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This is 100% correct. We're in the process of doing this now with our products (and our internal systems, also), and it works well. When you have products and systems that have bee…

Anything that deals with the source data , such as aggregation, sorting, or partitioning, should be done with SQL. Anything that deals with the formatting/display of the columns in…

To me, the distinction is between a society where individuals are free to choose to rent or own, based upon their private circumstances, vs. a society where individuals are forced …

Key-value stores are fine if you are always simply grabbing a single row/tuple from a single dataset. Any time you move beyond that, you're in for a world of hurt compared to a rel…

The interesting part to me was the variations in the emitted instructions, based upon the source. IOW, it would be easy to mistakenly think that you weren't going to get jumps if y…

I've been trying to tell this to people for years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14804175 Our product, Elevate Web Builder, has been using component-based visual controls wi…

Object Pascal (Delphi) also optimizes case statements, depending upon the nature of the statement: https://stackoverflow.com/a/2548425 I tested this recently (Delphi XE6), and it d…

Many of the older homes here are wood (typically, balloon frame) with a sandstone foundation, so you can reduce the amount of heat loss by making sure that the sandstone mortar is …

Yeah, I kind of conflated my anecdote with the reference in support of my anecdote. I'll have to see if I can dig up more data on this. As for population, you have to be careful wi…

I know that you're probably talking a lot older than one century, but as a minor counterpoint: Our house (in Buffalo, NY area) turned 100 this year, and there are thousands of hous…

So, how is getting paid for one's time any different from being paid for the value of one's labor ? Do you think that economic theory doesn't apply in that case, and that, somehow,…

I need to ask you an honest question: have you every run your own business ? If not, you should try it, it's a really eye-opening experience that will give you really valuable insi…

We do have ways of self-publishing or paying creators directly: the internet. Anyone can pop up a web site and start selling their wares with minimal fuss. It costs a couple of tho…

Yes, I would like someone here to provide an answer to this question. For example: We're just wrapping up a new release of one of our products that I've been working on since Augus…

Which is fine, but don't be surprised if the majority of the people choose to do other things and not produce the very thing that you want produced. Jaron Lanier talks about this a…

I don't think this book has been completely written yet. I think we're just now starting to see some of the major issues with FOSS, so don't throw up that "Mission Accomplished" ba…

Absolutely - adding money doesn't automatically result in trustworthiness. What it does do, however, is make the transaction fall under legal commerce, which gives the purchaser/us…

That is a fantastic read, thank you. It's amazing how many structures and institutions have evolved from that simple concept.

No, I think what people are implying is that commercial licensing of software solves the trust/responsibility aspect of software. With proprietary software, there are legal remedie…

Two things: 1) The PC software world did run for quite a few years on the model of predominantly commercial/proprietary software, most of it being closed-source, so it's not like i…

Of course it was constructed. Aliens didn't just drop it from the heavens - the US specifically released the internet to the public and commercial interests, whereas previously it …

Not just house - Wax Trax! Records was very much responsible for exposing quite a few people to industrial music in the 80s, also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wax_Trax!_Records C…

That title is pretty misleading. The breakage is being reported as being in the default program file associations (Default Programs under Control Panel/Settings): https://support.m…

Because the caller either deals with the error (and fixes the state) or they don't, but there's never a case where the callee was unable to force the caller to fix the state. If th…

It does if they don't handle the exception, which is the situation being described.