patrickcteng

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1. 1.▲
   by patrickcteng 5y ago

   I've had to "upgrade" a couple to utf8, and varchar(255) bites me all the time.
2. 2.▲
   by patrickcteng 5y ago

   I want one.
3. 3.▲
   by patrickcteng 6y ago

   I love this comment so much. With GraphQL, you're just pushing N+1 calls and figuring out the mental contortion needed to support all the graphy-ness from non-graph structures. Most that say GraphQL is the bees-knees must be an FE deve
4. 4.▲
   by patrickcteng 6y ago

   I found it hard to read too.
5. 5.▲
   by patrickcteng 6y ago

   ditto
6. 6.▲
   by patrickcteng 6y ago

   So, as a child my mom always insisted on me reading with lots of lights turned on. She claimed that reading the dark causes short sightedness and etc. Now, as an adult, I find that I have my screen's brightness turned up way more than
7. 7.▲
   by patrickcteng 6y ago

   I think ProPublica does what you're describing.
8. 8.▲
   by patrickcteng 8y ago

   I'd like to add that Wall Street Journal's Guide to Informational Graphics is a great one too.
9. 9.▲
   by patrickcteng 8y ago

   I have a B.A. in History (Pre-industrial Europe and Far East, and post-WWII American Foreign Policy) degree from UC Davis, and I ended up full-stack programming for the last 12 years. I use those History skills daily from writing documentat
10. 10.▲
    by patrickcteng 8y ago

    Float-in-the-air 3D displays/images are in the labs already! https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-01125-y
11. 11.▲
    by patrickcteng 9y ago

    I"ve been coding professionally for the last 12 years -- I'm 34 now -- and my code definitely still looks like example 2. Maybe it's because I code in multiple languages daily, but I tend to not use a lot of the language feat