benzayb

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by benzayb 1y ago
Cool. So when was the nail cutter/clipper invented?
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by benzayb 1y ago
"All that are useful are valuable; but not all valuable are useful." - Me. I'd rather be useful than be valued but is totally useless. :D
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by benzayb 1y ago
“May Hegel's philosophy of absolute nonsense - three-fourths cash and one-fourth crazy fancies - continue to pass for unfathomable wisdom without anyone suggesting as an appropriate motto for his writings Shakespeare's words: &quo
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by benzayb 1y ago
"Hegel, installed from above, by the powers that be, as the certified Great Philosopher, was a flat-headed, insipid, nauseating, illiterate charlatan, who reached the pinnacle of audacity in scribbling together and dishing up the crazi
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by benzayb 2y ago
When a DBMS that claims it is relational and yet it supports SQL's "features" that departs from the relational model, then that DBMS is not relational. If a DBMS is "slow" or "fast", that is not because of
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by benzayb 2y ago
To quote: "The talks in this series will present ideas on either (1) making SQL go as fast as possible or (2) replacing SQL with something better." How were you able to infer that the existence of the word "go" in that p
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by benzayb 2y ago
"make sql as fast as possible" is a misnomer. you cannot make a language fast, only its underlying implementation (i.e the specific dbms). and this is the error I see 90% of the time. there is a confusion between conceptual (model
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by benzayb 2y ago
By having a default value (non-null) for each declared type of those columns. Or, the user must define a default value in the query itself. Yes, tedious; but, precise and forces the programmer to really prepare for the "unknown" s
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by benzayb 2y ago
> If your signup form has an optional field for a full name which I don’t fill in, I still have a name. Just because a value is not known by your database doesn’t mean it isn’t defined. There's the Closed World Assumption in a datab
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by benzayb 5y ago
Here in the Philippines, filing tax returns are not a problem. If you're an employee, your employer does it for you. The employer just deducts the tax owed by each employee, and pays it to the government every quarter. The total tax am
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by benzayb 5y ago
Clearly explained. Thanks!
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by benzayb 5y ago
A few years back, I had a co-worker that was hostile to me. I won't go into the details why there's that hostility, but what happened was this: - In the middle of a (chat) conversation that was going nowhere about a certain issue,
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by benzayb 5y ago
100. In a long list of advice, use numbers instead of bullet points. Makes it easier to share to others. :D Most of the advise are really good though.
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by benzayb 6y ago
"people leave managers not companies" Countless times I've heard or read this somewhere. Quite untrue with my experiences. Who exactly is the "manager"? the "company"? In my experience, most of my reports