vjt

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by vjt 6y ago
what I find most frustrating is that finance institution buy extremely overpriced and brittle software from renowned vendors not because of technical excellence but for risk management: they want a supplier to blame when something goes wron
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by vjt 7y ago
I wrote a Ruby library[1] that builds on Active Record and implements SCD-Type 2 using updatable views and INSTEAD OF triggers. It has its pain points, mostly related to how hackish the AR insertion is, but it works quite well and the appro
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by vjt 10y ago
I also like bare-bones stuff, and I am currently evaluating this https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/json-formatter/bcj... that is fast, easy on the eye and minimal. Haven't reviewed the code tho.
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by vjt 13y ago
try: git://github.com/{user}/{repo}.git or https://github.com/{user}/{repo}.git anyway, not working right now for me (Italy) EDIT: working, give it 30 seconds to start.
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by vjt 14y ago
Can you please remove the anchor from the submitted URL? Thanks.
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Show HN: temporal extensions for PostgreSQL, with Active Record in mind(github.com)
2 points by vjt 14y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: PG temporal schema using inheritance and the rule system
1 points by vjt 14y ago|0 comments
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by vjt 17y ago
video/image hosting is not the point, it's community that counts here: youtube is just a vehicle to deliver your video to more eyeballs, because poking around youtube is easier for the joe user, rather than poking around the 'net. also,
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by vjt 17y ago
Jamendo is quite a different beast, because it's a CC label, not a music sharing/streaming medium.
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by vjt 17y ago
Actually it uses the flex framework (as you can see by looking at the scrollbars and the tooltips) that then produces an edible binary .swf for the flash player :). Back to the topic, as a music site developer myself, I can assure you that
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by vjt 18y ago
I may sound like an utopian, but I think that being satisfied in what we do and how we accomplish it is the only goal to target, to be happy and satisfied. One should always seek for happiness through efforts, no matter how hard it may seem
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by vjt 18y ago
Maybe because the average human is inherently lazy and doesn't want to re-learn how to use the new UI? Or maybe because the average human is pleased when something does never change? Or, maybe, because the average human loves being a whin
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by vjt 18y ago
That's not true: he was able to write the right software at the right time[1], when nobody else had will/time/whatever to scratch their own itch. The Mongrel HTTP library is today the de-facto standard for running Rails applications, and on