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Re: Running a Bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL

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Post by redsavagefiero » Wed, Feb 27, 2019, 5:00 PM UTC

dvdhsu wrote: post #157

paddy_m wrote: post #79

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Re: Running a Bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL

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Post by anoncake » Wed, Feb 27, 2019, 5:52 PM UTC

0x445442 wrote: post #17

mhd wrote: post #10

This makes me wonder what someone with less computer experience would do, ie if you're not a former computer professional. Sure, open source makes everything rather accessible from a monetary point of view, but you still have to learn things. I almost feel like in the past there were more attempts at making this accessible to the end user, HyperCard, dbase etc, even just BASIC on your 8-bit machine. Nowadays? Excel/G…

Can't remember where I read the story, Steve Yegge perhaps. But they were talking about how where they worked secretaries actually used Emacs apps developed by the IT department and, over time, the secretaries started to extend the apps with Elisp.

I wonder if people also get better at math if they don't notice it's math.

Re: Running a Bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL

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Post by opan » Thu, Feb 28, 2019, 1:01 AM UTC

copperx wrote: post #164

jedberg wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If she were still teaching I’d have put in more effort, but alas she retired when my daughter was born.

Tangential question, but how did she get pregnant at retirement age?

Retirement age is whatever age you want. Probably not under 23-25, though.

Re: Running a Bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL

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Post by machinecoffee » Thu, Feb 28, 2019, 4:56 PM UTC

alexchamberlain wrote: post #129

obtaniumstool wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good point -- Access is a great middle ground between kludging something together in a spreadsheet and writing an entire app from scratch.

I'm sure this exists, but it's probably about time we had a GUI you can put in front of a Postgres/MySQL server in a similar way to Access forms, as a kind of hybrid between niche app and off the shelf.

maybe data froms action!

http://www.data-forms-action.com/