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These sqlc-style libraries are a great solution to the problem of “make running a query as easy as calling a function”, but I’ve always thought SQL’s lack of composability is a mor…

This is interesting! A field being nullable because it's legitimately optional in the domain model is one thing, but for new fields which shouldn't be nullable in the domain model,…

Rails definitely seems optimized for creating code, but how is it at maintaining code? I've never used it, but it seems like Ruby's dynamic types would make it really challenging t…

> with functions named by their normalized hash contents, and referred to anywhere by that, but I can't seem to remember what it's called right now. Something like "Universe" I thi…

> Flutter founder here. Given that the literal founder of Flutter is in this thread using this introduction multiple times, it’s kinda hard to give you the benefit of the doubt tha…

https://github.com/flutter/flutter/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3A... - 0 open PRs - 2 PRs merged, 1 PR closed in the past 4 years - All PRs reviewed by a member of the Flutter team with…

> Anonymous enums/structs in parameters Can you share an example of this? It sounds really interesting but I couldn’t find any references. Do you mean the parameter “packs” feature…

Edit: nvm, dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39984512

> Aggregate functions can now include an ORDER BY clause after their last parameter. Hopefully that means we'll soon get support for `DISTINCT` in `GROUP_CONCAT`. Atm you can do `g…

As the article notes, > Redundant conditions are nice because they require no changes to the database [...] This makes them useful for queries that are only sometimes run or where …

My two favourites at the moment that haven’t already been mentioned are: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/algorithms-data-struct... https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/softw…

Reminds me of the principles brought up in this talk by Sean Parent: https://youtu.be/0WlJEz2wb8Y The temperature converter is a good example of an “implies” relationship, which Se…

I think the tone of this page is frustration that this page needs to exist. I think if I had to constantly deal with stuff like this I'd be pretty frustrated too: > CVS-2019-19317 …

I agree with your general point that "it's very hard to write safe C code", and > people keep finding use-after-free bugs in sqlite3 is true, but > that allow attackers to escalate…

Yeah this approach is definitely way nicer with some tooling support. For example https://github.com/cashapp/sqldelight for Kotlin integrates with IntelliJ to provide ctrl+click na…

Dart’s FFI is still stabilizing, but there’s a small example here https://github.com/brickpop/flutter-rust-ffi