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thymanl23

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    Comment #22719181

    The crux of the article: "The answer is simple, if not exactly satisfying: when enough of the population—possibly 60 or 80 percent of people—is resistant to COVID-19" But then in t…

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    Comment #21224295

    Check out "The Problem with Promises in JavaScript" [0] for some gotchas with the design of js promises. [0] https://dev.to/craigmichaelmartin/the-problem-with-promises-...

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    Comment #21153694

    Hooks are a reconception of state and effects within a declarative model. Rather than effects being tied to a component's mutable lifecycle, they are tied to the data. Rather than …

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    Comment #21092791

    The issue I found with the raw SQL approach was receiving back flat results. I made PureORM[0] to do only and exactly that: map flat data to correctly nested business objects. It i…

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    Comment #21034691

    Yeah, ORMs have grown to mean more than mapping relational data to objects. An example of "just" this mapping can be seen in PureORM[0]. [0]: https://github.com/craigmichaelmartin/…

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    Comment #21034682

    The things I've found positive about ORMs are exactly that mapping of results to business objects. The things I've found "not worth it" are the query-building APIs baked into the o…

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    Comment #19854613

    Or use a "pure orm" (mapping to plain business objects) without a query builder - thus writing native sql and receiving nicely structured objects from the results (eg https://githu…

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    > Fortunately, there are tools out there that solve the "mapping tables to objects" problem without trying to control all access to the database In javascript land there is PureORM…

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    Comment #19854561

    The desire for the object mapping (to pure objects, not db-aware objects), while having an aversion to query building APIs led me to use https://github.com/craigmichaelmartin/pure-…

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    Comment #19471614

    Hmm, yeah, but I think more than just not using a query building api, I prefer pure result objects. Even when dropping to SQL, the result objects are still database-aware objects. …

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    Comment #19471595

    In an ORM, the returned objects from even raw SQL is still ORM objects (database-aware objects). I prefer keeping the business logic layer distinct from the data access layer, so I…

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    Comment #19470154

    Wow, that sounds like a really neat approach!!

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    Ask HN: Is it reasonable to choose direct SQL over an ORM

    I've been using an ORM for years - and often still find myself frustrated trying to map the complexity and nuance of SQL to an ORM api. What is attractive to me about ORMs, though,…

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