TimJYoung

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by TimJYoung 8y ago
This is 100% correct. We're in the process of doing this now with our products (and our internal systems, also), and it works well. When you have products and systems that have been around for a decade or more, major portions of them
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
Anything that deals with the source data , such as aggregation, sorting, or partitioning, should be done with SQL. Anything that deals with the formatting/display of the columns in the result set rows can be done in SQL, but doesn&#
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
To me, the distinction is between a society where individuals are free to choose to rent or own, based upon their private circumstances, vs. a society where individuals are forced to rent because it is impossible to own. It seems to me l
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
Key-value stores are fine if you are always simply grabbing a single row/tuple from a single dataset. Any time you move beyond that, you're in for a world of hurt compared to a relational database that uses SQL. The reasons are
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
The interesting part to me was the variations in the emitted instructions, based upon the source. IOW, it would be easy to mistakenly think that you weren't going to get jumps if you only used a few case branches to test things out.
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
I've been trying to tell this to people for years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14804175 Our product, Elevate Web Builder, has been using component-based visual controls with no CSS since 2014. It's model
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
Object Pascal (Delphi) also optimizes case statements, depending upon the nature of the statement: https://stackoverflow.com/a/2548425 I tested this recently (Delphi XE6), and it definitely is as-described: you get str
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
Many of the older homes here are wood (typically, balloon frame) with a sandstone foundation, so you can reduce the amount of heat loss by making sure that the sandstone mortar is in good shape, making sure that all windows and entrances ar
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
Yeah, I kind of conflated my anecdote with the reference in support of my anecdote. I'll have to see if I can dig up more data on this. As for population, you have to be careful with the statistics on this because, while the area did
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
I know that you're probably talking a lot older than one century, but as a minor counterpoint: Our house (in Buffalo, NY area) turned 100 this year, and there are thousands of houses just like it in the Buffalo area. In fact, most o
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
So, how is getting paid for one's time any different from being paid for the value of one's labor ? Do you think that economic theory doesn't apply in that case, and that, somehow, a person isn't going to just simply de
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
I need to ask you an honest question: have you every run your own business ? If not, you should try it, it's a really eye-opening experience that will give you really valuable insight into the world that we live in. The one thing that
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
We do have ways of self-publishing or paying creators directly: the internet. Anyone can pop up a web site and start selling their wares with minimal fuss. It costs a couple of thousand bucks to set up an internet-based company in the
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
Yes, I would like someone here to provide an answer to this question. For example: We're just wrapping up a new release of one of our products that I've been working on since August of 2017. It has over 1400 hours of work dedicat
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
Which is fine, but don't be surprised if the majority of the people choose to do other things and not produce the very thing that you want produced. Jaron Lanier talks about this a lot in his books and speaking engagements, and I wou
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
I don't think this book has been completely written yet. I think we're just now starting to see some of the major issues with FOSS, so don't throw up that "Mission Accomplished" banner yet. FOSS is very much like t
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
Absolutely - adding money doesn't automatically result in trustworthiness. What it does do, however, is make the transaction fall under legal commerce, which gives the purchaser/user rights and remedies that they do not have
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
That is a fantastic read, thank you. It's amazing how many structures and institutions have evolved from that simple concept.
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
No, I think what people are implying is that commercial licensing of software solves the trust/responsibility aspect of software. With proprietary software, there are legal remedies to malfeasance.
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
Two things: 1) The PC software world did run for quite a few years on the model of predominantly commercial/proprietary software, most of it being closed-source, so it's not like it is some far-fetched idea that doesn't work
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
Of course it was constructed. Aliens didn't just drop it from the heavens - the US specifically released the internet to the public and commercial interests, whereas previously it was limited to academic interests. Once commerce was
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
Not just house - Wax Trax! Records was very much responsible for exposing quite a few people to industrial music in the 80s, also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wax_Trax!_Records Chicago often doesn't get the cult
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
That title is pretty misleading. The breakage is being reported as being in the default program file associations (Default Programs under Control Panel/Settings): https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4028
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
Because the caller either deals with the error (and fixes the state) or they don't, but there's never a case where the callee was unable to force the caller to fix the state. If the caller then goes on to just handle/suppr
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
It does if they don't handle the exception, which is the situation being described.
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
"Your whole reply is a straw man. The author is claiming that nothing explodes b/c the error is correctly handled, not b/c it was silently swallowed." Yes, but I think that this is exactly what pilif is objecting to: the
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
Most companies do not want to deal with the hassle of finding someone to perform support/bug fix work on their software. They want to be able to call up a vendor and get an answer today about a bug fix or support. Most open source p
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
Linux "won" in the sense that every single one of those devices is special-purpose, and not for general-purpose computing. Linux is helping those that want to lock down computing so that it is consumption-only, which is complet
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
That's not quite true. You can easily decompile any binary and glean all sorts of valuable information from it. On Windows you can find out which API calls it makes and can even use detours/trampolines to redirect such calls: h
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
Nobody is going to use software for anything critical that doesn't have someone "waiting around" to fix any bugs that appear, even if they are several years down the line from the original release (and yes, this happens a lo

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