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Do people ask you to make an exception and attend meetings when you have a Friday booked off from your holiday allowance? What would be different if you have it booked off for working pattern?

You can turn that off https://mastodon.social/@benjiweber/109388009967277758

create view max_products_sold as select sale_person_id, max(no_products_sold) AS no_products_sold from sales_department_details group by sale_person_id;

select sale_person_id, sale_person_name, no_products_sold, commission_percentage, sales_department from sales_department_details natural join max_products_sold;

What do you mean by a mapping with a source table columns? The data columns in the view could come from 0 to n source tables. Entirely synthetic, transformed, combined data from multiple tables etc.

Semantic Diffusion comes for everything. See also everyone calling the thing they use to avoid integration "CI".

I think the point is about far shorter feedback loops than possible with today's pervasive tech.

> something even more continuous than continuous integration. It might look like real-time integration of your changes, collaborative editing, or smarter build systems that produce near-live feedback

e.g. https://medium.com/darklang/how-dark-deploys-code-in-50ms-77...

https://darklang.com/ is probably the closest attempt at https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/limbo-scaling-software-col...

I was expecting this to be using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_(data_language_specification... given the name.

I used these Leuchtturm1917 A5, dot-grid with fountain pens for years. Still love paper and pen, but have switched almost completely to the Remarkable2 for well over a year now. It's close enough that the infinite-capacity notebook and syncing to cloud are worth the slightly worse than paper experience.

Reminded of https://twitter.com/allspaw/status/931543941966647297

Been trying to signup to tiktok for years now every time I get

Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'name')

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EwWV3BWXAAQ5cKD?format=png&name=...

When signing up with email. Tried with multiple browsers, multiple email addresses, multiple devices. How are other people signing up?

Are you sure that's induction? I think time from hob off to to boiling water on induction is much faster (roughly half) gas. Starts heating pan immediately?

Halogen and resistance hobs are less responsive though.

Android is starting to look quite LCARS https://twitter.com/benjiweber/status/1457039757112922115

Dangerous to model the cost of someone leaving on a spreadsheet like this :) https://twitter.com/benjiweber/status/1480219318273073157

"group by 1,2,3,4,5,6" is at least a little more consise.

NATURAL JOIN is great because it's like a relational AND. How else will you join with Table Dee and Table Dum? https://twitter.com/benjiweber/status/1476629550608101384

It's just risky if you don't design your schema with relational algebra in mind.

Maybe you're using cloudflare dns? https://community.cloudflare.com/t/archive-is-error-1001/182...

You realise that everyone pushing changes to main several times a day is the definition of CI? and it's pretty much impossible to do with code review as a gate for pushing to main. Interesting how CI has become semantically diffused to mean literally the opposite of CI: tooling and processes that delay integration and make it easier to work in isolation.

https://wiki.c2.com/?ContinuousIntegration " The most granular unit of integration should be one step of one refactor. "

I'm sure this article will attract the attention those of us who were taught by Hugh Darwen.

Kobos make good eink tablets for hacking. Run an easily editable linux. e.g. https://yingtongli.me/blog/2018/07/30/kobo-ssh.html

Upper class means different things in different cultures. In UK more of an association with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landed_gentry than a level of income.

Apparently people drowning don't actually flail their arms (never seen anyone drowning though).

> By far the most common case for joins is following foreign keys. SQL has no special syntax for this

You can use NATURAL JOIN

select * from foo natural join bar

Works as long as the keys are named the same. However, a lot of people have a habit of naming keys differently in the two tables.

As I understand it PECR does require affirmative consent to use cookies specifically. Often same mechanism is used for data processing bases for GDPR as for PECR consent.

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-pecr/cookies-a...

Lots of shiny new toys to play with :) I like playing with new features and pushing to silly limits. Here's some fun things you can do now:

Compiletime checked state machines with Sealed Classes [preview feature] https://benjiweber.co.uk/blog/2020/10/03/sealed-java-state-m...

Autobuilders, Mixins, Conversions & more with Records https://benjiweber.co.uk/blog/2020/09/19/fun-with-java-recor...

Pattern Matching fun https://benjiweber.co.uk/blog/2021/03/14/java-16-pattern-mat...

Liveshare is pretty useful for pair programming. Not about invading privacy but making it easy to work together. Given how easy it is to collaborate on docs with google docs it's kind of sad that remote collaborative coding tools are still in their infancy.

I think if we changed the way we talk about meetings, schedules, work etc we could improve a lot of things.

https://benjiweber.co.uk/blog/2021/02/06/meetings-ugh-lets-c...