mathh

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by mathh 1mo ago
The article seems to me to be quite poorly written. In addition, voluntarily or not, this begins to resemble research work, without the formalism that would be necessary. So, I have the impression that we can objectively get nothing out of
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by mathh 2y ago
Could such a mechanism be used for interstellar travel ?
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by mathh 2y ago
Yes the good old days of spaghetti code where everything was simpler before it became complicated for me. Let me code my soup of ifs in methods returning void / Unit, there is nothing better, and that these FP lesson givers leave us al
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by mathh 6y ago
Is it so hard on HN to use specific and appropriate verbs other than “to scale” for any idea related to something expanding or getting bigger ?
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by mathh 6y ago
That is an important comment. I really like Postgres, as it is the only free RGDB allowing complex SQL (MySQL is improving), and is also reliable, but some people need to realize that the F22/Cessna comparison is not exagerated. I prof
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by mathh 6y ago
+1 to Groovy. Can be very simple and elegant, like a better Python, on the JVM. But also very rigorous, as a Java superset, with powerful features like mixing dynamic and static compilation in the same class. Or even deep, with run-time met
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by mathh 6y ago
>>OOP is fundamentally a paradigm about modelling a mutable world Many interesting points in this comment, but I am not sure about the mutable part of this assertion. I see those two concepts often presented as fundamentally intricate
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by mathh 6y ago
So ankward to find my stereotypical complaining fellow citizens here on HN.
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by mathh 6y ago
>>A language with good orthogonality is smaller, more consistent, and is easier to learn due to there being few exceptions from the overall set of rules (wikipedia btw) table = (SELECT column | scalar expression FROM graph | table WHE
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by mathh 7y ago
Oracle Active Data Guard also (queriable replica), with column store.
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by mathh 7y ago
Yes, GUI assisted reactive programming. And that's why when you start to use use VBA or js in Excel, it's a fail. Excel power users (I am not one of them) know how to solve almost every problem they are presented to, using only Ex
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by mathh 7y ago
>Doing something, I mean really doing something, requires changing our culture. It could have already started by respecting the Paris agreement. In this regard, the US decision to go out of the agreement, to protect the american way of l
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by mathh 7y ago
Using an index for access path and ranking for selection
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by mathh 7y ago
Impossibility of With clause inlining is indeed one of the major limitation of Postgres, compared to Oracle. We we still have to wait for optimizer hints