Could you at least describe your use case or tools please? Share the nostalgia or something, anything.
His comments basically follow out of this starting point so if you have that in mind they start to make sense.
(and TBH i do not completely disagree with this view myself, though i do not see the point of repeating it everywhere, this train not only left the station long time ago but the station has long been converted to an Amazon warehouse - besides it isn't like the development tools of old were always that great... to be relatively on topic, there were a ton of DBMSs that simply failed and others that started nice but created stinkers so awful that killed the entire company - see dBase as a great example for that)
I went through some and it doesn't seem so. Yes, he is opinionated, but so are many HN-ers. His set of opinions is quite specific though (based on the comments I see, MS SQL Server users are a minority here, for example) so you might have that impression.
> How he’s ended up with so much karma
We're supposed to be adults but we still fall for this behavior engineering trick called karma. Really, who cares? What does it change in my life if I have a few points more or less?
One could even argue that you can create more value for the community by lowering your karma, making comments that are alien to the collective mindhive. A downvote is almost impulsive in such cases, but your comment (before it greys out) can spark a thought, an interest, an idea, or even some important doubt that would otherwise not arise.
But there is a difference between incorrect comments and comments that are broad generalisations presented in an obnoxious way. The former sparks informative conversations whereas the latter adds little informative value while pissing people off. I suspect the real value of the latter is just likeminded people patting themselves on the back for being “awesome”. Which I don’t particularly rate as a positive effect for discourse let alone the wider HN community
I didn’t used to be that way and there are still plenty of folk on here who aren’t just posting to sound clever. So I don’t think it’s fair to cast the same judgement for the entire active member base.
But in terms of your general point, I do agree the signal to noise ratio has gotten a lot worse over the years. Unfortunately that’s just part of the natural evolution of communication platforms. Happens to every message board, IRC channel, Facebook group and so on and so forth.
The issue isn't that he's mentioning a specific tool that a minority uses. It's that his solution isn't even appropriate for the gp's scenario that had these 2 desirable properties:
(1) send one file
(2) the file is queryable (with SQL language)
I never downvote pjmlp's posts but the following type of comment isn't just opinionated... its tone will also be perceived as condescending:
- "I do exactly the same with traditional RDMS. Export to single file isn't nothing new."
So to entertain that suggestion, what single file would MS SQL Server export?
option A: Let's say we export to a single text CSV. Ok, we now satisfied the single file property -- and that's if we pre-join all relational tables into a diskspace-hogging output where columns repeat redundant denormalized data. But text files are not easily queryable. You either have to re-import into another tool that can run SQL commands or import into Excel to play with filters.
option B: Let's export to single MDF file. Now we're asking recipients to have MS SQL Server installed and ATTACH the mdf file.
The above "MS SQL Server solutions" are more complicated than a single SQLite file queryable with a zero-install Sqlite CLI utility.
But hey, offering up "alternative solutions" with a condescending tone is regular sport for HN so I guess we all roll with it. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224)
He has 65728 karma because of his many posts since December 12, 2010, but his h-index (community impact) is very low compared to others: https://github.com/antontarasenko/smq/blob/master/reports/ha...
This is one of the, leave a small comment on everything type of users.
Now, before yinz flip out, you asked a question, and I will give you my honest answer. The way I see it. No fluff.
This was supposed to be the site where the creme de la creme, the best of the best, Silicon Valley stalwarts discuss the cutting edge of computer science.
Instead, n-gate.com correctly identified that it's a web site where "hacker news" with no formal education in computer science marvel like a turkey marvels its own excrement when they discover some tried and true technology. Oh, and they keep marveling at wheel reinventions. And you know what? One could say that it gets tiresome after a while, but it's far worse: it's deeply demoralizing, and makes those of us passionate about computer science deeply resent the information technology industry. And then we try to tell you how things should work, and instead of asking questions, yinz just start arguing and pushing reinvented, completely unnecessary wheels like "Kubernetes", "Docker", "Ansible", "Linux" because it's easier to mess around than warm up the chair and learn or listen to experience. The people on this website made me hate computers, because if this is the best our industry has to offer, it's devastating. So I understand where pjmlp is coming from. It's why I've all but withdrawn from here and don't bother posting anything any more.
What I was answering to is the completely unwarranted criticism of pjmlp from various posters here. Not only do I find it unjust, I find it appalling. The gall...
`Badsectoracula made a good case (better than the subject himself) for his opinion, and honestly, I agree with it! I just wish it wasn't always phrased in such a blasé negative fashion is all I wanted to convey.