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Years ago, we were revamping a mission-critical project with more than a 1000 database tables to a backend of .net and EF. Our rewrite was much cleaner, but still had 450 tables. W…

I just watched this incredibly anomaleous work. I asked AI about some side information about it, but I'm sure some HN folks have much more interesting things to share

Interesting... Can you elaborate? I did not get the reference.

How's that different from friends at your sports club? How does the risk of your workplace friends not taking your side balance against the benefit of the possibility that they wil…

This is a recipe for a sad life. It's avoiding friendship for the fear of betrayal. You get a lot of benefits by being good friends with colleagues. There are, however important th…

This is exactly what I needed, ending my work week for the company, and transitioning to working on my own project over the weekend. Good to know I'm not alone, still dreaming of m…

Thanks, as a software engineer, always a problem solver, who just follows an dreams of solutions to social problems (I've once led a software project for one of these, but not more…

Really sad. I read a lot of psychology. But I've never encountered psychology of child sexual abuse (I know there is if I look it up, but that's my point, it should be shared aroun…

Are there statistics backing up the "VAST" majority claim? While on statistics, I wonder, are there reliable statistics about child abuse of different types? Studying correlations …

One joy of online shopping, especially for people doing it in an impulsive and/or addictive way (it's not really rare) is the satisfaction they get from the imagination of having i…

Oh my! Agree 100%. Tangentially, I love games without motion blur, with perfect and unrealistic graphics, and they happen to need much less intensive graphics. Also, animations wit…

As a programmer who uses math heavily, I can answer this. As a programmer, your intuitive understanding of the world is infinitely important. You use it to formulate ideas, rule ou…

My experience has been reasonably consistent. My main DE is KDE, it switches between light and dark based on my location and time. It switches to warmer colors at night. I have nev…

*retired -> retries

New cars are UX nightmares. I'm driving an electric Toyota bz4x. Lovely mechanics, but the general UX (some are because of Android Auto) is terrible. The remote's lock/unlock don't…

That is, until you have silent corruption of data because the admin tool is not aware of the new field you added to the website, and it's not written with forward compatibility in …

Agree about Windows Server. You can run SqlServer on Linux though. I'm not aware of your specific addons, but the Sql Server itself works perfectly well on Linux.

Indexed views are much faster than trying to achieve the same result with triggers. Triggers have serious concurrency limitations, and you do recalculations even when the fields yo…

I've used Postgres, Oracle, MsSql Server, and MySql in serious projects, no extensive experience with Sqlite, which I know is an amazing player. These days, I do myself a favor and…

Dehumidifiers will end up being more efficient in one mode. When the manufacturer creates the new ones, a firmware update moves all legacy devices to the less efficient mode.

I feel the same. Sometimes, I work against this and start conversations. Rarely people are annoyed. Too often, they seem happy someone breaks their shell, they just don't want to b…

Tangentially, Regarding pair programming (as a special case of thinking together): Programming is serializing ideas into the computer language. Communicating them with someone else…

I might be soon moving to Europe and would need to get a new car, replacing my (mostly) beloved Toyota bz4x. Well I guess VW is out.

I'm happy with my XReal one Pro. Wired, dumb, no way to lock me into an ecosystem like when I bought Oculus Quest and then had to deal with Facebook's bullshit Did I mention much c…