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pbzon Amazon Launches New RabbitMQ Message Broker Service

May wanna read that again...

pbzon Amazon Launches New RabbitMQ Message Broker Service

And drowning in a sea of complexity...

It's free in all the ways

pbzon What ORMs Have Taught Me: Just Learn SQL (2014)

"If I use an ORM, I have to give the SQL account the client application is using more-or-less carte-blanche access to the database as it could conceivable read from or write to anywhere in the database through arbitrary SQL"

You can give table level permissions (and even specific columns if you want) to the ORM db account. From a security point of view there should be no difference.

pbzon Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at risk

As in 10% reduction?

pbzon GitHub to Remove 'Master' Terminology

For those saying that "master" as used in git has nothing to do with master/slave: Git was made to replace bitkeeper which had (has?) the concepts of master/slave repositories:

https://github.com/bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper/blob/master/doc/H...

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-May/...

Edit: to those down-voting ... keep hitting the down arrow, maybe reality will go away and you won't be inconvenienced by it anymore.

pbzon The US Navy Admits UFO Videos Are Real

Then how do you explain the tic tac that looks like a solid object?

pbzon The US Navy Admits UFO Videos Are Real

What's fascinating (and scary) to me is the number of people who selectively look at some of the evidence, come up with an explanation, ignore the rest of the evidence, and then call it "case closed". All while mocking anyone else who picked a different subset of the evidence.

pbzon The US Navy Admits UFO Videos Are Real

This is not what the pilots saw and it was daytime.

pbzon How SEO Ruined the Internet

Seems to me like you have it backwards.

The reason you even got a chance to click on it is because they wrote it that way. If they didn't, it wouldn't be as visible in Google = nobody would see it. When most websites do this (to survive) folks don't have a choice.

Also, advertisers don't pay for something that's invisible.

pbzon Requirements volatility is the core problem of software engineering

The licensed engineer puts their stamp on that work? If anything happens the licensed engineer is on the hook.

pbzon C# Pattern Matching

Dragging the current line arrow back (on the left side panel by the numbers) works for me; works in VS too btw

pbzon C# Pattern Matching

The new "something is not null" check in C#8 is "something is object/set"; for example: if (x is {})

pbzon One-Percenters Close to Surpassing Wealth of U.S. Middle Class

I suppose if you choose to not take a salary you're not making anything, right?

pbzon One-Percenters Close to Surpassing Wealth of U.S. Middle Class

Bezos makes about $2,500 per second... Within a minute he makes more than most ever make in a year ($150,000)

pbzon Java 12

What are they replacing it with?

pbzon Researchers find trapdoor in SwissVote election system

How about this? 1) you go to vote with your voting card 2) you get a paper printout of your vote 3) the voting machine then broadcasts your vote (only IDs) to N independent checkers; this makes your vote public but anonymous 4) later you check the printout against your favorite online checker to make sure it registered properly

To make all this work the paper and electronic trail is digitally signed with something that's only on your voting card.

pbzon With USB 4, Intel is finally making good on the promise of royalty-free 40 Gbps

Naming is not (that) hard. What's usually hard is ignoring the ego that tells us to leave a mark or that we know better than others; i.e. putting your self before the whole.

pbzon How NoSQL forced the evolution of a scalable relational database

LINQ to SQL is a dead end. Look into LINQ to DB https://github.com/linq2db/linq2db which is way faster than LINQ to SQL ever was (faster than even Dapper). If you must you could give EF a try, but stay away from LINQ to SQL.

pbzon Tesla has created a customized insurance package

"It contains factors like gender, age, occupation etc and the car, which is the highlight here." -- also a big portion of it is your credit score, which, in my opionion, should not be a factor, but it is...

pbzon Azure Database for MySQL and PostgreSQL

I recommend you take a look at LINQ to DB ( https://github.com/linq2db/linq2db ) instead of EF.

pbzon Razer targets perfect Linux support

Currently, yes, but I was giving suggestions in case they want to branch out. They asked a few times on Twitter what a developer would like in a laptop. The wish list reflects that. Unfortunately, I couldn't find something that would check off most of the items above.

pbzon Razer targets perfect Linux support

If they're reading this, here's my wishlist:

1) 15.6 inch laptop (14 is too small, especially with those bezels).

2) As thin of a bezel as possible (see XPS)

3) Camera on top! I don't want to show my fingers in conference calls. This may force the bezels to be larger on top, that's fine. (Pop-out camera?)

4) Offer the highest quality display from a color reproduction point of view, not the refresh rate. This is NOT a gaming laptop, or at least not a pro one.

5) The resolution should allow me to use the OS without scaling. If you can squeeze more than 1080p (1440?) the better. We need vertical space for coding! Some folks like 4K, so that should be an option.

6) Connectivity is important; lots of ports. Also, Intel WiFi cards, not Killer.

7) The sound should at least be decent. I don't understand how a phone can have better (ok, lounder) sound than a laptop.

8) Give us an option to optimize for power vs battery life. I want the fastest CPU (within reason) and a good GPU (1060 or 1050, but ideally 1060) at the expense of battery life, but others would like more battery.

9) I'm picky about the SSD that goes into the laptop. Either allow me to replace it or allow me to pick what I want (960 Pro).

10) Good trackpad, ideally with buttons.

11) Good keyboard, super important...

12) Under 6lbs

13) Cooling has to be top notch and the air intake cannot be on the bottom. I actually use the laptop on my lap.

14) Height should be around 1 inch. Making it super thin like MBPs is not worth the tradeoffs.

15) That logo needs to go or at a minimum don't make it glow...

pbzon Why LINQ beats SQL

To be fair, that feature is in the next version of C#; not release yet.

pbzon Double life as a KGB agent

Greenwald has been at the Intercept for quite some time now: https://theintercept.com/staff/glenn-greenwald/

pbzon Tesla Model S: the story of a very short happiness and excitement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eXUnZrykDY

pbzon Show HN: GitHub trending alternative that ranks repos by contribution rate

Why is vscode showing up twice? Once under "Microsoft" and then under "microsoft". The numbers to the right are different too.

pbzon New Ubuntu-based Precision line-up

For gaming too? From what I read Quadro cards are pretty weak when it comes to games. I wish Dell would offer GeForce as an option; not everyone interested in a workstation wants Quadro.

pbzon Poet: I can’t answer questions on Texas standardized tests about my own poems

The task is to draw a thinking cat. You can complete this task in a million different ways.

What you (should) get judged on is the technique used. Does it look like a cat, are the shadows properly drawn, are the proportions of the cat in order, does the cat look like it's thinking like a human would, etc.

What is irrelevant is if that cat matches the image the teacher had in mind when she came up with the task.

pbzon NYC's brand new subway is the most expensive in the world

https://pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com/2013/06/03/comp...

Not exactly Tokyo, but in Seoul between $43m/km and $87m/km, Hong Kong $586m/km, Singapore $600m/km.