autra | 1 year ago | on: Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts
To counterpoint this, I'm an happy nixos desktop user. It's not perfect, but still vastly better than a non declarative distro for my taste.
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autra | 1 year ago | on: Ubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat
I use vagrant quite a lot at work. This will impact me a lot :-/
autra | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is PostgreSQL better than MySQL?
I can understand it being weird, but when you get used to it, it's really really handy, for instance to manage user rights. I've read somewhere that actually, pg schemas compares more with mysql database, postgresql databases being an additional level wrapping it.
autra | 3 years ago | on: PostgreSQL upgrades are hard
Yes, and usually, it means you need to use the full binary path unfortunately (because debian wrappers embedded in the package select the version from your 5432 cluster).
autra | 5 years ago | on: Why SELECT * is bad for SQL performance (2020)
Fortunately, stars in sql are also really bad for maintenance ;-) So I guess there is indeed no reason to use them!
autra | 6 years ago | on: The rise of remote working will continue
Not my experience.
That being said, if your team was mainly non-remote with some remote employees, then I'm not surprised: it is the worst possible organization and a motivation killer for the remote person. Every article about experience of remote work I've read says: "don't put remote people on non-remote team" and I wholeheartedly agree.
autra | 8 years ago | on: Dangers of CSV Injection
> The documented way is prefixing with a ' character. It doesn't have the length issue either.
It is suggested in comments, but the author answered
> Yes, this prevents formula expansion... once. Unfortunately Excel's own CSV exporter doesn't write the ', so if the user saves the ‘safe’ file and then loads it again all the problems are back.
:-/
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