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interlocutor

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    Comment #47111352

    A lot of database tools these days prioritize instant sharing of updates over transactions and ACID properties. Example: Airtable. As soon as you update a field the update shows up…

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    Comment #47028323

    Ever heard of Django? ASP.NET? Most UI frameworks, including ASP.NET Core, Spring Boot (Java based framework), Ruby on Rails, and Django (Python) are all based on MVC.

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    Comment #46348226

    Here's a better list: - Being under the public eye—all the time—is one of the top reasons to not be famous. Famous people must constantly self-monitor what they say and do because …

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    Comment #43224966

    There is a method to this madness. Elon Musk's strategy is to control the government operations through controlling its IT department. The smart people of 18f stands in the way. By…

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    Comment #40194097

    In go you mix state with logic (example below), which apparently is a "major catastrophe" according to some on this thread. type Engine struct { HorsePower int } func (e Engine) St…

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    Comment #39476811

    Also, Visual DB has Airtable-like features

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    Comment #39475911

    This does a better job: https://visualdb.com/

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    Comment #38373193

    Wasn't he president of some kind of startup incubator? Some "combinator" company.

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    Comment #37241749

    It seems you only support Postgres. Do you have plans to support other databases as well, such as MySQL?

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    Comment #36739871

    In the case of map function hopefully you're using it with methods that don't fail in serious ways, and don't need strong error recovery. If so Java has RuntimeException to handle …

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    Comment #36739399

    > write generic functions that take functions as arguments and re-throw the errors thrown by these functions There is a philosophy that applies here: simple things should be simple…

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    Comment #36724976

    Do you mean Turbo Pascal? He didn't design it, Niklaus Wirth did. Or do you mean C#? James Gosling designed most of that (C# got its start by copying 90% of Java). Do you mean Type…

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    Comment #35116967

    Or Airforms if you don't like coding: https://airforms.com/

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    Comment #35113043

    What about it doesn't scale? Most UI frameworks, including ASP.NET Core, JSP and JSF (Java based frameworks), Ruby on Rails, and Django (Python) are all based on MVC. If MVC doesn'…

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    Comment #33341455

    Does Retool have a query builder? Does it support query parameters? If not how do you find the record you want to update? Does it support displaying fields from lookup tables (i.e.…

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    Comment #33339957

    I am a founder myself and I haven't put founders' info on our website for a simple reason... one of the cofounders has not yet quit his day job and he doesn't want his employers to…

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    Comment #31265013

    Nothing has changed in the last 4 years. Any time you have props and state, updating props is best done by replacing the component by changing the key. If you think hooks has fixed…

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    Comment #31256073

    > This is categorically false. If you want to update props in a stateful component it is exactly the same - just pass new props. https://reactjs.org/blog/2018/06/07/you-probably-do…

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    Comment #31256065

    > When state changes, components passed that state in the form of props are re-rendered. https://reactjs.org/blog/2018/06/07/you-probably-dont-need-d... > I have never heard these …

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    Comment #31256048

    > Where do you find this recommendation? https://reactjs.org/blog/2018/06/07/you-probably-dont-need-d... > keys are usually only used for repeating sets of elements Not true at all…

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    Comment #31254168

    React works well for simple, non-interactive components. Complex, interactive components are going to have state. Stateful components don't work so well in React. If you want to up…

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    Comment #31225393

    Ive may have done great work under Steve Jobs, but his work since Jobs' passing has been disastrous. Let's consider Jony's performance on software design first. This is what some p…