RyanHamilton

>kind of wished that Azure Data Studio (now discontinued) had directly supported loading CSV/TXT etc into an in-memory or temp db for queries and portability QStudio supports right click query csv,txt,parquet via duckdb. It also supports more exotic data sources like rest apis by placing the data into a temp table. I called it babeldb https://www.timestored.com/qstudio/csv-file-viewer

I have to agree, I've also suffered account problems. I was locked out from an email address I used for 20 years. It refuses to take my password which is still valid. I've changed phone number since 20 years ago so can't use that and the security questions were nonsense as I was a teenager. Originally my account never had phone number, they insisted I add it when they integrated my Skype account perhaps. So I didn't expect access to that phone number to be a strong ongoing requirement.

Did you sign any kind of agreement with a non disparagement clause to get early access? I'm asking because if you did, your data point isn't useful. It would mean anyone else that tried it and got worse results wouldn't be able to post here. We would just be seeing the successful data points.

Weekend and lunch time axis breaks for those curious: https://github.com/apache/echarts/issues/12796

I evaluated a lot of chart frameworks 3 years ago before choosing echarts. We use it in our real time database visualization to to display charts at 10+ frames per second: https://www.timestored.com/pulse/ it's proved to be an excellent choice. There's been only one essential feature that I couldn't achieve and rechecking the github issue I see they merged a fix so I'm going to have to upgrade. Great work. Thanks.

It's hard for parents to fight against huge corporate interests that hire thousands of phds to grab your child's attention and influence them at every turn. Realistically it's almost impossible for parents to deny their teenager a mobile without ostracising them from their friends.

I also found this and actually made it the default for an application I author with a few thousand users. Well it turned out jetbrains mono didn't support chinese characters so I broke my app for a proportion of my user base. I had to revert it. Also it can add seconds to load time. Just a warning as I think a few people on hn will make tools for others. I still set it as my own font.

I wish that was the case. I suffered Crowdstrike being force installed upon all servers at a previous firm. After every system update it would "lose" it's configuration and proceed to try scanning every attached drive, some of which were in the petabytes. It's inefficient scanning process consumed 70% plus CPU and caused service outages for some users. Each time we'd ask for configuration to be added to ignore certain mount points, each time it would get turned on again. The only thing that saved us was distributing the service over multiple servers in different regions so that their updates were staggered. We spent >5% of team effort for a few years fighting Crowdstrike.

Just under a year ago they caused a global outage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_CrowdStrike-related_IT_ou...). I thought, aha finally they will pay for their sloppy software. Then I checked the share price today, it's up 20% in the last year. If a cyber security company can cause one of the largest global outages ever and go relatively unpunished, I'm not surprised some firms are not fixing bugs. Very disappointing.

I love their honest answer. Very retro.

Congratulations on launching. Buckaroo looks great.

QStudio allows querying CSV on mac via DuckDB: https://www.timestored.com/qstudio/csv-file-viewer I've been improving the Mac version a lot lately, key bindings, icon, an App package to download. So if you find any problems please raise a github issue.

Great work. Buckaroo looks very slick.

This friend will suggest you buy Nike shoes (ad sponsored) to cheer yourself up. Or recommend pharmaceuticals like us tv advertisements. The future is black mirror.

Local markdown file based sql notebooks: https://www.timestored.com/sqlnotebook Disclaimer: I'm the author

If you want to get started with prql check out qstudio https://www.timestored.com/qstudio/prql-ide it allows running prql easily against mysql postgresql duckdb etc

I thought for cars it was because certain countries decided at state level that car making was strategically their thing? That combined with fashion, meaning some percentage of people want different looking cars.

I also didn't like the existing notebook implementations. I wanted it to run locally, be based on markdown, specialized for just SQL and be easy to store in git. So I wrote one myself: https://www.timestored.com/sqlnotebook/ It ships as part of qstudio and can connect to 30+ databases. If you have any feedback please leave it on github, I only released it a few months ago.

Congratulations on the launch. Looks very cool. If anyone is looking for a local non Web based editor please check out qstudio: https://www.timestored.com/qstudio/help/duckdb-sql-editor

There are many themes to choose from. I recorded the demo on that page and I like windows 95. I concede it may not be pretty but I've always found it functional. The default is darcula theme like shown on the main page: https://www.timestored.com/qstudio/

If you want to checkout duckdb try QStudio. It's a free sql client with duckdb integrated: https://www.timestored.com/qstudio/help/duckdb-sql-editor. Disclaimer: I'm the main author.

That's exactly what qstudio offers: https://www.timestored.com/qstudio/prql-ide a desktop client that translates prql to run against many databases.

You always begin mild. Ratchet up slowly. Then when someone complains roll back a little or plead ignorance. Keep repeating until complainers leave to go elsewhere. Keep the majority of users. Repeat until "done".

The article is about functors. Some new concept that gives you a tiny subset of the functionality that a full language provides. Most languages have loops, control structures, the ability to store any data as a variable.

He got so close to the right answer but went the wrong direction. "Imagine a programming language without functions.". Imagine SQL was instead based on an actual programming language, with variables and functions. that would solve all the problems you mention. Kdb+ and Dialog already knew this 20+ years ago. I wish someone else will recreate this in an open source library. Now with Arrow format in memory the best hope may be that all languages will be able to act on shared memory data frames bringing tables to every language within the database.

Imagine going out camping in the woods with your kids too show them the outdoors and escape it all and only to look up and see an advert for Facebook. :(

>>Not an apple fan but from all big tech corporations they have the least amount of interest in mining user data from a business perspective

I think it's more that they realised they couldn't beat google at that game and hoped to see personal or governmental push back like GPDR in the EU that would then give them an advantage. Which would then give them an advantage. The day they stop having that belief they will invade your privacy.

>>Apple: Does backflips to protect your data

Yet they enabled this feature by default. Disabled by default would be easier than a backflip?

Congratulations on launching. To provide feedback: I would like to have searched for clothes similar to my existing style. Some of the models had a style that just isn't me.

For those looking a way to run java console apps in the browser, check out doppio: https://plasma-umass.org/doppio-demo/ it's old and unmaintained but it works. For example I run the java H2 database online: https://www.timestored.com/data/h2-database-online/ which allows me to try disposable SQL queries in my browser.

I'm bad at marketing and poor at product decisions. For 10 years it only worked with one database. It took 30 lines of code to work on many more databases but I waited 10 years to do it. Don't make my mistake! I am trying to get better.