thornygreb
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1 year ago
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on: Monorepos: Please Don't (2019)
Yes, but very often you are trucking along just fine with some version of a dependency and then all of a sudden it gets a CVE and the fix has only been applied to the next major version and not backported because the version you are on is no longer supported. And now you are in dependency update cascading hell.
thornygreb
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2 years ago
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on: The teenager who lives like it's the 1940s
I have a functioning rotary phone connected to POTS. I do live in the sticks though. Only issue is automated systems that ask me to dial 1 for foo, 2 for bar, etc. But a lot of those now actually also take voice.
thornygreb
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2 years ago
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on: My favorite restaurant served gas
Benson NC? That is some good BBQ.
thornygreb
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3 years ago
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on: Does anyone know of startups / companies working on tools for Urban Planning?
thornygreb
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4 years ago
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on: Senior developers are leading the great resignation movement
You don't really, that is why I consider the pay bump what I call 'grass is not greener' insurance. I'd rather get paid more for the same thing wouldn't you? And I can't imagine it much worse really. But you won't know without trying.
thornygreb
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4 years ago
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on: Senior developers are leading the great resignation movement
I resigned yesterday, and with 20 years experience I guess I'm a senior dev. It was many factors, but management and the amount of process and the banality of the work finally did me in.
Maybe management is dysfunctional everywhere, I don't know, about to find out but mine literally just copied the email (headers and all!) from the client into the ticketing system and assigned it. Most of management has been there for decades and it has been their only job ever.
I spent more time tracking my time spent in the various systems and monthly reports than actual dev work. And the work was so mind numbingly boring.
I took the plunge and applied to half a dozen interesting job posts and that was it. I was worried about ageism, being an imposter, having to leet code, endless rounds, etc. But it wasn't that bad at all, a small take-home and a few rounds of talking about experience and now a nice pay bump and new problems to solve.
thornygreb
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4 years ago
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on: PostgreSQL 14
I pay for jetbrains datagrip, worth every penny.
thornygreb
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4 years ago
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on: Steve Wozniak announces private space company to clean up space debris in orbit
thornygreb
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4 years ago
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on: Problems with Oracle SQL
Exactly, and many features that are in the standard now and we take for granted were invented by Oracle in the first place.
thornygreb
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4 years ago
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on: Problems with Oracle SQL
My goto was Tom Kyte (
https://asktom.oracle.com) for learning the 'why'. Burleson is an interesting character, but not always correct either.
thornygreb
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4 years ago
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on: Problems with Oracle SQL
Oracle has quirks, yes. Oracle the company is...yes. We all get it. Oracle RDBMS has been around for longer than most of us have been alive and has amazing backwards compatibility. It has features I wish PostgreSQL had and vice versa. Nothing is perfect.
thornygreb
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4 years ago
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on: Show HN: Write universally accessible SQL, not library-specific ORM wrapper APIs
Done it once..in 20+ years accompanied by an entire re-write, so not often enough to care about this at all.
thornygreb
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5 years ago
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on: Things I hate about PostgreSQL (2020)
I used to miss packages but I mainly use schemas now to organize. Not the same I know but as good as it gets. I also add
https://github.com/okbob/plpgsql_check so that I can find bugs earlier since plpgsql is not compiled like pl/sql.
thornygreb
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5 years ago
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on: PostGIS – Spatial and Geographic Objects for PostgreSQL
You will eventually run out of memory or some other restraint given large enough datasets. PostGIS will churn through it and not crash...
thornygreb
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5 years ago
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on: A Beginner's Guide to Mecha (2019)
thornygreb
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5 years ago
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on: Database Version Control with Liquibase
thornygreb
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5 years ago
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on: Opinions I have formed about the “geospatial industry”
seriously though, if I had a nickel for everytime one of the gis staff asked me to process something for them using postgis because arcgis would crash on them I would be rich. it seems like gis staff have turned into pretty map makers and most of the real processing and such is done in open source tools (postgis, gdal and python)
thornygreb
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7 years ago
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on: Put your keys in the fridge to keep them safe from car thieves
My Ford has one key, works on everything, of course it is a truck and has no power locks or windows.
thornygreb
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8 years ago
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on: Heathcare.gov to Go Down for Maintenance in Middle of Obamacare Enrollment
I don't know if it is related, but a certain three letter agency we do business with is having an IT freeze from 9/21 to 10/3 which means no changes of any kind to any production system. In over 10 years this is the first I've seen something like it.
thornygreb
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8 years ago
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on: Why Cutting Carbs Is So Tough
100g protein * 4 = 400 calories + 10g fat * 9 = 490 calories to stay healthy? Maybe if you are 3ft tall and sedentary.
