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gary__··on Ask HN: Which project does not have any good open-source alternatives?
What do people use for self service embedded analytics in SaaS applications?
gary__··on Show HN: A time tracker that asks you every 10 min what you're doing
As well as a reminder for those not good at staying on task, it sounds worth considering for those who spend their day satisfying constant small ad hoc requests who later get asked "What have you been doing all day?"

Hopefully it has a "same as last time" button, I doubt this has the same cognitive distraction level as fielding a question from a colleague as well. I.e. understand their question, think of the context, etc etc

gary__··on Relearn CSS layout
I think there's often a leeway given to the full stack dev that they have strengths and limitations. I haven't got to the point where I could compete with the true / good front end dev with my skills.

Even at the backend you have the application backend (c# or whatever) and then sql/rdbms. If you are that good perhaps you deserve thrice the pay by this logic ;).

Jokes aside, at the last good company I worked for where I knew other people's pay, I was compensated for the entirety of my skills compared to the good front end dev. We earned the same, and I was quite happy with that.

Jack of all trades...

gary__··on Relearn CSS layout
This is great.

I would prefer that browser compatability is mentioned, for my own purposes that would be IE11.

Perhaps set a baseline of what browsers are considered in the intro and then highlight deviance as it occurs.

gary__··on Relearn CSS layout
Bear in mind the tutorial is prefixed "Relearn..."

Though I'd class myself as a "full stack developer" css for a long time was the 2nd class citizen, with most of my time spent on learning to use front end frameworks in their idiomatic way, the "it depends" peculiarities of SQL and RDBMSs and making inroads on the vast tomb that represents architectuliary sound back ends.

So an article focussed on improving my "it's only css but it works" knowledge is one of the best things I've seen on HN in quite some time :)

gary__··on Lack of leadership in open source results in source-available licenses
This could put off anyone who thinks they could be acquired by such companies from using your software as well. How can anyone know who is going to make it onto the blacklist for the next version etc. Seems quite the can of worms.
gary__··on Show HN: Zen Flowchart – The simplest tool to create flowcharts
I'm building a similar editor for an app, adding [1] at this very moment for pan and zoom, this is nice work.

[1] https://github.com/anvaka/panzoom

gary__··on Ask HN: Why did your startup fail?
Funny, so many people say that competitors don't matter. What size was your market?
gary__··on JExcel – The JavaScript Spreasheet
Submit this as a Show HN, will show in the Show HN tab as well.
gary__··on How Screwed is Intel without Hyper-Threading?
"At some point, I bet someone in a design meeting said "Hey, I think this might compromise security, can we study that before implementing it?" And the decision to implement it without that study, or despite it, was made."

Because we should assume all your past missteps were due to willful negligence? Yeah, let's not just start making shit up to support the group think outrage.

gary__··on Ask HN: Advice for avoiding being a bad participant in meetings
Not so much being a bad participant, but something I've found are developers who propose a solution to a problem outside of a meeting, but when it's then thrown out to the group for suggestions they remain quiet. Hard to know what advice to give for building confidence.
gary__··on Ask HN: Looking for prior art to prevent obvious patent
Might want to try here too https://patents.stackexchange.com/
gary__··on Faster hash joiner with vectorized execution
Is it open source / online?
gary__··on Visual Programming Doesn’t Suck
Reminds me of this editor project from Kent Beck for working with the AST instead of with text alone when developing, somewhat related

https://www.facebook.com/notes/kent-beck/prune-a-code-editor...

gary__··on Microsoft open sources Trill to deliver insights on a trillion events a day
Research paper: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
gary__··on If I were to invent a programming language for the 21st century
Reminisent of language workbenches like MPS in a way

https://www.jetbrains.com/mps/

gary__··on If I were to invent a programming language for the 21st century
In our defemse, we also had to click a button, who really isn't learning from their time in the modern world! /S
gary__··on Airtable raises $100M at a $1.1B valuation
"First off, we're huge fans of both Meteor and Asana. I spoke with Geoff @ Meteor a couple years ago when we were first starting to build out the Airtable product and was very impressed by their approach and vision. We've closely followed the developer blogs of both those projects (and in Meteor's case, their source code). With those learnings, we built our own realtime database engine that supports relational data (which Meteor doesn't yet support) and also some other major features like the ability to undo any user action out of order (like git revert), which is necessary to support undo in a multi-user context (because the last thing that you did may not be the last change globally if other people are concurrently making changes). Undo is a particularly challenging feature to implement in a structured relational database context, because it can't be reduced to a set of simplistic character insertion operations as is the case for a google word doc, or a spreadsheet (which is a simple 2d array of values without type constraints, foreign key relations, etc)."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8374468

gary__··on Airtable raises $100M at a $1.1B valuation
Their Show HN in 2014, some interesting tidbits about the design. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8373914
gary__··on ClickHouse, a column-oriented DBMS to generate analytical reports in real time
A look through the below does highlight some of its differences with a standard sql database.

https://www.slideshare.net/Altinity/migration-to-clickhouse-...

Year on now, perhaps things have changed.

gary__··on DuckDuckGo Traffic
Why does google allow !g? They are competitors after all?

Edit, ok, I see it redirects the user to Google.com

gary__··on The Roots of Techno (1994)
For those of you reminising over days gone by in electronic music (UK folks for whom Sasha, Judge Jules, Paul Oakenfold and Fatboy Slim were common names) a few links. It's also funny how history is repeating itself.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...

http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2018/03/dom-phillips-in...

Sasha is still going strong of course, my favorite mix of the moment

https://m.soundcloud.com/last-night-on-earth/sasha-presents-...

gary__··on WwwBasic – An implementation of BASIC designed to be easy to run on the Web
Switch statements got an upgrade in v7 which makes things better

https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2017/02/01/pattern...

gary__··on WwwBasic – An implementation of BASIC designed to be easy to run on the Web
Interesting, found these links for a bit more (incase anyone else is interested)

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/NETAndWebAssemblyIsThisTheFut...

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev/2018/02/06/blazor-ex...

gary__··on How Should I Tell My Brother His Work Ethic Is Awful?
If you're a "bit OCD" and about to embark on code reviewing your developers work, might I suggest you think about what your standards are and document/communicate them before bombarding devs with change requests? That makes the whole process less frustrating IME. Also, to begin with, you might want to ask yourself "Would i go and ask the person to change this after it was committed" as a self check as to whether stuff needs changed - just to ease people in, until those guidelines are fleshed out. You could well say you plan to tighten it up - and eventually rely on developers to review each others work.

Another process is a mini show and tell, where before each user story / feature is committed its shown in action to the person who requested it / QAs etc at the developers desk. Problems seen here may not even be the developers fault. A tendency towards reactionary defensiveness, and the recent goings on, might be best considered before doing this right now though. (It may well be you don't give the leeway you would a non family member for this as well.)

gary__··on Ask HN: Are there bootcamps for developers to become founders?
I cannot find the program I tried to Google for, but found this along the way, from a well known source of advice afair ...

https://amp.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/7taz53/is_amy...

gary__··on Ask HN: Side income while still highly invested in full time job?
More than his salary... that's incredible to me.
gary__··on Show HN: Didyougogo – An Altavista slayer
Would the common crawl dataset be useful to you starting out?

http://commoncrawl.org

gary__··on How to deal with developers who lack standards?
I'll hazard a guess that it's because it's quicker to delete than update them.
gary__··on How to deal with developers who lack standards?
I took this approach after reading Clean Code, though I must say, I often regret not adding the comment as well when I return to the code much later. Still try to make the code as readable as possible though.
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