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by wking 1y ago
This is something I wish everyone would read and learn from. You can do so much good if you focus on what you can actually influence.
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by wking 2y ago
That has been a fun one to play a small role in. Great work by Marco and the team.
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by wking 4y ago
Whoa, I work at Crunchy Data. We focus on Postgres, but this K and KX family is wild. Reading about how it is used for Formula 1 data analytics
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by wking 4y ago
I wonder how much people who still write these languages are paid? I feel like it is one extreme or the other. You are rolling in it or you just don't know any better.
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Ask HN: What is the most niche programming language that is still written?
9 points by wking 4y ago|13 comments
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by wking 4y ago
What is the craziest thing you've used a JSON column for?
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Postgres support for JSON is 10 years old(crunchydata.com)
3 points by wking 4y ago|1 comments
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by wking 4y ago
What do you think of when you think of honest service?
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Personal tricks and hacks for business, do you have any?(craigkerstiens.com)
1 points by wking 4y ago|2 comments
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by wking 4y ago
Thanks for the share!
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by wking 4y ago
Could not agree more! This is very well articulated and a point I think I'm going to add into the article.
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by wking 4y ago
Ouch, just starting to write more after only writing mostly code. Guess that makes me lean a little robotic lol
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by wking 4y ago
Thanks for the feedback! I thing that section could definitely use a re-focus on what they specifically do to differentiate.
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by wking 4y ago
Oooo good counter point. That is definitely the case. It makes for a fun challenge to take that on. If you're not funded though that can be a risk that is too dangerous.
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by wking 4y ago
Fair points! For the second one, the point was actually they didn't have strong enough opinions so they are going to try strengthening them. That being said you make a good argument. Will try and add in more detail to each example!
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by wking 4y ago
Eh maybe cynical, but I would say you're right. There is a lot more nuance and detail to positioning yourself as a competitor to a company that already has huge market share. Sometimes having a small but important opinion is all you ne
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by wking 4y ago
I heard someone phrase it as "Your user wants to be the hero of the story" and if the opinions you have chosen align that is a good shortcut to getting there. Thanks for those other references. Going to go check them out.
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by wking 4y ago
What kind of services do you like to manage all of these "optimizations"? Most developers would get into more trouble trying to setup something like is talked about here, so I assume most people's database provider helps?
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Opinionated products breed passionate customers(wking.dev)
4 points by wking 4y ago|0 comments
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by wking 4y ago
Just saw this through Wes Bod recommend on Twitter. Great stuff!
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TikTok Is the New Excel(wking.dev)
1 points by wking 4y ago|0 comments
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by wking 4y ago
Should be fixed now! We hit a rate limit a lot sooner than expected haha :)
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by wking 4y ago
Both? So for the tutorials they use a SQL initialization file stored in a GIST (our solution, but can be stored at any public storage url) and it loads that data and any other SQL setup commands in that file on startup to the database that
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Saveable, Searchable, Shareable Bible Notes and Resources(withoutceasing.co)
1 points by wking 5y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Just published the release candidate for elm-live 4.0(elm-live.com)
4 points by wking 7y ago|0 comments
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Wordpress needs a front end framework(wking.io)
2 points by wking 7y ago|0 comments
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Saladbar – a library of functions built for composition to work withthe DOM(github.com)
1 points by wking 9y ago|0 comments