those places that use microservices with a variety of languages
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by yen223 2y ago
The mechanism in Kotlin that allows them to limit yield() to a sequence{} block , without introducing a new keyword, is pretty dang cool.
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by yen223 2y ago
But then I would be missing out on the dopamine hit from dunking on someone else's project
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by yen223 2y ago
Of all the ways to measure intelligence, "whether it's using 100% of its compute time" is certainly one of them.
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by yen223 2y ago
It's just a matter of familiarity. If you showed me an article written in Italian I would struggle to read it, but that's not because Italian is inherently an unreadable language.
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by yen223 2y ago
Having had to use many different logging/observability platforms, I have to say Datadog is one of the better ones I've used. Biggest strength is that it is user-friendly. I had very little trouble finding logs I care about, and to
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by yen223 2y ago
Cybersecurity being a sideshow to the main event is a brilliant way to frame the problem. It also explains why companies rarely get punished by the markets for data breaches.
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by yen223 2y ago
I think the original sin here is not making aggregation an explicitly separate thing, even though it should be. Adding a count(*) fundamentally changes what the query does, and what it returns, and what restrictions apply.
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by yen223 2y ago
I'm currently building a mobile-friendly Postgres database tool. Think dbeaver but on Android. Writing and editing SQL queries on the phone can get tedious. Rather than just giving users a tiny textfield, I am exploring if there are be
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by yen223 2y ago
Should we introduce a SUBSELECT keyword to distinguish between a top-level select and a subquery? To me that feels as redundant as having WHERE vs HAVING, i.e. they do the same things, but at different points in the execution plan. It feels
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by yen223 2y ago
WITH clauses are optional and appear before SELECT. No reason why the FROM clause couldn't behave the same
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Ask HN: What's a software engineering thing that sparks joy for you?
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by yen223 2y ago
My biggest problem with Xcode is that it really only works for Swift, while the Jetbrains stuff (incl. Android Studio) works well for a lot of languages.
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by yen223 2y ago
The more I think about it, the more I think SwiftUI is inspired by Angular - two-way data binding and observables everywhere. Two-way data binding makes for shorter demos, but it doesn't scale nearly as well as one-way data binding. I&
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by yen223 2y ago
Isn't this just saying "humans are slow" in a different way?
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by yen223 2y ago
One of the interesting things about databases is that unlike most other markets, there is no single database that completely owns a majority of market share. MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server and Postgres are very close to each other in terms of ma
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by yen223 2y ago
My previous company did. In fairness one of the problems the company faced was way too many languages being used in-house. Combined with the difficulty in getting Clojure talent, and it was inevitable that the Clojure went out. The Clojure
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by yen223 2y ago
> If I may ask - why mobile-first? This is a very fair question. The short answer is that there are times when I wished I could look stuff up on our databases on my phone, but the tooling available for this is kinda meh The longer answer
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by yen223 2y ago
He of all people should have been able to find a shorter way to get to the point!
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by yen223 2y ago
For collab: check out either Metabase or Apache Superset. I've used Metabase in the past for sharing SQL queries as snippets or as graphs, and I miss it sometimes. I am currently working on a mobile-first Postgres client. I am convince
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by yen223 2y ago
Something I've learned is that in general, people find it easier to follow concrete examples than abstract ones. I agree with you that the article would have been improved if they'd used real-world examples, e.g. a ContactMethod t
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by yen223 2y ago
It amuses me to imagine engineers reading this comment and going "Oh crap - we totally forgot that the sun doesn't shine at night! Kill the projects immediately!"
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by yen223 2y ago
The fun kind of yaml that has a lot of {{ }} in them that breaks your syntax highlighter.
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by yen223 2y ago
Ghosting requires no effort, but giving any response requires some effort.

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