dtheodor

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by dtheodor 2mo ago
An interviewer asking me about git rebase is the huge red flag
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by dtheodor 7mo ago
Thank you Machiavelli
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by dtheodor 3y ago
Looks like .NET was represented in FOSDEM once, in 2019. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/net-and-typescript-at-...
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by dtheodor 3y ago
Reminds me of Microsoft's KQL https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-explorer/kusto/...
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by dtheodor 3y ago
If you are interested, I highly recommend the youtube channel Kings and Generals. It has very good history content on the last centuries of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Ottomans, among others. Rise of the ottomans: https:/&#x2
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by dtheodor 3y ago
Insufficient data for a meaningful answer.
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by dtheodor 3y ago
He is not cherry picking, he picked the largest immigrant group, twice as large as the next one
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by dtheodor 4y ago
Right, if you consider the internal state, it is hardly similar. You talked about black box and QA though. Black box by definition holds the internal state as irrelevant, and QA mostly treats the software it tests as a black box, or in othe
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by dtheodor 4y ago
Your run of the mill computer program also "operates in enormous parameter spaces that are impossible to meaningfully test for all possible adversarial inputs and degraded outputs".
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by dtheodor 4y ago
> Game of Thrones completely disregards the real world, and because this is on purpose, I think criticisms from "realism" are unwarranted This is not true, any work of fiction needs to be believable within the bounds it sets fo
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by dtheodor 4y ago
Would you say that a database is a "black box full of binary garbage, chewing gum and rubber bands that tightly couples everything in Windows.and it's like spaghetti and can't possibly be unwound"? I don't think you
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by dtheodor 5y ago
I share the sentiment, but not for Roblox. Hashicorp, with a recent IPO, 200 mil operating revenue, and supposedly a good engineering reputation has one of its flagship products critically depend on a "toy project".
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by dtheodor 5y ago
You are basing the statement "fear of wolves is completely irrational" on your experience as an outdoorsperson and 25 years of yellowstone. This is not a good basis. Wolves had lived in huge populations and had been in conflict wi
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by dtheodor 6y ago
He bribed people for sure. Microsoft products had completely overtaken the public sector IT of several countries back in the 90s/00s. To get into the public sector of several third-world and not so third-world countries, bribing is mor
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by dtheodor 6y ago
Curious how Rust's ownership interplays with this memory management approach. Does it actually get in the way of implementing this?
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by dtheodor 6y ago
There's a whole discipline around converting diagrams to code, called Model Driven Engineering. The idea is that you capture business entities and rules in various well defined diagrams, which then can be converted to code through code
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by dtheodor 6y ago
It's in-memory materialization, which will spill to disk if it doesn't fit in memory. Search for "Materialize node" in https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/using-explain.html
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by dtheodor 6y ago
It's very true today. The problem discussed here is performance on complex queries (e.g. subqueries), and the query planner plays a huge role in that. The Postgres query planner has various issues. Here are two recent posts talking abo
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by dtheodor 8y ago
This website is unchanged from 1993 (the web archive first crawled it in 1997), yet it looks great in my 4K screen. I wouldn't be able to tell if it was written yesterday or 20 years ago. Completely unlike the experience you are gettin
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by dtheodor 8y ago
Since becoming open source and the system's architecture is in the open, I wonder how this criticism of FoundationDB from a VoltDB architect https://www.voltdb.com/blog/2015/04/01/foundationdbs-lesso
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by dtheodor 10y ago
I really don't see Rust as a good example of a language getting its syntax right. It reads like Perl. You know what's good syntax? The one that reads like pseudocode (Python is the closest to that).
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by dtheodor 10y ago
NoSQL is all about missing useful features (such as integrity, transactions, query flexibility), that you unfortunately have to drop if you want to be able to scale in certain ways. Thus, NoSQL dbs are practically worthless until you get to
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by dtheodor 10y ago
Why EventQL over other distributed columnar-storage based databases like Redshift, Vertica, Citus, or Hadoop-based ones like Impala and Presto. What does EventQL do better?
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by dtheodor 10y ago
We often see criticism against unit testing that is based on facts such as tests are badly written, unmaintainable, incomprehensive, and they drag development down. Which may very well be true! But I am amazed at the conclusion: That becaus
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by dtheodor 11y ago
Sorry, I don't see the point of this library. What exactly does it provide? It looks like a very thin wrapper (150 lines of code) over psycopg2 that does exactly the same thing, just with a slightly different API.