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The article seems to me to be quite poorly written. In addition, voluntarily or not, this begins to resemble research work, without the formalism that would be necessary. So, I hav…

Could such a mechanism be used for interstellar travel ?

Yes the good old days of spaghetti code where everything was simpler before it became complicated for me. Let me code my soup of ifs in methods returning void / Unit, there is noth…

I suggest renaming Hacker News Rust news.

Is it so hard on HN to use specific and appropriate verbs other than “to scale” for any idea related to something expanding or getting bigger ?

That is an important comment. I really like Postgres, as it is the only free RGDB allowing complex SQL (MySQL is improving), and is also reliable, but some people need to realize t…

+1 to Groovy. Can be very simple and elegant, like a better Python, on the JVM. But also very rigorous, as a Java superset, with powerful features like mixing dynamic and static co…

>>OOP is fundamentally a paradigm about modelling a mutable world Many interesting points in this comment, but I am not sure about the mutable part of this assertion. I see those t…

So ankward to find my stereotypical complaining fellow citizens here on HN.

>>A language with good orthogonality is smaller, more consistent, and is easier to learn due to there being few exceptions from the overall set of rules (wikipedia btw) table = (SE…

Oracle Active Data Guard also (queriable replica), with column store.

Yes, GUI assisted reactive programming. And that's why when you start to use use VBA or js in Excel, it's a fail. Excel power users (I am not one of them) know how to solve almost …

>Doing something, I mean really doing something, requires changing our culture. It could have already started by respecting the Paris agreement. In this regard, the US decision to …

Using an index for access path and ranking for selection

Impossibility of With clause inlining is indeed one of the major limitation of Postgres, compared to Oracle. We we still have to wait for optimizer hints