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wking

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About wking

Senior Frontend Engineer @ Crunchy Data. Also, building a little corner of the internet for people who love building digital products @ wking.dev

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    Comment #43559304

    This is something I wish everyone would read and learn from. You can do so much good if you focus on what you can actually influence.

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    Comment #40213617

    That has been a fun one to play a small role in. Great work by Marco and the team.

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    Comment #34370190

    Whoa, I work at Crunchy Data. We focus on Postgres, but this K and KX family is wild. Reading about how it is used for Formula 1 data analytics

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    Comment #34370171

    I wonder how much people who still write these languages are paid? I feel like it is one extreme or the other. You are rolling in it or you just don't know any better.

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    Ask HN: What is the most niche programming language that is still written?

    I would love to hear about the programming languages that I have never heard about. I don't mean Assembly or anything that is low-level, but mainstream. Even better if you have an …

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    Comment #34071151

    What is the craziest thing you've used a JSON column for?

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    Comment #34007625

    What do you think of when you think of honest service?

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    Comment #33993389

    Thanks for the share!

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    Comment #33968669

    Could not agree more! This is very well articulated and a point I think I'm going to add into the article.

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    Comment #33968633

    Ouch, just starting to write more after only writing mostly code. Guess that makes me lean a little robotic lol

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    Comment #33968379

    Thanks for the feedback! I thing that section could definitely use a re-focus on what they specifically do to differentiate.

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    Comment #33968361

    Oooo good counter point. That is definitely the case. It makes for a fun challenge to take that on. If you're not funded though that can be a risk that is too dangerous.

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    Comment #33968181

    Fair points! For the second one, the point was actually they didn't have strong enough opinions so they are going to try strengthening them. That being said you make a good argumen…

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    Comment #33964390

    Eh maybe cynical, but I would say you're right. There is a lot more nuance and detail to positioning yourself as a competitor to a company that already has huge market share. Somet…

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    Comment #33964275

    I heard someone phrase it as "Your user wants to be the hero of the story" and if the opinions you have chosen align that is a good shortcut to getting there. Thanks for those othe…

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    Comment #33921206

    What kind of services do you like to manage all of these "optimizations"? Most developers would get into more trouble trying to setup something like is talked about here, so I assu…

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    Comment #33913629

    Just saw this through Wes Bod recommend on Twitter. Great stuff!

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    Comment #32499626

    Should be fixed now! We hit a rate limit a lot sooner than expected haha :)

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    Comment #32499619

    Both? So for the tutorials they use a SQL initialization file stored in a GIST (our solution, but can be stored at any public storage url) and it loads that data and any other SQL …

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