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kendowns

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About kendowns

Author of The Database Programmer blog ( http://database-programmer.blogspot.com) and the Andromeda Database Development System (http://www.andromeda-project.org).

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    Comment #2183094

    Does intelligence involve dealing with facts? Cuz the title is factually incorrect.

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    Comment #2059151

    SEA DRAGON!!! WOOOO!!!!

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    Comment #2049402

    About 12 on a TI calculator. 13 on TRS-80 Basic, 13 or 14 for Assembly

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    Comment #343882

    Nope. kqr2 had it right, the approach was to move parameters into tables that the user could edit. Asking the user to spell anything out is not in the cards for that example.

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    Comment #246570

    Actually I have, it is extremely cool. For my own case I don't know where it will fit in yet, as I currently do fine without it, but its one of those things I follow.

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    Comment #245974

    You can have your cake and eat it too, and you don't have to compromise. All you have to do is recognize where the browser's original intent may be different from your own (doc mgm…

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    Comment #245970

    The actual reason I gave in the OP was easy distribution. This is huge . I think also that my OP could have been stronger pointing out that the job is completely doable (in fact I'…

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    Comment #181726

    A cursory google search gave no obvious explanation of this, do you have a specific link to serve as a starting point?

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    Comment #181723

    Yes, the code-is-data is one of those frustratingly true-but-out-of-context things. I created a complete framework that builds databases out of a text file (YAML it so happens) inc…

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    Comment #181718

    I think that in this case you get a non-trivial performance gain with some basic implementation improvements. You can replace the row-by-row round trip with a single SQL UPDATE wit…